Heinz Dietrich

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Heinz Dietrich (1967)

Heinz Dietrich (born January 28, 1927 in Neudorf ; † November 11, 2014 in Berlin ) was a sports official in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1958 to 1969 he was general secretary of the GDR Cycling Association and from 1955 to 1992 main director of the International Peace Tour .

Life

Dietrich grew up in Peterswaldau in Lower Silesia and learned to be a baker after finishing elementary school . On April 20, 1944, at the age of 17, he became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). In the same year he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and in January 1945 in the German Wehrmacht . He fought until the end of the Second World War and was deployed on the Oder. In April 1945 he was wounded in Berlin-Marienfelde .

Until 1948 he worked as a paramedic in Schwerin , then as a baker for the consumer cooperative in Görlitz . In 1948 Dietrich joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and attended a party school in 1949/50. In 1950 he became head of the Görlitz district sports committee and, in 1952, head of the tractor sports association in Saxony . From 1952 to 1954 Dietrich was chairman of the district committee for physical culture and sport in Leipzig , from 1954 head of organization of the 1st German Gymnastics and Sports Festival and then until 1958 department head for motor racing and cycling in the state committee for physical culture and sport in East Berlin .

From 1958 to 1969 Dietrich was Secretary General of the GDR Cycling Association and from 1955 to 1992 the main director of the International Peace Tour. In 1955 he was also team leader of the GDR team.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , Dietrich was involved in a scandal that had received much attention in the Federal Republic of Germany and was never fully explained. During the competitions of the 4000 m team pursuit, he was a member of the "Jury d'Appell", which acted as the second instance for appeals against referee decisions. In a controversial decision, the far leading German team in the final was disqualified. The driver Jürgen Kißner , who had fled from the GDR, was a member of the disqualified team. Four years earlier, Kißner had left the GDR team in Cologne and stayed in West Germany. Since one of the Olympic referees and Dietrich held high positions in GDR sport and confirmed the disqualification, the decision was described in some German media as "revenge for Cologne", which was made for political reasons or even on instructions from the GDR leadership.

From 1969 to 1990 Dietrich was also general secretary of the Society for the Promotion of the Olympic Idea of ​​the GDR , from 1965 to 1991 Vice President of the Technical Commission of the International Amateur Cycling Association (FIAC), technical delegate at the Olympic Games 1980 to 1992 and from 1966 to 1999 anti-doping -Commissioner of the World Cycling Federation Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).

In 1991 Dietrich was a co-founder of the Friedensfahrt Board of Trustees. He was a supporter of the Course de la Paix cycling museum in Kleinmühlingen .

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ We always have the Olympics The sport of the GDR before the summer games in Munich , In: Der Spiegel , issue 33/1972, August 7, 1972.
  2. ↑ Renate Franz : How the four-wheeler lost gold at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico . In: Association of historical bicycles (ed.): The bone shaker. Magazine for lovers of historical bicycles . tape 56 , no. 2 , 2013, p. 12 .
  3. ^ Obituary in Neues Deutschland , November 22-23, 2014, p. 20.
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , December 3, 1979, p. 6.
  5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , May 2, 1987, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Neudorf , Reichenbach District (Owl Mountains)
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2014
Place of death Berlin