Eberhard Gienger

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Eberhard Gienger MdB , (born July 21, 1951 in Künzelsau ) is a former German gymnast , businessman and politician of the CDU . He won the bronze medal on the horizontal bar at the 1976 Summer Olympics . Eberhard Gienger is spokesman for the sport and honorary office of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and is a member of the parliamentary committee.

Life and work

Eberhard Gienger on August 1st, 2010 in Neckarwestheim

After graduating from the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Schule in Frankfurt am Main in 1970 , Gienger studied at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 1971 to 1975 , which he completed as a certified sports teacher. He then studied Russian and English until 1981 . Then he worked in the promotion department of the company arena . In 1989 he moved to JBW Werbeberatung in Stuttgart until he became self-employed in 1990 as managing director of Eberhard Gienger Pro-Motion GmbH . From 1990 to 1993 he was also Head of Sports Marketing Europe at Hewlett-Packard in Böblingen .

Eberhard Gienger is married and has three sons. Two of them, Andreas and Markus, were part of the German national team at the 2001 European Baseball Championship .

Career as an artistic gymnast

From 1971 to 1981 he was champion of the FRG 6 times. He achieved particular success in high-bar gymnastics : in 1973, 1975 and 1981 he was European champion on this device, world champion in 1974 and at the 1976 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal on the horizontal bar. The Gienger Salto , a flight element on the horizontal bar, is named after him. With this flight element, the gymnast detaches himself from the horizontal bar during the forward swing and does a back somersault with half a longitudinal axis rotation, so that he can then look back at the bar and grasp the bar. In women's gymnastics, the Gienger Salto is performed on the uneven bars.

In 1974 and 1978 he was athlete of the year in the Federal Republic of Germany . As early as 1973 he was inducted into the "Hall of History" by the General German University Sports Association (adh). In 2007 Eberhard Gienger was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame and in 2016 into the Hall of Fame of German Sports .

In May 2006, Gienger confessed to having taken the anabolic steroid Fortabol in the 1970s after an injury . After an operation, Armin Klümper prescribed the medication for him for eight days .

Results at national and international championships

championship discipline 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981
German championships All-around 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
ground 1
Pommel horse 1 1 1
Rings 1 1 1 1
Leap 1
Ingots 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Horizontal bar 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
championship discipline 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981
European championships All-around n / A n / A 2 n / A n / A n / A
Pommel horse n / A n / A 3 n / A n / A n / A
Ingots n / A n / A n / A 2 n / A 3 n / A
Horizontal bar n / A 1 n / A 1 n / A n / A n / A 1
championship discipline 1971-1973 1974 1975-1977 1978 1979 1980 1981
World championships All-around n / A 14th n / A 4th 21st n / A 21st
Pommel horse n / A n / A 2 n / A
Horizontal bar n / A 1 n / A 2 n / A 2
Team all-around n / A 5 n / A 7th n / A 6th
championship discipline 1971 1972 1973-1975 1976 1977-1979 1980 1981
Olympic games All-around n / A 14th n / A 16 n / A - n / A
ground n / A 33 n / A 16 n / A - n / A
Pommel horse n / A 69 n / A 9 n / A - n / A
Rings n / A 26th n / A 16 n / A - n / A
Leap n / A 30th n / A 19th n / A - n / A
Ingots n / A 6th n / A 38 n / A - n / A
Horizontal bar n / A 8th n / A 3 n / A - n / A
Team all-around n / A 5 n / A 5 n / A - n / A

politics

Gienger joined the CDU in 2001 and has been a member of the board of the CDU district association in Ludwigsburg ever since . In the CDU / CSU parliamentary group , he is spokesman for sports policy, chairman of the working group on sport and volunteering, member of the working group on education and research, member of the local politics working group and member of the parliamentary group's executive committee. In addition, Gienger has been active as a parliamentary advisory council at the FernUniversität in Hagen since December 2, 2010 .

MP

Gienger has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2002 . Eberhard Gienger has entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Neckar-Zaber constituency . In the 2009 Bundestag election he received 42.0% of the first votes . As a member of the Europa-Union Heilbronn, Gienger is also a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group of the German Bundestag . In the 18th Bundestag Gienger is a full member and speaker in the sports committee . In addition, Gienger is a deputy member of the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment. In the 19th German Bundestag, Gienger is a full member of the sports committee and the committee for education, research and technology assessment . As a deputy member he is represented in the subcommittee on civic engagement and in the study commission “Vocational Education”.

Social Commitment

Gienger was a personal member of the National Olympic Committee for Germany (NOK) from 1986 to 2006 . From 2006 to 2010 he was vice-president of competitive sports at DOSB , the successor organization to the NOK.

From 1984 to 1992 he was secretary of the FIG technical committee in the international gymnastics union and from 1988 to 2000 chairman of the technical committee in the German gymnastics union . Gienger was Vice President for Top Olympic Sport at the German Gymnastics Federation until 2006 and then Vice President for Top Sport at the German Olympic Sports Federation from 2006 to 2010 and was on the board of the German Sports Aid Foundation during the same period . Eberhard Gienger is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bundesliga Foundation .

He is still active today as chairman of the sports association German Bundestag eV, as chairman of the "Freundeskreis Turnen" in the foundation of the Swabian Gymnastics Association (STB) in Stuttgart and is a member of the board of trustees of the "DFL Foundation" in Frankfurt am Main. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the German Children's Gymnastics Foundation of the DTB, also in Frankfurt am Main, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Heinz Ziehl Foundation in Künzelsau. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the German Sports Aid Foundation in Frankfurt am Main, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hesse Sports Aid Foundation and a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Economic Forum Baden-Baden GmbH. In addition, he is involved in Stuttgart as a member of the advisory board We are Stuttgart 21 eV and as a member of the advisory board of the Esophagus Foundation for children with esophageal malformations.

Eberhard Gienger was a city sponsor for the social aid project We are helping Africa for the 2010 World Cup . He was the city sponsor for his birthplace Künzelsau .

He is also a member of the Europa-Union Deutschland and thus also in its parliamentary group.

Others

German unity in 1990 he jumped together with the East German Olympic champion from 1972 Klaus Köste and the TV Turn reporter DFF Eckhard Herholz per tandem jump live in a television program entitled "One and One is One", in the Jahn-town Freyburg an the unstrut should symbolize the union of the two gymnastics associations.

It was not until 1999 that Eberhard Gienger reported that he had helped his competitor at the time, the GDR athlete Wolfgang Thüne , to escape during the 1975 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Bern (Switzerland) . He hid it in his car and took it to West Germany .

Eberhard Gienger was injured during a parachute jump in May 2000. About ten meters above the ground, his parachute was caught by a gust of wind and folded up. Then he fell to the ground almost unchecked. In the end, the accident ended relatively lightly, he got away with several broken bones.

From 2012 to 2013, Eberhard Gienger was the patron of “Family wins!”, An initiative of the controversial water brand Pure Life of the Nestlé Group and the German Gymnastics Association .

On June 5, 2016, he was the tandem partner of the then 90-year-old competition gymnast Johanna Quaas during a jump from 3000 m at the Böhlen airfield .

literature

  • Jo Viellvoye , Josef Göhler: Eberhard Gienger. The adventure of gymnastics . Badenia, Karlsruhe 1978, ISBN 3-7617-0147-0
  • Andreas Götze, Jürgen Uhr: Eberhard Gienger presents moon somersault. The great inventors . Steinmeier, Nördlingen 1994, ISBN 3-927496-26-X

Web links

Commons : Eberhard Gienger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Press release from the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag
  2. ↑ Seven Bonner at EM baseball , in: General-Anzeiger (Bonn) from July 22, 2001 (accessed on August 16, 2013).
  3. ^ Hall of Fame of German Sports , accessed on July 14, 2017
  4. ↑ Doping investigators: inspectors with relevant experience , accessed on September 3, 2012
  5. ↑ Eberhard Gienger: I took anabolic steroids. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Ausgabe from May 13, 2006.
  6. ↑ Eberhard Gienger. In: Website of the Europa-Union Germany. Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
  7. ^ Members of the Sports Committee - 18th Bundestag ( Memento from September 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Bundestag online, accessed on September 20, 2014
  8. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Brochure from the Bundesliga Foundation; Page 46 ( Memento from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 6.8 MB)
  10. ↑ Künzelsauer help Africa ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  11. ^ Website of the EUROPA-UNION Heilbronn , accessed on August 26, 2020.
  12. ^ Website of the Europa-Union Deutschland , accessed on August 26, 2020.
  13. ↑ Eberhard Gienger as an escape helper. In: Spiegel Online edition of October 28, 1999.
  14. ↑ Seriously injured after a parachute crash. In: Spiegel Online edition of May 28, 2000.
  15. ↑ Eberhard Gienger: I will jump again. In: Welt Online edition of June 9, 2000.
  16. ↑ Eberhard Gienger is the patron of "Familie Win!", A campaign by the Nestlé Group ( Memento from July 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ For the Queen: 90-year-old girl from Halle jumps with the parachute in Böhlen ( Memento from June 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from June 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Gienger, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnast and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Künzelsau