Wolf-Dieter Monday

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Wolf-Dieter Montag (born December 10, 1924 in Bamberg ; † July 21, 2018 ) was a German sports physician and official. He was a sports physician at several Olympic Games and was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit and the Olympic Order for his work and services .

Life

Montag studied philosophy and theology at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg and medicine (also in Bamberg and then in Erlangen , Vienna and Munich ). In 1952 he passed the state examination and obtained his doctorate in the same year. During his medical career he worked at the Vilsbiburg, Rosenheim hospitals, the Murnau professional association accident clinic , the Munich-Harlaching University Orthopedic Clinic and until 1990 at the Weilheim hospital. Montag was a specialist in orthopedics, sports medicine and physical therapy.

In 1972 he became managing director of the Bavarian Sports Medical Association and in 1973 was one of the founding members of the German Society for Sports Physiotherapy.

Montag was a sports doctor at the 1972 Winter Olympics, and at the 1976 and 1980 Winter Games he was the chief physician of the German team. At the 1984 Winter Games he was the head of the delegation for the German team, and at the 1988 Winter Games he was head of the figure skating delegation.

From 1972, Montag was an association doctor for the German Ice Sports Association and the German Ice Skating Union . As head of sports medicine, he was responsible for the support of the athletes at numerous figure skating and ice hockey events, headed the sports medicine division of the organizing committee for the European figure skating championship in 1973 in Cologne, and from 1975 to 1998 he was chief physician of the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF and thus among other things responsible for sports medical care at the ice hockey world championship tournaments. At the IIHF Congress in Prague in 1978 , he pushed through that juniors must in future play with full face protection. He was also a doctor for the German national ice hockey team.

From 1974 to 1984 Montag was also a sports medical advisor at the World Figure Skating Association (ISU) and in this position worked as a senior sports physician for the care of athletes at European and World Figure Skating Championships.

Between 1976 and 1980 he held the office of Vice President of the German Sports Medical Association.

In 1980 he was elected chairman of the German Ice Skating Union and held this office until 1996. In 1983, Monday sat on the organizing committee of the European figure skating championships in Dortmund and was also the sports medical director of the event. Also in 1983, Montag was accepted into the Medical Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and represented the winter sports associations there. As a member of the Medical Commission of the IOC, he then worked at the Olympic Games in Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, Calgary and Seoul in 1988. At the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, Montag was the IOC's medical inspector. Among other things, he managed to build a separate Olympic village for ice hockey players in Méribel to compensate for differences in height between the venues and the Olympic village in Albertville. At the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona, ​​Montag was also a member of the IOC Medical Commission, at the Winter Games in Lillehammer 1994, Nagano 1998, Salt Lake City 2002 and the Summer Games 1996 in Atlanta, and in 2000 in Sydney he was again the IOC Medical Inspector (in Nagano as head of the Medical Commission), and in Nagano the IOC Coordination Commission.

In 1984 Montag was one of the founders of the German-Austrian-Swiss Society for Orthopedic-Traumatological Sports Medicine (GOTS).

In 1988 he was elected deputy chairman of the German Ice Sports Association, in the same year he became vice-president of the organizing committee of the 1991 World Figure Skating Championships in Munich.

From 1988 to 1988 he was chairman of the Bavarian Sports Medical Association and later its honorary president. Between 1976 and 1998, Montag sat as a sports medicine representative on the sports advisory board of the Bavarian state parliament. From 1980 to 2008 he taught orthopedics, sports medicine and sports physiotherapy at the Sebastian Kneipp School in Bad Wörishofen. From 1956 to 1990 Montag was a disabled sports doctor in Munich and a sports doctor for the VSG Weilheim, and from 1960 to 1990 he was also a mountain rescue doctor and trainer member of the Weilheim mountain rescue service

Awards and honors

  • 1975: Honorary diploma from the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF
  • 1975: Golden badge of honor with diamonds from the German Ice Hockey Federation
  • 1983: Golden Figure Skating Medal from the National Sports Federation of Finland
  • 1984: Golden badge of honor from the German Ice Skating Union
  • 1985: Gold medal for youth and sport of the Republic of France
  • 1987: Tokushima University Honorary Certificate and Osaka University Medal
  • 1987: Honorary Diploma from the Orthopedic Society of Sports Medicine of Japan
  • 1988: Honorary membership of the Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine of Japan
  • 1996: Federal Cross of Merit, first class for his services in sport and sports medicine
  • 1998: Olympic medal for services to the Olympic idea and sports medicine
  • 1998: First winner of the Paul Loicq Prize
  • 1998: Golden badge of honor of the German Sports Medical Association for services to German sports medicine
  • 2000: Bavarian Order of Merit for extraordinary services in medicine, sports medicine and sports
  • 2008: Admission to the "Hall of Fame" of the German Ice Hockey Federation
  • 2016: Honorary membership of the Society for Orthopedic-Traumatological Sports Medicine
  • Honorary diploma from the Bavarian Disabled Sports Association
  • Silver Medal of Honor of the Bavarian Mountain Rescue Service

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://trauer.sueddeutsche.de/trauerbeispiel/wolf-dieter-montag
personal data
SURNAME Monday, Wolf-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports physician and functionary
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2018