Horst Röder

Horst Röder training at DHfK in 1953

Horst Fritz Heinz Röder (born March 20, 1933 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German sports scientist. He was convicted in 1999 for his involvement in GDR compulsory doping .

The trained painter, who grew up in Naumburg, studied from 1951 to 1954 at the German University of Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig. In 1955 he became GDR decathlon champion . At the UIE Sports Weeks, the Universiade of the Eastern Bloc, he took fourth place in the decathlon in 1955, and in 1957 he was sixth. From 1954 to 1958 he was an assistant at the DHfK, after a year of study abroad in Moscow, he submitted his dissertation “The trainer as a socialist educator in competitive sport in the GDR” at the end of 1960. After 14 years on the national board of the German Gymnastics and Sports Federation , he was elected Vice President in 1974. Since 1971 he has held a professorship for theory and practice of training at the DHfK. Röder was Chef de Mission at the GDR Olympic team for the 1976 and 1980 Winter Games and for the 1976 , 1980 and 1988 Summer Games . After the fall of the Wall and the peaceful revolution , he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Health Promotion in Berlin until 1996.

Forced doping conviction

Because of its participation in the government-mandated doping in GDR competitive sport Roeder was on 22 October 1999 to one year's imprisonment for parole convicted. He was charged with "intentionally providing assistance to others in the period from 1977 to 1989 in relation to their crimes, namely 137 cases of harming people's health". 28 female athletes (swimming and athletics) had filed a criminal complaint against him.

Awards

1976: Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
1980: Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit

literature

Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898-2005 . 2 volumes, Darmstadt 2005 published via Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft
Volker Kluge : Röder, Horst . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Homepage of Horst Röder

Individual evidence

↑ Horst Röder convicted of aiding and abetting doping in the GDR , Der Tagesspiegel , October 22, 1999
↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).

personal data
SURNAME	Röder, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Röder, Horst Fritz Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sports scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 20, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Halle (Saale)

[1] Horst Röder convicted of aiding and abetting doping in the GDR , Der Tagesspiegel , October 22, 1999

[2] About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).