Career
After retirement from competition he worked as a swimming coach, eventually becoming a national team coach and a top manager of South Carolina Dynamo Berlin, the club where he trained. He was involved in the East German doping program In October 1997 he was charged with giving anabolic steroids to teenager swimmers without the knowledge (the drugs were said to be vitamin supplements) thereby causing bodily harm.
As a result, he was relieved from coaching duties and fined for Doctor of Medicine 5,000, without receiving a criminal record.
His past trainees included Kerstin Kielgass, Daniela Hunger and Manuela Stellmach.