Helga wiper

Helga Wischer (born May 13, 1932 in Würzburg ) is a former German sport angler . She has long been considered the most successful athlete in the world.

Helga Wischer dominated the international sport fishing scene from 1960 to 1964, the national even from 1955 to 1965. During this time she was 32 times world champion (29 times in individual disciplines), five times second and nine times third. In addition, there were five successes at European championships and 82 titles, seven second and three third places at GDR championships. She set 16 world records and 9 world bests. She triumphed 18 times at the Grand Prix in Austria . Her most successful year was 1961, when she won seven world championship titles and two second places at the World Championships in Dresden . There she also set two world records and a world best.

Helga Wischer was a trained photographer and in 1954 actually only wanted a predatory fish permit for a fishing license . For this you had to prove 180 points in throwing with a sport fishing rod at that time. The Fischer test succeeded wiper so well that she was not only their appearance, but also began the tournament fishing. A year later she was one of the national leaders.

At the time, Wischer was studying music at the Dresden Music Academy and married her trainer Horst E. Rudolph. In 1957 she received her diploma as a coloratura soprano. Her wish was to become an opera singer, but an audition in Rostock was sabotaged by the GDR Anglers' Association, which did not want to lose its top athlete. Her career as a singer had failed and she initially worked as a trainer until 1969. In this role she led her 17-year-old protégé Karl-Heinz Fleischmann to the world championship title. She then completed a degree at the German University for Physical Culture in Leipzig and then studied English and American studies in Potsdam . Since 1978 she has worked as a sports and English teacher, first at a school in the Dresden district of Gorbitz , and later in Anklam . Today she lives in Pinnow .

In 1961 she received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

literature

• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Wilk: Victory on board, field, runners and planche. A historical Dresden sports almanac. Dresden 2012, p. 87.
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , December 21, 1961, p. 4.