Erich Kamper

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Erich Kamper (born June 22, 1914 in Mitterdorf im Mürz Valley ; † November 9, 1995 in Graz ) was an Austrian sports journalist and publicist.

Erich Kamper began building up his archive on Olympic history as a young sports journalist in the 1930s. From 1947 to 1979 he was head of the sports department at the daily newspaper Neue Zeit in Graz. In 1951, Kamper was a founding member of the Association of Track and Field Statisticians . Kamper began early on to systematically research and archive the life data of athletes. This activity resulted in lexicons on Olympic medal winners, first on the Olympic Winter Games, and later also on the Summer Games. His standard works with the biographical dates grew from 12,000 people in later revisions over 14,000 to 16,000 athletes in his last book from 1992. In addition, Kamper published in numerous sports magazines and in 1970 worked on the lexicon Die Stars des Sport von A – Z published by Bodo Harenberg .

Kamper has received several awards for his contributions to Olympic history. In 1969 he became an honorary member of the International Olympic Academy , and in 1987 he received the Olympic Order from the IOC . In 1991 he was named Honorary President at the founding of the International Society of Olympic Historians .

After the death of Erich Kamper, his archive was taken over by the Austrian sports historian Karl Graf.

Works

  • Lexicon of the Olympic Winter Games , Union-Verlag Stuttgart no year (2nd expanded edition 1964)
  • Encyclopedia of the Olympic Games Römer-Verlag Stuttgart 1972
  • Lexicon of the 12,000 (twelve thousand) Olympians Leykam-Verlag Graz 1975
  • Lexicon of the 14,000 Olympians Leykam-Verlag Graz 1983 ISBN 3-7011-7144-0
  • Austria's athletics in names and numbers Leykam-Verlag Graz 1986 ISBN 3-7011-7169-6 (together with Karl Graf)
  • Olympic Heroes Spiridon-Verlag Erkrath 1991 ISBN 3-922011-20-9 (together with Herbert Soucek)
  • Who's Who of the Olympic Games 1896–1992. Who's Who at the Olympics. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-928562-47-9 (together with Bill Mallon )

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society
personal data
SURNAME Kamper, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sports journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Mitterdorf in the Mürz Valley
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1995
Place of death Graz