Rüdiger Weitzdörfer

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Rüdiger Eduard Richard Ludwig Weitzdörfer (born April 3, 1909 in Magdeburg , † 1991 in Essen ) was a German basketball coach and official.

career

Weitzdörfer was active in several sports, including gymnastics, athletics and swimming. According to the DBB-Journal, the newspaper of the German Basketball Federation , he is one of the "early champions of basketball in Germany".

He first studied  physical exercises, history and geography in Heidelberg and then began studying at the German University for Physical Education in Berlin .

From 1931 to 1933, after a recommendation by Carl Diem , Weitzdörfer  was the first German to receive a scholarship at Springfield College in the US state of Massachusetts . James Naismith had  worked at the university , where Weitzdörfer got to know the athletic and educational concept of the basketball inventor, even if Naismith was no longer working at Springfield College at that time. Weitzdörfer also trained as a basketball referee during his stay in the USA.

He returned to Germany in 1933 and completed his studies in Berlin.  Weitzdörfer promoted the basketball game as a sports officer at the SS Junker School in Braunschweig and made sure that it was included in the curriculum. Together with Hugo Murero , he was entrusted with the task of making the game known in Lower Saxony and introducing it to athletes as a way of doing sports during the winter months. Under Carl Diem's ​​direction, he worked on the preparation for the 1936 Summer Olympics .

After the Second World War, according to the DBB-Journal, he was “one of the first men who built basketball out of the rubble.” From 1948 to 1951 he worked as a physical education teacher in the British Army.

At the German Sport University in Cologne , Weitzdörfer was the first specialist teacher for the sport of basketball, as a traveling teacher he traveled through the country and spread the game and was also active on a political level to promote basketball in Germany. Weitzdörfer was employed as a sports director by the city of Essen and obtained a ministerial decree that provided for the installation of basket systems in school gyms. In 1950 he published the book "Spielfeld- und Gerätermesse".

From 1967 he was head of the sports department of the city of Cologne and between 1958 and 1972 sat on the board of the German Sports Department. He was also chairman of the gymnastics and sports teachers association. In 1973 he retired. From 1949 Weitzdörfer was second chairman and sports manager of the German Basketball Federation. In 1953 he was responsible for the planning and implementation of a basketball tournament as part of the 3rd international university sports week in the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund  .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ crest, Weitzdörfer, | Married soldier. Accessed March 31, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Hans-Dieter Krebs: basketball pioneer Weitzdörfer born 100 years ago. In: DBB-Journal. German Basketball Federation, accessed on March 31, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c https://www.basketball-bund.de/wp-content/uploads/Basketball-und-DBB-Geschichte.pdf
  4. ↑ a b c d http://www.vifasport.de/Hochschulschriften/Dissertationen-Internet/2006/Gabi_Langen/DissLangen.pdf
  5. ↑ - "Brown past written down unadorned" . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on March 31, 2018]).
  6. ↑ playing field and equipment dimensions from weitzdörfer - ZVAB. Accessed March 31, 2018 .
  7. ↑ http://www.ads-sportverwaltung.de/fileadmin/bilder/Dateien/2016-04-27_Die_Vorstaende_der_Arbeitsgemeinschaft_Deutscher_Sportaemter.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Weitzdörfer, Rüdiger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weitzdörfer, Rüdiger Eduard Richard Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player and official
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH 1991
Place of death eat