Alfred Rottler
Alfred Rottler (born May 25, 1912 in Nuremberg ; † October 15, 2006 ibid) was a German medic , poet and writer .
He was one of five children of a sculptor and wood carver. His mother built a laundry. In 1918 he started school in the Uhlandstrasse. In 1922 he switched to the district agricultural school in Nuremberg. From 1928 he went to the Hans-Sachs-Gymnasium Nuremberg and began to play football in the A-youth of 1. FC Nuremberg . In 1931 he graduated from high school and began to study chemistry in Erlangen. After one semester, he switched to human medicine . In 1931 he moved to the handball team of the Nuremberg Hockey Society . At the same time he published poems in the student newspaper. In 1938 he completed his studies, received his license to practice medicine and became a medical intern in the Nuremberg police hospital. In 1939 he received his doctorate as Dr. med. , established himself as a general practitioner and married. He was nominated for the German national hockey team at the 1940 Summer Olympics . In the autumn of 1939 he was called up to the Wehrmacht . As a staff and senior staff doctor he was in France , Russia , Italy , Poland and Denmark . At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the British in northern Germany . In mid-1945 he was a doctor with Bodo Schütt in the specialist hospital for lung diseases in Wyk auf Föhr . Since he had no party membership and doctors were needed in Nuremberg, he was released in January 1946. In 1946 he worked in a practice on Äußere Bayreuther Straße. After the practice owner regained his license in 1947, he moved into a practice on Adamstrasse. After several years of disruption, he filed for divorce.
From October 22, 1953 he was allowed to call himself a sports doctor . He accompanied the German athletes to the 1956 Winter Olympics , 1960 Summer Olympics , 1964 Winter Olympics , 1964 Summer Olympics , 1968 Summer Olympics and 1972 Summer Olympics . At the end of 1959 he opened his own practice.
In 1966 he married his second wife. When the Bavarian group of doctors in writing was founded on April 19, 1969, he became its secretary.
At the 1972 World Heavyweight Athletics Championships in Riga, he refused to use performance-enhancing methods on the German athletes and had to stop this work.
He was General Secretary of the World Union of Doctors of Writing for 30 years.
On March 31, 1981, he handed over his practice to his successor and then devoted himself increasingly to writing. In 1982 he received the Schauwecker badge in recognition of special services to the Federal Association of German Doctors of Writers. He was a member of the Regensburg Writers' Group International. In 1995 he received the great poetry prize at the 39th UMEM World Congress in Velingrad in Bulgaria .
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfred Rottler in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.oberpfaelzerkulturbund.de/cms/media/Festschriften/22.NGT/22_Ueberblick.pdf
- ↑ https://d-nb.info/1116954133/34
- ↑ https://www.amazon.de/Jahre-Hausarzt-Erfahrungsberichte-Alfred-Rottler/dp/3865482058/ref=sr_1_13?qid=1571403732&refinements=p_27%3ARottler+Alfred&s=books&sr=1-13&text=Rottler+Alfred
- ↑ recognition | Federal Association of German Doctors of Writers (BDSÄ). Retrieved October 18, 2019 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rottler, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician, poet and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 2006 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |