Dieter Bogatzki

Dieter Bogatzki (born January 25, 1942 in Konitz , Danzig district , West Prussia ; † December 5, 2000 in Hepstedt , Rotenburg district (Wümme) ) was a German athlete who - starting for the Federal Republic - in the 1960s as 800 meters Runner was successful.

On August 13, 1966, he was in Wiesbaden in a world record of a 4-by-800-meter relay of the Federal Republic participates (7: 08,6 min: Manfred children , Walter Adams , Dieter Bogatzki, Franz-Josef Kemper ).

At the Olympic Games in 1964 , he finished seventh in the 800-meter run as the best European (1: 47.2 min). On March 6, 1965 he was German indoor champion of the Federal Republic in the 800-meter run (1: 50.2 min)

Dieter Bogatzki grew up in Weidenau and attended the Fürst-Johann-Moritz-Gymnasium . During his junior years, in which he was able to win three German championship titles, he initially belonged to the athletics department of RTG Weidenau , before he switched to Sportfreunde Siegen and joined the university sports club USC Mainz at the beginning of his business studies with a degree in business administration . During his competition time, the middle distance athlete was 1.85 m tall and 69 kg. Bogatzki worked for the VW group in its Wolfsburg headquarters.

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society
• “Honoring the dead”, Siegerländer Heimatkalender 2002, p. 39, 77th edition, published by Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein eV, Verlag für Heimatliteratur