Lothar Köhler (sports official)

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Lothar Köhler (born November 17, 1925 in Georgenthal ; † May 25, 2008 ) was a German sports official . From 1974 to 1990 he was president of the German Skier Association (DSLV) of the GDR .

Life

Köhler did military service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War and was an English prisoner of war from 1944 to 1948. After his return he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In 1952 he finished studying physical education / art education at the Institute for Physical Education at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and became a sports teacher. From 1954 he took over the training of all sports students in Jena in the University Sports Association (HSG) and worked as a trainer for women and alpine sports. When the German Skier Association of the GDR (DSLV) was founded in October 1958, he became a member of the executive committee and vice-president of the association. He was a member of the coaching council and until 1963 chairman of the youth commission of the DSLV. Köhler became a district school councilor and from 1965 was a member of the Klingenthal district council .

From April 1974 to 1990 he was President of the DSLV (successor to Gerhard Hochmuth ). At the same time, he was a member of the federal board of the German Gymnastics and Sports Federation (DTSB) and a member of the Executive Committee for Nordic Combined of the International Ski Federation (FIS). On June 28, 1974, he was also confirmed as a full member of the National Olympic Committee of the GDR .

During the reunification in the GDR he led a working committee of the DSLV from January 1990 and was finally replaced by Ulrich Wehling at the end of April 1990 . In the same year he was co-founder of the Thuringian Ski Association and its vice-president. Köhler last lived in Klingenthal . He died at the age of 82.

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 166.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Paper Murder” again . In: Neues Deutschland , February 24, 1963, p. 8.
  2. ↑ All about sporting events - candidates . In: Neue Zeit , September 15, 1965, p. 5.
  3. ^ NOK of the GDR met yesterday in Berlin . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 29, 1974, p. 2.
  4. ^ Notification of death - Verein für Computergenealogie (accessed on September 13, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Georgenthal
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 2008