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Inge Wischnewski
Wischnewski (left) in December 1962, with Heidemarie Steiner and Ralph Borghard
Other names	Inge Kabisch (birth)
Born	(1930-03-02)2 March 1930 Weißenfels, Province of Saxony, Weimar Republic
Died	11 July 2010(2010-07-11) (aged 80)
Figure skating career
Country	East Germany
Retired	1955

Inge Wischnewski, née Kabisch, (2 March 1930 – 11 July 2010) was a German figure skater and figure skating coach. She was a four-time East German national champion.

Career

Inge Kabisch won the East German national title four times, always beating Jutta Müller. Her strength were spins. She was coached by Charlotte Giebelmann.

In 1956, Manfred Ewald sent her and other skaters to study coaching at the DHfK Leipzig. She settled in East Berlin where she worked as a coach under her married name, Inge Wischnewski. Her students included:

• Christine Errath (1974 World champion and 1976 Olympic bronze medalist)
• Janina Wirth (1982 World Junior champion)
• Uwe Kagelmann (1972 and 1976 Olympic pairs' bronze medalist)
• Rolf Österreich (1976 Olympic pairs' silver medalist)
• Alexander König (1982 World Junior men's bronze medalist and 1988 European pairs' bronze medalist)
• Ralph Borghard
• Heidemarie Steiner
• Bernd Wunderlich (1975 East German national champion)
• Kerstin Stolfig

Wischnewski coached in Norway from 1991 to 1996, after which she returned to Berlin. Her former student, Christine Errath, wrote a book about her titled Die Pirouettenkönigin (The Spin Queen).

Personal life

Inge Kabisch was born on 2 March 1930 in Weißenfels, Weimar Republic. She married Heinz Wischnewski and took his surname. In 1958, she gave birth to their daughter, Ina. She died in July 2010 after a short illness.

Results

References

1. ^ Hönel, Manfred (15 July 2010). "Pirouettenkönigin: Trainerin Inge Wischnewski gestorben" [Spin Queen: Coach Inge Wischnewski has died]. Neues Deutschland (in German).
2. ^ Unger, Andreas (28 October 2010). "Inge Wischnewski (Geb. 1930)" [Inge Wischnewski (born 1930)]. Der Tagesspiegel (in German).
3. "Weltmeister-Trainerin Inge Wischnewski verstorben" [Coach of World champions Inge Wischnewski has died]. Deutsche Presse-Agentur (in German). Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. 13 July 2010.

• 1930 births
• 2010 deaths
• People from Weißenfels
• Sportspeople from the Province of Saxony
• German female single skaters
• German figure skating coaches
• Female sports coaches
• Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit
• Recipients of the Banner of Labor
• East German female figure skaters
• Sportspeople from Saxony-Anhalt
• Sportspeople from Bezirk Halle
• East German sports coaches