Martin Brustmann

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Martin Brustmann (born May 4, 1885 in Berlin , † July 7, 1964 in Hildesheim ) was a German athlete, sports medicine specialist and SS leader.

Life

Brustmann started for SC Teutonia in Berlin in 1899 , he worked as a sports teacher for Haus Hohenzollern . In 1905 he founded military sports. In 1906 he took part in the athletics competitions of the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens . There he started the sprint over 100 meters , long jump , standing long jump and triple jump . In the ninth heat over 100 meters, he was eliminated in third. In the final round of the long jump he reached 14th place with a width of 5.85 m and 17th place in the final of the standing long jump with a width of 2.70 m. In the triple jump he failed to make a valid attempt in any of the three laps and he was unable to place in the final.

After the Olympic Intermediate Games, he introduced the javelin throw in Germany. His personal bests were 11.0 s in the 100-meter run in 1905, 2.83 m in the pole vault and 37.27 m in the javelin in 1906 , 6.77 m in the long jump in 1907 and 12 in the same year , 92 m in triple jump.

Brustmann studied medicine and was one of the medical supervisors of the Olympic team at the Olympic Games from 1912 to 1936. He published his experiences in the books Olympic Sport (1910) and Olympic Training Book (1912). During the First World War he was employed as a military doctor from 1915 to 1918. After the war he taught at the army sports school in Wünsdorf from 1920 to 1922, where he was also one of the sports medicine supervisors.

In 1932 he joined the NSDAP and with the rank of ban leader for a medical association of the SA . From 1934 he became Gauführer of the Berlin district of the German Association of Sports Doctors, as well as Reinhard Heydrich's family doctor . In 1938 he was accepted into the SS as an SS-Standartenführer . From this point on, he was also a member of the advisory staff of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler and other members of the Reich government . After the outbreak of World War II , he worked as an SS doctor for the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and for the German Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy (Göring Institute) in Berlin. In 1943, after conflicts with Himmler, Brustmann was released from his work for the RSHA.

After the end of the war, Brustmann was a prisoner of war in the British armed forces in the Eselheide internment camp near Paderborn from 1946 to 1947 . Then he worked as a doctor in Hildesheim. As chief physician, he looked after the competitive athletes of the German Rowing Association , but was dismissed from the squad before the start of the 1952 Olympic Games because the testoviron preparation he used was classified as influencing performance.

Fonts

  • Olympic sport: theory, technique, training, tactics . With orig. Drawings by Hans Kallmeyer . 1910
  • Olympic training book , 1912, Berlin 1920 (2nd edition)

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Secret Nazi past, The Federal German Sports Medicine and its historical continuity , contribution by Grit Hartmann in the program Sport am Sonntag on Deutschlandfunk , seen on November 8, 2010
  2. a b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 79.
  3. ^ Doping: Dr. Brustmanns Kraftpillen , article in Der Spiegel , issue 29/1952 of July 16, 1952, as of November 8, 2010