Jürgen Eschert

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Jürgen Eschert (2011)
Jürgen Eschert at the Olympic Games award ceremony in Tokyo 1964

Jürgen Eschert (born August 24, 1941 in Magdeburg ) is a former German canoeist , canoe trainer and sports manager.

Life

Jürgen Eschert started paddling at the age of twelve. First he was trained at BSG Motor Magdeburg-Südost , the first major successes were the 2nd places in the single canoe over 500 and 3,000 meters in the GDR canoe championship in 1959 in Rostock for Motor Südost. He was later delegated to ASK Vorwärts Leipzig . After moving his canoe department, the trained model maker started working for ASK Vorwärts Potsdam in 1963 . His greatest success was the gold medal in the single canoe at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo . For the 1968 Olympic Games , he was not nominated despite good performance. At the same time, he completed a degree in physical education and then did his doctorate on the endurance of young people.

Since he was found in public as a member of the army with a gift t-shirt with the USA national flag printed on it, he was expelled from the GDR national team during the 1971 World Cup qualification and had to give up his career. He continued to work as a junior coach in his club. In 1975 he was given notice without notice because, contrary to the ban on Western contacts for members of the NVA, he maintained contacts with his former West German competitor Detlef Lewe . He then worked as a sports teacher at the engineering school for civil engineering in Potsdam. After their closure after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he found a job at Gothaer Versicherung in the mid-1990s .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he became intensely involved in the Canoe Club Potsdam (KCP) in the Olympic Sport Club (OSC), the successor to the ASK Vorwärts Potsdam. For many years he was the club's chairman and team manager. He used his sense of staging, his marketing thinking and his ability to mobilize not only for the benefit of his association, for example by organizing a boat and guest house in Florida for training purposes , but also for high-profile canoeing events in Potsdam. The annual dragon boat cup, the Potsdam water games (since 1997) and since 2005 the canoe canal sprint in the restored section of the Potsdam city canal can be traced back to his initiative and his good contacts with Brandenburg politics and economy. Eschert lives with his wife on Hermannswerder on the Templiner See and is the father of a daughter.

successes

As an active player:
Olympic Games

  • 1964 - Gold C1 1000 m

Canoe Racing European Championships

  • 1965 - Bronze C1 1000 m

As a trainer:
Canoe racing junior European championship

Honors

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Treder, Outline of the history of BSG Motor Magdeburg-Südost, 1987, page 22
  2. ↑ Heinz Tietge, The Buckau-Fermersleben Water Sports Club, Part 1 1911–1961, Magdeburg 2011, page 238
  3. ^ We were all at the Stasi , Der Spiegel , November 23, 1992
  4. ↑ Man of Ideas. From the first Olympic champion from the Potsdam district to voluntary canoe event manager - Jürgen Eschert celebrates his 65th birthday today , Märkische Allgemeine, August 24, 2006, p. 3
  5. ↑ "Kökös" Kanu has to wait today , Potsdamer Latest News of 24 August 2006, accessed 28 May 2012
  6. ^ High awards for GDR athletes , Berliner Zeitung , November 17, 1964, p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Eschert, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German canoeist, canoe trainer and sports manager
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg