Werner Schröter
Werner Schröter (born June 28, 1944 in Heiligenbeil ) is a former German wrestler and politician ( SPD ).
Career as a wrestler
Werner Schröter has been involved in wrestling from childhood. He started at TSG Haßloch , started in the various youth and junior classes and reached the top German class in the Greco-Roman style at the end of the 1960s. He then moved to VfK Schifferstadt , for whom he worked as a wrestler and trainer for many years. With this club he became German team champion in 1967, 1969, 1971 and 1976 and as a coach in 1988 and 1990. Later he was also honorary chairman of the VfK Schifferstadt. In 1970 Werner Schröter became vice world champion in the welterweight class and in 1974 vice European champion in the middleweight class , each in the Greco-Roman style. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich he remained undefeated in four fights, but had to retire after three undecided fights against strong wrestlers from the Eastern Bloc because he had reached the fault limit.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, We = welterweight, Wed = middleweight, at that time up to 74 kg or 82 kg body weight, GR = Greco-Roman style)
- 1969, 5th place , EM in Modena , GR, We, with victory over Diego Rossi, Italy , a draw against Momir Kecman, Yugoslavia , and a defeat against Sırrı Acar , Turkey ;
- 1969, 6th place , World Championship in Mar del Plata , GR, We, with victory over Gerald Bennet, Canada , draw against Matti Poikala, Finland , and one defeat against Seiji Yamagada, Japan ;
- 1970, 8th place , EM in Berlin , GR, We, with victories over Jacques van Lancker, Belgium , Cumali Balcikanli, Turkey, and defeats against Antal Steer, Hungary , and Petros Galaktopoulos , Greece ;
- 1970, 2nd place , World Championships in Edmonton , GR, We, with victories over Galaktopoulos, Daniel Robin , France , and one defeat against Wiktor Igumenow , USSR ;
- 1971, 7th place , World Cup in Sofia , GR, We, with victories over Ronald Franzen, Sweden , Franz Berger, Austria , Ion Enache, Romania , and defeats against Galaktopoulos and Kecman;
- 1972, 7th place , OS in Munich , GR, We, with victory against Ivan Kolew, Bulgaria , and a draw against Stanisław Krzesiński , Poland , Miklós Hegedűs , Hungary , and Kecman;
- 1974, 2nd place , EM in Madrid , GR, Wed, with victories over Miroslav Janota , Czechoslovakia , Constant Bens, Belgium, Olteanu Staicu, Romania, Andre Bouchoule, France, and defeats against Anatoli Nazarenko , USSR, and Momir Petkovic , Yugoslavia ;
- 1975, 12th place, EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , GR, Wed, after defeats against Istvan Nagy, Hungary, and Frank Andersson , Sweden
German championships
(all successes were achieved in Greco-Roman style)
- 1967, 1st place, We, ahead of Peter Nettekoven , Dortmund and Otto Schmittner, Aschaffenburg ;
- 1968, 1st place, We, ahead of Nettekoven and Herbert Alt;
- 1969, 1st place, We, ahead of Reinhard Zeiher , Brötzingen and Norbert Brehm, Waldaschaff ;
- 1970, 1st place, We, ahead of Zeiher and Brehm;
- 1971, 1st place, We, ahead of Arnold Both, Köllerbach and Kurt Gansserich, Dortmund ;
- 1972, 1st place, We, ahead of Hubert Rampf, Hallbergmoos and Werner Heckert, Freiburg im Breisgau ;
- 1974, 1st place, Wed, ahead of Reinhold Hucker , Unterelchingen and Max Mitterbichler , Reichenhall ;
- 1975, 1st place, Wed, in front of Walter Groß and Detlef Englich
Career as a politician
Werner Schröter grew up in Haßloch ( Palatinate ) and now lives in Maxdorf ( Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis ).
He was able to gain experience in local politics in the Haßloch local council and in the district council of the Bad Dürkheim district . His professional career began with the city administration of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. There he already completed his training, and later he was office manager of the social democratic mayor Erich Reimann and the free democratic alderman Karl-Horst Tischbein for 17 years. In 1990 he became head of the Ludwigshafen sports office. In this position he was the interlocutor for 150 sports clubs with 50,000 members.
From 2001 to 2009 the social democrat was the district administrator of the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis (until December 31, 2003: Ludwigshafen district, for whose renaming he campaigned). As the first incumbent, he was directly elected by the population for eight years.
Werner Schröter has been Vice President of the State Sports Association of Rhineland-Palatinate since June 26, 2010 - responsible for competitive sports.
Honors
In 2017 Schröter was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .
swell
- Athletics magazine from 1965 to 1975
- One hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer publishing house , Niedernberg, 1991, pages 199, 216 and 218
- Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976
literature
- Werner Schröter. In: Gerhard Sellinger: At home in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis. Sellinger, Schifferstadt 2010, p. 172.
Web links
- Profile of Werner Schröter at the Institute for Applied Training Science
- Werner Schröter in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
Franz Theato (1945–1948) | Rudolf Hammer (1948–1956) | Kurt Becker-Marx (1956–1964) | Hermann Scherer (1964–1969) | Paul Schädler (1969–1983) | Ernst Bartholomé (1983–2001) | Werner Schröter (2001–2009) | Clemens Körner (since 2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schröter, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wrestler and politician (SPD) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heiligenbeil , East Prussia |