Günter Möbius (sports official)

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Günter Möbius (born November 11, 1928 - † August 28, 2015 ) was a German sports official.

Career

As a young man, Möbius was active as an athlete and handball player. At the German Youth Championships for athletes, he won a bronze medal over the middle distance and was a member of the core team of the Eastern Zone in field handball in 1945/46. He became a new teacher and studied sport at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

At the end of 1947 he became a member of the Wünsdorf sports community, to which he remained loyal until his death in various functions, including as club chairman. Outside of his club, he also took on voluntary functions in sport. Within the German Gymnastics and Sport Federation (DTSB) he was first a district gymnastics councilor in Zossen, then a member of the DTSB district board and finally a member of the Potsdam district board.

After the political change in the GDR and the dissolution of the German Association for Athletics of the GDR (DVfL), he played a key role in the inclusion of the Brandenburg Athletics Association in the German Athletics Association (DLV) and was its first president from 1990 to 1996. From 1990 to 1993 he was head of the sports department in the Landessportbund Brandenburg (LSB). He was one of the co-founders of the educational organization and the European Sports Academy of the LSB, as well as the Sporthilfe Brandenburg, of which he was chairman since 1993.

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landessportbund Brandenburg: Mourning for long-time comrade Günter Möbius , accessed on September 10, 2015.
  2. ↑ Honored Masters of Sports . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 13, 1963, p. 6.
  3. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 64, No. 9, January 17, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Möbius, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1928
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 2015