Rolf Beilschmidt

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Rolf Beilschmidt (2018)

Rolf Beilschmidt (born August 8, 1953 in Jena ) is a former German athlete who was one of the world's top high jumpers in the 1970s with the use of doping substances . Beilschmidt is the former chief executive of the State Sports Association of Thuringia.

Life

Rolf Beilschmidt (1978)

Beilschmidt started high jump training at the age of 15. From 1974 to 1979 he was GDR champion. His sporting climax were victories for the GDR team in 1977 at the World Cup in Düsseldorf and the European Cup in Helsinki . In the latter, he set GDR records with 2.28 m and 2.31 m on August 13th. Rolf Beilschmidt jumped in the straddle style and was one of the last significant interpreters of this technique. For his success in 1977 he was voted GDR Sportsman of the Year in the same year .

In 1978 he won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Prague. In 1977 and 1978 he was second in the European Indoor Championships behind world record holder Vladimir Yashchenko . In 1980 he missed the Olympics due to a ruptured Achilles tendon. In 1981 he was GDR champion again.

Rolf Beilschmidt started for SC Motor Jena and trained with Erich Drechsler ( Heike Drechsler's father-in-law ). With a height of 1.90 m, he had a competition weight of 80 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the reunification , the name of Beilschmidt was also found among the doped athletes. In 2011 he stated that he had consciously taken the funds.

He studied sports science and then became a sports official - initially as head of SC Motor Jena , in 1990 as vice-president of the DTSB (German Gymnastics and Sports Association of the GDR). From 1991 to 2001 he headed the Olympic Training Center in Thuringia , after which he became General Manager of the State Sports Federation of Thuringia .

Under the code name Paul Grün, Beilschmidt was an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR both as an active player and as a sports functionary . Following the incomplete publication of the report of the Stasi Commission of the German Olympic Sports Confederation by the Thuringian State Sports Association (LSB) , in May 2015 the Doping Victims Aid demanded the immediate resignation of Beilschmidt and the LSB Presidium. Representatives of the Doping Victims Aid explained: “Through the years of massive prevention of reappraisal in Thuringian sport, through the rejection of Stasi examinations by the LSB presidium, the mockery of the Stasi and doping victims and the trivialization of the GDR compulsory doping by the former SED nomenclature cadre Beilschmidt and Gösel suffered severe damage to German sport. "

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.
  • Thomas Purschke: A "double career as a rascal". New details of the Stasi files put a considerable strain on the Thuringian sports functionary Rolf Beilschmidt , in: Gerbergasse 18 . Thuringian Quarterly Journal for Contemporary History and Politics 74 (2015), pp. 42–47 ( PDF ).

Web links

Commons : Rolf Beilschmidt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 181.
  2. ↑ Thomas Purschke: Old squad, new problems , Deutschlandfunk September 1, 2011.
  3. ^ Thomas Purschke: Questionable structures in Erfurt , Deutschlandfunk February 4, 2012.
  4. ↑ Johannes Aumüller: Without attitude to IM Paul Grün , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 16, 2015, p. 44.
  5. ↑ Arno Hecker: Beilschmidts Makel remains , in: FAZ , May 9, 2015, p. 40.
  6. ↑ http://www.thla-thueringen.de/images/Pressemappe_ThLA_Aufteilung_DDR-Sport.pdf .
personal data
SURNAME Beilschmidt, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete, unofficial employee of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena