Siegfried Köhler (volleyball coach)

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Siegfried Koehler
portrait
Date of birth May 29, 1944
place of birth Oberwerschen , Province of Saxony
size 1.77 m
successes
as assistant coach
1971
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1983

as coach
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989

as coach
1991
1993
1994
1995
1996
GDR national team:
6th place EM
place 4 World Cup
3rd place EM
place 6 Olympic Games Montreal
Vice European Champion
8th place World Cup
Vice European Champion
2nd place Olympic Games Moscow
4th place EM
European Champion

GDR national team:
European Vice Champion
4th place World Cup
European Champion
5th place Olympic Games Seoul
2nd place European Championship

German National team:
3rd place EM
5th place EM
5th place World Cup
4th place EM
8th place Olympic Games Atlanta

Siegfried Köhler (born May 29, 1944 in Oberwerschen , Province of Saxony ) is a former German volleyball coach.

Career

Siegfried Köhler grew up in the GDR and actively played volleyball in Deuben and Leipzig . He began his coaching career in 1968 at SC Dynamo Berlin , where he was eight-time GDR champion and cup winner with the women until 1990 as well as two-time European cup winners . From 1971 to 1982 Köhler was also assistant coach of the GDR national team . From 1985 to 1990 he was the head coach of the GDR national team and had his greatest successes during this time. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, he was first coach of the women of Bundesliga club Bayern Lohhof for one year and then from 1990 to 1998 coach of the German women's national team . From 1999 to 2005, Köhler was the sports director of the German Volleyball Association. In the 2009/10 season Köhler jumped in as an assistant coach at Bundesliga club Allianz Stuttgart .

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