Willi Daume

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Willi Daume (1982)
Willi Daume (1972) at the funeral service during the Olympic Games

Willi Daume (born May 24, 1913 in Hückeswagen , Lennep district , Rhine Province ; † May 20, 1996 in Munich ) was a German entrepreneur, athlete and sports official . In the 1930s he was a German national player in basketball and field handball and was not a substitute for the German basketball team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin .

Daume was President of the German Sports Confederation from 1950 to 1970 and President of the National Olympic Committee for Germany (NOK) from 1961 to 1992 . He was referred to as the "most important sports official in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany" and the "most powerful and influential sports official in West German post-war sport".

Life

Willi Daume spent most of his life in Dortmund , where he owned an iron foundry in the Dortmund harbor , in the Lindenhorst district. One of his godparents was Ferdinand Goetz , the chairman of the German Gymnastics Association and opponent of a German participation in the Olympic Games in 1896. His father's visits to the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and the 1932 Summer Games in Los Angeles on his own initiative provided decisive impetus for his lifelong commitment to the Olympic Idea and movement.

Willi Daume was the son of the manufacturer Wilhelm Daume and Emilie, nee Rademacher. With his wife Rose (marie) Willi Daume was the father of Kai and Doreen Daume .

In 1971 he was seen as NOK President in Kurt Wilhelm's TV comedy Olympia-Olympia alongside Beppo Brem , Joachim Fuchsberger and Helga Anders .

Active athlete during the Nazi era

On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP with membership number 6,098,980 . After the death of his father in 1938, he finished his studies without a degree and took over the management of the foundry.

Willi Daume mainly operated athletics (high jump performance 1.82 m) and handball at Eintracht Dortmund . The powerful thumb was retrained in basketball with other student handball players , mainly from Breslau , in 1935 and represented Germany at the VI. Academic World Games in Budapest . He was part of the core team of 14 players for the first Olympic basketball tournament in Berlin in 1936, but was not used, so he did not play an official international match. After the Olympic tournament, he published a sharp criticism of the inadequate preparation and the lack of team spirit in the German Olympic selection ("The apprenticeship has been paid!"). Whether he missed the gold medal with the field handball team because of his appointment to the basketball team remains an unsolved question.

During the war, his iron foundry employed 65 slave labor . During the war, he worked as a youth and handball warden in his home club TSC Eintracht Dortmund , and from 1944 also as a handball warden. From 1943 on he was an informant for the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD) and prepared reports for them. According to his own statement, he only did this to avoid being deployed at the front. As he himself later stated, however, these reports are said to have been so "stupid" that the SD lost interest in its cooperation. Aside from Daumes own statements, no further facts about his work as an informant of the SD are available so far, so Daume biographer Jan C. Rode.

Work in associations after the Second World War

After the end of the war he was initially committed to rebuilding the sports organizations at regional level and in 1947 became chairman of the working committee for handball and in 1949 president of the German Handball Federation . He held this position until 1955. His career as a “multifunctional” began in 1950 when he was elected President of the German Sports Confederation . At first he was only elected to this office as a compromise candidate, but then held the presidency until 1970. Since handball was both a sport and a gymnastics game, both camps could find themselves in his person. He knew how to keep the old guard of Nazi sports employees busy in the new West German sports (including Guido von Mengden , who was the administrative director of the Reichssportführer and von Daume) and was able to act quickly.

In 1956 he was appointed to the International Olympic Committee , was its vice-president from 1972 to 1976 and from 1978 to 1991, the year he left the committee, the chairman of the IOC admissions committee. Daume initially spoke out in favor of regular contact with sport in the German Democratic Republic, but broke off the connection after the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. He headed various IOC commissions and was instrumental in changing the amateur section. For his services he was awarded the Olympic Order of Gold by the IOC in 1992 (bestowed in 1993) . He gave the Olympic movement significant impetus through the 1972 Summer Olympics, which he brought to Munich after the all- German Olympic team separated .

In 1980, Daume ran for President of the IOC. His candidacy had no chance, however, because the Federal Republic of Germany - against his will - boycotted the Summer Games in Moscow that year and the Moscow-elected Juan Antonio Samaranch had systematically prepared his election. He chaired the organizing committee of the Munich Games, which he raised above the sporting presentation through design and connection with architecture, art, culture and science. At the 1981 Olympic Congress in Baden-Baden , which he helped to determine, he also contributed to the change in the Olympic movement through the presence of athletes. This led to the formation of an athletes commission in the IOC and helped abolish amateur regulations in 1981.

He was also President of the German National Olympic Committee from 1961 to 1992 . In 1980 Daume appealed vehemently, albeit in vain, against a West German Olympic boycott of the Moscow Games : "The Olympic boycott was one of the most famous, but most absurd, superfluous and politically and athletically damaging events".

Willi Daume also provided the ideas for the Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation, founded in 1967, and was its chairman between 1988 and 1991. From 1979 to 1988 he was President of the German Olympic Society (DOG). Daume was a member of the Academic Gymnastics Federation . According to Reimar Lüst , Daume built bridges “between sport, science and art”. The then Federal President Karl Carstens described Daume on the occasion of his 70th birthday as a "sensitive observer who thinks about sport". An important goal of Daumes functionary activity in sport was "to bring sport into the middle of the German society".

In 1993 he had to file a settlement application for his company . The last remaining and now dilapidated buildings on the property at Lindenhorster Strasse 110 were demolished in 2012. Today there is a rental garage there.

In the last few years he lived in modest circumstances in Munich , where he had a small apartment in the Olympic Village . Daume died at the age of 82 and was buried in the main cemetery in Dortmund .

Position on doping

In the discussion about doping in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 2010s, accusations against Daume were also raised. In a letter to Daume, Herbert Reindell and Joseph Keul , who were among the leading West German sports physicians at the time, wrote in November 1976 that the ban on anabolic steroids was questionable because "diseases or damage are not known to this day". In the report "Joseph Keul: Scientific culture, doping and research on pharmacological performance enhancement" published in 2015, the authors Andreas Singler and Gerhard Treutlein therefore describe Daume as "an accomplice to the widespread doping in the Federal Republic", while he is "in principle quite an opponent any manipulation in competitive sport ”. At the same time, in the opinion of the authors, the conclusion “that he (Daume) was in a sense a member of an active conspiracy on doping or pharmacological manipulation” should not be drawn. According to sports historian Giselher Spitzer, there was “a long-term relationship of trust” between Daume and the controversial Keul, and Keul even sent Daume “internal information about anabolic steroids”. The authors of the study “Doping in Germany from 1950 to today from a historical-sociological point of view in the context of ethical legitimation” rated “the lack of countermeasures” as approving knowledge, especially since Daume received many documents on doping and must have got to know the problem area early on . ”Daume, who was a patient of doping doctor Armin Klümper , did not want to be informed about the details of the“ reality of top German sport ”, according to contemporary witnesses, was not prepared to“ draw conclusions from existing knowledge about doping in the FRG ”and therefore draws According to the report "Armin Klümper and the Federal German doping problem", "as the most important and influential sports official in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, jointly responsible for the typical West German system of high-performance doping." of the active 'Sichbli ndmachens' "and tried to suppress the doping problem" by making communication about doping taboo in a way that must in fact be seen as a contribution to the German doping problem, "the report says.

Commemoration

The headquarters of the German Handball Federation on Dortmund's Strobelallee , the Willi-Daume-Haus , is named after him. In his hometown of Hückeswagen , the leisure pool was named after him in Willi-Daume-Bad . On May 4, 2007, the German Olympic Academy Willi Daume was constituted in Frankfurt am Main . In the Munich Olympic Park , there is a since 1998 Willi Daume-Platz . In 2006 Daume was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports . In 2010, the Brackel district council named a Willi-Daume-Straße near the BVB training center in a new development area in the north of Brackel.

Awards

literature

  • Martin-Peter Büch (Red.): Willi Daume. Olympic dimensions. A symposium. Federal Institute for Sport Science and German Olympic Institute, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-89001-236-1 .
  • Jan C. Rode: Willi Daume and the development of sport in the Federal Republic of Germany between 1945 and 1970. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-712-3 (also: Hannover, Univ., Diss., 2008 ).

Web links

Commons : Willi Daume  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Andreas Singler and Gerhard Treutlein: Joseph Keul: Scientific culture, doping and research on pharmacological performance enhancement. Scientific report on behalf of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . 2015.
  2. ↑ a b "Armin Klümper and the German doping problem". Structural requirements for illegitimate manipulation, political support, and institutional failure. In: uni-freiburg.de. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XV. Edition of Degeners who is it ?, Berlin 1967, p. 295.
  4. ↑ spiegel.de on January 9, 2010 with reference to the dissertation of Jan C. Rode.
  5. ^ DOSB , DHB . The DAH was a predecessor of the DHB
  6. ^ Arnd Krüger : Germany and the Olympic Movement (1945-1980). Horst Ueberhorst (Hrsg.): History of physical exercises . Volume 3/2, pp. 1051-1070. Berlin: Basrtels & Wernitz 1982
  7. ^ Arnd Krüger: Sieg Heil to the most glorious era of German sport : continuity and change in the modern German sports movement. The International journal of the history of sport 4 (1987), 1, 5-20.
  8. ^ "The great Olympia Lexicon", Sport-Bild from June 19, 1996, p. 38.
  9. ↑ a b - The picture book career of a sports official. In: Deutschlandradio. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Der Spiegel 30/1980 of July 21, 1980.
  11. ↑ Athletes give a sonata, Federal President Carstens praised the "sensitive observer". In: The world. May 26, 1983. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  12. ↑ knerger.de: Willi Daume's grave .
  13. ↑ What did Willi Daume know? In: lr-online.de. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .
  14. ^ H. Strang and G. Spitzer: Doping in Germany in the context of ethical legitimation: Results on the phase from 1972 to 1989. In: "Doping in Germany from 1950 to today from a historical-sociological perspective in the context of ethical legitimation". 2011, accessed March 24, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Stadtanzeiger Dortmund - Ostanzeiger, No. 19, from January 19, 2011.
  16. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 43, March 9, 1973.
personal data
SURNAME Thumb, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official, NOK President and Vice President of the IOC
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Hückeswagen , Lennep District , Rhine Province
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1996
Place of death Munich