Hansjörg Holzamer
Hansjörg Holzamer (born February 9, 1939 in Heppenheim ; † April 28, 2019 ibid.), Called Jake , was a German national athletics trainer (national trainer for long jump), writer and retired senior teacher. He became best known through his discovery and years of collaboration with the hurdler Florian Schwarthoff and the long jumper Hans Baumgartner .
Life
Holzamer came from an old family of teachers and writers. His grandfather Wilhelm Holzamer was a representative of Art Nouveau in Darmstadt , his father Hans Detlev Holzamer, a dialect writer and director of the Bergstrasse Festival , has been missing since the Second World War. From 1954 (with one interruption from 1980 to 1984) he was a trainer at TV Heppenheim, and he was also an active athlete in his youth as an all-rounder.
From 1959 to 1966 he studied sociology, history, German and kinetics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . After a legal traineeship in Gernsheim and Darmstadt, he was a teacher from 1967 to 2002, later a senior teacher and liaison teacher at the Lichtenberg School in Darmstadt .
Trainer
At the age of 15, Holzamer set up the athletics department of TV Heppenheim , which would later include such big names as the 1972 Olympic runner-up, Hans Baumgartner, and the 1996 Olympic runner-up, Florian Schwarthoff, both of whom were looked after by Holzamer.
Holzamer himself was a successful all-rounder in his youth. However, he made a name for himself as an adventurous trainer and lateral thinker. The Heppenheim sprint, hurdle and jumping school, which he played a key role in, is one of the most successful in Germany.
After Schwarthoff's fatal fall at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg , a remarkable analysis by Holzamer under the title “The Holzamer Video” gained some fame among athletes.
While he had retired as a high school teacher since August 2002, he worked as a track and field trainer at TV Heppenheim until his death and was honored for his 70-year membership in 2018.
Teacher
Holzamer studied sociology, history, German and kinetics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt from 1959 to 1966. From 1967, in addition to his athletics obligations, he also worked as a teacher at the Lichtenberg School in Darmstadt, where he served as a senior teacher and from 1973 to 1995 as a liaison teacher. From 1976 to 1993 he was also a liaison teacher for the city of Darmstadt.
writer
In 1968 he published the book “The colorful book of the mountain road” once written by his father Hans Detlev Holzamer.
His scene book "Jake's Dream: The Death of the Non-Swimmer", published in 1978, is about the young people of the Lichtenberg School and the arguments with the staff and the management. A new publication was published in September 2007 by buchfein-Verlag.
In 2005, “Der Flug der Libelle” was published, a crime and homeland novel.
In 2009 a new edition of the book "The colorful book of the mountain road" by Hans Detlev Holzamer appeared, edited by Klaus Böhme and Hansjörg Holzamer
In 2009 the book "Wilhelm Holzamer (1870–1907) - Writer Between Home and Cosmopolitanism in Pictures" was published by Klaus Böhme and Hansjörg Holzamer
Web links
- Literature by and about Hansjörg Holzamer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mourning for athletics trainer Hansjörg Holzamer echo-online.de, accessed on April 30, 2019
- ↑ Olympia with heart and mind
- ^ Mourning for athletics trainer Hansjörg Holzamer
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holzamer, Hansjörg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German national athletics trainer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heppenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 2019 |
| Place of death | Heppenheim |