Armin Klümper

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Armin Klümper (born May 19, 1935 in Münster ; † June 23, 2019 in Cape Town , South Africa ) was a German sports doctor and university professor .

Life

Klümper attended the municipal high school in Schmallenberg . After passing his Abitur in 1955, he studied medicine. In 1963 he was with the dissertation structure and function of the left ventricle to Dr. med. PhD . In 1977 he became head of the sports trauma facility within the radiological department of trauma surgery at the University of Freiburg . In 1970 Die Deutsche Universitätszeitung announced the award of the venia legendi for clinical radiology . Previously, he had studied Intraosseous Angiography. Habilitation in topographic and morphological investigations to visualize intraosseous vessels in vivo .

In 1977 Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder got him a professorship - despite the misgivings of the Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg about a lack of specialist qualifications: Klümper was neither an orthopedist nor an internist , but a radiologist. Klümper later held a C3 professorship at the Mooswald Clinic in Freiburg for a long time , where he was head of the sports traumatology special clinic he founded in 1982. In 1987 this special outpatient department was assigned to the University Radiological Clinic. In 1990 Klümper left the University of Freiburg and gave up his civil service status. In the same year he became medical director of the Mooswald Clinic. Klümper was deputy chairman of the “Bundesleistungszentrum Freiburg- Herzogenhorn ” association, which is suspected of being a money laundering facility through which funds from the Federal Ministry of the Interior were used for doping .

Doping allegations

The doping of West German top athletes was concentrated in the 1970s with the Freiburg sports medicine specialists Armin Klümper and Joseph Keul . Klümper claimed in 1976 that the athletes could have made their own choice and that they had not operated “a systematic contamination of athletes with anabolic steroids”. "We have always made individual decisions and given anabolic steroids individually as part of our personal freedom," said Klümper. Until the doping allegations in the mid-1990s, Klümper was considered a renowned sports doctor in Germany. As early as 1987 there was an investigation into the death of Birgit Dressel , who had also been a patient of the Freiburg doctor since 1981.

1991 threw the discus thrower Alwin Wagner in that of Brigitte Berendonk authored book Doping - from research to cheat doping before. However, he did not fall until 1997 in the case of the hurdle sprinter Birgit Hamann , who said the doctor had given her growth hormones without her knowledge . The former sprinter Manfred Ommer said of Klümper: "Klümper was the greatest dopper on the planet."

At the end of November 1997, a newspaper advertisement in defense of Klümper was published, signed by well-known athletes such as Eberhard Gienger , Wolfgang Overath , Hansi Müller , Jürgen Hingsen , Christian Schenk , Lars Riedel and Rolf Milser . In it, Klümper is referred to as a “passionate patient doctor”, he puts the patient at the center, orientates himself “exclusively on the clinical picture” and has a “pronounced medical ethos”. According to the authors, "envy, resentment and defamation" should be publicly countered with the ad.

Klümper or his role in the doping scandal at the Freiburg University Medical Center (see Doping affair Team Telekom ) were not mentioned in the final report of the first expert commission for the investigation of doping allegations in 2009. According to media reports, Rector Wolfgang Jäger is said to have limited the work of this internal university commission to the “Sports Medicine Department”, to which Klümper was not a member. An evaluation commission headed by the criminologist Letizia Paoli ( Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ) appointed by the Freiburg university management since 2009 had found numerous other documents. The commission disbanded in March 2016 without submitting a final report.

However, the rector was given five scientific reports totaling more than 1400 pages on the history of doping at the university and university clinic. The report on Armin Klümper and the German doping problem alone comprises around 530 pages. In it, Klümper is classified as "that sports medicine specialist in the history of high-performance sport in the Federal Republic of Germany", "who, like no other, actively participated in the doping of athletes and, in some cases, of women athletes". In an additional report on systematic manipulation in cycling and football , which Andreas Singler prepared in 2015 on the basis of criminal files from the Freiburg public prosecutor, it is even possible to prove underage doping planned by Klümper and financed by the Association of German Cyclists (Singler 2015). At the end of April 2017, Singler published the report and made additions. He discovered that Klümper obtained human growth hormone several times between 1979 and 1984, which he organized through his prescription fraud. At that time growth hormone was still extracted from the pituitary gland of human corpses, in 1985 these drugs were banned because of the health risks and finally replaced by genetically engineered growth hormone.

Billing fraud

In 1984, an investigation was initiated against Klümper on suspicion of billing fraud by health insurance companies, in the course of which, on May 3, 1984, public prosecutors and detectives searched his practice. When the press reported about the search, Eberhard Gienger wrote an address of solidarity for Klümper. In addition, a donation account has been set up for Klümper. a. Uli Hoeneß , Paul Breitner and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge paid in. The Freiburg Regional Court sentenced Klümper in 1989 to a fine of 160,000 marks. The investigation files only reappeared in the Freiburg State Archives at the end of 2014.

Alternative medicine

In 1998 Klümper moved to South Africa with his wife, where he wrote several books. He also dealt with alternative medicine . For example, he published articles in the magazine Co.Med in which he referred to pseudoscientific theses by Ryke Geerd Hamer , the “biofield test” by the physicist Paul Schweitzer or “ detoxification ” through therapeutic fasting .

Publications (selection)

  • with Thomas Einsingbach, Lutz Biedermann: Sports physiotherapy and rehabilitation . Thieme, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-13-711102-1 .
  • Bone disease . Krause, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1994, ISBN 3-923523-19-X .
  • Prohibiting is easy, permitting is difficult or the desire to weigh in to conquer the pounds . Krause, 1995, ISBN 3-923523-20-3 .
  • Weed does not pass. Phytotherapy (herbal medicine). A compendium of alternatives for doctors and associated health professions . Krause, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2003, ISBN 3-923523-22-X .
  • Medicinal plants in the world. Healing with herbs. The plant and healing arts of the Maori . Krause, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2005, ISBN 3-923523-23-8 .

literature

  • Andreas Singler: Armin Klümper and the German doping problem. Structural requirements for illegitimate manipulation, political support, and institutional failure. Scientific report on behalf of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. Mainz 2015. ( Online ).
  • Andreas Singler: Systematic manipulations in cycling and football. Scientific report on new findings on doping in the Federal Republic of Germany in connection with the work of Armin Klümper. On behalf of the University of Freiburg. Mainz 2015 (last expansion in April 2017; online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armin Klümper: Obituary notice. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 29, 2019, accessed July 1, 2019 . Andreas Strepenick: According to the FAZ obituary: Sports doctor Armin Klümper died. In: Badische Zeitung . June 30, 2019, accessed July 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Städtisches Gymnasium Schmallenberg (Hrsg.): 75 years Gymnasium Schmallenberg 1925–2000. Becker Verlag, Arnsberg, August 2000.
  3. ↑ The functional structure of the left ventricle in the catalog of the German National Library.Retrieved on July 1, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b Andreas Strepenick, Andreas Frey: They called him Guru - Armin Klümper and competitive sport. In: Badische Zeitung . March 18, 2015, accessed July 1, 2019 .
  5. ^ Die Deutsche Universitätszeitung 1970, p. 21.
  6. ↑ Intraosseous angiography: topography and morphological examinations to visualize intraosseous vessels in vivo in the catalog of the German National Library . Accessed on July 1, 2019.
  7. ↑ a b Martin Herceg: How politics protected Armin Klümper. In: Badische Zeitung. April 17, 2015, accessed July 1, 2019 .
  8. ↑ About us. In: The Sports Orthopedists. Archived from the original on December 3, 2016 ; accessed on July 1, 2019 .
  9. ↑ W. Wenz et al. a .: Radiology on the Upper Rhine. Berlin 1987, p. 38.
  10. ↑ Sports medicine: Always done that way . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1993, pp. 198 ( Online - Mar. 1, 1993 ).
  11. ^ Andreas Müller: Freiburg doping education: Riddle about three files. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . April 22, 2015, accessed July 1, 2019 .
  12. ^ Friedhard Teuffel: Doping in the Federal Republic: Prohibited, but desired. In: Tagesspiegel.de . October 15, 2011, accessed August 13, 2014 .
  13. ↑ a b Armin Klümper and the German doping problem. (pdf, 8.5 MB) Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, May 19, 2017, p. 428 , accessed on March 16, 2019 .
  14. ↑ "He is one of us" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1987, pp. 245 ( online ). Always done that way . In: Der Spiegel . No.
     9 , 1993, pp. 198 ( online ).
  15. ↑ Erik Eggers: A crooked story. In: Tagesspiegel.de. October 4, 2012, accessed July 1, 2019 . Ulrike John: The agonizing death of Birgit Dressel: "A memorial - until today". In: Krankenkassen.de. April 9, 2007, archived from the original on October 16, 2014 ; accessed on July 1, 2019 .
  16. ^ Georg Gulde: Again allegations against sports medicine specialist Klümper. In: Badische Zeitung . February 21, 2015, accessed July 1, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Manfred Ommer: "Content did not surprise me". In: Focus Online . August 6, 2013, accessed July 1, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Barbara Bürer, Nils Klawitter: Since 1990, the West has adorned itself with athletes from GDR production. Their creators are now on trial. In: Die Zeit 13/1998. March 19, 1998. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Peter Ahrens: Doping in the Federal Republic: The Cocktail Party of the West. In: Spiegel Online . March 29, 2017, accessed July 1, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Hans-Joachim Schäfer, Wilhelm Schänzer, Ulrich Schwabe: Final report of the commission of experts for the clarification of doping allegations against doctors in the sports medicine department of the Freiburg University Medical Center. (pdf, 343 kB) Freiburg University Medical Center, May 12, 2009, accessed on April 10, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Sebastian Krause: "Deceived and betrayed" - The evaluation commission to clarify the Freiburg doping past raises serious allegations. In: Deutschlandfunk broadcast “Sports on the weekend”. February 6, 2013, accessed July 1, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Anno Hecker: Was there a doping center in Freiburg? In: FAZ.net . February 13, 2015, accessed July 1, 2019 .
  23. ↑ "Resignation without a reason - scientific educational work must continue". Press release. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, March 1, 2016, accessed on July 22, 2018 . Udo Ludwig : Small war in Breisgau . In: Der Spiegel . No.
     10 , 2016, p. 62, 63 ( online ).
  24. ↑ Andreas Singler , Lisa Heitner: Systematic manipulations in cycling and football: Scientific report on new findings on doping in the Federal Republic of Germany in connection with the work of Armin Klümper. (pdf, 769 kB) In: amazonaws.com. April 2017, pp. 75-77 , accessed on July 22, 2018 .
  25. ↑ a b c d J. Aumüller, Josef Kelnberger, K. Ott and T. Zick: Medicine for millions. In: sueddeutsche.de . April 17, 2015, accessed July 12, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Matthias Dell: Doesn't do anything in football. In: freitag.de . June 9, 2010, accessed August 23, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Bernd A. Kasprzak, Armin Klümper: The cervical syndrome from a sports medicine point of view: Conservative therapy of the chronic cervical shoulder-arm syndrome. (pdf, 2.4 MB) In: CO.med. June 2014, accessed July 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Klümper, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2019
Place of death Cape Town , South Africa