Waltraud Kretzschmar

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Waltraud Kretzschmar , née Hermann , married. Czelake (born February 1, 1948 in Lehnin ; † February 7, 2018 ) was a German handball player . In the 1970s she was considered the best and most successful handball player in the world.

Life

The daughter of a gardener went to school in Damsdorf (then in the district of Zauch-Belzig , Brandenburg ) and began playing handball at the local BSG Traktor Damsdorf . In 1964 she went to SC Leipzig , where she played until 1980. Until 1971 she competed under the name Czelake, before she married her then coach Peter Kretzschmar , the field handball world champion from 1963, that year . The marriage resulted in two children, the former handball player Stefan Kretzschmar and a daughter. After an apprenticeship as a bank clerkshe worked in this profession and completed additional 1,972 to 1,980 a correspondence course at the DHfK in Leipzig to coach . After completing competitive sport, she initially worked as an employee in the Leipzig district board of the DTSB and, from 1980, a trainer at the Dynamo sports association in the training center in Berlin-Lichtenberg . After the fall of the Wall, she retrained as a hotel manager. From 1994 to the end of 2002, she and her husband Peter ran the casino in Berlin's BVG stadium .

With the GDR national team , for which she scored a total of 727 goals in 217 international games in 15 years, she won the silver medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and the bronze medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . At world championships she won the title three times (1971, 1975 and 1978) with her team. With her club SC Leipzig, she was GDR champion ten times, won the European Champion's Cup in 1966 and 1974 , and made it to the Cup final in 1967, 1970, 1972 and 1977 and in the 1978 European Cup Final .

In 1976 and 1979 she was awarded the Bronze Patriotic Order of Merit and in 1980 in silver.

Waltraud Kretzschmar last lived with her husband in Schöneiche near Berlin . She died in February 2018, a few days after her 70th birthday.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berliner Kurier , December 23, 2002.
  2. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In: New Germany . September 13, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , March 2, 1979, p. 4.
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland, August 22, 1980, p. 3.
  5. ↑ Waltraud Kretzschmar died at the age of 70. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung Online. February 14, 2018, accessed February 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kretzschmar, Waltraud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Czelake, Waltraud; Hermann, Waltraud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball player
BIRTH DATE February 1, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Lehnin , district of Zauch-Belzig
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 2018