Wolfgang Böhme

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

Career

Raised in Heringsdorf Böhme was initially Turner at the Children's and Youth Sports School in Rostock; an injury forced him to quit. He therefore began playing handball, first at unit Heringsdorf, from where he moved to SC Empor Rostock.

The 1.87 meter tall left-hander, who played on the positions of half- right and right-wing, finished in 1980 with the election of the handball players of East Germany behind Wieland Schmidt in second place.

Böhme played for ten years (192 caps) in the national team of the GDR and was four years of which their team captain. He stood in the squad at the Olympics in 1972 and won with the team at the World Handball Championship ( World Cup ) 1974, the silver medal at the 1978 World Championships and the bronze medal.

In the 1978 World Cup to Böhme then captain of the East German team into the hotel room of the West German player and later national coach Heiner Brand and explained to him and Kurt Klühspies crept, the tactics of the Final opponent Soviet Union. Germany later won the final. Three months before the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, he was taken unexpectedly from the squad. About the background of the sudden career end, there are numerous speculations. Böhme himself claimed to have received in January 1980 when Ostseepokal a lucrative offer for an engagement with the THW Kiel, of which he had the Ministry of State Security of the GDR not informed; after the State Security had yet to know about it, he was especially observed and ostracized. He was declared for allegedly planned to flee the republic and other offenses such as smuggling of " non-person " and could no longer play handball.

In a diary Boehme led Protocol on systematic doping; he would get the anabolic steroid Oral- Turinabol administered at the age of 19 years.

Böhme was married to the luger Ute Rührold, the marriage ended in divorce. After the abrupt end of his career he became sports teacher at a company school, later a bouncer in Berlin. In 1987, he presented with his third wife for an exit visa from the GDR, which was approved in the summer of 1989. He began working as a trainer and teacher at GWD Minden and various Regional and league teams such as RF Jump ( 2004). He is a trainer at the Regional Training Centre Handball HRV NWS and the offspring of RTV 1879 Basel.

He trains starting from the season 2009/10 the first league of the TV Birsfelden. Böhme lives with his family in Switzerland. His twin brother Matthias Böhme trained in St. Gallen U21 - Elite and works as a physical education teacher at the college in the Brühl.

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

Since the season 2011/12 Böhme coached the Swiss National TV division Möhlin.