Günther Ortmann

Günter Ortmann ( born November 30, 1916 in Lauban; † 10 January 2002) was a German handball player.

Günter Ortmann played for Borussia Carlowitz at Breslau. At the Olympic Games in 1936, he took part in two matches of the German national team, in which he scored seven goals. When 10:6 victory in the final against Austria, he was not on the field. In February 1938 Ortmann was, together with Hans and Hans Keiter Theilig as one of three Olympic medalists to the German squad for the first world championship in handball. The German team won the tournament. In July 1938, the first world championship in the field handball was held. Except Keiter, Ortmann and Theilig were more Olympic and world champion in another hall of the German team. The German team won the title itself: In the final they defeated the team from Switzerland with 23:0. Overall Ortmann worked from 1935 to 1939 in 16 countries with games, five of them in the hall.

1948 Ortmann moved to the Lower Rhine, where he played for TuRa Bergheim and TuS Rheinhausen. Professionally, he worked as a policeman in the following years; it was also found that up to 1965 he chaired the Police Sports Club Duisburg in 1963. Later he practiced his profession nor from Oberhausen and Moers. As a team official he worked also at the Riding and Driving Club Ziethenstraße Trompet in Rumeln - Kaldenhausen, where he practiced for 18 years the post of second president. He also wrote as a freelancer for newspapers about the equestrian sport.

Ortmann, who was married and had a daughter who died in 2002 of a stroke.