Guido von Mengden
Guido von Mengden (born November 13, 1896 in Düren , † May 4, 1982 in Göttingen ) was a German sports official.
Its role under the National Socialists is controversial. The historian Hajo Bernett describes him as one of the main culprits for the politicization of German sport in the “ Third Reich ”. Others believe, however, that it was thanks to him that the German sports clubs were maintained at that time . For his work after 1950 he is regarded as the spiritual father of many sports programs, and Carl Diem calls him "one of the most important sports leaders in Europe".
Life
Guido von Mengden was born in Düren in 1896 and comes from an old noble family from Westphalia. In his youth, Mengden played football for Bonn FV . In 1914 he passed the final examination at a humanistic grammar school in Bonn and volunteered for military service. After being seriously wounded off Verdun in June 1916 , he was discharged from the army and began studying geodesy at the University of Bonn in 1917 . From 1919 to 1924 he practiced his profession as a surveyor .
In 1924 von Mengden changed his profession and became a journalist . He edited the art and sport sections of the Rheydter Tageblatt . In 1925 he became managing director of the West German Game Association and editor of the association organ “Football and Athletics”. In 1928 he took part in the Summer Olympics in Amsterdam as a press representative . During the global economic crisis he was unemployed and lived as a hiking sports instructor by introducing and teaching different kinds of sports, e.g. B. Hockey.
In May 1933 he joined the NSDAP . In June 1933 he went to Berlin as a press attendant (press and youth department) at the German Football Association . From 1935 he was press officer at the German Reichsbund for physical exercises (DRL, from 1938 NSRL), and in 1936 he became general assistant to the Reich Sports Leader. At that time he was chief editor of the "NS-Sport", the official organ of the NSRL.
At the end of the war he was drafted into the Volkssturm and later used as a land surveyor in the Soviet occupation zone . In 1948 he moved to Krefeld, where he became managing director of the CSV 1910 Krefeld and was classified as a follower by the Krefeld denazification committee in March 1949 .
In 1951 he became managing director of the German Olympic Society and from 1954 to December 31, 1963 managing director of the German Sports Association . In retirement, he continued to serve on its scientific advisory board. In 1964 he was chief editor of the standard work of the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo . He later worked as a consultant for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , a position he had already held at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
bibliography
- Dealing with history and with people. A contribution to the history of the takeover of power in German sport by the NSDAP. Bartels & Wernitz publishing house, Berlin / Munich / Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-87039-013-1
literature
- Hajo Bernett : Guido von Mengden. "Chief of Staff" of German sport. Verlag Bartels & Wernitz, Berlin / Munich / Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-87039-001-8
- Gerhard Fischer, Ulrich Lindner: Striker for Hitler. On the interplay between football and National Socialism . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89533-241-0
- Nils Havemann: Football under the swastika. The DFB between sport, politics and commerce. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-89331-644-2
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 13, 1976, No. 257, p. 24.
- DSB-Presse, No. 46/12. November 1996, Friedrich Mevert: Guido von Mengden - idea generator of German sport
- Arnd Krüger : Sport and Politics. From gymnastics father Jahn to state amateur. Hanover: Torchbearer 1975. ISBN 3771620872
- Ralf Schäfer: Mengden, Guido von. In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Hostility to Jews in the past and present . Vol. 2/2: People L – Z. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24072-0 , pp. 544f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Guido von Mengden in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mengden, Guido von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sports official under National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Düren |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4th 1982 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |