Richard Wolter

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Richard Wolter (born June 8, 1963 in Braunschweig ) was a referee in the Hockey Bundesliga from 1984 to 2009 . He ended his one-off career after 555 Bundesliga games in the German finals in July 2009, thus leading the largest number of Bundesliga hockey games to date.

In 1981, Wolter from Braunschweig was licensed as an arbitrator at the age of 18. Just three years later, the German Hockey Association transferred games in the Bundesliga to the tall man. In 1987 Wolter was qualified as an international referee by the World Hockey Federation, FIH , and shortly thereafter classified as a so-called "Grade 1 Umpire" with the crown on the referee's badge. Until the end of his career he was in the highest category, the “Worldcup and Olympiclist” and had already played at three Olympic Games in 1992 , 1996 and 2000, as well as three field hockey world championships in 1994 , 1998 and 2002 and the first indoor hockey world championship in 2003 in Leipzig . Wolter was also nominated for the indoor hockey world championship in Vienna in February 2007; However, he had to cancel his participation as well as his appearance at the 2006 World Hockey Championship in Mönchengladbach due to an injury sustained in a motorcycle accident.

During Final 4 in June 2006, the international referee was recognized and honored for his 500th Bundesliga game by Jan-Jochen Rommel , Chief Referee of the German Hockey Association . In this final round of the German championship, Wolter led a final for the German championship for the 27th time. He was a referee in 19 field and 19 indoor hockey finals for the German championship in hockey.

Wolter is involved in the referee training of the Lower Saxony Hockey Association (NHV) and holds the office of referee chairman.

Richard Wolter is single and has a relationship with the Bundesliga hockey referee Renate Peters .

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