Ruth Fuchs

Ruth Fuchs 1990

Ruth Fuchs 1980

year	space	competition	series
1971	3.	EM	(56.22 - 56.16 - 53.60 - 59.16 m - approx . - 57.38)
1972	1.	OS	(57.44 - 60.20 - 50.20 - 61.16 - 63.88 m - 59.16)
1974	1.	EM	(62.36 - 67.22 m - 60.20 - approx. - 49.98 - approx.)
1976	1.	OS	( 65.94 m - 59.58 - 65.06 - 54.48 - 58.82 - 58.44)
1978	1.	EM	(59.10 - 67.56 - 51.56 - approx. - 69.16 m - 62.84)
1980	8th.	OS	(59.90 - approx . - 61.48 - approx . - 63.94 m - 59.20)

Ruth Fuchs , b. Gamm, (* 14. December 1946 in Egeln ) is a German former athlete who - for the GDR starting - with the use of doping substances double Olympic champion in javelin was. Later she was a member of the PDS Volkskammer , a member of the German Bundestag and the Thuringian Landtag .

Life

She started athletics in 1960 at the children's and youth sports school in Güstrow . After graduating from high school in 1964, she attended the medical college in Chemnitz (then Karl-Marx-Stadt), where she graduated as a medical-technical assistant in 1966 . In the same year she got married for the first time.

Fuchs became GDR champion in javelin throwing for the first time in 1967 and in the same year she took third place at the European Cup . Due to an injury sustained while playing handball, she missed participation in the Olympic Games in Mexico. In 1968 she moved to SC Motor Jena and trained with Karl Hellmann , whom she later married for a second time. In 1970 she was the first GDR javelin thrower to break the 60-meter mark and win the European Cup. The following year she was third at the European Championships .

In Munich, Fuchs won the gold medal at the 1972 Olympic Games . A year later she won again at the European Cup and in 1974 she became European champion in Rome . In 1975 she was able to win the European Cup and in 1976 she was Olympic champion for the second time in Montreal . In 1977 she won the European Cup for the fourth time in a row and she was also able to win the newly created World Cup in Düsseldorf. At the European Championships in Prague in 1978 and at the World Cup in 1979, Fuchs defended their titles. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, she was eighth.

Between 1967 and 1980, Fuchs was GDR champion a total of eleven times. She set six world records, the last one in 1980 (69.96 m). In her active time, she was 1.69 m tall and 72 kg. In 1994 she confessed that she had taken the doping agent Oral-Turinabol . Her husband and trainer Karl Hellmann was a doping specialist.

She began studying at the Leipzig Sport University DHfK , where she graduated as a sports teacher in 1981 and as a Dr. paed. reached. From 1984 to August 1991, Fuchs was a research assistant at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . She was also Vice President of the DVfL from 1984 to 1990 and a member of the IAAF Women's Commission . She was recorded by the Ministry for State Security as an IM candidate with the IM preliminary file X 367/71 and admitted that she had spoken to the Stasi about fellow sportsmen. In an interview with the State Security, Fuchs was extremely cooperative.

After the turning point and the peaceful revolution , Fuchs, who had been a member of the SED since 1971 , was a member of the People's Chamber and chairman of the committee for youth and sport for the PDS from March 18 to October 2, 1990 . After reunification , she was a member of the Bundestag from October 3 to December 20 . From 1991 to 1992 she was deputy chairwoman of the Thuringian state association of the PDS. As a replacement for Gerhard Riege , she was again a member of the Bundestag since March 11, 1992. After the federal election in 2002 , in which the PDS failed to meet the five percent threshold, it left the Bundestag. From 2004 to 2009 she was a member of the Thuringian state parliament , in 2009 she did not run again for a state parliament mandate.

After leaving the state parliament, Fuchs ran a fashion store in Jena. She lives in Bucha near Jena.

Awards (selection)

• 1972 and 1974: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
• 1976 and 1980: Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

Publications

• God protect our German fatherland. Experiences of a member of the People's Chamber ; Berlin: Dietz, 1990; ISBN 3-320-01747-0

literature

• Short biography for:  Fuchs, Ruth . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Web links

Commons : Ruth Fuchs  - Collection of Images

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Ruth Fuchs in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Ruth Fuchs in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German EM faces (V): Ruth Fuchs - The first female Olympic champion in the Bundestag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Doping fighter Franke: "The perpetrators are the doctors" Athletes Fuchs, Otto and Enke defend themselves , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung April 9, 1994, p. 13.
2. ^ Ruth Fuchs, avowed doping athlete , Berliner Zeitung April 8, 1994.
3. ↑ "Ass with ears" for the 80th birthday of racing cyclist Täve Schur , Deutschlandfunk , February 19, 2011.
4. ↑ Hubertus Knabe : Party of Spies ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Cicero March 30, 2007. 
5. ^ Stasi files incriminate former Olympic champion and PDS deputy Ruth Fuchs. In: Der Spiegel (preliminary version from issue 3/2006). Retrieved January 6, 2017 . 
6. ^ SID: General: Olympic Champion Ruth Fuchs is 65. In: Focus Online . December 13, 2011, accessed January 6, 2017 . 
7. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. In: New Germany . ZEFYS newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (free registration required).