Siegfried Perrey

Siegfried Perrey (born May 28, 1915 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † July 17, 1984 in Bad Mergentheim ) was a German handball player and sports official .

Career

The tall Perrey played for VfL Königsberg and joined the German national field handball team in 1936 . As a center forward, he played seven international matches from 1937 to 1939.

Perrey studied piano for four years at the Conservatory and took the organist exam in Gdańsk's Marienkirche . He later worked as a primary school teacher. After the war, Perrey came from Danzig to Flensburg . There he initially worked as a senior teacher and head of the city office for physical exercise. From 1947 he was the sports director of the Flensburg-Mürwik sports school and at the same time the first sports manager of the German Handball Association . Under his direction, the German Olympic team trained in Mürwik for the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki . Then Perrey was appointed head of organization for the German Olympic team in Helsinki. He retained this function until his death. After the accusation of financial irregularities in entertainment costs, he was dismissed in 1953 as head of the state sports school Flensburg-Mürwik and as head of the city office for physical exercises. He is said to have used state and federal funds that "were intended exclusively for the maintenance of international sports traffic for other events at his sports school" . Perrey denied the allegations and spoke of a political intrigue. There was a criminal trial, at the end of which he was sentenced in 1954 to two months in prison and a fine of 300 D-Marks for his offenses. The appeal proceedings initiated by Perrey were dropped by the Federal Court of Justice due to an amnesty.

Perrey came to Haßloch from Flensburg around 1955 . There he became head of the Palatinate handball center and worked full-time as a handball teacher in the entire Palatinate handball association . When he ended his association activity, he became a teacher at the Haßloch Schiller School. Perrey was particularly committed to TSG Haßloch . Perrey was considered an organizational genius and was also called "Don Krawallo" because of his loud and happy manner. At the end of 1960, his commitment to TSG ended. A street in Haßloch is named after him.

Perrey became internationally known as the Olympic coordinator. At the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964 , he was the Olympic inspector of the German team. He was the organizer of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich . As a representative of German sport, he was nicknamed Mister Olympia . In 1965 he became the first managing director of the Federal Committee for Competitive Sport , before he was replaced by Helmut Meyer in 1969 and moved to the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games in Munich.

In 1979 he resigned from the service as government director of the Rhineland-Palatinate district government responsible for school sports . He was a knight of the French Legion of Honor and holder of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1st class. He died in a Bad Mergentheim sanatorium in 1984 after a long and serious illness.

family

He was married to Marianne (1918-2008), with whom he had two daughters and a son.

Publications

• Siegfried Perrey: Training methods, talent search and promotion. National Olympic Committee for Germany, Scientific and Methodological Funding d. Competitive sports in the NOK. Westfalendr. Publishing house, 1962
• Siegfried Perrey: Program of the opening ceremony: Munich 1972. 1972.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Siegfried Perrey in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
2. ↑ Werner Buxa: Pictures from East Prussia. Weltbild-Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-893-50098-7 , p. 171.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} For climatic reasons In: Der Spiegel issue 12, 1951, March 21, 1951, p. 32.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Two fingers up and Kikeriki - SPIEGEL reporter Hermann Schreiber on Olympic coordinator Siegfried Perrey and his control center. In: Der Spiegel issue 37, 1972, pp. 33–34.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Siegfried Perrey is dead. In: Reutlinger Generalanzeiger of July 19, 1984, p. 13.
6. ↑ Cognac over fried potatoes. In: Der Spiegel issue 11, March 11, 1953, pp. 22-23.
7. ↑ Measure in: Die Zeit Edition 7, from February 12, 1953
8. ↑ Litt und schied In: Der Spiegel Edition 1, 1961, pp. 18-19.
9. ^ Günter Flohn: History of the Palatinate handball.  ( 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. Retrieved October 3, 2014  
10. ^ Festschrift of TSG Haßloch on the 125th anniversary. P. 40.
11. ↑ rs: Down-to-earth double world champion. In: Mannheimer Morgen. from September 14, 2013
12. ↑ H. Schreiber: Can you also have sauerkraut? In: Der Spiegel Edition 31, 1976, pp. 108-109.
13. ^ Siegfried-Perrey-Str. in Haßloch accessed on October 3, 2014
14. ^ Arnd Krüger : Sport and Politics. From gymnastics father Jahn to state amateur. Torch bearer, Hanover 1975, p. 126ff.
15. ^ The Palatinate on the Rhine. Pfalz Verkehrsverband, Pfälzerwald-Verein, 1984, p. 28.
16. ↑ Between the Meuse and Memel. In: Der Spiegel Edition 17, 1975, pp. 137-138.
17. ↑ ^{a b} Friedrich Mevert: HISTORY / 170: Sports-political documents from seven decades of post-war history, Part 53 (DOSB) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Retrieved October 3, 2014 
18. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for S. Perrey In: The Ostpreußenblatt of June 12, 1976, p. 17