Peter Kretzschmar

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Peter Kretzschmar (born September 17, 1932 in Leipzig ; † September 9, 2018 in Rüdersdorf near Berlin ) was a German handball player and coach.

Athletic career

Handball player

As a handball player, Kretzschmar was active for ten years from 1954 to 1963 for SC Lokomotive Leipzig. In 1955 he rose with the SC Lok in the field handball league, 1956 in the indoor handball league. In 1960, 1961 and 1962 he was in the final of the field championship with the Leipzigers, but never became champions. In 1955 he was appointed to the handball national team of the GDR for the first time . In 1958 he was third in the indoor handball world championship with the all-German team and fourth in the 1961 World Cup. With the GDR national team, he defeated West Germany 14: 7 in the 1963 World Cup final. At the end of 1963 Kretzschmar ended his career as a handball player as a 66-time national player.

Handball coach

In the same year he took over the post of the women's league team of the newly founded SC Leipzig, which had taken over the handball section of the SC Lokomotive. From 1965 to 1974 he led the team seven times in indoor handball to the GDR championship. In 1974, the SCL women won under Kretzschmar the European Champions Cup . In 1975 Kretzschmar was appointed coach of the women's national team. In 1975 and 1978 he was world champion with the team, at the 1976 Olympic Games the silver and 1980 the bronze medal. At the end of 1987 Peter Kretzschmar was replaced as national team coach by Klaus Franke. He has received numerous state awards for his sporting success. Kretzschmar then became a trainer in the handball section of TSC Berlin . From 1990 he served as sports director for another three years.

Private

In 1971 he married the handball player of the SC Leipzig Waltraud Czelake , b. Hermann. With the 217-time GDR national player, he had two children, the later national handball player Stefan Kretzschmar and a daughter. Peter Kretzschmar lived with his wife in Schöneiche in Brandenburg for many years . After a long illness, he died a week before his 86th birthday in the Immanuel Clinic in Rüdersdorf.

literature

Neues Deutschland , Berliner Zeitung , years 1955 to 1990

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personal data
SURNAME Kretzschmar, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 2018
Place of death Rüdersdorf near Berlin