Georg Wieczisk

Georg Wieczisk (born July 20, 1922 in Gleiwitz / Upper Silesia , † October 27, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German sports historian. He was a professor of sports history and president of the GDR Athletics Association and honorary president of the German Athletics Association (DLV). He also represented the GDR in European and international sports bodies.

Life

After his military service, flight and expulsion, Wieczisk studied history and sports at the University of Berlin from 1948 to 1952 . After a brief assignment as a teacher, he came to the young German University of Physical Culture as an assistant and received his doctorate in 1956. paed. ( The position of the German gymnastics and sports organizations towards the fascist dictatorship and its anti-sport goals). During his student days, the young communist was chairman of the voluntary university sports of the GDR and worked as an athletics trainer. He belonged to the first collective of authors who worked on the history of physical culture in Germany and thus fundamentally influenced the knowledge of German sports history. Wieczisk became the head of the research center of the DHfK in 1959/60 before he became the deputy head of the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sport in Berlin. In 1961 he moved to the University of Berlin as a sports historian, where he was appointed professor in 1969 and retired in 1990. In 1958 he was Vice President and from 1959 to 1990 President of the German Association for Athletics of the GDR (DVfL) and in this capacity also a member of the National Olympic Committee of the GDR and the Presidium of the German Gymnastics and Sports Federation . In the international athletics committees he was at the European Athletics Association (EAA) Council - (= board member) from 1970 to 1987 and at the International Athletics Association (IAAF) Council from 1972 to 1991. He also advanced in 1987 EAA honorary member and 1991 honorary member of the IAAF. As a technical delegate of the international associations, he helped organize almost 30 international championships. When the DVfL was integrated into the DLV in 1990, Wieczisk became honorary president of the DLV.

Awards

• 1964 Finnish Cross of Merit for Sports Level III
• 1976 Finnish Cross of Merit for Sports, Level II
• 1986 Olympic medal in silver
• 1987 Cavalliere (Knight of) Italy (?)
• 1991 Prince Chichibu Order (Order of Sports Merit of Japan)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A brief outline of the history of physical culture in Germany since 1800 (in the author collective with Günter Erbach , Paul Marschner , Hans Schuster , Hannes Simon , Georg Wieczisk, Günther Wonneberger ; overall management: Lothar Skorning ), Sportverlag Berlin , 1952.
2. ^ Arnd Krüger : Sport and Politics, From the gymnastics father Jahn to the state amateur . Hanover: Torch bearer 1975. ISBN 3-7716-2087-2 .
3. ↑ http://www.sportgeschichte.net/index.php/goldenes-buch-teil-3/georg-wieczisk auf. January 27, 2017.
4. ↑ http://www.sportgeschichte.net/images/stories/beitragsbilder/goldene/teil_3/Prof_Dr_paed_Georg_Wieczisk/georg-wieczisk.jpghttps://leichtathletik.vfl-fortuna-marzahn.de/2011/11/08/ehrenprasident-prof -dr-georg-wieczisk-tot /  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. up January 27, 2017.