Goalie Susanne Wollschläger and the West German field hockey team were fifth at the 1988 Seoul Games after a 4-2 win against Canada in the classification round. At Barcelona four years later, the re-unified German team won the silver medal, losing the final against Spain, 2-1 after extra time. At Atlanta in 1996, the team finished a disappointing sixth.
Wollschläger won 110 international caps (including seven indoor) between 1986-96. She was European Indoor Champion in 1987 and 1990, and European Championship runner-up in 1991. Domestically, Wollschläger played with SC Club Raffelberg Duisburg. She later turned to coaching. Her daughter PIa Maertens participated at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.