Norbert Wolf (sports official)

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Norbert Wolf in his time as General Secretary of the German Table Tennis Association
Norbert Wolf in the 1980s

Norbert Wolf (born September 4, 1933 in Husum ) was Secretary General of the German Table Tennis Association (DTTB / 1982–1990), the German Sports Association (DSB / 1990–1994), the German Olympic Society (DOG / 1994–1998) and the Association of German Olympic Participants (GDO / 1994–1998). He was honorary president of the European Non-Governmental Sports Organization (ENGSO), the association of the national umbrella organizations of sport in Europe (1992–1995).

Life

After graduating from high school at the Hermann Tast School in Husum (1954), Norbert Wolf studied German and sports at the University of Marburg (state examination in 1961) and then taught German and sports at high schools in Gütersloh, Bielefeld and Detmold (1961–1965). In 1965, the German Sports Association brought him to Frankfurt / Main as head of the science and education department, before taking on the aforementioned general secretary positions from 1982. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, he headed the office of Willi Daumes , the President of the Organizing Committee. From 1971 to 2003 he was one of the editors of the quarterly publication "Sportwissenschaft", 2001/2 guest lecturer at the European Business School (EBS) in Oestrich-Winkel, previously, during his professional time, also at the universities of Frankfurt / Main, Heidelberg and Tübingen .

He has been married since 1960 and has four children and four grandchildren. Since 1983 he has lived with his wife in Liederbach am Taunus.

Scientific work

Norbert Wolf not only excelled in terms of organization, but also through scientific publications. His interest was in school sports , the associations with special tasks, sports for people with disabilities. He also campaigned for the seminars of the Church and Sport working groups .

Further honorary positions

In table tennis Norbert Wolf was as a sixth-former county warden of North Friesland (1952/53), then the district youth officer of East Westphalia-Lippe (1962-1965), later a member of the Technical Committee of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), the World Table Tennis Association (1986- 1990). In university sports, he was a sports advisor at the University of Marburg (1958–1960), Vice President (1959/60) of the General German University Sports Association (ADH) and its "head of discipline" table tennis (1965–1975); As a delegate for table tennis, from 1984 to 2002 he headed the Technical Commission Table Tennis of the Federation Internationale du Sport Universitaire (FISU), the world association of university sports. During his full-time DTTB time (1982–1990), Wolf was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the DSB.

Trivia

Since 1946 until today Norbert Wolf has played table tennis in clubs and a. at VfL 1860 Marburg in the Oberliga Südwest, the then (1956) highest German league. He won numerous district and district championship titles as well as second and third places at state and regional championships from the youth to the senior classes. In 1955 he was with the Marburg university team in the final of the German University Championships. At the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt from 2003 to 2006 he worked as a supporting actor (first valet) in 48 performances of Georg Büchner's "Leonce and Lena". Since 2012 he has headed the literary circle in the culture ring of his home town of Liederbach. He writes "casual poetry"; two of his poems, counterfactors to classical poems, were published in 2011/12 in the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT.

Awards

Publications (among others)

  • Motivation in popular sport. In. Motivation in sport. Schorndorf 1971
  • The Role of Sports Sciences. In: Man and Sport. Munich 1972
  • Documents on school sports (ed.). Schorndorf 1974
  • Physical Education Teacher Training - Analysis and Reform (co-author). Frankfurt / Main 1975
  • The school sport policy of the German Sport Federation - development and tendencies. In: Causes of the misery of school sports in Germany. London 1979
  • Sport in vocational schools - its importance for recreational sport. In: Sport in vocational schools. Schorndorf 1981
  • The structural and content development of school sport from 1945 to the present. In: Handbuch Sport, Volume 1. Düsseldorf 1984
  • Cost of the competition system. In: The Future of Sport. Schorndorf 1986
  • Fairness and sport. In: fair play and the fight against violence in sport. Sankt Augustin 1998
  • Official / official ethos. In: Lexicon of ethics in sport. Schorndorf 1998
  • Partner for an eventful childhood (Ed. - with Lorenz Peiffer). Celle 2000

swell

  • German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB): Convinces even with soft tones. For the 80th birthday of Norbert Wolf. In: DOSB-Presse No. 36, September 3, 2013 (p. 27/28)
  • Friedrich Mevert: 50 years of the German Sports Confederation. History - development - personalities: Norbert Wolf - commitment beyond the headlines. Frankfurt / Main 2002 (p. 392/93)
  • Winfried Stöckmann: Undisputed merits: the presidents and general secretaries. In: A game for life. 75 years of the German Table Tennis Association. Frankfurt / Main 2000 (p. 22), ibid. Data on "Wolf, Norbert" (p. 224)
  • A life with sport. Formative as a functionary, still there as an active person. In: Höchster Kreisblatt, September 4, 2013, p. 22.
  • Steffen Haffner: Norbert Wolf will succeed Gieseler. As Secretary General from the Table Tennis Association to the German Sports Association. In: FAZ of December 18, 1989.
  • Herbert Neumann: A constant size is ruled out: Norbert Wolf - amiable, committed and loyal. In: FAZ of September 30, 1998.
  • WOLF, Norbert. In: Who is who 1988 (p. 1502)
  • Paul Hoffmann: Thanks to the outgoing DOG General Secretary Norbert Wolf. In: Olympic Fire 1998/5 (p. 55/56)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norbert Wolf: The school policy of the German Sports Federation. Arnd Krüger , Dieter Niedlich (Hrsg.): The causes of the misery of school sports in Germany. London: Arena Publ. 1979, pp. 43-70
  2. ↑ N. Wolf: Profile of the Association Group, DSB (Ed.): Sport does Germany well. Frankfurt / M .: DSB 2004, pp. 7-11
  3. ↑ N.Wolf: Sports for the disabled. Frankfurt / M .: DSB 1976
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Husum