Thomas Pfüller (sports official)
Thomas Pfüller (born June 17, 1949 in Stollberg , Saxony ) is a German sports official and a former biathlete who participated in state-prescribed doping in competitive GDR sports .
Professional background
Thomas Pfüller's athletic career stretched from 1968 to 1971, during which he worked as a biathlete in the GDR performance center in Zinnwald. As an athlete from Dynamo Zinnwald , he won the bronze medal with the relay at the GDR championships in 1971. He then completed a distance learning course at the German University for Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig. In 1978 he took over the post of deputy general secretary of the German Skierverband der DDR and later (1984) also the function of the trainer of the male cross-country skiers.
Pfüller is one of the few functionaries in the GDR who, after the reunification of the unified German Ski Association (DSV), continuously rose to the highest full-time positions in GDR competitive sports despite being included in the state-prescribed compulsory doping : first to technical director and Nordic sports director, then to General Secretary and thus together with Hubert Schwarz to the management of DSV Leistungssport GmbH. Numerous GDR trainers who were burdened by the Stasi and doping received a position in the Federal Republic of Germany through his protection.
He was elected IBU Vice President Marketing at the Congress of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) in St. Petersburg in October 2010. Within the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) he was a member of the Advisory Board for Competitive Sport Development.
Web links
- Thomas Purschke: The Munich 2018 Olympic application and the dark shadows of the past. Old cadre in German winter sports exposed to Stasi and doping , Deutschlandfunk, January 30, 2011
- Thomas Purschke: Thomas Pfüller, who criticizes the World Ski Federation, has been familiar with doping for a long time. A general's phrases , Berliner Zeitung, December 14, 2005
- Thomas Purschke: Sinistrer challenger: Thomas Pfüller demands medals from his athletes , taz, March 4, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henrich Misersky: Doping past: We did not participate , tagesspiegel.de, July 19, 2009, accessed on July 31, 2017
- ↑ Thomas Pfüller in the Munzinger archive , accessed on October 8, 2011 ( beginning of article freely available)
- ↑ Olympia 2010: Biathlon - historical misses , Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 17, 2010, accessed on July 31, 2017
- ↑ Thomas Purschke: The Munich 2018 Olympic application and the dark shadows of the past. Old cadre exposed to Stasi and doping in German winter sports , Deutschlandfunk, January 30, 2011, accessed on July 31, 2017
- ↑ Viktoria Franke: Thomas Pfüller new IBU Vice, Ullrich in the Technical Committee on biathlon-online.de, September 3, 2010, accessed on July 31, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfüller, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stollberg |