Hilmar Dressler

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Hilmar Dressler (born April 21, 1921 in Dresden ; † January 15, 2019 ) was a German sports official .

Life

As a teenager and young adult, Dressler was a talented middle-distance runner and trained in Dresden with Rudolf Harbig, among others . Dressler was scheduled to take part in the 1940 Summer Olympics , which however did not take place due to the Second World War . His best time over the 800-meter course was one minute and 58 seconds, and over 1500 meters was four minutes and one second. In the course of his life he wore the colors of the clubs Dresdner SC , Eintracht Wiesbaden, TuS Ricklingen, DSV Hannover 78 and VTR Rinteln. In addition to athletics, he practiced dance sport.

Dressler was drafted into the labor service in 1939 and was later appointed captain of the anti-aircraft cartillery. After the war he came to Wiesbaden and worked as a dramaturge and actor at the state theater there. Later he worked in the commercial area at Continental-Gummiwerke in Hanover .

As a sports functionary, Dressler was youth warden for Eintracht Wiesbaden from 1945 and was involved in founding the German Olympic Society (DOG) in 1951 . In 1952 he took over the management of the DOG regional group Lower Saxony and sat on the DOG board from 1971. In 1974 Dressler became the managing director of the DOG before he took up the post of general manager of the German Olympic Society in 1975 and was editor-in-chief of the DOG magazine "Olympisches Feuer". In “Olympic Fire” he published several essays on the history of sport and in 2000 dealt with the topic “Olympic realism - sobering and hopeful at the same time”. Dressler, who lived in Rinteln from 1964 and wrote poetry in his free time, accompanied the sporting scene not only as an author, but also as a photographer and filmmaker. In 1959 he made the film "Game in Danger" on behalf of Georg von Opels and in 1960 a film about the Summer Olympics.

In 1981 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon . In 2016 he was accepted into the honor portal of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History (NISH) after having worked for the NISH in 1988 and 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publishing THE RAKE: THE RAKE Family Notices. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Steffen Haffner: Hilmar Dressler - the Olympic contemporary witness. In: Olympic Fire, issue 4/2012. German Olympic Society V., accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Hilmar Dressler died at the age of 97. In: dosb.de. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Hilmar Dressler: When Orsippos lost the loincloth . In: Olympic fire . tape 37 , no. 2 , 1987, ISSN  0471-5640 , pp. 15-17 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed June 12, 2019]).
  5. ^ Hilmar Dressler: 1936 the games of Jesse Owens . In: Olympic fire . No. 4 , 1986, ISSN  0471-5640 , pp. 5–9 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed June 12, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Hilmar Dressler: Olympic Realism - sobering and hopeful at the same time . In: Olympic fire . tape 50 , no. 6 , 2000, ISSN  0471-5640 , p. 14–16 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed June 12, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Cornelia Kurth: Beloved Knittelverse: Hilmar Dressler dies at the age of 98. In: SCHAUMBURGER ZEITUNG. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Issue 4/2019. In: lsb-niedersachsen.de. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Hall of Fame - NISH - Lower Saxony Institute for Sport History eV Accessed on June 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Dressler, Hilmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 15th January 2019