Manfred Bues

This article covers the athlete and sports scientist. For the economist of the same name, see Manfred Bues (Economist) .

Manfred Hans Emil Paul Bues (born August 5, 1913 in Greifswald ; † September 4, 2012 in Kaiserslautern ) was a German athlete and sports scientist .

Life

Before the Second World War, Bues belonged to the sports club SC Charlottenburg . At the age of 24 he was able to do his doctorate . At the European Championships in 1938 he won the gold medal in 3: 13.6 minutes with Hermann Blazejezak , Erich Linnhoff and Rudolf Harbig in the 4 x 400 meter relay .

In his playing days he was 1.79 m tall and weighed 76 kg. Bues was a Soviet prisoner of war for five years and was unable to build on earlier achievements after his return home due to hunger edema . Nevertheless, in 1954 as a 41-year-old he reached over 400 meters for 49.8 s. Until his retirement, Bues worked at the Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium in Kaiserslautern . Together with the later DLV President August Kirsch and Karl Koch, the sports scientist wrote the book Athletic All-Around at the Federal Youth Games , which Bartels and Wernitz published in several editions from 1958 .

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 10.8 s, 1937
• 200 meters: 22.0 s, September 4, 1937 in Berlin
• 400 meters: 48.8 s, June 25, 1938 in Berlin

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jan-Henner Reitze: Dr. Manfred Bues passed away , www.leichtathletik.de September 20, 2012
2. ↑ Rudolf Harbig was way ahead of his time , accessed on April 28, 2012