Overview
- The 75-year-old was honored on Sunday in Dresden during the DHB Bundestag with an entry in the federation’s Golden Book.
- Böhme is only the eighth handball figure to receive this distinction in DHB history.
- DHB president Andreas Michelmann said the gesture cannot heal the past wound but is meant to help Böhme find closure.
- Böhme was expelled from the GDR team three months before the 1980 Olympics after the Stasi learned of an unreported THW Kiel offer, then was banned from the top two DDR leagues.
- The DHB emphasized that the recognition also stands for many other athletes whose careers were constrained by GDR-era politics.