Friedrich Mevert

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Friedrich "Fritz" Mevert (born April 21, 1936 in Bückeburg ) is a German sports official and sports historian .

Life

After graduating from high school Adolfinum Bückeburg , he studied English and sports at the University of Cologne and the Georg-August University of Göttingen (among others with Wilhelm Henze ). Already during his school days he was elected youth warden of VfL Bückeburg at the age of 16, after which he was trainer and sports warden. The next station was the chairmanship of the table tennis trade association of the Schaumburg-Lippe district sports association . He was mainly active in table tennis, but also in basketball and athletics.

Activity as a sports official

After completing his studies, he decided to work as a sports official and not a career in teaching. From 1963 to 1978 he was the managing director of the German Sports Youth in the German Sports Association and was particularly committed to youth exchanges ( Japan , France , Israel ). The 1972 Olympic Youth Camp was also under his direction. He founded and coordinated the European Sports Youth Conference in 1974 and became Deputy Managing Director of the DSB. In 1978 he returned as managing director of the Lower Saxony state sports association, which he remained until 1997. He is a co-founder of the social initiative of sport, was committed to sport for prisoners and through his initiative, unemployed physical education teachers were used in clubs in Lower Saxony. He coordinated the conference of the state sports associations. For the last three years of his professional career, he was the coordinator of the state government for the sports contribution at the Expo 2000 in the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior . While he was still at school he was already working as a freelancer for daily newspapers, followed by lengthy articles and a large number of books on sport politics and sport history in particular. He is known as the “changing memory of German sport” and is a founding member of the German Sport & Olympia Museum and the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History . Here he was a member of the board for decades (2001 honorary member). Currently (2014) Mevert is part of the working group of the German Olympic Sports Confederation "Memory of Sports".

Honors

Works

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ http://www.dosb.de/de/jugendsport/jugend-news/detail/news/deutsche_sportjugend_60_jahre_jung/
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dsj.de
  4. ^ Arnd Krüger : Sport and Politics, From the gymnastics father Jahn to the state amateur . Hanover: Torchbearers 1975.
  5. ↑ http://www.dosb.de/de/organisation/verbands-news/detail/news/friedrich_mevert_wird_75/
personal data
SURNAME Mevert, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mevert, Fritz (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official and sports historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Buckeburg