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Klaus Weiß
Klaus Weiß (20 November 1944 – 8 June 2000) was an East Germany, East German former Team handball, handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was born in Wrocław, Breslau. In 1972 he was part of the East German team which finished fourth in the Handball at the 1972 Summer Olympics, Olympic tournament. He played four matches. References External links * 1944 births 2000 deaths German male handball players Olympic handball players for East Germany Handball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Wrocław Silesian-German people East German male handball players SC Dynamo Berlin sportspeople {{Germany-handball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state was a part of the Eastern Bloc in the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state".Patrick Major, Jonathan Osmond, ''The Workers' and Peasants' State: Communism and Society in East Germany Under Ulbricht 1945–71'', Manchester University Press, 2002, Its territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the end of World War II—the Soviet occupation zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it and West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR. Most scholars and academics describe the GDR as a totalitarian dictatorship. The GDR was establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
