Horst Milde (marathon organizer)

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Horst Milde (born October 24, 1938 in Berlin-Tempelhof ) is a former German athlete and founder of the Berlin Marathon .

Life

Milde did his Abitur at the Askanische Oberschule in Berlin-Tempelhof. He then completed an apprenticeship as a pastry chef from 1957 to 1959; later he took over his parents' bakery and pastry shop on Tempelhofer Damm . From 1959 to 1966 he studied at the Free University of Berlin with a degree in business administration.

Horst Milde started as a track and field athlete for TSV Tempelhof-Mariendorf. He later moved to SC Charlottenburg as a middle-distance runner and was twice German champion (1964 and 1965) with the club's 3-by-1000-meter relay, in which Bodo Tümmler , 1500-meter European champion from 1966, ran. At that time, Horst Milde had a best time of 1: 49.8 minutes over 800 meters , 2:25:00 minutes over 1000 meters, 3: 51.8 minutes over 1500 meters and 49.1 seconds over 400 meters. Over 10,000 meters he reached 33:33 minutes. On November 8, 1964, Horst Milde started the first Berlin fun run with 700 runners with the cross-country run on Berlin 's Teufelsberg . From that first cross-country run on Teufelsberg in 1964 to the beginning of 2004, he and his organizational team got exactly 1,268,649 people running in 348 events. Horst Milde became known as "The man who taught Berlin to walk". In 1974, in Berlin-Grunewald, he held the first marathon event for everyone in Berlin.

Until 1998, Milde ran the family bakery alongside his work as managing director of SCC-RUNNING Events GmbH, which runs the Berlin Marathon and other running events in Berlin. Since 1999 he has been a member of the board of the AIMS World Marathon Association, promoted the establishment of the AIMS Marathon Museum and is now a spokesman for German Road Races , the interest group of German road running organizers. Milde was race director of the Berlin Marathon for 30 years before handing over the management of the events to his son Mark in 2004. Today he is Honorary Race Director of the Berlin Marathon.

honors and awards

  • 1986 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bonn, April 21, 1986)
  • 1988: Order of Merit of the State of Berlin
  • 1990 "Carl-Diem-Schild" award winner - German Athletics Association (DLV)
  • 1991 Golden Band of the Sports Press
  • 1990/1991/1992/1994 "Berlin's Sportsman of the Year" (manager / trainer) of the Berliner Morgenpost
  • 2003 IAAF - "Merit of Honor"
  • In 2013, the Horst Milde Award was launched in recognition of Mildes life achievement for running . The award is given by the Forum for Sports History, the sponsoring association of the Sports Museum Berlin. The first prize winner was journalist and running pioneer Werner Sonntag

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Wenig: Horst Milde: The man who taught Berlin running - IAAF President Lamine Diack presenting him with the IAAF Plaque of Merit ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the pages of German Road Races from November 24, 2003, in the Sports Museum section @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.germanroadraces.de
  2. ↑ Athletics: Werner Sonntag received the Horst Milde Award ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press release of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) in: DOSB-Presse No. 43, October 21, 2014 (pdf, 406 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dosb.de

literature

personal data
SURNAME Mild, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German marathon organizer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin