Alfred Heil

Alfred Heil (born February 13, 1921 in Dresden ) is a former German sports official and journalist . He was Vice President of the German Gymnastics and Sports Association (DTSB) and the Society for the Promotion of the Olympic Idea in the GDR .

Life

Heil, son of a bank clerk, attended elementary school and high school . After graduating from high school , he studied civil engineering at the TH Dresden in 1939 and 1942/43 . During the Second World War he was temporarily drafted into the Wehrmacht and deployed in Greece and the Balkans . In 1945 he joined the National Committee “Free Germany” in Italy .

Heil was a member of the anti-fascist youth committee in Dresden in 1946 and was one of the founders of the Free German Youth (FDJ) in Dresden, where it was secretary for culture and education. In 1947 he became a member of the Freiberg FDJ district committee . 1948/1949 he worked as deputy chairman for agitation and propaganda of the state sports committee Saxony. Heil joined the SED . After studying at the party college "Karl Marx" (1950–1952), he headed the agitation and propaganda department in the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sport from 1952 to 1954. From 1954 to 1959 he was editor-in-chief of the sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho . From 1953 Heil headed the tennis section in the German Sports Committee and was President of the German Tennis Association from 1958 to 1960, later its Vice President. From 1957 to 1978 he was a member of the DTSB federal executive board, from 1957 to 1973 also a member of its executive committee and from 1959 to 1966 secretary of the federal executive committee. From 1966 to 1973 he was finally Vice President of the DTSB Federal Board. From 1959 he was a member of the NOK of the GDR . From 1969 to 1990 he was a member of the Presidium and Vice President of the Society for the Promotion of the Olympic Idea in the GDR.

In 1973 he became director of the foreign press agency " Panorama DDR " (until 1987).

Fonts

• (together with Günter Blutke and Albert Kapr): Sport ahead . Sportverlag Berlin, 1971.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1960) and in gold (1972)
• Banner of Labor (1968)
• Gold Star of Friendship of Nations (1986)

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 110.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 290.
• Volker Kluge:  Heil, Alfred . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .