Karlheinz Gieseler

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Karlheinz Gieseler (born July 30, 1925 in Schweez , Mecklenburg; † October 17, 2010 in Neu-Isenburg ) was a German sports official and long-time Secretary General of the German Sports Confederation .

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Gieseler was born in 1925 at Gut Schweez in Mecklenburg. He attended school in Neustrelitz until 1943 and was then called up for military service. As a 19-year-old shock troop leader with the rank of non-commissioned officer, he was awarded the Knight's Cross for the Iron Cross on April 29, 1945 as a member of the Waffen SS . Gieseler was only released from internment and captivity in 1948. He initially worked as a gardener, bricklayer and bookseller. Then he studied economics in Mainz at the beginning of the 1950s and at the same time worked as a sports journalist , with stations in Koblenz , Bad Kreuznach and other cities. Under Willi Daume , Gieseler became press officer for the German Sports Confederation in 1959 . He carried out this task until 1964 and then from 1964 to 1989 he held the position of General Manager, transformed into Secretary General of the DSB. During this time its membership increased from 6.5 to 21 million. Gieseler was “the initiator and pioneer of German sport” and “had a decisive influence on the sporting development of (West) Germany in the post-war period”, as the 2010 obituary of the German Olympic Sports Confederation put it. He managed to keep the centrifugal forces of the successful department head for popular sports Jürgen Palm (later President of the World Association for Popular Sports ) and Helmut Meyer , self-confident head of the Federal Committee for Competitive Sports , in check and thus to preserve the unity of the sports movement. Gieseler exerted a great influence on sports and social policy. Gieseler was considered a “man of action” and a “servant of sport without having been a servant”, as he was characterized when he was passed as Secretary General in 1989. “As a keen and competent interlocutor, he dealt with the GDR sports officials from 1972 to 1974 on the sporting meeting calendar that will appear annually from 1975 onwards”: Calendar discussions on German-German sports traffic . Gieseler had a decisive influence on the actions of the DSB in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s: Appreciation of the State Sports Association of Rhineland-Palatinate 2010.

Gieseler was married to his wife Karen. He died after a long illness and rests in the old cemetery in Neu-Isenburg.

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  1. ↑ http://www.das-ritterkreuz.de/index_search_db.php?modul=search_result_det&wert1=1758&searchword=Gieseler auf. February 2, 2018
  2. ↑ Arnd Krüger (1975). Sport and politics. From gymnastics father Jahn to state amateur. Hanover: Torch bearer ISBN 3771620872
  3. ↑ Interview with Gieseler 2008 (PDF; 445 kB)
  4. ↑ Obituary notice of the family: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 2010
personal data
SURNAME Gieseler, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official; General Secretary of the German Sports Confederation
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweez , Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 2010
Place of death Neu-Isenburg