Bernd Wolfarth

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Bernd Wolfarth (born November 10, 1965 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German sports doctor and university lecturer .

Life

Wolfarth completed his school education in 1984 with the Abitur at the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Waldkirch , after the civil service at the University Medical Center Freiburg he started studying medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg in 1986 , which he finished with the third state examination in 1992. He completed his practical year from 1991 to 1992 at the Bretten District Hospital near Pforzheim , and from 1992 to 1994 he was an intern at the Pathological Institute in Freiburg. During this time, namely in 1993, he completed his doctoral thesis in medicine (subject: "Regeneration in endurance sports") with Joseph Keul at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg with the title " magna cum laude ".

The fact that Keul is closely associated with doping and that his research project "Regeneration and Testosterone", which ran from 1985 to 1993 and in the context of which Wolfarth wrote his dissertation, was described as an "outstanding case study for the history of doping in West Germany" was also brought in by Wolfarth the critic. In an article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in August 2013, Wolfarth was quoted as saying: “It's a shame that I didn't do my doctorate on another topic”. Wolfarth denies having given testosterone injections; he denied participation in the acquisition of test persons in the article mentioned, but was involved in immunological tests and drew blood from athletes. “Today I wouldn't take part in it anymore. (...) I was never involved in discussions in which active doping practices were discussed, ”he said in 2013 to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, looking back. Wolfarth said in November 2012 that he was involved in the study as a student and only published his doctoral thesis on this topic a few years later. In a report by derwesten.de he emphasized that one could argue about the background of the study, but on the other hand it was was a study that had been approved by the ministerial side and the ethics committee of the university. “As a medical student, I dealt with it to the best of my knowledge and belief. I also stand by that ”, Wolfarth is quoted in the relevant report. Wolfarth was one of the signatories of the declaration "Doping in competitive sports in West Germany" from December 2011, which appeared in the German magazine for sports medicine and in which sports medicine specialists include "the adherence to the use of anabolic steroids under medical control beyond the prohibition times into 1980s "as well as" the implementation of studies on the effects and side effects of anabolic steroids in active competitive athletes and the trivialization of the side effects as minor and temporary "as" unjustifiable ".

In 1994 Wolfarth received his license to practice medicine, from 1994 to 1995 he worked as an assistant doctor at the Pathological Institute of the Freiburg University Clinic.

In 1995 and 1996 he made a research stay at the Canadian University of Laval in Québec . Between 1996 and 2003 Wolfarth worked as an assistant in the department of preventive and rehabilitative sports medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, in 2003 he became a specialist in internal medicine and sports medicine.

In 2003 he took up a position as senior physician in the department of preventive and rehabilitative sports medicine at the Klinikum rechts der Isar . In 2011 he completed his habilitation in the field of internal medicine. The topic of his work was: “The importance of genetics for physical performance with special consideration health-relevant phenotypes ". He was thus granted the license to teach internal medicine. As early as 2009, he was involved in a collaboration between the Technical University of Munich (TU Munich) and the Institute for Applied Training Science (IAT) Leipzig, and on July 1, 2009, he became head of the sports medicine department at the IAT. Until 2014, Wolfarth held lectures on sports medicine in the subjects of medicine and sports science at the Technical University of Munich, and supervised doctoral theses in internal medicine and sports medicine.

In 2014 Wolfarth moved to Berlin , where he became full professor of sports medicine at Humboldt University and head of the sports medicine department at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin , and in 2018 he became managing director of the Institute for Sports Science at Humboldt University in Berlin. The cooperation with the IAT Leipzig was continued from 2014 with the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

As a sports doctor, Wolfarth took care of the members of the German national biathlon team at the Olympic Winter Games, World Championships and World Cup competitions from 1993, and from 2000 he was the head doctor for the biathlon discipline in the German Ski Association . Between 2003 and 2015 he was a member of the “Medicine and Analytics” working group within the National Anti-Doping Agency Germany . As an internist and doctor at the Olympic Training Center in Bavaria , from 2004 he looked after athletes such as Felix Neureuther , Felix Loch , Tobias Angerer , Magdalena Neuner , Michael Greis and Georg Späth .

In the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany Wolfarth was for the FIFA chief physician of venue in Munich, the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing , he served as the Olympic physician of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) and Deputy conducting Olympia physician at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver was Wolfarth as the chief doctor of the German Olympic team.

In December 2010 he took over the chairmanship of the Medical Expert Commission of the German Olympic Sports Confederation, at the beginning of 2011 he was appointed senior Olympic doctor of the DOSB for the summer and winter games. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , in Sochi in 2014 , in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and in Pyeongchang in 2018 , Wolfarth was once again the chief Olympic doctor for the German team.

In November 2015 he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the German Society for Sports Medicine and Prevention (DGSP) and in July 2016 he was appointed sports representative of the Berlin Medical Association . In March 2019, Wolfahrt took up the post of chairman of the DGSP.

research

Wolfarth's research focuses on the areas of "genetic requirements for physical performance and trainability", in preventive and rehabilitative sports medicine, in the area of ​​the genetic basis of maximum oxygen absorption, the genetic predisposition for sport-oriented therapy programs, in the research of exercise programs for overweight children, the areas "Infects and sports" and "Cardiac adaptation to physical training".

Awards

  • 2001: Otto Wolff von Amerongen Prize for outstanding research in the field of sports science / sports medicine (molecular genetics)
  • 2003: Poster Prize of the German Society for Sports Medicine and Prevention
  • 2005: Hannes-Schoberth Prize for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of sports medicine
  • 2009: Messner Prize for the best scientific publication in the Scandinavian Journal for Medicine and Sports Science of 2008
  • 2012: International Prince Faisal Bin Fahad Prize for Sport Development Research

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Controversial questions to Genscher and Bach . In: sueddeutsche.de . August 6, 2013, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed December 2, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Boris Herrmann: model student with flaws . In: sueddeutsche.de . August 9, 2013, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed December 2, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Model student with flaws . In: sueddeutsche.de . August 9, 2013, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed December 2, 2018]).
  4. ^ Mathias Hausding and Daniel Drepper: German Olympic doctor Wolfarth researched doping substances . ( derwesten.de [accessed December 2, 2018]).
  5. ^ RIS: Doping in competitive sports in West Germany: Statement by the university professors of German sports medicine and the Science Council of the German Society for Sports Medicine and Prevention (DGSP). Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
  6. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Juergen_Steinacker/publication/279198231_Doping_im_Leistungssport_in_Westdeutschland_Stellungnahme_der_Hochschullehrer_der_deutschen_Sportmedizin_und_des_Wissenschaftsrates_der_Deutschen_Gesellschaft_fur_Sportmedizin_und_Pravention_DGSP/links/55911ef508ae47a3490f002f/Doping-im-Leistungssport-in-Westdeutschland-Stellungnahme-der-Hochschullehrer-der-deutschen-Sportmedizin-und-des-Wissenschaftsrates -der-German-Society-for-Sports-Medicine-and-Prevention-DGSP.pdf
  7. ↑ Sports medicine of the IAT reinforced - Institute for Applied Training Science. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
  8. ↑ DGSP • German Society for Sports Medicine and Prevention eV - Prof. Dr. Bernd Wolfarth new President of the German Society for Sports Medicine and Prevention. Retrieved March 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wolfarth, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports medicine specialist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau