Otto Tellman (22 May 1927, in

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– 10 January 2013, in

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) was a Romanian

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player and coach. He played as a pivot. He started playing in 1945 in his hometown, Agnita, and transferred to Steaua Bucharest in 1949, where he would spend 18 years. An 18-time national champion with Steaua, either as a player or as a coach, he was also a member of Romania's national team that won the

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in West Germany. After retiring as a player, he became a coach, managing Voinţa Bucharest,

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and Steaua, teams with which he won several national championships, the

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, and twice the

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. In 1985, he defected to West Germany, and coached Nürnberg's women's team. In 1986 he began coaching the men's team TV Bötzingen, where he stayed until 2002. With Simon Schobel,

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and

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he lectured at the Internationale Freiburger Handballschule ("International Freiburg Handball School"). In 2009 Tellmann, who played 48 games for the national team, was awarded the Romanian Sport Merit Order, Second Class.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tellmann, Otto 1927 births 2013 deaths Romanian male handball players CSA Steaua București (handball) players Transylvanian Saxon people Romanian handball coaches Romanian defectors German people of German-Romanian descent Sportspeople from Sibiu County 20th-century Romanian sportsmen