Danneberg, who competed for SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal until 1969, for ASK Vorwärts Brotterode from 1969 and since the mid-1970s for ASK Vorwärts Oberhof , won the overall ranking of the Four Hills Tournament in 1976 and 1977 . He had bad luck in 1977/78 when he took the lead in the overall standings after his victory in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and fell badly on January 3rd while training on Bergiselschanze ; A plaster cast had to be put on him in the Innsbruck University Clinic, which meant that the tour was over for him. He was then transferred to a special clinic in Berlin (East) - his hope of participating in the world championships was then fulfilled.
At the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck , Danneberg , who started for the GDR , won the silver medal on the normal hill behind Hans-Georg Aschenbach . He achieved his greatest distance at the ski flying world championship in 1973 in Oberstdorf with 166 meters, but could not stand the flight.
In 1976 and 1979 Danneberg was GDR champion on the normal hill , in 1974 third. On the large hill , Danneberg was twice runner-up in 1976 and 1978.
From 1995 to 2007 he was the coach of the South Korean national ski jumping team , with short interruptions . After finishing his engagement in Korea, Danneberg moved to the USA in 2007, where there was no longer a men's senior national team after the retirement of Alan Alborn and Clint Jones . Danneberg was supposed to train a new generation of teams there on behalf of the newly founded organization Ski Jumping Development USA, which was independent of the US ski association, and to bring it up to the expanded world elite. However, in 2010 he left the USA and became the coach of the Netherlands. A year later, he moved to China as the women's head coach. At the end of May 2013 he was unexpectedly released there.
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Oberstdorf