Rudolf Hellmann

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Rudolf Hellmann (born June 26, 1926 in Chemnitz , † December 31, 2005 ) was a German sports official. Alongside Manfred Ewald and Erich Mielke, he was considered the most important sports politician in the GDR.

Hellmann was born the son of a lathe operator and completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter from 1940 to 1943 . He was then called up for military service. In 1944 he volunteered for the Navy as a torpedo mechanic . He came into British captivity.

In 1946 he became a member of the KPD and, with its union with the SPD, the SED . From 1947 to 1950 he worked as a fitter for the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Karl-Marx-Stadt . In 1950 he became an instructor for the FDJ in the Reichsbahnamt Karl-Marx-Stadt and then state manager of SV Lokomotiv Sachsen . Hellmann had been a member of the People's Police since 1952 and was sector head of the agitation and propaganda department of the central management of SV Lokomotiv in Berlin . In 1952/53 he again acted as sector manager of the agitation division at the Society for Sport and Technology . In 1954 he was first instructor for youth and sport of the SED district leadership in Halle , then instructor and from 1960 head of the working group " Physical Culture and Sport ", which was renamed in 1965 to " Department of Physical Culture and Sport ", at the Central Committee of the SED. He held this position until 1989.

Hellmann acted as a sports advisor for Walter Ulbricht , Erich Honecker and Egon Krenz . In 1960 he also became a member of the competitive sports commission. A year later he moved up to the board of the German Gymnastics and Sports Federation , from which he was expelled in 1990. In 1973 he was appointed Vice President of the National Olympic Committee of the GDR. In 1960, 1964 and 1972 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit , 1970 the Order Banner of Labor , and 1976 the Karl Marx Order . and in 1980 awarded the Great Star of Friendship of Nations . In 1987 the IOC awarded him the Olympic Order . His daughter is the former gymnast Angelika Hellmann .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 28, 1972, p. 3
  2. ^ New Germany , September 19, 1970, p. 3
  3. ↑ High state awards given. Karl Marx Order. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland, August 22, 1980, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Hellmann, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2005