Heinz Fallak

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Heinz Fallak (* 24. May 1928 in Hamborn , † 5. May 1999 in Wiesbaden ) was a German sport - official , including President of the Sports Federation of Hesse (LSBH).

Life

Grave in the north cemetery in Wiesbaden

Fallak began as a swimmer at the age of ten (“because the swimming pool was just outside the front door”) and then switched to athletics. As a long jumper, he completed two international competitions. In 1952 he jumped his best distance of 7.39 m in the jersey of Rot-Weiß Oberhausen . Injuries prevented better performance and participation in the Olympics. He also played handball in the major league.

The qualified sports teacher became a voluntary DLV trainer for long jumpers and pentathletes in 1958. In the same year he became head of the sports department in Münster in Westphalia. In 1964 he came to Wiesbaden, where in the course of his career he was promoted to ministerial conductor in the Ministry of Youth, Family and Health. He was involved in politics and was a member of the sports advisory board of the SPD party executive . Although he supported the decision to let Jürgen May compete at the European Championships in Athens in 1969 and communicated it to the team as a sports warden, he managed to blame the President of the German Athletics Association Dr. To leave Max Danz . So he was able to remain in office as sports manager of the German Athletics Association until 1972 . From 1974 to 1988 he was chairman of the Federal Committee on Competitive Sport and was also a board member of the German Sports Aid Foundation for four years . Despite the tragic circumstances, he regarded the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich as his greatest success. He was Chef de Mission for the German Olympic teams in 1976 (Montreal), 1984 (Los Angeles) and 1988 (Seoul).

After further positions he was at the top of Hessian sports in the LSBH from 1990 to 1997. Upon his resignation from this office, Fallak was appointed honorary president of the association.

In 1976, Fallak was involved in drafting the “guidelines for top-class sport” of the DSB. While in 1971, as sports supervisor of the DLV, he was still in favor of restricting doping controls, he positioned himself after the doping manipulation for which he was responsible at the 1976 Summer Games in the “NOK Report”: “There is no reason to believe that with the issue Doping in sport in the Federal Republic, neither then nor now, was or is not handled lightly. Nobody will be subject to the fallacy that this precluded doping violations and that in future manipulation in competitive sport will not be possible. "

Fallak also ran the “social offensive in sport”: sport had to “be integrated there, together with other organizations that act in this field”. He stood up against the boycott of the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow, which he called a "political donkey".

In 1989 Fallak was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit. In 1996 the University of Frankfurt awarded him an honorary doctorate.

activities

  • 1965–1973: Sports manager of the German Athletics Association (DLV)
  • 1974–1988: Chairman of the Federal Committee for Competitive Sport (BAL)
  • 1974–1988: Member of the Presidium of the German Sports Association (DSB) and the National Olympic Committee (NOK)
  • 1990–1998: President of the State Sports Association of Hesse (LSBH)
  • 1976, 1984, 1988: Chef de Mission of the German Olympic team at the summer games

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnd Krüger : A Cultural Revolution? The Boycott of the European Athletics Championships by the West German Team in Athens 1969, in: European Committee for Sports History (Ed.): Proceedings Fourth Annual Conference . Volume 1. Florence: Universitá 1999, 162 - 166.
  2. ↑ http://www.landessportbund-hessen.de/presse/pressemeldung-einzelansicht/archive/1997/october/article/dr-hc-heinz-fallak-zum-ehrenpraesident-ernannt//d90d69e588.html  ( page no longer available , Search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.landessportbund-hessen.de  
  3. ↑ G. Spitzer et al. a .: Doping in Germany. History, Law, Ethics 1971-1990 . Göttingen: Werkstatt 2013, p. 30
personal data
SURNAME Fallak, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamborn
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1999
Place of death Wiesbaden