Willi Greite

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Willi Greite (born January 30, 1911 in Vechelde ; † December 29, 1992 in Hänigsen ) was a German sports teacher , administrative officer and sports official .

education

From the age of 8 until the end of his life, Greite was a member of MTV Vechelde, where he mainly did athletics , handball and fistball . Greite was an excellent athlete and won the German Gymnastics Festival in Stuttgart in 1933 and in Breslau in 1938 in the track and field pentathlon . With 15 years already Vorturner, then youth officer and top Turn waiting at the club were through high school in 1931 in Braunschweig on Martino-Katharineum Braunschweig the first stages of his volunteer work. While still at the German Gymnastics Association , he was district youth warden. He studied educational and cultural sciences at the Technical University of Braunschweig (1931 to 1934) and passed his exams with Friedrich Berger, the SS storm guard trainer. Willi Greite occurred in October 1935. His first public school teaching job in the village Emtinghausen in Thedinghausen to, moved from there to different elementary schools in Wolfenbüttel before he imitated his high school teacher examination in Braunschweig and at the middle school was given a permanent position in Wolfenbüttel. In 1937, at the age of 26, Greite was appointed the youngest Gausport warden in the German Reich for Lower Saxony / Bremen by the national sports leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten . Called up for military service in 1940, he was wounded several times as a lieutenant during World War II.

Post-war career

Greite came back from internment in 1947 , but was only able to return to school in Braunschweig after his denazification in 1949. In 1947 he became the main sportsman of the MTV Braunschweig and the national gymnastics officer of the regional gymnastics association. In 1951 he was also elected state sports warden in the state sports association of Lower Saxony . In 1953 he was appointed principal school rector in Wolfenbüttel, and since 1956 he was appointed sports advisor to the Lower Saxony state government in the Ministry of Culture . Here he worked closely with Heinrich Hünecke , whose successor he eventually became. Here he went through all stages and was finally retired as a senior ministerial advisor responsible for all sport in Lower Saxony (school, university, clubs, associations). In Lower Saxony, the head of state and association sports administration was largely in one hand. From 1966 to 1970 he was Vice President of the German Gymnastics Federation , from 1970 to 1986 President and from 1986 Honorary President of the DTB. This enabled Greite to design several initiatives. He was appointed by the Federal Ministry of the Interior to the committee that organized the Federal Youth Games , coordinated youth training for the Olympics , was responsible for the expansion of sport in the DSB (board member for training), member of the scientific advisory board and deputy chairman of the DSB management and administration academy in Berlin. The “Second Way” and “Sport for All” initiatives, as well as state subsidies for full-time and part-time exercise instructors and sports teachers in the club, bear his stamp. His files are in the archive of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/philosophie/historie
  2. ↑ Kurt Hoffmeister: They shaped the Lower Saxony state sports federation , in: Arnd Krüger & Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe (eds.): Learn sports history from biographies . Hoya: NISH 2000, 272-284
  3. ↑ http://www.gymmedia.com/node/16820
  4. ^ Friedrich Mevert: Visionary and Practitioner: On the 100th birthday of Willi Greite; Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 26, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dosb.de
  5. ↑ http://nish.de/index.php/archiv.html
personal data
SURNAME Greite, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports teacher, administrative officer and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Vechelde
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1992
Place of death Hänigsen