Günter Debert

Association coach Günter Debert at the GDR-USA international match on February 11, 1983 in Schwerin

Günter Debert (born May 7, 1929 in Berlin ) is a former German boxer and boxing trainer in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He was GDR lightweight champion in 1953 and coach of the GDR team from 1978 to 1989. He looked after a world champion , fourteen European champions and three Olympic champions .

Life

Debert, son of a machinist, learned after the elementary school 1943-1945 the profession of mechanic while working to the 1950s. In 1951/52 he was a member of the German People's Police (DVP), but was released as a boxer. From 1949 to 1953 he was an active boxer and in 1953 he was GDR lightweight champion. Then he became a coach.

From 1970 to 1978 Debert coached the junior team of the GDR and 1978 coach of the GDR team. He studied at the German University for Physical Culture until 1976 , the title of his thesis was “Basic ideas for the design of the immediate competition preparation for the second support level in the DBV of the GDR. Identification of the training plan for the international competition highlights, youth competitions of friendship and junior European championship 1976 ”. From 1978 to 1981 he completed a professional trainer degree.

After the turning point and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , he was the competitive sports coordinator of the German Amateur Boxing Association until the end of 1991 . Debert criticized the professional contracts for various GDR boxers after the fall of the Wall and was called a "real old Stalinist" by Henry Maskes trainer Manfred Wolke . Debert lives in Berlin today.

literature

Klaus Gallinat, Olaf W. Reimann: Günter Debert . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

↑ Basic ideas for the design of the immediate competition preparation for the second support level in the DBV of the GDR. Identification of the training planning for the international competition highlights, youth competitions of friendship and junior European championship 1976. In: katalog.ub.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
↑ Neues Deutschland editorial team: The rise of instinct boxers by the year 2000 at the latest (Neues Deutschland). Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
↑ Keen Freeloaders . In: Der Spiegel. 6/1990, February 5, 1990.

personal data
SURNAME	Debert, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German boxer and boxing trainer in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH	May 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[1] Basic ideas for the design of the immediate competition preparation for the second support level in the DBV of the GDR. Identification of the training planning for the international competition highlights, youth competitions of friendship and junior European championship 1976. In: katalog.ub.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .

[2] Neues Deutschland editorial team: The rise of instinct boxers by the year 2000 at the latest (Neues Deutschland). Retrieved February 9, 2020 .

[3] Keen Freeloaders . In: Der Spiegel. 6/1990, February 5, 1990.