Lothar Radisch

Lothar Rädisch (born October 7, 1927 in Sorau , † April 9, 2005 in Cottbus ) was a German badminton player and coach. He was the first GDR national team coach in badminton.

Career

Lothar Rädisch first worked in Gotha as a badminton player and coach. There he succeeded in 1960 with the team from Einheit Gotha, the bronze medal win in the GDR league. In 1962 he was hired as a trainer by activist Tröbitz , where he was responsible for two GDR team titles and countless individual titles for his protégés. At the same time he took on the role of GDR national team coach in badminton in the early 1960s . As a non-Olympic discipline, badminton in the GDR was soon no longer worthy of a full-time coach and Rädisch was recalled to SC Cottbus in 1963 . There he was used in athletics as a jump trainer. From 1965 he was the head coach of the SCC.

Lothar Rädisch died at the age of 77 in April 2005 in Cottbus.

Sporting successes

event	season	discipline	Surname	medal
GDR team championship	1959/1960	team	Unit Gotha (Lothar Rädisch, Alfred Petschik, Klaus Kaufmann, Kurt Willumeit, Sigrun Weissheit, Weissheit)	bronze
GDR senior championship age group I.	1962/1963	Men's singles	Lothar Rädisch ( activist Tröbitz )	gold
GDR senior championship age group I.	1962/1963	Men's doubles	Lothar Rädisch / Helfried Wunderlich ( activist Tröbitz )	gold
GDR senior championship age group I.	1962/1963	Mixed	Lothar Rädisch / Helga Rädisch ( activist Tröbitz )	gold

Web links

Press release about the death of Lothar Rädisch

credentials

• René Born: 1957–1997. 40 years of badminton in Tröbitz - The history of BV Tröbitz eV , self-published (1997), 84 pages. ( Online version )
• René Born: Badminton in Tröbitz (Part 1 - The beginnings, the medal winners, the statistics) , self-published (2007), 455 pages ( online version )