Nadja Drygalla

Nadja Drygalla (born March 31, 1989 in Rostock ) is a former German rower .

Career

After graduating from secondary school , Nadja Drygalla completed an apprenticeship as a sports and fitness clerk . Her training company was the Hotel Neptun in Warnemünde . On September 2, 2008, she began a second training as a police chief candidate for the middle police service at the Institute for Police Training and Advanced Training at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration, Police and Justice in Güstrow . At the same time, she was accepted into the newly founded sports promotion group of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state police , which included cycling Olympic champion Stefan Nimke with the Schwerin athlete Martina Strutz , the Rostock rowers Franziska Kegebein and Julia Lepke, other top athletes from the state.

Drygalla rowed for the Olympic Rowing Club Rostock (ORC). In 2006 she finished third at the Junior World Championships with eighth place . At the Junior World Championships in 2007 she switched to the two without a helmsman and achieved second place with Ulrike Sennewald , in 2008 the two finished fourth at the U23 World Championships . In their first season in the adult class Drygalla won with the German woman aft the World Cup regatta in Munich, she then moved into the four without coxswain , finishing in this boat class to fifth place at the 2009 World Rowing Championships . In 2010 Drygalla and Anne-Sophie Agarius took third place at the U23 World Championships. After finishing eighth at the 2011 World Championships , Drygalla and Ulrike Sennewald returned to the European Championships in twos and came in fourth.

At the German rowing championships , Nadja Drygalla won two titles in 2011: In the four-without, she won together with Sennewald, Agarius and Julia Lepke. In the aft rowed Drygalla and Sennewald in the victorious boat, while Agarius and Lepke sat in the second-placed boat.

In 2012 Drygalla qualified with the German women's figure eight for the Olympic Games in London . He was eliminated in the repechage and finished seventh in the overall ranking.

Until August 31, 2012 Drygalla was employed as a sports coordinator at the Rowing Association Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . On November 1, 2012, she became a sports soldier in the Bundeswehr. Drygalla initially continued her career as a rower after the 2012 Summer Olympics, but she was no longer able to qualify for an international selection from the German Rowing Association (DRV).

controversy

In 2011, the Ministry of the Interior of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania received information about her five-year relationship with the then NPD candidate for the state parliament, Michael Fischer , a direct candidate for the NPD and activists in the German comradeship scene from Rostock. Further findings of the authority concerned Drygalla's contacts with her friend's circle of acquaintances. She then dropped out of police training. This step was followed promptly by the departure from the sports promotion group of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state police .

During the Olympic Games from July 28 to August 4, 2012 in London, this connection came into the focus of a wider public. After Drygalla had completed their competitions, the connections of Drygalla's partner to the right-wing extremist scene first became known to the German Rowing Association. The athlete was summoned by the management of the German Olympic team and left the Olympic Village after the conversation , "in order to avoid any burden on the Olympic team". The association gave the rower's “knowledge of the private environment” as the reason for this. Some media criticized Drygalla's relationship with her partner and noted that supporters of the right-wing extremist scene were not allowed to represent German sport at the Olympics. Drygalla distanced himself from right-wing extremist ideology . Both Federal Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière and the Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Erwin Sellering stood behind Drygalla and warned against prejudice by the media. The SPD politician Sebastian Edathy , then chairman of the Bundestag committee of inquiry into the terrorist group National Socialist Underground , said in a Deutschlandfunk interview on August 7, 2012 that Drygalla could not be taken into " kin custody ". After a clarifying discussion with the German Rowing Association on September 18, 2012, the latter stood behind Drygalla.

In the brochure Women and Right-Wing Extremism in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania published in 2015 by the Lola for Democracy in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Association in cooperation with the Amadeu Antonio Foundation , Drygalla's relationship with long-time neo-Nazi activist Fischer and the media handling of the case are discussed.

Web links

• Nadja Drygalla on the website of the women's night ( memento from August 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Nadja Drygalla at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Nadja Drygalla in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ The sports promotion group of the state police. (PDF; 3.2 MB) (No longer available online.) In: Polizei-Journal 3–2008, pages 4–5 (magazine of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Police). Archived from the original on August 13, 2012 ; Retrieved January 4, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Wilfried Hoffmann: German championships in four. Rüsselsheimer Ruderklub 08, accessed on January 10, 2016 . 
3. ^ Wilfried Hoffmann: German championships in the eighth. Rüsselsheimer Ruderklub 08, accessed on January 10, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Who failed, who lied? Image online , August 5, 2012, accessed August 5, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Suspicion of a breach of the peace: Investigation against Drygalla friend stopped. Der Spiegel, December 27, 2012, accessed January 10, 2016 . 
6. ^ Sid / dpa: allegations against rowing association. n-tv , August 3, 2012, accessed August 7, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Drygalla's NPD friend encouraged rower in London. In: Focus Online . August 3, 2012, accessed August 4, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Even acquaintances belong to the right-wing extremist scene. In: Nordkurier online (dpa). August 6, 2012, archived from the original on August 8, 2012 ; accessed on January 10, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Jens Witte: Scandal in the German team - rower Drygalla leaves the Olympic village. In: Spiegel Online . August 3, 2012, accessed August 3, 2012 . 
10. ↑ Kerstin Schröder: Minister knew of Drygalla's Nazi contacts , in: Ostsee-Zeitung of August 4, 2012, page 1
11. ↑ Oliver Palme, press spokesman for the German Rowing Association e. V .: Declaration by the DRV on the departure of rower Nadja Drygalla. August 3, 2012, accessed February 8, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Anno Hecker: Excerpt from the village. In: FAZ online (dpa). August 3, 2012, accessed January 10, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Drygalla distances himself from right-wing extremist ideology. In: ZEIT online (dpa). August 5, 2012, accessed January 10, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Rolf Clement: Making the way back out of radical aberration possible. Deutschlandfunk , August 6, 2012, archived from the original on May 13, 2014 ; Retrieved January 10, 2016 (comment, audio here ). 
15. ^ De Maizière criticizes public discussion. In: FAZ online (dpa). August 6, 2012, accessed January 10, 2016 . 
16. ↑ Schwerin warns against "snooping on convictions". In: FAZ online. August 7, 2012, accessed January 10, 2016 . 
17. ^ Bettina Müller: Edathy: Do not make Drygalla's private life a public discussion In: Deutschlandfunk , August 7, 2012 (Sebastian Edathy in conversation).
18. ^ A conversation between Nadja Drygalla and Siegfried Kaidel took place.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release. In: Rudern.de , September 18, 2012.  
19. ↑ Naemi Eifler, Heike Radvan, Carmen Altmeyer: Dealing with right-wing extremism in sports clubs. (PDF; 2.1 MB) In: Women and right-wing extremism in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 2015, pp. 68–71 , accessed on January 16, 2019 .