Heinz Wuschech

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Heinz Wuschech (* 1933 in Spremberg ) is a German sports doctor .

Life

Wuschech graduated from the German University of Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig in 1954 and then studied medicine. In 1959, he submitted his doctoral thesis at the University of Leipzig on the subject of "Circulatory and metabolic examinations on 40 - 80 year old clinically healthy men who do sport". He received his surgical training in Spremberg , then he worked as a surgeon at the Charité in Berlin . From 1962, Wuschech worked as a sports medicine specialist for Dynamo Berlin .

He was involved in numerous scientific studies in the 1960s and 1970s, including on the subjects of "oxygen consumption, oxygen pulse and breathing equivalents in winter sports enthusiasts" (1964), "recording and assessing athletic performance from the perspective of laboratory tests" (1966), procedures Performance diagnostic examinations (1967), "The behavior of the acid-base status with exhaustive double exposure" (1967), the concept of the permanent performance limit (1967), the "training methodology in the endurance disciplines" (1967) as well as "training physiological problems in endurance sports and the appropriate ones sports medical examination methods ”(1965).

At the main sports medical advice center in Berlin, he was chief physician until 1976 and from 1962 to 1976 the association physician of the German Skier Association (DSLV) of the GDR. In the latter activity, he looked after athletes from the Nordic ski disciplines, including at the Olympic Winter Games. Since he had contact with the FRG, he had to give up his activity as a sports doctor at Dynamo Berlin in 1976 at the instigation of the Ministry for State Security . Wuschech was later a doctor at the football league club Union Berlin . When there was an anabolic steroids case there in 1985, he was discharged.

According to Giselher Spitzer's article “The Origin and Functioning of GDR Forced Doping: Doping in a Closed System and the Limits of Biological Performance” , which appeared in the book “Hormones and High Performance: Doping in East and West”, was in the GDR in the 1960s the "practical testing" of steroids "under the direction of the civilian employee of the State Security Service Dr. med. Heinz Wuschech ”. According to Spitzer, Wuschech belonged from the late 1960s to the “Commission for Performance Influence ” headed by Manfred Höppner and from 1971 to the “Sports Medicine Control Group”, whose members dealt with the effects of doping agents, among other things. As a result, Wuschech presented the “Sapporo Report on Sports Medicine” in March 1971, in which, among other things, the connection between high-performance training and the use of “performance-enhancing and stabilizing measures” is discussed. "Infusion and anabolic programs" are mentioned in Wuschech's report in the "application of targeted measures that influence performance" as well as physiotherapy and diet regimes.

Wuschech was one of the main sources of the Canadian author Doug Gilbert in the creation of the 1979 book "The Miracle Machine", which describes the sports system of the GDR.

In the book “White Coats and Wonder Weapons: Thoughts on Sports Medicine, Doping and Other Medical Secrets” published in 2012, he lamented the widespread view that the success of GDR sport was “only due to the blue, green or pink pills, people like me supposedly around distributed the watch to the athletes ”. In his book “Hexenküche DDR ?: a GDR sports doctor unpacks”, which he published in 1998, he emphasized in relation to GDR sport: “The actual success concept was based on the selection of talents, a scientifically based training method and a continuous one medical care for athletes ”. Regarding doping, he wrote in the same work among other things: “Of course,» supporting means «in the broadest sense had to be used for regeneration in order to compensate for the enormous physical stress in the training process.” The doping problem is global, which, according to Wuschech, “old and new FRG also have their share ”. Wuschech writes in "Witches Kitchen GDR ?: a GDR sports doctor unpacks" also of an exchange about supportive means with trainers and sports physicians from the FRG in 1974, who, according to his report, had sought an exchange of experiences with their East German colleagues. In his book, Wuschech rejected Werner Franke's accusation that GDR sports medicine had carried out human experiments with supporting means.

In 1999, Wuschech, together with Margot Budzisch and Klaus Huhn, published the book "Doping in the FRG: a historical overview of a veiled practice" in which, among other things, doping practices in the Federal Republic of Germany are shown and explained using the cases of Birgit Dressel and Jupp Elze .

Wuschech worked for many years as chief surgeon in the municipal hospital in Berlin-Weißensee and then in orthopedics and surgery in the Esplanade day clinic in Berlin-Pankow . In 2013 he was involved in the preparation for the season by Pierre Pagé , then coach of the ice hockey team Eisbären Berlin . As a lecturer on the topic of arthroscopy, he was a lecturer and member of the scientific management at numerous sports medicine symposia.

Wuschech was a doctor and friend of Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski for many years , about whom he and Frank Schumann wrote the book “Schalck-Golodkowski. The man who wanted to save the GDR ”published. In 2013 Wuschech published the autobiographical work "Grandpa, tell a story".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heinz Wuschech: White coat and wonder weapon: Thoughts on sports medicine, doping and other medical secrets . Spotless Publishing, 2012.
  2. ↑ Heinz Wuschech: Circulatory and metabolic examinations on 40 - 80 year-old clinically healthy men who do sport / . 1959 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed February 12, 2019]).
  3. ↑ On the behavior of oxygen consumption, oxygen pulse and breathing equivalents in winter athletes (Nordic combined athletes, biathlon athletes and speed skaters) after certain training periods in preparation for the IX. Olympic Games in Innsbruck. In: Theory and Practice of Competitive Sports. 1964, accessed February 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Recording and assessment of athletic performance from the point of view of laboratory testing. In: Theory and Practice of Competitive Sports. 1966, Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Blood gas analysis as part of the complex performance diagnostic examination. In: Theory and Practice of Competitive Sports. 1967, Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ The behavior of the acid-base status with exhaustive double exposure. In: Theory and Practice of Competitive Sports. 1967, Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Comments on the concept of the permanent output limit. In: Theory and Practice of Competitive Sports. 1967, Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Training methodology in the endurance disciplines (materials from the central seminar on training in the endurance disciplines on May 26-27, 1967 in Leipzig). II. Contributions from the point of view of sports medicine, sports physiology and psychology - some comments on the views presented. In: Theory and Practice of Competitive Sports. 1967, Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  9. ↑ About training-physiological problems in endurance sports and the adequate medical examination methods. In: Theory and Practice of Competitive Sports. 1965, Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b The writer, the steroids and the Stasi . ( theglobeandmail.com [accessed February 12, 2019]).
  11. ↑ Cycling4Fans - Doping: Wuschech, Heinz. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Doping: Strange Investigator. In: Tagesspiegel. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Giselher Spitzer: Origin and functioning of the GDR compulsory doping: Doping in a closed system and the limits of biological performance . In: Klaus Latzel, Lutz Niethammer (Hrsg.): Hormones and high performance: Doping in East and West . Böhlau, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20123-4 , pp. 72 .
  14. ↑ Giselher Spitzer: Sports security process: The Ministry for State Security and the GDR top-class sport . Hofmann-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2005, ISBN 978-3-7780-8971-2 , p. 486 ff .
  15. ↑ Heinz Wuschech: GDR witch kitchen? : a GDR sports doctor unpacks (=  spotless ). Spotless-Verl., 1998, ISBN 978-3-933544-00-1 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed February 12, 2019]).
  16. ^ Wuschech, Heinz: GDR witch kitchen? A GDR sports doctor unpacks . Spotless Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-933544-00-1 , pp. 72 ff .
  17. ↑ Margot Budzisch, Heinz Wuschech, Klaus Huhn: Doping in Germany: a historical overview to a veiled practice . Spotless-Verl., 1999, ISBN 978-3-933544-12-4 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed February 12, 2019]).
  18. ↑ Joachim Fiebelkorn: Doping only in the East? In: Contributions to the history of sports, issue 8th 1999, accessed on February 12, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Gunter Frenzel, Erich Ahrendt, Jens-Joachim Ziesche, Heinz Wuschech: Outpatient arthroscopy - organization / indication . German Medical Science, November 11, 2003, p. Doc03dguE5.1–8 ( egms.de [accessed February 12, 2019]).
  20. ↑ "You have to give Pierre Pagé time". In: merkur.de. October 18, 2013, accessed February 12, 2019 .
  21. ↑ 16th Berlin Arthroscopy Course Berlin, May 5-6, 2006. Accessed on February 12, 2019 .
  22. ↑ 36th Berlin Arthroscopy and Joint and Sports Symposium. In: arthoskopie-berlin.de. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Schalck-Golodkowski: The man who wanted to save the GDR - Edition Ost - Eulenspiegel publishing group. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Grandpa, tell me - Verlag am Park - Eulenspiegel publishing group. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wuschech, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Spremberg