Helmut Digel

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Helmut Digel (born January 6, 1944 in Aalen ) is a former German sports official, sports scientist and handball player. From 1993 to 2001 he was President of the German Athletics Association . The professor emeritus was director of the Institute for Sports Science at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen from 2002 to 2010 .

Life

Between 1964 and 1967 Digel was active as a handball player for Bundesliga club SV Möhringen .

At the University of Tübingen he studied German, sports science and education, where he also received his doctorate in 1976 ( language and speaking in sports ). He then taught as a professor at the universities of Frankfurt / Main (1978 to 1982), Darmstadt (1985 to 1999) and Tübingen (1982 to 1985 and 1999 to 2010).

Digel, whose scientific research focus was the sociology of sport, is the author of numerous publications, especially on high-performance sport.

Digel was President of the German Athletics Association from 1993 to 2000 and Vice President of the National Olympic Committee from 1993 to 2002 . He was also President of the Organizing Committee of the European Athletics Championships in 2002 . In 1994 and 1998, Digel was named Sports Official of the Year .

From 1993 to 2002 he was Vice President of the National Olympic Committee . From 2002 until its dissolution in 2006, Digel was an honorary member of the National Olympic Committee. From 2001 to 2007 Digel was Vice President of the International Athletics Federation (IAAF), from 2007 to 2015 he was a member of the IAAF Council.

In 1999 he proposed to open new world record lists from 2000 onwards and thus to draw a symbolic line under the records achieved by state compulsory doping in competitive sport in the GDR . His proposal was rejected.

At the end of September 2016, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported , citing a former interim general secretary of the IAAF, that Digel should have received "additional compensation". These payments were not covered by the association's rules. The report cites a sum of around $ 3,000 that Digel is said to have received monthly for at least five years. Since he is said to have known early on of the corrupt practices of IAAF President Lamine Diack and did not make this public, he is now considered persona non grata in sport . Digel rejected the allegations and stressed that he "never knew anything about these events". Digel is described as an adversary of Diack "in many sport-political questions", but shied away from open resistance. Digel once said: “I kind of failed because of this man”. He admitted mistakes, so his involvement in athletics in the field of marketing and television was “probably oversized” compared to reform efforts. "The real facts and my view of things were not taken into account in any representation," he criticized. However, he has nothing to blame, Digel emphasized in January 2018 to the newspaper Stuttgarter Nachrichten . Today he mainly expresses himself on his blog.

Publications

  • Language and speaking in sports. An investigation using the example of indoor handball. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1976, ISBN 3-7780-6531-9
  • Understand and shape sport. A work and project book. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982, ISBN 3-499-17602-5
  • (Ed.): Sport and reporting. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-17611-4
  • (Ed.): Teaching in sport. A manual for physical education teachers, physical education students, and exercise leaders. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-17050-7
  • (Ed.): Problems of modern high-performance sport. Institute for Sport Science, Darmstadt 1987, ISBN 3-9802070-0-5
  • (Ed.): Sport in clubs and associations. Historical, political and sociological aspects. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1988, ISBN 3-7780-6821-0
  • with Peter Fronhoff: Sport in Development Cooperation. Weltforum-Verlag, Munich / Cologne / London 1989, ISBN 3-8039-0378-5
  • (Ed.): Modern training in sport. Institute for Sport Science, Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 3-9802070-6-4
  • (Ed.): Competitive sport. Paths to Better Practice. Meyer and Meyer, Aachen 1991, ISBN 3-89124-113-5
  • with Stefan Volknant: The German Sports Association asks its member organizations. Findings and possible consequences. Deutscher Sportbund, Frankfurt 1992, ISBN 3-89152-278-9
  • with Herbert Hartmann, Roland Singer, Ulrike Ungerer-Röhricht & Gerburgis Weßling-Lünnemann: gymnastics and sports clubs. Structures, problems, trends. An analysis of the clubs in the German Gymnastics Federation. Meyer and Meyer, Aachen 1992, ISBN 3-89124-114-3
  • (Ed.): Talents in handball. Looking for new ways. Meyer and Meyer, Aachen 1993, ISBN 3-89124-190-9
  • (Ed.): School and sports club - ways of cooperation. Institute for Sport Science, Darmstadt 1993, ISBN 3-928876-02-3
  • Sport in a changing society. Sociological essays. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1995, ISBN 3-7780-6471-1
  • with Roland Singer, Dietbert Schöberl, Petra Wagner-Stoll & Peter Fornoff: Sports offers and equipment in Hessen. Meyer and Meyer, Aachen 1995, ISBN 3-89124-300-6
  • (Ed.): Sports Science Today. A subject definition. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1995, ISBN 3-534-12828-1
  • Problems and perspectives of sport development. Shown using the example of athletics. Meyer and Meyer, Aachen 1997, ISBN 3-89124-447-9
  • (Ed.): Top sport. Opportunities and problems. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2001, ISBN 3-7780-3380-8
  • with Hans-Hermann Dickhuth (Ed.): Doping in Sport. Attempto-Verlag, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-89308-353-7
  • with Marcel Fahrner: high-performance sport in France. Bräuer, Weilheim 2003, ISBN 3-9800255-5-1
  • with Verena Burk & Heike Sloboda: high-performance sport in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Bräuer, Weilheim 2003, ISBN 3-9800255-6-X
  • with Jia Miao & Andreas Utz: High-performance sport in China. Bräuer, Weilheim 2003, ISBN 3-9800255-7-8
  • (Ed.): Thinking about the Olympics. About the meaning and future of the Olympic Games. Attempto-Verlag, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-89308-369-3
  • with Alexander Kruse: high-performance sport in Australia. Bräuer, Weilheim 2004, ISBN 3-9800255-8-6
  • with Monica Barra: high-performance sport in Italy. Bräuer, Weilheim 2004, ISBN 3-9809328-2-6
  • with Marcel Fahrner & Andreas Utz: High-performance sport in the USA. Sports in School Foundation, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-9809328-6-9
  • with Verena Burk & Heike Sloboda: high-performance sport in Russia. Bräuer, Weilheim 2006, ISBN 3-9810683-0-0
  • with Verena Burk & Marcel Fahrner: The organization of high-performance sport. An international comparison. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2006, ISBN 978-3-7780-0915-4
  • with Ommo Grupe (Ed.): On ethics, globalization, peace and Olympism / On ethics, globalization, peace and olympism. A documentation. Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021379-3
  • Lateral thinking. Sports essays. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-7780-8530-1
  • The enemy is overpowering . In: MedicalSportsNetwork. 5/2008, pp. 52-53
  • with Ommo Grupe (ed.): Walter Jens - speeches on sport. Thoughtful and Critical 1964–1999 . Hofmann, Schorndorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-7780-8600-1
  • with Ansgar Thiel & Jochen Mayer: Health in top sport. A social science analysis. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-7780-3389-0
  • with Ansgar Thiel, Robert Schreiner & Sven Waigel: Professional field of trainers in top-class sport. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-7780-3395-1
  • Fair play. Responsibility in sport. Hellblau, Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-937787-29-9
  • with Marcel Fahrner & Julia Hochmuth: Children's games in every place - joy in movement: results of the project evaluation. Baden-Württemberg Foundation, Stuttgart 2012 ( PDF )
  • Sports development in the modern age. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-7780-3403-3
  • Sociological Aspects of Modern Sports . Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 2013, ISBN 978-1-84126-357-1
  • Lost battle. About cheating in sports. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-7780-8790-9
  • Endangered sport. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-7780-8860-9
  • On athletics. challenges and solutions. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-7780-8900-2
  • Dialogues about sports. Interviews from 30 years of sport development. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-7780-9010-7
  • Sport between fascination and disgust. Keywords for sport development . Hofmann, Schorndorf 2018, ISBN 978-3-7780-9050-3

Interviews

Web links

Commons : Helmut Digel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sports scientist: Digel, Helmut. Bayerischer Rundfunk, July 10, 2014, accessed on February 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ “The forced doping must be declared publicly” . FAZ, October 6, 2005.
  3. ^ Thomas Kistner, Johannes Knuth: Dubious payments to sports functionary Digel. In: sueddeutsche.de. September 30, 2016, accessed February 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Digel turns 75: from star functionary to "persona non grata". In: sport.de , January 6, 2018.
  5. ↑ DLV honorary president Helmut Digel turns 75. In: Leichtathletik.de. February 12, 2019, accessed February 12, 2019 .
  6. ^ Helmut Digel: Functionary in Exile. Stuttgarter Nachrichten, accessed on February 12, 2019 .
  7. ↑ sport-quergedacht - Helmut Digel In: sport-quergedacht.de , accessed on January 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Digel, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball player, sports scientist and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bask