Dieter Kollark
Dieter Kollark (born November 13, 1944 in Großröhrsdorf ) is a German athletics trainer and was an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security .
The trained bricklayer and certified sports teacher was already a successful coach at SC Neubrandenburg during the GDR and led his then partner Astrid Kumbernuss to win the shot put title at the European Athletics Championships in 1990 . After the fall of the Berlin Wall he got a temporary job as a national coach from the DLV . The Kumbernuss, which he continues to care for, became world champion in 1995, 1997 and 1999 and Olympic champion in 1996. The discus thrower Franka Dietzsch (1999, 2005, 2007), trained by Kollark, was also three-time world champion .
In 1994 sprinter Katrin Krabbe gave Tango magazine an insight into her Stasi files, from which it emerged that Kollark worked as an unofficial employee for the Stasi under the code name Alexander from 1984 until the fall of the Berlin Wall . Further details about his spying activities were published by the athletics magazine in September 2005 . Accordingly, Kollark denounced not only Krabbe, but also other athletes, including Kumbernuss, Sigrun Wodars , Christine Wachtel , Grit Breuer and Volker Mai , including assessments of their sexual behavior. He also reported it when other trainers disregarded the "application guidelines" of the GDR doping system.
Research by NDR 1 Radio MV and Nordmagazin brought further incriminating material to light, which reported on May 14, 2008, according to the Stasi files of the former sports doctor Klaus Böhm (IM Fuchs ), from 1980 onwards, Kollark was involved in the allocation of doping substances within the framework of the systematic and State-prescribed doping in the GDR competitive sport , which also included the awarding of the anabolic Oral-Turinabol . Although there were no legal consequences for Kollark, since the cases were statute-barred, the DLV in view of the allegations decided not to nominate him as a coach for the Olympic Games in Beijing .
Web links
- The man behind Astrid Kumbernuss , portrait of Frank Bachner in Tagesspiegel , September 5, 2005
- Dieter Kollark - IM "Alexander" ( Memento from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Giselher Spitzer : Role Model or Caricature? GDR high-performance sport in the light of new research , Horch und Guck , issue 51/2005, pages 21–31
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katrin's shards . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1994, pp. 132 ( online ).
- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : Athletics: The successful trainer, the lies and the east nostalgia . August 31, 2005
- ↑ Norddeutscher Rundfunk : Neubrandenburg top trainer Kollark apparently involved in the GDR doping system . May 14, 2008
- ↑ Robert Dunker: Olympic nomination: Stasi trainer Kollark is not allowed to go to Beijing . In: The world . July 14, 2008
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| SURNAME | Kollark, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athletics trainer, unofficial employee of the GDR State Security |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Großröhrsdorf |