Manfred Steinbach

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Manfred Steinbach as the preliminary winner in the 100-meter run at the GDR championships in 1956.

Manfred Steinbach (born August 18, 1933 in Sprottau ) is a former German athlete who was a successful long jumper in the 1950s and 1960s , and a sports official, ministerial official and professor of sports medicine and specialist in neurology / psychiatry.

Life

Manfred Steinbach grew up in Quedlinburg / Harz ( Saxony-Anhalt ). His talent for sprinting and jumping was discovered at a school sports festival in 1951, and from then on he practiced athletics. In 1952 he started in Halle a medical degree and started for the SC Science Hall . In 1953 he was accepted into the GDR national team. In 1956 he was GDR champion in the 100-meter run and in the 200-meter run . On August 19, 1956, he equalized the existing GDR record in Budapest and in the autumn of the same year he ran a European relay record in an all-German selection (4 x 100 meters: 40.0 s, Lothar Knörzer , Manfred Steinbach, Leonhard Pohl , Manfred Germar ). At the Olympic Games in 1956 , he was eliminated in the run-up to the 100-meter individual competition.

After his parents left the GDR in 1953, Manfred Steinbach fled to West Berlin on April 20, 1958 and later started for VfL Wolfsburg (from 1961 for USC Mainz ). On August 20, 1958, he was involved in a world record in the 4 x 100 meter run : The national selection of the Federal Republic (Manfred Steinbach, Martin Lauer , Heinz Fütterer and Manfred Germar ) ran a time of 39.5 s and thus equalized the existing world record of the USA Olympic relay from December 1, 1956.

At the German championships in 1960, Steinbach in Berlin was the first athlete to surpass Jesse Owens' world record distance from 1935 in the long jump with 8.14 meters . But the record could not be recognized because of the strong tailwind. On September 2, 1960, he was the first German to regularly exceed the eight-meter mark at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome . With his width of 8.00 m he reached fourth place in the competition (series: 7.81 - invalid - 7.76 - invalid - invalid - 8.00 m). In 1960, 1961 and 1962 he was German champion of the Federal Republic in the long jump. He had a competition weight of 73 kg and a height of 1.81 m.

Manfred Steinbach (1990)

In 1959 Steinbach completed his medical studies in Göttingen . In 1961 he completed his habilitation in Mainz and later became professor of sports medicine there . In 1967 he finished his sports career and was a doctor at the Universiade in Tokyo where he looked after the German team. From 1973 to 1993 he was a member of the presidium of the German Athletics Association ( DLV ). Steinbach headed the Sports Medicine Institute at the University of Mainz from 1965 to 1970. In 1970 Steinbach went to Wiesbaden and worked there as a ministerial director in the Hessian Ministry of Social Affairs until the end of 1977. From 1977 to October 6, 1993, he worked in the Federal Ministry of Health as a department head with the rank of ministerial director. There he headed the department for human medicine, pharmaceuticals and pharmacy. After an affair about HIV- contaminated blood products, which became known in 1993 , he was prematurely retired by Health Minister Horst Seehofer and gave up the position in the DLV. He then became the medical director of the Johannesbad group of Bad Füssing spa entrepreneur Johannes Zwick. From 1999 to 2008 he was President of the German Spa Association (DHV) and then became its Honorary President. Since then he has been professor emeritus for sports medicine and first aid at TU Darmstadt .

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. ↑ Manfred Steinbach, world record holder, b. 1933, sprinter, fled 1958 , exhibition: “ZOV sports traitors. Top athletes on the run ”, Erfurt December 20, 2012 to February 24, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Steinbach, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and sports medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Sprottau , Lower Silesia