Ingeborg Bausenwein

Ingeborg Bausenwein , b. Plank, used Wolf (born October 13, 1920 in Nuremberg ; † September 1, 2008 there ) was a German pedagogue , doctor and sports medicine specialist .

In the 1940s she was multiple German javelin champion . Her later involvement was primarily concerned with sports medicine issues relating to women's sports , youth sports and sports for the disabled.

life and work

After graduating from high school , Ingeborg Plank first studied sports science , history and geography and then worked as a teacher at a girls' high school in 1942/43. Widowed three weeks after her marriage - her husband Major Wolf died near Stalingrad in 1943 - she began studying medicine in 1944 , which she graduated with very good in 1950 . In 1951, she was to defend their dissertation The differential diagnosis of spinal cord tumors in the radiograph at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen for Dr. med. PhD .

From 1950 to 1953 she worked as a sports doctor at the German Sport University in Cologne , and from 1957 as a youth and sports doctor at the Nuremberg Health Department . Since 1966 she has been teaching sports medicine at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and has received research assignments for therapeutic sports. Through her own experience as a javelin thrower (with appropriate strength training), through research and corresponding international specialist conferences, she decidedly advocate strength training for women as well. This was not easy at the time, as the strength athletes from the USSR represented an image of women that was not very popular in West Germany.

Ingeborg Bausenwein has held numerous honorary positions in organizations involved in sports and sports medicine. She was a member of the Presidium of German Sports Confederations from 1960 to 1970, was a member of various advisory boards in sports and sports medicine and was a personal member of the NOK for Germany. In addition, she produced numerous scientific publications on problems of women's sports, youth sports and sports for the disabled.

Athletic career

From 1941 to 1949 she dominated the javelin throw as a five-time German champion (1941, 1943, 1947, 1948 and 1949; runner-up in 1946 and 1952; starting for 1. FC Nürnberg , to which she had belonged since 1939) , with several world best performances. She achieved her personal best of 45.90 m in 1941. As the world's best javelin thrower in the 1948 Olympic year, she was denied participation in the Olympic Games in London as a German . Four years later she was an Olympic participant in Helsinki and at the same time acted as team leader and medical supervisor. As an Olympic doctor, she took part in the games in Rome in 1960 , Tokyo in 1964 and in Munich in 1972 .

Ingeborg Bausenwein has received multiple honors and awards, including the Silver Laurel Leaf in 1951 , the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 1980 and the Gold Medal of Honor of the German Sports Medical Association in 1985 .

literature

Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2009. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2009, ISBN 978-1-899807-78-9 , p. 100. (Obituary)

Publication (selection)

with Auguste Hoffmann : Frau und Leibesübungen - Evaluation of a survey on the role of physical exercises in the living habits of the population, Mülheim / Ruhr, deaf printing and publishing house 1967

Web links

Literature by and about Ingeborg Bausenwein in the catalog of the German National Library
Obituary at the DOSB

Individual evidence

^ Wildor Hollmann : Contributions from German Laboratories. In: Charles M. Tipton (Ed.): History of Exercise Physiology . Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL 2014, pp. 59-78.
↑ Arnd Krüger , Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe (ed.): Kraftkörper - physical strength: To understand physical culture and fitness yesterday and today. SUB, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-930457-06-7 .
↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - p. 64
↑ Although on the cover of the work Frau und Leibesübungen as co-author “Dr. med. Inge Bausenwein ”is noted, this title appears in the cataloging of the German National Library with the author“ Ingeborg Bausenwein ”. We are allowed to assume a personal identity. Note the cover pictures at zvab.de .

personal data
SURNAME	Bausenwein, Ingeborg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Plank, Ingeborg; Wolf, Ingeborg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German athlete and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH	September 1, 2008
Place of death	Nuremberg

[1] Wildor Hollmann : Contributions from German Laboratories. In: Charles M. Tipton (Ed.): History of Exercise Physiology . Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL 2014, pp. 59-78.

[2] Arnd Krüger , Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe (ed.): Kraftkörper - physical strength: To understand physical culture and fitness yesterday and today. SUB, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-930457-06-7 .

[3] Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - p. 64

[4] Although on the cover of the work Frau und Leibesübungen as co-author “Dr. med. Inge Bausenwein ”is noted, this title appears in the cataloging of the German National Library with the author“ Ingeborg Bausenwein ”. We are allowed to assume a personal identity. Note the cover pictures at zvab.de .