Wolf-Dieter Poschmann

Wolf-Dieter Poschmann (born May 22, 1951 in Cologne ; † August 27, 2021 in Mainz ) was a German sports presenter who was previously active as a track and field athlete . From September 1995 to January 2005 he was in charge of ZDF's main editorial team, “Sport”.

Life

Athletic career

In his childhood Poschmann was a soccer player at SF 03 Pasing from 1965, in 1968 he switched to middle-distance running .

Poschmann spent his military service between 1970 and 1972 in a sports promotion group in Porz - Wahn . Until 1986 he took part in the German athletics championships, where he was often among the six best. His top placement was a second place at the German Marathon Championship in 1973. He started a total of fifteen times for the DLV national team, with which he participated at two Universiades in Sofia (1977) and Mexico City (1979) and at the 1978 World Cross Country Championships (61st place) took part. In 1975 he came third as the best German in an international marathon competition between Germany, France , Italy and Czechoslovakia in Fürth.

In 1978 Poschmann won the City-Pier-City Loop in The Hague and set a German record over the half-marathon distance of 1:03:36 h , which was only broken twelve years later. Further successes in road races were victories at the Paderborn Easter run (1975), at the night of Borgholzhausen (1979) and at the Darmstadt city run (1982). With a height of 1.91 m, he had a competition weight of 75 kg.

From 1977 to 1980 Poschmann completed a sports degree at the German Sport University in Cologne .

Best times

• 3000 m : 7: 54.50 min, August 10, 1980, Cologne
• 5000 m : 13: 35.07 min, June 24th 1981, Paris
• 10,000 m : 28: 28.64 min, August 27, 1980, Koblenz
• Half marathon: 1:03:36 h, April 8, 1978, The Hague (German record)
• Marathon: 2:19:29 h, July 5, 1975, Fürth
• 3000 m obstacle : 8: 32.2 min, August 6, 1977, Hamburg

Television career

Poschmann's career aspiration was a teacher. After graduating from high school in 1970 and the subsequent military service , he studied German and pedagogy and history at the University of Cologne from 1972 to 1977 and again from 1980 to 1985 and passed the first state examination . In 1986 he came to ZDF as an intern , where he then worked as a freelancer in the main “Sport” editorial team. From 1993 to November 2016 he was a full-time editor, from 1995 to 2005 he was the head of the main editorial department “Sport”. From 1994 to 2011 he moderated the current sports studio , as well as sporting events such as B. Football World Championships . He also appeared from 1990 to 1995 as the presenter of the ZDF sports report. As a sports reporter from 2005 to 2016, he presented football, athletics and speed skating. Poschmann also worked as a commentator on the computer game series FIFA from 1995 to 2001 .

Poschmann commented on the final of the 100-meter run at the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , in which Justin Gatlin , who was convicted of doping in 2006 and banned until 2010, also took part, and described the four-year doping bans and Olympic ban as legally unenforceable and not a solution existing control system as unorthodox, inefficient and expensive and the treatment of the few convicted of doping as “demonization”. These views were criticized and contradicted by the doping experts Helmut Pabst , Werner Franke and Wilhelm Schänzer and by the decathlete Frank Busemann .

Poschmann acted as commentator at the 2013 World Athletics Championships and reported live from the men's marathon. After the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where he was again a reporter, he retired.

Personal

Wolf-Dieter Poschmann was married. Since 2010 he has been the sponsor of the Bethel children's hospice for terminally ill children. He died after a brief serious illness on August 27, 2021 at the age of 70.

Poschmann was the chief presenter of the Trier New Year's Eve run for more than thirty years .

Awards

• 1996: TV Prize Sport-Bild -Award
• 1998: Media Prize (Silver Ball) from the National Olympic Committee for Germany (for excellent live coverage of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano )
• 1999: Golden gong
• 2007: Bronze Herbert Award for commenting on the 2006 Football World Cup and the 2006 European Athletics Championships
• 2009: Silver Herbert Award for commenting on the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing

Wolf-Dieter Poschmann has been voted TV journalist of the year several times.

literature

• Karl Lennartz : marathon run. Part 2. Verlag Werbung UM Sport, Lohmar 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811512-1-3 , p. 462.

Web links

• Wolf-Dieter Poschmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Well-known students and alumni. In: dshs-koeln.de . Retrieved August 30, 2021 . 
2. ↑ Poschmann says goodbye to the “current sports studio”. In: Abendblatt.de . June 8, 2011, accessed August 30, 2021 . 
3. ^ Matthias Kerber: Poschi and the doping hunters. In: Abendzeitung-muenchen.de . August 6, 2012, accessed August 30, 2021 . 
4. ↑ Eric Dobias: 65th birthday - TV farewell after the Olympics: ZDF presenter “Poschi” says goodbye. In: haz.de . May 20, 2016, accessed August 30, 2021 . 
5. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Poschmann supports the Bethel children's hospice. In: kinderhospiz-bethel.de. Retrieved August 30, 2021 . 
6. ^ Benjamin Knaack: ZDF reporter Wolf-Dieter Poschmann is dead. In: spiegel.de . August 30, 2021, accessed August 30, 2021 . 
7. ↑ Mourning for “Poschi”: On the death of Wolf-Dieter Poschmann: The voice of the New Year's Eve run has fallen silent. In: volksfreund.de . August 30, 2021, accessed August 30, 2021 . 
8. ↑ Former ZDF sports director Wolf-Dieter Poschmann has died. In: ZDF press portal. August 30, 2021, accessed August 30, 2021 .