Harald Mellerowicz

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Mellerowicz performs ergometric and spirometric performance measurements on an athlete.
Memorial plaque in Forckenbeckstrasse. 20 in Berlin-Schmargendorf

Harald Mellerowicz (born March 31, 1919 in Weinberg , today in Krotoszyce , † April 13, 1996 in Berlin ) was a German sports doctor who was multiple German athletics champion during the Nazi era .

Life

Mellerowicz was the son of the business economist Konrad Mellerowicz , who had been a full professor at the Berlin School of Commerce since 1934 . Harald Mellerowicz studied medicine and was a soldier in the Air Force during World War II . Mellerowicz was German champion on the sprint courses during the war in 1940 and 1942.

Mellerowitz specialized in sports medicine. After working as head of the Institute for Physical Education at the Free University of Berlin , in 1963 he founded the private “Institute for Performance Medicine, Preventive and Rehabilitive Sports Medicine”. In the German Athletics Association he was chairman of the performance council. Mellerowitz was active in health policy, called for political measures to combat the lack of exercise and in 1965 set up one of the first cardiac sports groups in Germany.

He donated the Konrad Mellerowicz Prize in memory of his father .

Harald Mellerowicz died in Berlin in 1996 at the age of 77. His grave is in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf .

Honors

Sporting successes

  • 1938: German champion with the 4 × 100 m relay of the OSC Berlin
  • 1939: University world champion with the 4 × 100 m relay
  • 1940: German champion 100 m
  • 1941: German champion with the 4 × 100 m relay of the Air Force Sports Club Berlin
  • 1942: German champion 100 m
  • 1942: German champion 200 m

Fonts

  • Introduction to ergometry for occupational physicians , Karlsruhe: IAS, 1986
  • Health and performance , Berlin: Springer, 1985
  • Training , Berlin: Springer, 1980
  • Ergometry in Medicine , Berlin: Bosch, 1979

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published via Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft, p. 760.

Web links

Commons : Harald Mellerowicz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 636.
  2. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  3. ↑ OSC-Berlin track record
personal data
SURNAME Mellerowicz, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Vineyard , today to Krotoszyce
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1996
Place of death Berlin