Greta Blunck

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Greta Blunck (born February 12,  1938 ) is a German field hockey trainer and former player.

Life

As a child, Blunck did ballet with Lola Rogge, a dance teacher from Hamburg . At the age of eleven she came to field hockey. As a player, Blunck was used as a striker. She played 26 international matches for the Federal Republic of Germany between 1957 and 1965. At club level, she played for Harvestehuder THC (HTHC) and won the German championship nine times and the 1974 European field championship cup.

In 1975 she was the first woman to be awarded a hockey coaching license. Shortly before the 1979 World Cup, the German women's national team split from their coach, Blunck became national coach for a short time and led the BRD selection to the runner-up in the 1979 World Cup. As a trainer in the youth field, she taught numerous children to play hockey at the HTHC for decades, and at the age of 80 she was still active as a trainer. She coached hockey in schools and in disabled sports groups. Between 1975 and 1985 she worked as a trainer for the Hamburger Hockeyverband. Blunck has been referred to as "the grande dame of hockey."

From 1987 to 1999 she was on the board of the Hamburg Institute for New Media and from 1992 to 1996 on the board of the Hamburger Sportbund .

In 2008 Blunck was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon and in the same year at the Hamburg sports gala with the honorary award for her life's work.

Personal

Her husband Dieter died in 1975 when their children Christian and Beatrice were seven and nine years old. Son Christian, known in hockey circles by his nickname "Büdi", became Olympic field hockey champion in 1992.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b NDR: Hockey legend Greta Blunck turns 80. Retrieved on December 7, 2018 .
  2. ^ IGN Hockey. Retrieved December 7, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Camilla John: The quick-witted grande dame of hockey. June 30, 2012, accessed December 7, 2018 .
  4. ↑ hockey.de. Retrieved December 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ : Lots of own goals . In: Der Spiegel . tape 44 , October 29, 1979 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 7, 2018]).
  6. ↑ a b c Greta Blunck honored with the Federal Cross of Merit. Retrieved December 7, 2018 .
  7. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: Sports gala: Honorary award for Greta Blunck. February 1, 2008, accessed December 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Blunck, Greta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German field hockey trainer and former player
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1938