Detlef Okrent (October 26, 1909 – January 24, 1983) was a German

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

player who competed in the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

. He was also a member of the German

NSDAP The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...

and SS. He was a member of the German field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played one match as back. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

he became SS-Divisionsrichter within 2. SS-Panzer-Division 'Das Reich' in 1944. (

Nr.5038061; SS-Nr.120075)

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1909 births 1983 deaths German male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players of Germany Field hockey players at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in field hockey Waffen-SS personnel SS personnel Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics 20th-century German people {{Germany-fieldhockey-Olympic-medalist-stub