Heinz Liesen

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Heinz Liesen (born March 22, 1941 in Kevelaer ) is a German sports doctor and retired university professor.

Life

After graduating from high school and after completing the Bundeswehr, Liesen began studying medicine at the University of Cologne , where he later also completed specialist training in internal medicine. Liesen then worked as an assistant and senior physician at the German Sport University in Cologne (DSHS). He worked with Wildor Hollmann , among others , and was later appointed professor of sports medicine at the DSHS. In 1987 he was appointed to the University of Paderborn , where he set up a sports medicine institute, which he headed for 20 years until his retirement in 2007.

Act

As a sports doctor, Liesen looked after competitive athletes from various sports. According to his own information, he ran performance diagnostics for cyclists like Eddy Merckx in Cologne in the 1970s . At the same time he was team doctor for the German men's national field hockey team for several years . After doing research in soccer training from 1974 onwards, he started teaching soccer teacher training in sports medicine from 1980 and was involved in setting up the Cologne coaching academy . In the 1980s he not only looked after the German national team in Nordic combined for nine years , but was also the team doctor for the German men's national soccer team at the soccer world championships in 1986 and 1990.

Liesen is the founder of the Youth Football Foundation, whose contact address is the Sports Medicine Institute at the University of Paderborn. Liesen is also particularly committed to the golf academy at the University of Paderborn, which is supported by the "Exercise & Brain Foundation" eV, among others. This association is headed by Liesen himself. He was instrumental in setting up a golf course on the Haxterberg in Paderborn in the immediate vicinity of the university and the sports medicine institute. The project known as “Haxterpark” supports the integration of disadvantaged and disabled people through training and employment opportunities. Liesen was honored by the city of Paderborn in 2006 for his “Special Merits in Paderborn Sport” as part of the annual athlete ceremony.

Attitude to "doping"

As a sports doctor on the subject of doping, Liesen represented a "thesis of hormonal substitution" among competitive athletes as a justification for the administration of testosterone and other hormone preparations. With this view, he is also criticized within the German Society for Sports Medicine (DGSP), in which individual members at the beginning of 2012 called for the exclusion of Liesen from the society.

Publications (selection)

  • with Wildor Hollmann : Training and sport for older people. In: Hans Franke (Ed.): Gerotherapy. Fischer, Stuttgart 1983, pp. 138-158.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FD21 - Prof. Dr. med. Heinz Liesen / My relationship with football ... Youth Football Foundation: fd21.de, accessed on May 31, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Golf Academy and Sports Medicine Paderborn presented "the golfer's brain" at the World Scientific Congress of Golf in Phoenix, USA - New possibilities for training optimization ( Memento from October 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Andreas Götte: Haxterpark lighthouse project. Neue Westfälische , June 4, 2009, accessed on May 31, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Special merits in Paderborn sport. Stadtsportverband-Paderborn.de, accessed on May 31, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Detlef Hacke, Udo Ludwig: Red wine in the trunk. Der Spiegel , October 31, 2011, accessed on May 31, 2012 (interview with Heinz Liesen in issue 44/2011).
  6. ↑ Robert Kempe: The debate within the sports medical profession is intensifying. Deutschlandradio , January 3, 2012, accessed on May 31, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Liesen, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, university professor and researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Kevelaer