Gotthard Girke

Gotthard Girke (born September 9, 1934 ) is a former German badminton player .

Career

Girke was one of the founders of badminton sports at the traditional East German activist Tröbitz , whose badminton section he was one of the first members since late summer 1957. Already significantly older than his teammates Gottfried Seemann , Hans Bräuer or Gerolf Seemann , he was only able to qualify for the Tröbitzer Reserve in the years up to 1964. In the 1964/1965 season, at the age of thirty, he achieved his greatest sporting success. He was finally able to play his way into the A-team of Niederlausitz and won the GDR championship with the team, the fourth in a row for activist Tröbitz. In the following years it was only enough for the Tröbitzer substitute team, so that the title win in 1965 should be his only one.

Gotthard Girke still lives in Tröbitz today .

Sporting successes

season	event	discipline	space	Surname
1964/1965	GDR team championship	team	1	Activist Tröbitz ( Gottfried Seemann , Gerolf Seemann , Erich Wilde , Klaus Katzor , Heinz Glormus , Gerhard Dietze , Peter Schurig , Gotthard Girke, Marlies Bissendorf, Gitta Rost , Annemarie Fritzsche , Rita Gerschner )

credentials

• René Born: 1957–1997. 40 years of badminton in Tröbitz - The history of BV Tröbitz eV , self-published (1997), 84 pages. ( Online version )
• René Born: Badminton in Tröbitz (Part 1 - The beginnings, the medal winners, the statistics) , self-published (2007), 455 pages ( online version )