Siegfried Köhler (volleyball coach)

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 .

Web links

• The downfall (pdf; 737 kB)