Gerd Mehl
Gerd Mehl (born December 1, 1922 in Stendal ; † October 23, 2001 in Bad Füssing ) was a German sports reporter.
Life
Together with Bruno Moravetz and Erwin Dittberner, from the 1950s to the 1980s - initially on the radio and then on television - Mehl was one of the most important reporters at winter sports events and the Olympic Games. In 1947 he became the first sports director of Südwestfunk , (today SWR). He was there until 1985 and related to it, working for the ARD . In addition to Nordic skiing , athletics , swimming , wrestling , weightlifting and cycling were his specialties.
With Heinz Florian Oertel and Harry Valérien , he was among the first to address the issue of doping in sport.
Mehl was also a member of the German-Swiss expeditions to Dhaulagiri (1955) and Pumori (1961). Among other things, he was commissioned with documentary film works about the mountains of the Himalayas and the life of the monks of the Tengboche monastery in the Khumbu region in Nepal and travel film reports about the Finnish-Lappish lake district and the Åland islands, as well as the Aborigines in Papua New Guinea .
He was a holder of the Federal Cross of Merit, the Finnish Cross of Merit for Sport and in 1989 he received the Heinz Cavalier Prize of the DLV.
Gerd Mehl and Bruno Moravetz created the mystical Norwegian professor Dr. Arne Leybush, who as an expert in all questions about snow, with his loyal assistant Kasimir Wirbalek, his famous "Holmenkollen dogs" and their companion, Mrs. Widow Brösecke, among many others as the inventor of snow splitting, co-founder of Schnee-Verleih GmbH & Co KG and head coach of the Pygmaean ski jumpers, came to prominence. There is even a Leybush Ehrenstein in the Harz Mountains. According to recent reports, Dr. Leybush jun. also involved in the project “Fight against the theft of a backpack”. In doing so, he far outlived his co-inventor flour.
literature
- XVI. Olympic Summer Games Melbourne 1956, text: Robert Lembke - Gerd Mehl - Herbert Zimmermann (Limpert Verlag).
- The 1960 Olympic Games, Rome - Squaw Valley, text: Kurt Brumme - Gerd Mehl - Harry Valérien (Bertelsmann 1960).
- Das Grosse Buch Vom Ski (contribution), text: Bruno Moravetz (editor) - Gerd Mehl: Die Pioniere (Hoffmann and Campe 1981) ( ISBN 3-455-08784-1 )
Documentary (SWR commission)
- SWR - The Dhaulagiri remained undefeated. Film report on the German-Swiss Himalaya Expedition (1955)
- SWR - drilling rigs in the jungle. The Paths of the Oil Prospectors in New Guinea (1957)
- SWR - mountaineers in the low mountain range. Gerd Mehl and Martin Schlössler (1960)
- SWR - NEPAL, the wonder world of the mountains. (with Werner Stäuble) (1962)
- SWR - Midsummer on Aland. (approx. 1965)
Web links
- 1955 German-Swiss Dhaulagiri Expedition ( Memento from May 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), photos: Gerd Mehl / Werner Stäuble
- 1961 German-Swiss Pumori Expedition ( Memento from May 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), photos: Gerd Mehl / Werner Stäuble
- 1961 Tengboche Monastery - Khumbu, Nepal ( Memento from August 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Last trail , obituary by Frank Quednau in Welt Online , October 27, 2001
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Mehl and Oertel in the book Anklage: Kinderdoping - Das Erbe des DDR-Sport , edited by the Berlin journalists Hans-Joachim Seppelt and Holger Schück , ISBN 3-932274-16-4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flour, Gerd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sports reporter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stendal |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 2001 |
| Place of death | Bad Ditzenbach |