Kurt Hinze

Kurt Hinze
Association	German Democratic Republic
birthday	October 13, 1934
place of birth	Elbingerode , Germany
Career
job	Biathlon coach
society	ASK forward Oberhof
status	resigned
World Cup balance
last change: September 9, 2010

Kurt Hinze (born October 13, 1934 in Elbingerode ) is a former German biathlete and biathlon trainer.

Kurt Hinze was one of the most important protagonists in the early stages of biathlon sport in Germany and is considered the "father of biathlon sport in Thuringia " and was one of the first representatives of sport in Thuringia alongside Horst Nickel , Herbert Kirchner , Egon Schnabel , Günter Baacke and Horst Hübner . When the sport first became Olympic in 1960 , the athlete from ASK Vorwärts Oberhof in Squaw Valley and three of his club mates represented Germany as part of the all-German team . With nine shooting errors and thus 18 penalty minutes, Hinze was 20th out of 30 starters. After his playing career, he became a coach. At times he was the head coach of the GDR national biathlon team. Together with the Italian Paul Zingerle , he introduced the Biathlon World Cup in the 1970s . In the 1980s, together with Helmut Klöpsch and Wilfried Bock , he was in charge of the GDR junior national teams. After German reunification , Hinze became the discipline trainer of the biathlon men at the German Ski Association, succeeding Uwe Müßiggang . After allegations became public that Hinze had systematically doped GDR athletes as a trainer and these allegations were substantiated, the cooperation with the DSV was ended at the end of 1991. A lawsuit was carried out against Hinze. He later became an advisor to the ÖSV and was chairman of the technical commission of the IBU World Biathlon Association .

Kurt Hinze has four children, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. One of his grandchildren is the bobsleigh pilot Maximilian Arndt .

Web links

• Kurt Hinze in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

supporting documents

1. ↑ Kurt Hinze, the father of biathlon sport in Thuringia, celebrated his 75th birthday on October 13, 2009 ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 59 kB) 
2. ↑ Dead in a very short time
3. ^ Antholz biathlon history ( Memento from February 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Ski School Osterzgebirge
5. ↑ Doping allegations: Biathlon national coach under fire
6. ↑ The long shadow of Plan 14.25
7. ↑ The root of the doping evil