Tomasz Lempart

Tomasz Lempart (born March 8, 1915 in Lviv ; † 2005 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a sports official in Poland , the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel . As a result of him, competitive sports in the Federal Republic were converted to the planning principles of the Eastern Bloc before 1972, so that after 1989 the integration of competitive sports in the GDR was easier.

Live and act

Before the war, Lempart was a sprinter (100 m in 10.8 seconds as a youth in 1933) and a qualified sports teacher. With the German occupation he went into hiding as a Jew, in 1944 he joined the Polska Partia Robotnicza and worked as a sports teacher and trainer. After Poland's poor performance at the 1948 Summer Olympics (26th place), top-class sport was reorganized based on the Soviet model. In the course of Polish October 1956, Lempart was appointed General Secretary of the Polish National Olympic Committee , which he remained until 1968. Sixth place at the 1964 Summer Olympics was one of his greatest successes . As the person responsible for the organization of top-class sport, he took part in the central planning discussions for top-class sport in the Eastern Bloc.

In the course of anti-Semitic purges in the party and the state apparatus, he was also dismissed from civil service in April 1968. He then applied to emigrate to Israel, but was employed by the German Sports Association as director of the coaching committee, later as director of planning, in the newly created Federal Committee for competitive sports (BAL), as a key advisor to the executive director Helmut Meyer , as part of the restructuring of competitive sports . The other department heads were Dietrich Martin , Rolf Andresen and Richard Möll . Here Lempart first created an unpublished report on what can be learned from top-class sport in the Eastern Bloc without taking over the political system. For this purpose, u. a. A cadre for the targeted promotion of top athletes, the Cologne trainer academy , the magazine competitive sport and the trainer library (responsible Peter Tschiene and Arnd Krüger ) for the training of trainers in top sport were founded. In the course of planning discussions, the principles of periodising sports training were implemented in the professional associations. The funding of top-class sport by the Federal Ministry of the Interior was thus directed by the BAL in a rational way according to criteria of training science. With Lempart, success returned to top-class sport in the Federal Republic. After his retirement in 1980, he continued his work in Israel. However, due to the 3-year military service, top-class sport is impaired in terms of long-term development. Lempart spent his twilight years back in Frankfurt am Main, where he irregularly advised the DSB / DOSB .

literature

• Arnd Krüger : Competitive sport as a subsystem of society . In: Leistungssport Vol. 6, No. 1, 1976, pp. 4-11
• Arnd Krüger: Sport and Politics . Hanover: Torchbearers 1975
• Arnd Krüger, Uta Engels: 30 years of competitive sport - aspiration and reality (PDF; 139 kB). In: Competitive Sport Vol. 31, No. 5, 2001, 5, 3-9.
• Tomasz Lempart, Lothar Spitz: Problems of high-performance sport: Olympic analysis Montreal 1976 . Bartels & Wernitz, Berlin 1979

Individual evidence

1. ^ Artur Pasko: "Sprawa" sekretarza generalnego PKOl Tomasza Lemparta, in: Szkice z teorii i historii wychowania fizycznego, sportu i turystyki . Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2013, pp. 62–69.
2. ↑ Tomasz Lempart: Problems of competitive sport using the example of the Eastern Bloc countries . Unpublished manuscript, Cologne 1969.