National Olympic Committee of the GDR
The National Olympic Committee of the GDR was the umbrella organization for Olympic sports in the GDR from 1951 to 1990 . As the NOK, it represented the interests of the GDR in the International Olympic Committee from 1965 until its dissolution in 1990 .
history
On April 22, 1951 in Berlin Red Town Hall , the National Olympic Committee for East Germany established, but not recognized by the IOC as it already, which was founded in September 1949 in Bonn National Olympic Committee for Germany was. Kurt Edel was the founding president of the East German NOK . According to the statutes of the IOC and the claim to sole representation in West Germany required by the Adenauer government, athletes from the GDR should only be allowed to participate in a German team under the leadership of the NOK for Germany, which the GDR authorities were still reluctant to do in 1952. After Kurt Edel's resignation and new negotiations with Heinz Schöbel , the GDR's NOK was provisionally recognized by the IOC as an East German NOK at the 50th session in 1955 on the condition that both German NOKs were an all-German team for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne have to set up. For the formation of a joint team in Melbourne and at the Winter Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo in the same year, the NOK of the GDR together with the West German NOK for Germany received the Alberto Bonacossa trophy awarded by the IOC in 1958 .
The East German NOK of the GDR was recognized by the IOC in 1965 at the session in Madrid as a representative for the GDR and East Berlin, but under the name Ostdeutsches NOK . It was not until the IOC session during the 1968 Summer Games, effective November 1, 1968, that it was decided that in future it would be called the GDR's NOK and would be allowed to compete under the GDR's anthem and flag.
The first general secretary of the NOC of the GDR was the worker sportsman Heinz Dose . The NOK was significantly shaped by its long-time President Manfred Ewald .
In view of the looming German reunification , a steering committee was formed, which met for the first time in Berlin on July 9, 1990. In the Schöneberg town hall there , the general assembly of the NOK of the FRG decided on November 17th the amendment to the statutes proposed by the steering committee to unite the two German NOKs. At the same time, the general assembly of the NOK of the GDR in the Rotes Rathaus in Berlin decided that its statute should lose its validity on December 31, 1990 and that no legal succession should take place. This was followed by a joint meeting of both German NOKs in the Reichstag in Berlin and the unification of the organizations in the NOK for Germany. Joachim Weiskopf was the last President of the National Olympic Committee of the GDR to be the Vice President of the National Olympic Committee for Germany, which initially (until the end of 1993) had an office in Berlin-Wannsee .
Web links
- National Olympic Committee of the GDR (DR 510) - holdings in the Federal Archives (including historical overview)
- http://www.sport-ddr-roeder.de/
- Diagram: Integration of the National Olympic Committee of the GDR in systematic doping in the GDR, the hierarchy of state-planned compulsory doping ( memento of January 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), In: Brigitte Berendonk ; Werner Franke : Doping. From research to fraud. The time
- GDR doping victims: pilot process König
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arnd Krüger (1975). Sport and politics. From gymnastics father Jahn to state amateur. Hanover: torchbearers.
- ↑ Recognition of the OC of the Peoples' Democratic Republic of Germany (PDF; 94 kB) , In: Extract from the Minutes of the 50th Session of the International Olympic Committe , In: Olympic Review 1955, p. 45.
- ↑ Request for Change of Name of the North Korean Olympic Committee (PDF; 103 kB) , In: Extract from the Minutes of the 67th Session of the International Olympic Committe , In: Olympic Review 1968, p. 599 f.