Wolfgang Böhme (handball player)

Wolfgang Böhme

Player information
birthday	December 17, 1949
place of birth	Wolfen , GDR
citizenship	German
height	1.87 m
Playing position	Back right
	Right winger
Throwing hand	Left
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-1968	BSG unit Heringsdorf
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1968-1980	SC Empor Rostock
0000-1986	BSG unit Heringsdorf
1986-1988	EAW Treptow Berlin
3 / 1990-4 / 1990	TSV GWD Minden
National team
Debut on	1970
	Games (goals)
GDR	192 (538)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
10 / 1989-2 / 1991	TSV GWD Minden
1991-1993	TV Sachsenroß Hille
1993-1994	TV Neuenkirchen
1994-3 / 1995	TSV GWD Minden (2nd team)
0000-0000	TSV Barsinghausen
1996-12 / 1996	HSG Nordhemmern / Mindenerwald
0000-0000	HF jump
0000-0000	RTV 1879 Basel
0000-0000	TV Birsfelden
2011–9 / 2013	TV Möhlin
2014–0000	Handball club Herzogenbuchsee
2017-2018	TSV Rudow 1888
As of March 26, 2019

Wolfgang Böhme (born December 17, 1949 in Wolfen ) is a former German handball player and current trainer .

Career

Böhme, who grew up in Heringsdorf , was initially a gymnast at the children's and youth sports school in Rostock ; an injury forced him to quit. He therefore began playing handball, first at Einheit Heringsdorf, from where he moved to SC Empor Rostock .

The 1.87 meter tall left-hander, who played in the positions half right and right winger, came in second behind Wieland Schmidt in the 1980 election for handball player of the year in the GDR .

Böhme played for ten years (192 international matches) in the national team of the GDR and was their team captain for four years. He was on the squad at the 1972 Olympics and won the silver medal with the team at the 1974 World Handball Championship and the bronze medal at the 1978 World Championship . At the 1978 World Cup, Böhme, then captain of the GDR team, snuck into the hotel room of the West German player and later national coach Heiner Brand and explained the tactics of the final opponent, the Soviet Union , to him and Kurt Klühspies . The DHB team later won the final.

Three months before the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , he was surprisingly withdrawn from the squad. There is a lot of speculation about the background to the sudden end of his career. Böhme himself stated that in January 1980 he had received a lucrative offer for an engagement at the THW Kiel at the Ostseepokal , about which he had not informed the Ministry for State Security of the GDR; after the State Security found out about it, he was particularly watched and ostracized. He was declared a "non-person" because of allegedly planned flight from the republic and other offenses such as smuggling and was no longer allowed to play in the first and second handball leagues.

Böhme also kept records of systematic doping in a diary ; he would have been given the anabolic Oral-Turinabol at the age of 19 .

After the abrupt end of his career, he became a sports teacher at a company school and later a doorman in Berlin. In 1987 he and his third wife submitted an application to leave the GDR, which was approved in the summer of 1989. From then on he worked as a trainer and teacher at GWD Minden (in the relegation battle of the 1989/90 season as a player-trainer for two games) and various regional and major league teams such as the HF Springe (2004). He is a trainer at the regional handball performance center of the HRV NWS and with the youngsters of the RTV 1879 Basel . He coached the TV Birsfelden team in the first division from the 2009/10 season. Böhme lived with his family in Switzerland .

In June 2008, Böhme was rehabilitated by his former association Empor Rostock and made an honorary member.

From the 2011/12 season Böhme coached the Swiss national league team TV Möhlin . He gave up this coaching position in September 2013. Since 2014 he has coached the handball club Herzogenbuchsee . After moving to Berlin in 2017, he took up a coaching position at TSV Rudow 1888 until 2018 .

Private

Böhme was married to the tobogganist Ute Rührold , the marriage ended in divorce. He was married three times.

His twin brother Matthias Böhme trains in St. Gallen and worked as a sports teacher at the canton school at Brühl .

literature

• Erik Eggers: Böhme - a German-German handball history , Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-604-1 .

Documentary film

• Love, handball, cold war by Heinz Brinkmann , narrator: Wolfgang Winkler , 45 minutes, Artia-Nova 2012, first broadcast: rbb television, Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 11:30 p.m. - 00:15 a.m.
• Fallwurf Böhme - The wondrous ways of a left-hander by Heinz Brinkmann, narrator: Wolfgang Winkler, 90 minutes, theatrical version, Artia-Nova 2012, festivals: Schwerin, Kiel, Lübeck, Basis-Film Verleih Berlin, release date: July 2nd, 2015; Ursendung, rbb Fernsehen, February 23, 2016, 11:30 p.m. - 1:00 a.m., under this title also on DVD, Basis-Film Verleih GmbH, Berlin, order no. 057, sales: KNM Home Entertainment GmbH 2016, EAN: 4260051150581

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Böhme in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wolfgang Böhme in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Picture from Böhme on www.baseltitans.ch ( Memento from January 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
• Erik Eggers: GDR handball player Böhme: the erased star. Spiegel Online , March 23, 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HSV Insel Usedom e. V.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ "The prevented Olympic champion" on www.handballworld.com (PDF)
3. ↑ www.sport-komplett.de
4. ^ Erik Eggers: GDR handball player Böhme: The erased star. In: Spiegel Online . March 23, 2008, accessed December 16, 2014 . 
5. ↑ From pop star to non-person. In: FAZ.net . May 15, 2008, accessed December 16, 2014 . 
6. ↑ www.mtv-rohrsen.de
7. ↑ www.tvreinach.ch
8. ↑ www.mz-web.de
9. ↑ tv-moehlin.ch: Trainer Wolfgang Böhme resigns , accessed on January 22, 2015
10. ↑ hvh.ch: Wolfgang Böhme new coach of the 1st team , accessed on January 22, 2015
11. ↑ "Handball legend becomes trainer in Rudow", http://www.tagesspiegel.de/, September 6, 2017, accessed on February 5, 2018
12. ↑ The erased star
13. ↑ www.ksb-sg.ch  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.