Irina Mueller

Irina Müller (born October 10, 1951 in Leipzig , after marriage to Irina Weisse ) is a former rower from the German Democratic Republic . In 1976 she won the Olympic gold medal with eighth .

life and career

In 1971 Müller was GDR champion in two-mans, at the European Championships in Copenhagen in 1971 she won the bronze medal in four-man with a helmsman . In 1973 she took second place behind the boat from the Soviet Union with the GDR eight at the European Championships in Moscow . In the following year , the eighth from the GDR won the world championship title in the line-up of Doris Mosig , Gunhild Blanke , Irina Müller, Brigitte Ahrenholz , Bianka Schwede , Ilona Richter , Henrietta Dobler and Helma Lehmannand tax assistant Sabine Brincker . The GDR eighth had won the first ever world championship title. In 1975 the GDR eighth also won the second world title, but Irina Müller was not there. Together with Henrietta Dobler, Dagmar Bauer , Helma Lehmann and Sabine Brincker, she won the title in the four with helmsman at the Rowing World Championships in Nottingham in 1975 . At the Olympic premiere in women's rowing in Montreal in 1976 , Irina Müller was back in eighth position. In the line-up Viola Goretzki , Christiane Knetsch , Ilona Richter, Brigitte Ahrenholz, Monika Kallies , Henrietta Ebert , Helma Lehmann, Irina Müller and helmsman Marina Wilke , the GDR eighth also won the first Olympic gold medal in the eighth. In 1974 and 1976 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit.

She competed for SC Dynamo Berlin .

The qualified lawyer is still active today (as of April 2011) as presiding judge of the 8th Chamber of the Neuruppin Social Court despite suspected IM activity . According to the records of the Stasi intelligence agency , she is said to have worked as an unofficial employee for Department XX of the Ministry of State Security . As IM Ines , she is said to have signed a declaration of commitment.

literature

• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR. Your successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 , pp. 273f.

Web links

• Irina Müller in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German successes at world championships
• German successes at European championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The year of birth according to Volker Kluge is 1951, according to sports-reference she was born in 1950.
2. ↑ New Germany . dated November 30, 1974, p. 2.
3. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . ZEFYS newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (free registration required). 
4. ↑ CLEAR TEXT: Judge under Stasi suspicion. rbb-online.de, April 13, 2011, accessed on April 13, 2011 .