Andreas Singler

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Andreas Singler (* 1961 in Lahr / Black Forest ) is a sports scientist , Japanologist and journalist from Mainz .

Career

Andreas Singler played soccer , handball and athletics as an active athlete . He completed his studies in sports science at the University of Mainz with a diploma. In 2011 Singler received his doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of " Doping and Enhancement" at the Institute for Exercise Education & Exercise Research at the University of Würzburg . He also completed a Japanese studies degree at the University of Frankfurt . His Japanological focus is on the anti-nuclear movement and the Olympic discourses with regard to Tokyo 2020. A monograph on the Japanese anti-nuclear movement with the title “Sayonara Atomkraft. Protests in Japan after 'Fukushima' ”was published by the Berlin publisher Ernst Brandt on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the triple catastrophe on March 11, 2011. Singler wrote a scientific thesis at the University of Frankfurt at the end of 2017 on the subject of“ Olympia 2020 in Tokyo. Critical discourses of representative actors and groups. ”At the end of August 2019 he published the volume“ Tôkyô 2020: Olympia and the arguments of opponents ”.

Singler has been scientifically and journalistically concerned with the subject of doping since the late 1980s . He was u. a. works as a freelancer at the Center for Doping Prevention at the Heidelberg University of Education. As early as 2000, Singler and Treutlein demonstrated in a study that the record development in weight training between 1960 and 1990 was largely influenced by the use of anabolic steroids and that the international performance development in many areas was therefore largely completed in 1976.

Working as a member of the Evaluation Commission for Freiburg Sports Medicine

From 2012 onwards, Singler was one of up to eight members of the Freiburg Sports Medicine Evaluation Commission and was the lead author of several scientific reports on the history and sociology of sports medicine doping at the University and University Medical Center Freiburg a . a. in connection with the doping affair Team Telekom . In 2015 Singler resigned from the evaluation commission , the background being internal conflicts with the commission leader Letizia Paoli , which had led to an unauthorized publication on "Systematic manipulations in cycling and football". During his investigations into doping in professional cycling, Singler came to the conclusion that doping was apparently one of the “founding tasks” of the Telekom team .

Expert opinion on Herbert Reindell

In the report on Herbert Reindell (Singler & Treutlein 2014), some ideas that had been circulating up to then that the university doping problem in Freiburg was due to Herbert Reindell and to the 1950s were rejected as unprovable and extremely unlikely. It was also worked out that an equation of Doping and research on pharmacological performance enhancement, which already existed at the beginning of the 20th century and is still taking place today for reasons of the fight against doping, is not expedient. It can also be proven that it was not politics who brought the issue of research into pharmacological performance enhancement to sports medicine for the purpose of improving the German medal balance, but that the sports physicians themselves defined this research focus for themselves. Nevertheless, the abuse potential of such research is evident. It was also shown that the subject of pharmacological performance influencing played an important role for Professor Wildor Hollmann in Cologne throughout the 1960s. Reindell could not be regarded as completely unencumbered in the doping question, since he temporarily softened his originally strictly negative attitude towards doping in public statements in the 1970s. The systematic doping in West Germany cannot be traced back to Reindell, but to his successor in sports medicine, Keul and especially Klümper.

Opinion on Joseph Keul

In the report on "Joseph Keul: Scientific culture, doping and research on pharmacological performance enhancement" (Singler & Treutlein 2015), Keul, as the most influential sports medicine specialist in West Germany for a long time and head of the sports medicine department at the Freiburg University Clinic, is heavily burdened, although only a few active doping cases are proven could. According to Keul's expert opinion, it was other activities that developed effects, thanks to which doping could develop unhindered in the Federal Republic. His scientific "innocuousness fictions" of drugs suitable for doping such as B. Anabolic steroids had an impact on the practice in the form of intake recommendations and, as supposedly harmless, made energetic countermeasures against drug abuse and doping seem dispensable from the point of view of sport and politics. In addition, blatant doping cover-ups could be proven.

Singler operates in the report u. a. with organizational sociological instruments. According to this, problematic incidents such as doping, but also problems with scientific work, are to be understood as the result of a corresponding departmental culture, on special norms and values ​​that are more likely to lead to deviating medical and scientific behavior, especially where the care of competitive athletes is concerned . The growing orientation towards third-party funding at universities was made jointly responsible for the development of the problem; it would have led to a donation to the supplementation and luxury food industry, for which some courtesy studies were carried out that could hardly be taken scientifically seriously.

Doping in the Federal Republic is described as "consensual" with politics and organized sport based on Keul's work. The Federal Committee for Competitive Sport in the DSB was aware of the anabolic-induced examination results of athletes as part of the regular health and performance checks in Freiburg, without this ever having any consequences. The report shows that Keul informed the Federal Republic of Germany in 1976 before the Olympic Games in Montreal that hundreds of West German athletes were possibly doped with anabolic steroids. In this respect, the assurances of politicians that they had no idea of ​​the magnitude of West German doping are unbelievable.

Expert opinion "Armin Klümper and the German doping problem"

On the other hand, Armin Klümper, with whom Keul was also partly involved in doping, is referred to as the central “bad bank” of West German sport, who actively doped masses of athletes with his own initiative. Otherwise, Klümper's deviant work can only be explained by the support and restraint of numerous environmental actors. The report describes how Klümper, contrary to the concerns of the Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg, authoritatively approved a section-like facility in 1976 by the then Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs of the state, for which Klümper was not at all qualified under medical law.

Expert opinion "Systematic manipulations in cycling and football"

In addition to the large, 530-page report on Armin Klümper (see above), Andreas Singler wrote another approx. 85-page report on Klümper's systematic manipulation and doping activities in 2015 based on the criminal files of the public prosecutor's office in Freiburg that had recently emerged and had been handed over to the state archive . It also records anabolic doping in football for the period at the end of the 1970s, particularly at VfB Stuttgart. There is evidence of anabolic delivery at SC Freiburg. In addition, the author problematized medications that were expressly intended for healthy people, and therefore also partly non-medical, which were not prohibited by sports law. While the media are mostly jumping on doping in football, Singler himself focuses on the problem of the underage doping planned by Klümper in cycling. Since the relevant documents were available to the public prosecutor, Singler said, criminal investigations against Klümper and others for bodily harm were mandatory. To clarify institutional failings like this one, Singler repeatedly suggested setting up a committee of inquiry in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg - so far in vain.

Expert opinion on "doping in the Telekom / T-Mobile team"

The reports also provided new insights into the “doping in the Telekom / T-Mobile team” complex. Unlike the report of the so-called expert commission, consisting of Dr. Hans-Joachim Schäfer, Professor Wilhelm Schänzer and Professor Ulrich Schwabe suggested that sports medicine doping by professional cyclists was not described in this new report as an individual problem that could have been clearly distinguished from the clean rest of the sports medicine department or the clinic. Rather, a problematic organizational culture installed by Joseph Keul led to this doping scandal. This not only resulted in doping in top-class sport, but also in a problematic scientific culture. B. physiological values ​​of test persons based on doping were transformed into supposedly doping-free norm values. In addition, there is much to suggest that doping was part of the founding mandate when the team was founded in 1991 at the latest. In addition, the sponsor T-Mobile was already aware of the potential for blackmail for sports medicine care a year before the “downfall”, thus of suspected doping without this having led to any interventions.

The "Telekom report" also refers to major problems in dealing with the doping scandal. The University and University Medical Center Freiburg let the well-deserved anti-doping scientist Professor Werner Franke "run into the knife" because they had an agreement with the sports doctor Dr. Georg Huber, after an initial dismissal had been converted into a suspension with full pay, withheld. Among other things, this resulted in Huber's temporary legal success against Franke, who at times was no longer allowed to say that Huber had been "kicked out" by his employer. In the course of the proceedings, Huber submitted a false affidavit for which he later accepted a penalty order for 9,000 euros.

There is much to suggest that coming to terms with the Freiburg doping scandal should be sacrificed “on the altar of the Excellence Initiative” of the university, writes reviewer Andreas Singler. In this regard, too, many questions remained open that had to be clarified by an investigative committee in the state parliament.

Problems of education

In his "Telekom report", Singler has been burdening his client heavily with numerous errors and inconsistencies in the investigation process since 2007: The scandal cannot only be explained by individual deviations or ascribed to a single department. It also explains itself as the result of organizational cultures in the clinic and in the university, in which the most diverse scandals have repeatedly been lamented. They are z. B. the lack of structures within which whistleblowers could have worked without having to fear negative consequences for their own careers. Singler writes, referring to the investigation files of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the public prosecutor's office , the university and the clinic decided on a per se implausible single perpetrator hypothesis even before the BKA or two commissions set up for it had even started work. Singler comes to the conclusion that an honest, in-depth explanation was not desired and should have been sacrificed "on the altar of the excellence initiative of the University of Freiburg".

In 2016, Singler accused the rector of the University of Freiburg, Hans-Jochen Schiewer , of having the submitted reports checked by Armin Klümper's former lawyer . Schiewer then had to apologize and withdraw the lawyer, which continued to delay the review process of the reports. In 2017, after failed negotiations about outstanding fee payments, Singler and the University of Freiburg broke up. Against the publication of the opinion on Joseph Keul by the University of Freiburg, Singler filed a criminal complaint against the rector of the university with the Freiburg public prosecutor . The university had obtained the report "backwards" against the will of the author through journalists and, in the author's opinion, published it illegally. As a result, an investigation was opened against the rector. Singler (see below) has now published the completed reports on its website.

Works

Monographs

Essays

Expert opinions and studies

Literature overviews

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Singler, Gerhard Treutlein : Doping - from analysis to prevention . Meyer & Meyer , 2010, ISBN 978-3-89124-665-8 , pp. 303 ( limited preview ).
  2. ↑ Andreas Singler's doctorate at the InBuB of the chair of sports science at the University of Würzburg
  3. ↑ Sayonara nuclear power. Protests in Japan after “Fukushima” at ebv-berlin.de
  4. ↑ Japanese Studies at uni-frankfurt.de
  5. ^ Andreas Singler: Don Marek of doping In: the daily newspaper March 26, 1991
    Andreas Singler: Victim or perpetrator? In: the daily newspaper June 6, 1991
    Andreas Singler: "We have doped" In: the daily newspaper October 23, 1991
  6. ^ Evaluation Commission Freiburg Sports Medicine: Flyer for the Symposium Sports Medicine and Doping in Europe September 2011
  7. ↑ Maik Großekathöfer, Udo Ludwig and Michael Wulzinger: Experimentation until collapse In: Der Spiegel September 11, 2000
  8. ^ Andreas Singler website. Retrieved April 19, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Singler resigns from the doping commission In: Der Spiegel April 24, 2015
  10. ↑ Breitner on doping in football: "Liege Mentalität" In: Frankfurter Rundschau March 5, 2015
  11. ↑ Suse Kessel: "Systematic Doping" at Telekom In: SWR September 1, 2016
  12. ↑ Andreas Singler: Doping at the Telekom / T-Mobile team. Scientific report on systematic manipulations in professional cycling with the support of Freiburg sports medicine specialists . Mainz 2015.
  13. ^ Website Andreas Singler. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 19, 2017 ; Retrieved April 25, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.andreas-singler.de
  14. ↑ April 2017.pdf The bad bank of German doping In: Der Sonntag , page 8, April 2, 2017
  15. ↑ Jessica Sturmberg: Dispute over the publication of an opinion. Deutschlandfunk, accessed on April 25, 2017 .
  16. ^ Website Andreas Singler. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 19, 2017 ; Retrieved April 25, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.andreas-singler.de
  17. ^ Jens Weinreich : Doping in Freiburg: the Telekom report by Andreas Singler August 31, 2016
  18. ^ Arnold Sauter, Katrin Gerlinger: The pharmacologically improved human . Nomos Verlag , 2012, ISBN 978-3-8360-8134-4 , p. 38 ff . ( tab-beim-bundestag.de [PDF]).
personal data
SURNAME Singler, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports scientist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahr / Black Forest