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Heinz Dose, President of the Rowing Section, congratulates the new GDR champion in one of the women, Marianne Horrmann-Köhler , at the 1955 rowing championships in Grünau .

Heinz Dose (born May 25, 1901 in Groß Buchwald , Holstein, † July 13, 1980 in Berlin ) was a German sports official . He was a co-founder and first general secretary of the National Olympic Committee of the GDR (NOK of the GDR).

Life

Dose grew up in a working class family. He has been an avid soccer player since his youth. In 1920 he joined the KPD , later he was a functionary of the Reich leadership “ Combat Group for Red Sports Unit ”. In 1925 he led the Lower Rhine delegation at the first Workers' Olympiad in Frankfurt am Main .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Dose participated in the resistance in 1933 . In the same year he was arrested and three and a half years, 1,934 prison sentenced, he in prison Waldheim , in Frankenberg and in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp spent. He was then taken to Buchenwald concentration camp in 1937 .

After the end of the war , Dose played a key role in the reorganization of sport in the Soviet Zone and the GDR. Since 1946 a member of the SED , Dose was also secretary of the SED district leadership in Zittau and a functionary of the state sports committees in Saxony and Berlin . From 1948 to 1951 he was deputy chairman and secretary of the German Sports Committee . From 1952 to 1960 he was president of the rowing section and the German Rowing Association of the GDR, from 1953 to 1966 he was also director of the VEB Sport-Toto. In 1951 he was one of the founding members of the GDR's NOK and was its first general secretary (1951) and its first vice-president (1951–1953). From 1960 to 1969 he was treasurer of the NOK of the GDR and of the Society for the Promotion of the Olympic Thought in the GDR . Since 1970 Dose was an honorary member of the presidium of the NOK of the GDR.

literature

• La République Démocratique Allemande et l'Olympisme (PDF; 1.1 MB; French) and The German Democratic Republic and Olympism (PDF; 494 kB; English). In: Revue Olympique / Olympic Review , September / October 1975, No. 95/96, pp. 362-377 (short biography Dose, p. 375).
• Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 68.
• Volker Kluge :  Can, Heinz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .