Jutta Müller ( Lötzsch; 13 December 1928 – 2 November 2023) was a German

figure skater Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, with its introduction occurring at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic d ...

and one of the most successful figure skating coaches worldwide.

Personal life

Jutta Lötzsch was born on 13 December 1928, to Marie Lötzsch (née Prusky) and Emil Lötzsch, the 1930

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champion in

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. Her first marriage was to Wolfgang Seyfert. They had a daughter, Gabriele Seyfert, before divorcing. Her second husband was

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(1931–2016), an East German football player. Müller died in

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on 2 November 2023, at the age of 94.Eiskunstlauf-Ikone Jutta Müller ist tot

Career

In 1949, Müller won the East German Championships in women's pair skating with partner Irene Salzmann. This category was created because of the lack of men in Germany after

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. In 1953, she won the ladies' singles bronze medal at the East German nationals. After World War II, Müller became a teacher of German and sports. In 1946, she became a member of the SED, the former East German communist party. She studied at the Deutsche Hochschule für Körperkultur in

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, and in 1955 she began coaching figure skating. Müller's first student was her own daughter Gabriele Seyfert, who twice won the World Championships (1969 and 1970). She also coached, among men,

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, Nils Köpp, Rico Krahnert and Ronny Winkler; and, among women, Sonja Morgenstern,

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, Katarina Witt,

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, Martina Clausner, Marion Weber, Constanze Gensel and Simone Lang. Altogether, her students won three Olympic gold medals and ten world championship titles. In comparison, Carlo Fassi's students won four Olympic gold medals and eight world championship titles. In 2004, Müller was admitted into the

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* various German newspapers, collected over 60 years {{DEFAULTSORT:Muller, Jutta 1928 births 2023 deaths Figure skaters from Chemnitz German female single skaters German figure skating coaches Female sports coaches Recipients of the Order of Karl Marx Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold 20th-century German sportswomen