Irene Krause

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Irene Krause (married Irene Salomon) (born February 12, 1940 , † August 8, 2008 ) was a German basketball player .

Life

Krause won the bronze medal at the European Championship with the women's national team of the German Democratic Republic in 1966. At that time, the GDR selection, along with the USSR and Czechoslovakia, were among the best national teams in the world. During the European Championship '66, Krause was the second best German scorer behind Renate Ameis with 11.1 points per game .

In 1964 she reached sixth place with the GDR selection at the EM, at the European championship tournaments in 1967 and 1968 Krause and the team won fourth place. At the '67 World Cup and the '68 European Championship, she led the GDR women with an average of 13.9 per game and 12.3 per game. In total, the Berliner, who played for TSC Berlin, played 76 international matches for the GDR.

Krause worked in East Berlin on the City Council for Youth and Sport and was Deputy Chairwoman of the Berlin District Board of the German Gymnastics and Sports Association (DTSB). She dealt with aspects of basketball history as part of her history studies and in part also in her later position as director of the Sports Museum Berlin until 1991. In 1965 she presented the work “The Development of the Basketball Game in Germany” and in 1990 “Milestones in the Development of Basketball in the GDR”. She also published articles in the journal "Contributions to Sports History".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SALOMON, Irene 1940-2008. In: ancestry.com. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Johanna Herdejost: Once upon a time ... THE GOLDEN TIMES OF THE GDR LADIES . In: Deutscher Basketball-Bund (Ed.): DBB-Journal 07 . February 2009, p. 38, 39 .
  3. ^ German Democratic Republic | 1966 European Championship for Women | ARCHIVE.FIBA.COM. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/lid_38135_cp/1/pid/68647/q/Krause/rpp//_//players.html
  5. ^ Irene Krause profile, World Championship for Women 1967. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Irene Krause profile, European Championship for Women 1968. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  7. ^ ND archive: New Germany from October 17, 1966. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ - national player. In: Archive Basketball Central Germany. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  9. ^ Klaus Huhn: Irene Salomon February 12, 1940 - August 8, 2008. In: Contributions to the history of sports, issue 27/2008. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b Irene Salomon: Myth Diem. In: Contributions to the history of sports, issue 2/1996. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Diploma theses. German Basketball Association, accessed on January 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Krause, Irene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salomon, Irene (name after marriage)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1940
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2008