Friedel Schirmer

Friedel Schirmer
Full name	Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Schirmer
nation	Germany
birthday	March 20, 1926
place of birth	Stadthagen , Germany
size	181 cm
Weight	65 kg
date of death	November 28, 2014
Place of death	Stadthagen , Germany
Career
discipline	Pentathlon , decathlon
society	FC Stadthagen TK Hannover
Medal table
German championship 4 × 2 × 1 ×
German championship gold Düsseldorf 1951 Decathlon gold Düsseldorf 1951 Pentathlon gold Augsburg 1953 Decathlon gold Hamburg 1954 Decathlon silver Frankfurt 1955 Decathlon silver Cologne 1947 Pentathlon bronze Düsseldorf 1951 200 m hurdles

Friedel Schirmer (actually: Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Schirmer ; * March 20, 1926 in Stadthagen ; † November 28, 2014 there ) was a German athlete and politician ( SPD ) who was successful as a decathlete and started for FC Stadthagen and TK Hannover . In addition, after his sports career, he was a member of the German Bundestag for fourteen years .

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Friedel Schirmer was released sick from Soviet captivity at the end of 1945. He was a seven-time German champions, including decathlon champion in 1951, 1953 and 1954, as well as pentathlon champion in 1951. In the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, he was standard bearer of the German team and reached by hamstring Disabled eighth place with 6118 points. (Individual performances: 11.7 s, 6.37 m, 12.69 m, 1.80 m, 50.5 s, 16.0 s, 37.01 m, 3.50 m, 54.00 m and 4: 47.6 min.) He was 1.81 m tall and weighed 65 kg in his active time.

After his career as an active athlete, he became the honorary national coach of the German decathletes and has since been considered the founder of the later successes in this role. His training principles included broad basic training in all ten decathlon competitions. Nobody should specialize in individual disciplines before they are able to achieve 7000 points.

"Under the direction of the later SPD member of the Bundestag Friedel Schirmer, whom no functionary dared to add, the German decathletes won nine out of twelve possible medals from 1962 to 1968 at two Olympic Games and two European championships with Willi Holdorf's Olympic victory at the top!"

- Gustav Schwenk

Schirmer left school with an administration and business diploma and first worked as an employee and civil servant in the city of Stadthagen, later as the sports department manager and municipal sports director in Osnabrück , Bielefeld and Cologne . From 1967 to 1969 he was a sports advisor with the rank of Ministerialrat of North Rhine-Westphalia . In addition, from 1964 to 1976 he was head of the sports advisory board of the SPD party executive. Between 1969 and 1983 he was a member of the German Bundestag for the SPD. He was always directly elected in the constituency of Schaumburg . He was a regular member of both the German Sports Conference and the Sports Committee of the German Bundestag .

In 1983 he became a member of the NOK . In August 1984 he was elected President of the German Olympians: Association of German Olympians . From 1985 he was on the Presidium of the German Olympic Society , from 1993 President of the international Olympians ( Olympians International ).

For his services to sport in Lower Saxony , he was accepted both as an athlete and as a sports official in the Lower Saxony Sports Honor Gallery of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 742.

Web links

• Former member of the constituency of Nienburg-Schaumburg
• Friedel Schirmer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Friedrich Schirmer German sports official; fr. Athlete munzinger.de

Footnotes

1. ↑ Helsinki flag bearer Friedel Schirmer dies ( Memento from December 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Der Spiegel: Friedel Schirmer, 88 . Obituaries 50/2014, p. 167.
3. ^ "The Olympic Games 1952 Oslo and Helsinki" Ed. German Olympic Society
4. ^ WH Freeman: An analysis of elite decathlon performances. Paper presented at Anual Meting of the American Aliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1979); http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED175821.pdf
5. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: 65th birthday of decathlon legend Willi Holdorf . February 17, 2005
6. ^ Arnd Krüger : Sport and Politics. From gymnastics father Jahn to state amateur. Torch bearer, Hanover 1975 ISBN 3-7716-2087-2 .