Dieter Kottysch

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Dieter Kottysch (on the ground) lost to Bruno Guse in the 1964 Olympic qualification

Dieter Kottysch (born June 30, 1943 in Gleiwitz ; † April 9, 2017 in Hamburg ) was a German amateur boxer .

Life

Dieter Kottysch completed an apprenticeship as a building fitter in Hamburg from 1959 to 1961. In the years 1964 to 1968 Kottysch was five times in a row German welterweight champion (-67 kg). Then he switched to light middleweight (-71 kg), where he could only win the title in 1972.

In 1964, Kottysch missed participation in the Olympics because he lost to Bruno Guse in the decisive elimination tournament for the team from the two German states . At the European Championships in 1967 Kottysch retired in the first fight against the later gold medalist Bohumil Němeček , Czechoslovakia , and also at the European Championships in 1971 he was eliminated in the quarter-finals.

At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich won Kottysch was the first West German boxer after the Second World War the gold medal in the light middleweight . He won in the final against Wiesław Rudkowski after an even fight just by points (with 3-2 judges' votes). For this he was honored with the award of the silver bay leaf . At that time he lived in the Hamburg district of Hausbruch and was enthusiastically received here. Kottysch resigned from boxing after the Olympic Games. In April 1973 Fritz Wiene tried to persuade him to return to the ring and switch to professional business. He offered Kottysch a sum of 12,000 Deutschmarks , which the boxer refused.

Kottysch was divorced from his wife in the late 1970s, his daughter grew up with him and his son with his ex-wife.

After his boxing career, Dieter Kottysch worked until his retirement as a technical draftsman (training 1969–1971, architectural drawing school in Hamburg) and as a school sports teacher (training 1974–1975, Malente sports school ). Most recently he was employed by the municipal utilities in Buchholz in the north of the heath . He also lived in Buchholz. In 2006 the Olympic champion fell ill with dementia . From 2014 he lived in a nursing home in Hamburg-Wandsbek . There Kottysch, who also suffered from Alzheimer's disease , died of pneumonia at the age of 73 .

successes

  • 1961: German junior light welterweight champion
  • 1964–1968: German welterweight champion
  • 1972: German light middleweight champion
  • 1972: Winner of the gold medal in the light middleweight division at the Olympic Games in Munich

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Björn Jensen: Obituary - Olympic champion Dieter Kottysch dies in the Hamburger Abendblatt nursing home , April 9, 2017, accessed on April 10, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Kottysch, Dieter, p. 243 .
  3. ↑ Information given to the Bundestag by the Federal Government - printed matter 7/1040 - dated September 29, 1973, see Annex 3 (including all silver bay leaves awarded since the SB was founded), pages 54 ff., Here page 54
  4. ↑ Hans F. Cords Hausbrucher stories, our place of residence once and now, Volume 2 , pages 138-139 "How Olympic gold came to Neuwiedenthal", Lühmandruck, Verlag der Harburger Werbung und Nachrichten , Hamburg, 1987
  5. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1973/pdf/19730405.pdf/ASV_HAB_19730405_HA_001.pdf
  6. ^ Dieter Kottysch - The last round , Hamburger Abendblatt , September 8, 2012
  7. ^ The unworthy death of a German Olympic champion , welt.de , April 11, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Kottysch, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German middleweight boxer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Gliwice
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2017
Place of death Hamburg