Jürgen Bischof (Turner)

Jürgen Bischof (born September 24, 1941 in Königsberg ) is a former German gymnast with 18 German championship titles and an Olympic participant.

In his last active years he was a member of the ETSV Gut-Heil in Itzehoe . The city of Itzehoe considered naming a sports hall in his honor.

Career

Jürgen Bischof holds a degree in business administration.

• 1959 German youth champion
• eighteen times German champion:
  • Floor exercise
  • Rings
  • Ingots
  • Leap
• 21 times in the national team
• Best Western European gymnast at the 1966 World Cup
• Olympic Games 1968 as a substitute participant

On March 15, 1969, his left Achilles tendon tore in a Bundesliga match of his new club Neckarsulm while doing floor exercises. During the operation in a Munich clinic by Alfred Nikolaus Witt , he suffered cardiac arrest due to an anesthetic error and did not wake up from the coma until months later. The Free State of Bavaria was sentenced to a monthly pension of DM 4,500. Since then he has been severely disabled and now lives in a retirement home in Krempe .

family

His father, Georg Bischof († January 2012), was the last East Prussian master in artistic gymnastics.

Bishop has two sons with his now divorced wife. In February 1974, the entertainer Peter Alexander donated DM 7,500 each to his sons as training aid, which he received as a fee for his appearance at the Ball des Sports .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The second life of Jürgen Bischof ( memento from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Hamburger Abendblatt, September 25, 2001
2. ^ Karl Heinz Leitz: 120 years of gymnastics in Neckarsulm recognized. ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. October 30, 2012 
3. ↑ Google books: "Not guilty: Justice is not a matter of negotiation"
4. ↑ Gymnast Jürgen Bischof - Unforgotten: day with Peter Alexander

literature

• Jürgen Bischof , in: Internationales Sportarchiv 22/2000 from May 22, 2000, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• 40 years later - Jürgen Bischof an endless tragedy. shz.de
• The tragic case of the gymnast Jürgen Bischof: Doctors and force majeure. zeit.de
• Naming for the sports hall in Gutenbergstrasse. ( Memento from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )