Paul Tiedemann

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Paul Tiedemann 1953

Paul Tiedemann (born June 29, 1935 in Sudnicken (East Prussia) , district Germehnen ; † September 21, 2014 in Engerwitzdorf near Linz , Austria ) was a German handball player and coach . He was the selection coach of the men's national handball team of the GDR , which won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Moscow .

Life

Paul Tiedemann was the fourth child of a farm worker family of seven. From 1942 to 1944 he attended elementary school in Königsberg-Lauth . He lost his three siblings in the war. In 1947, the family was from their homes evacuated and came to Radeburg near Dresden. There he made up for two and a half years without classes at the Radeburg elementary school and then attended, from 1950 to 1954, the high school in Radebeul , which he finished with the Abitur. From 1954 to 1957 he studied at the DHfK Leipzig and completed his studies as a certified sports teacher. Until 1959 he worked as a teacher at the 13th Extended High School in Leipzig. From 1960 to 1968 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Sports Games of the DHfK. In 1961 he married the athlete Karin Bräutigam. They had two children, the daughter Katrin, geb. 1962, and the son Jörg, b. 1966. Karin Tiedemann suffered a traffic accident in Cairo in 1990, of which she died. Paul Tiedemann has lived near Linz (Austria) since 1992. In 2007 he suffered a serious viral illness that initially confined him to a wheelchair and which he ultimately succumbed to in 2014. A few days before his death, a sports hall in Radeburg was named after him.

Player career

Tiedemann was one of the most famous and successful German handball players of the 1960s. In 1951 he started organized sports and joined the German Sports Committee , later the DTSB . Until 1954 he played both soccer and field handball in the men's team in the 1st district class in Radeburg. When he began his studies at DHfK, he began his career in the SC DHfK handball team and barely a year later, in 1955, also in the national team. In 1958 he won bronze with the joint German team at the handball world championship held in the GDR . In 1963 he became world champion at the men's field handball championship in 1963 with the GDR selection. The final victory of the GDR selection over the team of the Federal Republic in the inner German duel meant the only defeat of a German team (all German, FR Germany and GDR combined) at field handball world championships. Three years later he won the silver medal at the last field handball world championship after a draw against the German selection in the decisive game. Tiedemann took part in world championships in indoor handball three times, in 1961 with the all-German selection and in 1964 and 1967 with the GDR selection, but could not win a medal.

With the SC DHfK Leipzig he rose in 1958 to the league , the top division of the GDR, and was immediately champion. He can point to a total of six championship titles in indoor handball (1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966) and three runner-ups (1963, 1964, 1967), as well as one runner-up in field handball in 1966. He also won the European Champion's Cup with the SC DHfK in Paris in 1966 .

In 1959 the field handball selection of the GDR was awarded with Tiedemann as captain as the first team of the year in the GDR. He also received the honorary title of Honored Master of Sport awarded in the GDR and was regularly referred to as such in the GDR's specialist press. He was the first player to make 100 select appearances for the DHV selection , of which 30 were field and 70 indoor handball games. He scored a total of 303 goals (82 field, 241 hall). After the 100th international game, which was won in Schwerin against Hungary 27:20 and in which he threw seven goals, he ended his career in the DHV team and in the same year as an active player at SC DHfK.

Coaching career

After his playing career, Tiedemann worked as a coach for 30 years. His coaching career began in 1968 at SC DHfK, whose newly formed first men's team as well as the male A and B youth teams he coached. Until 1971 he also coached the junior and B national teams. From 1971 he also worked as an assistant trainer at the side of national trainer Heinz Seiler and reached fourth place at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and was runner-up in the 1974 World Cup in the GDR . In 1976 the GDR dramatically missed the Olympic qualification only due to a worse goal difference and a missed 7-meter in the last second against the FRG, whereupon Seiler resigned and Tiedemann was the responsible coach of the GDR selection in May 1976, which he did until the end of 1988 stayed. During this entire time his long-time companion and later successor Klaus Langhoff was his assistant trainer. Tiedemann led the GDR team back to the top of the world. After the B-WM 1977 lost to Sweden with a free throw in the last second, a 3rd place followed at the A-WM in Denmark. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , Tiedemann led the GDR selection to win the gold medal. At the World Championships in 1978 and 1986 , his team was third. Because of the Olympic boycott in 1984, the GDR was unable to defend its title in Los Angeles . At the Summer Olympics in Seoul in 1988 , the selection disappointed and with rank 7 just managed to qualify for the direct World Cup. Tiedemann then gave up his position as national coach to Klaus Langhoff.

In June 1989 Tiedemann was coach of the Egyptian men's national handball team , which in November 1990 would be the last opponent of the DHV selection. With Tiedemann, the Egyptians became Africa Vice-Champions in Algiers in 1990. In 1991 they won the African championship in Cairo, qualified for the Olympics and also won the All-African Games in Egypt. At the 1992 Olympic tournament in Barcelona , the Egyptians finished 11th behind Germany. Tiedemann thus laid the foundation for the Egyptians' temporary rise to the top of the world. Tiedemann's sporting successes in Egypt were overshadowed by the tragic death of his wife in a traffic accident.

In 1992 he accepted an offer from ASKÖ Linz and moved to Austria , where he lived until his death. He led the ASKÖ to three championship titles and three cup wins. In 1994 he reached the final of the EHF Cup with his team. When ASKÖ was eliminated in the European Cup against HC Barcelona the following season, sponsor Linde got out and the club had to file a declaration of bankruptcy .

In the 1996/97 season Tiedemann followed an "emergency call" from the relegation-threatened SG Hameln and helped her to stay in the handball Bundesliga by reaching 13th place in the table . Tiedemann was in charge of SG Hameln this season from the 10th matchday to the end of the season. He hired the record national player Frank-Michael Wahl , who had previously played for SG Hameln for years, to be his assistant coach . In 1998 Paul Tiedemann ended his coaching career.

Titles, honors and achievements

As a player

  • World champion (field handball) 1963
  • European cup winner (indoor handball) 1966
  • GDR champions (indoor handball) 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966
  • Member of the "Team of the Year" in the GDR in 1959
  • Vice world champion (field handball) 1966
  • World Cup fourth (indoor handball) 1961
  • "Honored Master of Sports" in the GDR

As a selection trainer

  • Olympic champion 1980
  • African Champion 1991
  • World Cup third in 1978, 1986

As a club coach

  • Austrian champion 1994, 1995, 1996
  • ÖHB cup winners 1994, 1995, 1996
  • GDR tournament champion (indoor handball) 1970/71 and 1971/72 (both tournaments 1971)
  • EHF Cup finalist 1994

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Own curriculum vitae, Leipzig, April 22, 1975, Heimatmuseum Radeburg
  2. ^ Curriculum vitae, Puchenau, March 28, 1998, Heimatmuseum Radeburg, verbal information from the current partner
  3. ↑ Radeburger Anzeiger, edition 10/2014, page 1f
  4. ↑ Short biography form from October 16, 1984, last amended on August 24, 1987, Heimatmuseum Radeburg
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Sports career, P. Tiedemann, personal compilation, undated, after 1998, Heimatmuseum Radeburg
  6. ↑ List in: Handball. Organ of the DHV of the GDR, ed. 6/1967 and 6/1971
personal data
SURNAME Tiedemann, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Sudnicken (East Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2014
Place of death Linz , Austria