Karin Rehbein

Karin Rehbein , born Karin Rediske (* March 30 1949 in Aurich ) is a German dressage rider . your greatest sporting successes it achieved with the stallion Donnerhall . Karin Rehbein was born in the East Frisian Aurich, their first equestrian experience made ??them in Hamburg. Here they began at the age of two years at the North German and Flottbeker Riding Club, the organizer of the German Jumping and Dressage Derby , with the vaulting . Her father was here as a food champion active. By his own account, she had her first equestrian success with twelve years in a row, she specialized in the dressage. At the age of 21 she won the Hamburg Championships.

In 1971 she married Rehbein Herbert . At age 25 she moved to Grönwohld , where she was on the Grönwohldhof Otto Schulte-Frohlinde active. Schulte-Frohlinde, Herbert and Karin Rehbein built in succession the estate to one of leading riding and breeding centers in the Federal German Riding out.

In 1994 she won the German championship , but in the absence of former favorites Nicole Uphoff-Becker and Isabell Werth . Because of this title, she was first invited to the World Cup training camp, and later the invitation but was withdrawn again. Rehbein commented: We know that already a number of years. We are professionals. For us life goes on. Due to a Hufgeschwürs of Monica Theodorescus horse Grunox Karin Rehbein moved into the team after. This represented Rehbein, who long already for ten years almost entirely to the ten best dressage riders in the world rankings belonged to Germany in 1994 for the first time at a championship, the World Equestrian Games in The Hague. where they also won the bronze medal with a single thunder .

After Karin Rehbein in the summer of 1997 had to cope with the death of her husband, she got another chance to start at a championship. At the European Championships in Verden, they could with thunder repeat their result in individual and team competition. At the end of Donnerhall`s career could Rehbein with him a year later, again won team gold in the individual competition she barely missed a medal.

At the place of beginning their riding career, the German Jumping and Dressage Derby , she won five times between 1982 and 1998, the Dressage Derby. with the horses Miss Holstein and Cherie , she won in 2000 and 2003 the Nürnberg Burg Pokal .
Supports Karin Rehbein is the former show jumping and dressage rider Madeleine Winter-Schulze who for decades have become friends. Winter-Schulze asked her the stallion Florianus available, which they had leased for Rehbein, until this year 2008 The United States has been sold.

Pas de Deux Karin & Herbert Rehbein

Her current Grand Prix horse World Idol is owned by Madeleine Winter-Schulze.
After the death of Otto Schulte-Frohlinde the early 1990s, his son took over the operation, this was without being an enduring interest in the continuation of the system. He tried the plant sale, which ultimately led to the dissolution of the company end of July 2011 . Up to this point, Karin Rehbein served as a professional rider on the horse training Grönwohldhof. Finally came the sale is not concluded, until January 2012, the farm was sold.

Karin Rehbein in consequence moved to Reinbek , where she and her student Kristy Oatley their horses in a barn in the neighborhood ham bush are housed. In December 2011, Rehbein in Großensee resident.

In an interview in 2007 she stated that the success they now have a different status. After her husband`s death from cancer as well as her own back pain had become clear: Stay healthy, that is the most important.

About their future in sports, they were at in 2011: . I just want to have fun with the horse and the Grand Prix with front seats for the ride , the riding was, is and will always be my life.

Horses

Donnerhall (* 1981, † 2002), Oldenburg chestnut stallion, father: Gee, mother father : Mark
Nectar (* 1976, †?), Brown Hessian stallion Sire: Nelson, Mother Father Radetzky [12]
Miss Holstein (* 1992), dark brown Holsteiner mare Sire: Romino, Mother Father: Corso, later ridden by Dieter Laugks [13] [14]
Cherie FRH (* 1995), dark brown Hanoverian mare, father, Don Primero, mother, father, lanthanum, Owner: Angela and Klaus Hoeber, Madeleine Winter-Schulze, in 2009 ridden by Ines Knetter
World Idol (* 2001), dark brown Oldenburg gelding, Sire: Welt Hit II, mother father, Manstein, Owner: Madeleine Winter-Schulze