Wilfried Kindermann

Paul Wilfried Kindermann (born September 4, 1940 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German sports doctor and former athlete .

Sports career

Wilfried Kindermann started for the USC Heidelberg sports club . He is 1.87 m tall and weighed 71 kg during his playing days. For the Federal Republic of starting, he won at the European Championships in 1962 the gold medal with the German 4 x 400-meter relay (3: 05.8 min, John Schmitt , Wilfried Kindermann, Hans-Joachim Reske , Manfred children ).

Professional career

Kindermann studied medicine and worked until his retirement on September 30, 2008 as a sports medicine institute director at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken .

From 2000 to 2008 he was the head doctor of the German team at the Olympic Games and supervised athletes at a total of eight Olympic Games. Between 1990 and 2000 Kindermann was an internist for the German national soccer team and from 1989 to 1996 head physician of the German Athletics Association .

At the 2006 soccer World Cup, he was the head physician, and until 2010 he chaired the Medical Expert Commission of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB). From 2002 to 2011 Kindermann was a member of the Medical Commission of the European Football Association (UEFA) , until 2012 he was represented on the supervisory board of the National Anti-Doping Agency Germany (NADA) and until 2016 in the NADA committee on the doping control system. At the German Football Association (DFB), Kindermann worked in the Sports Medicine Commission as well as in the Science Working Group and the Anti-Doping Commission. At the German Athletics Association, he was also part of the anti-doping commission.

Wilfried Kindermann was awarded the Saarland Order of Merit in 2000.

criticism

Kindermann was involved in the controversial study “Testosterone and Regeneration” (1985 to 1993) and later explained his involvement in the research as follows: “I took part in this project with my institute because I was convinced that I could contribute to to refute the previous claims and thus at least to slow down the penetration of testosterone into endurance sports. "

His assessment that there was “no effect” on the endurance and regeneration of the test subjects was contradicted in a 2013 study. A declaration by German sports medicine experts, in which "the adherence to the use of anabolic steroids under medical supervision beyond the prohibition times until the 1980s also by outstanding exponents of sports medicine" and "the implementation of studies on the effects and side effects of anabolic steroids in active competitive athletes and Kindermann did not subscribe to the trivializing of the side effects as minor and temporarily "assessed as" unjustifiable ".

Referring to the declaration, Kindermann wrote in his 2011 contribution in the German magazine for sports medicine “The responsibility of sports medicine in competitive sports”: “The statement of the university lecturers emphasizes that qualified medical care in competitive sports is one of the tasks of university sports medicine. I fully agree with this. There is no doubt that health is the top priority. In addition, athletes can expect to receive sports medical care in such a way that they achieve the performance in competition that they are capable of based on their talent and training. ”He went on to explain the problem from his point of view:“ The 1970s were shaped through a scientific discussion of the effects and side effects of anabolic steroids in healthy athletes. The effects have been questioned by some scientists. At a symposium of the Max Planck Society in 1977, leading endocrinologists and basic researchers disputed a performance-enhancing effect and spoke of a pseudo problem. They suggested broad studies in which athletes with and without anabolic steroids should be medically observed for long periods of time. Side effects of the anabolic steroids were already known in the 1960s, but these studies were animal experiments or contained findings that had been made on patients. "

Kindermann, who ran anabolic steroids studies together with Joseph Keul in the 1970s and wrote scientific papers on testosterone at the end of the 1980s, told Spiegel Online in 2007: “I never did pro-doping research, we knew about it 1970s but not what we know today about anabolic steroids and the side effects ”. He was involved in the evaluation as Keul's assistant, according to Kindermann, who complained to Spiegel Online : "Since then I have been held in kin with him (Keul)".

Web links

• Institute for Sports and Preventive Medicine at Saarland University
• Literature by and about Wilfried Kindermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by Wilfried Kindermann in PubMed

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Univ.-Prof. em. Dr. med. Wilfried Kindermann | sports medicine. Retrieved December 2, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Annual Report 2000 - Prizes and Honors. In: uni-saarland.de. Saarland University, accessed on July 13, 2017 .  
3. ↑ http://www.bisp.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/Aktuelles/Inhaltlicher_Bericht_HU.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Wilfried Kindermann: COMMENT: The responsibility of sports medicine in competitive sports . In: German magazine for sports medicine . Volume 62, No. 12 , 2011.
5. ^ Doping in East and West: Germany, united doping country? In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on December 2, 2018]).
6. ↑ Grit Hartmann: Doping research: Because they do not revoke . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed December 2, 2018]).
7. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/ 279198231_Doping_im_Leistungssport_in_Westdeutschland_Stellungnahme_der_Hochschullehrer_der_deutschen_Sportmedizin_und_des_Wwissenschaftsrates_der_Deutschen_Gesellschaft_fur_Sportmedizin_und_Pravention_DGSP
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Mirjam Fischer: Doping investigators: inspectors with relevant experience . In: Spiegel Online . July 5, 2007 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 2, 2018]).