Wolfgang Müller (rider)

Wolfgang Müller medal table
Wolfgang Müller with the chestnut mare Helga at the dressage championship of the GDR in 1963
Dressage riding
German Democratic Republic
World championships
bronze	1970	Dressage, team
European championships
silver	1969	Dressage, team (with Marios )

Wolfgang Müller (born October 6, 1931 in Landsberg an der Warthe , German Empire , † December 30, 2021 in Löbnitz ) was a German dressage rider and riding master .

Career

Müller was born in what is now the Polish town of Landsberg an der Warthe. By escaping in World War II , he came to what would later become the GDR. In Halle (Saale) he got a job as a stud caretaker at what was then the Halle-Kreuz state stud and went through his basic equestrian training here. In the early 1960s he joined the Army Sports Club (ASK) Vorwärts Berlin and was GDR dressage champion five times in a row. At this time he had the rank of sergeant major .

He then worked for the ASK Vorwärts Potsdam , his teachers included Werner Eggers and Willi Lorenz. During this time he also took part in the Olympic Games in 1968 and 1972 with Horst Köhler and Gerhard Brockmüller . In 1968 he was awarded the title of Master of Sport .

After the Olympic Games in 1972, the promotion of equestrian sport in the GDR was discontinued. Müller then moved to Löbnitz , where he devoted himself to the training of riders at LPG Plant Production Löbnitz, which was, among other things, a state-approved horse breeding company. His students included the sisters Ina Saalbach and Anke Saalbach .

He also rode actively for Tractor Löbnitz and was GDR champion several times in the 1970s and 1980s. He was also active in show jumping up to advanced level.

At the beginning of 1999 he was awarded the title of riding master .

Private

In the 1990s he married Ina Saalbach, who rode up to Grand Prix level. In Löbnitz he was involved in the local equestrian club and staged a dressage quadrille there with the participation of his wife.

successes

• Summer Olympics :
  • 1968 in Mexico City : with "Marios" 4th place (team), 16th place (individual)
  • 1972 in Munich : with "Semafor" 5th place (team), 16th place (individual)
• World Championships :
  • 1970 in Aachen : bronze with "Marios" (team)
• European championships
  • 1969 in Wolfsburg : with "Marios" silver (team)
• GDR Championships Men:
  • Gold: 1961 to 1964 with “Helga”, 1965 with “Marios”, 1969 and 1970 with “Marios”, 1974 to 1976 with “Semafor”, 1982 with “Secondantin II”
  • Silver: 1958 and 1960 with "Helga", 1966 to 1968 with "Marios", 1978 with "Semafor", 1981 with "secondantin II"
  • Bronze: 1959 with "Helga", 1979 and 1980 with "Secondantin II"

Web links

• Wolfgang Müller in the Olympedia.org database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Riding master Wolfgang Müller died weeks after his 90th birthday , Dieter Ludwig, December 30, 2021
2. ↑ ^{a b} GDR dressage champions
3. ↑ see file: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-B0901-0008-002, Müller.jpg
4. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfgang Müller turns 80 , press release of the German Equestrian Association of September 29, 2011
5. ^ History of the Olympic Sports Club Potsdam Luftschiffhafen eV
6. ↑ Was there an equestrian / equestrian sport scene in the GDR?
7. ↑ Manfred Kraus: Village of Horses - Impressions from Löbnitz. LPG plant production Forward Löbnitz. State-approved horse breeding company. Typodruck Schaubek publishing house, 1980.
8. ↑ Euroriding news, issue 03-05 / 2004 (PDF; 2.2 MB): Basic training is the be- all and end-all - Interview with riding master Wolfgang Müller, pages 6 and 7
9. ↑ Previous riding masters, pferd-aktuell.de
10. ↑ Löbnitz Equestrian Club: Quadrille ( Memento from July 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
11. ↑ Results of the GDR championships in all disciplines from 1953 - 1990 , compiled in 1990 by Erich Oese , Berlin (PDF)