Klaus Zentara

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Klaus Zentara (born November 26, 1936 in Wuppertal ; † April 4, 2004 ibid) was a German pedagogue , historian , handball player and referee .

Youth, training, job

Zentara grew up in Oberbarmen in the Schwarzbach district . At the Carl-Duisberg-Gymnasium he passed the Abitur in 1957. After studying history and German in Cologne, Tübingen and Bonn, he passed the state examination in 1963, and from 1964 trainee lawyer and 1966 assessor at the Leibniz-Gymnasium in Duisburg-Hamborn. In 1968 he became teacher at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium in Remscheid and in the same year at school Sedanstraße in Wuppertal-Barmen operates. When he was promoted to senior studies director in 1992, he took over the management of the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium in Elberfeld. In 1980 he was involved in the development of the Minister of Culture regulations for grammar school history lessons in the upper school.

Handball and sports club

In 1947, the field and indoor handball player Zentara joined the Grün-Weiß Wuppertal sports club . In 1972 he took over the chairmanship of the club after various honorary posts. From 1953 to 1984 Zentara worked as a handball referee, several times in the handball Bundesliga , such as at 18:25 at the first clash between THW Kiel and TV Großwallstadt in 1977 at the side of his partner Jürgen Röllinghoff from Barmer TV . In 1998 Zentara received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Zentara died in 2004 at the age of 67 after a serious illness. He left a wife and two children.

Web links

  • Zentara on a page from barmen-200-jahre.de

Individual evidence

  1. http://archiv.thw-handball.de/thw/03021901.htm