Kurt Doerry

Kurt Wilhelm Doerry (* September 24 1874 in Wilhelmshaven, † January 4, 1947 in Berlin) was one of the first successful German athletes, Olympic athletes and a sports journalist.

On September 20, 1896 he succeeded in Dresden in a 500 -meter run, a time of 1:09,0 min, which was registered as the first German record in athletics and at the same time was a world record. On route lengths of 50 to 400 meters, he set in 1896, 1897 and 1899 more German bests, and he was at the end of the 1890s several times German champion in 200 -meter run. In 1896 he was winner in the Crown Prince Cup of Denmark

At the Olympic Games in 1896, he took in the 100 - and 400 -meter run and was eliminated in each part of the flow. At the Olympics 1900 he started in the 100 -meter run and was eliminated in the intermediate run out. In 1904 he ended his sports career. Kurt Doerry was a member of the sports club SC Excelsior Berlin. In its competition time, he was 1.79 m tall and 73 kg.

Since the end of the 19th century, he was a sports journalist - as editor of the general sports newspaper and later founded by Scotsman Andrew Pitcairn - Knowles Magazines Sport im Bild (1895 ) and sports in the Word (1899 ). As a member of the German National Committee for the Olympic Games later German National Committee of Physical Education, he enjoyed high reputation. In the years 1909-1919 he was Chairman of the Hockey Association and actively participated in the sport of hockey.

In 1910 he was a founding member of the club German sports press and from 1911 its first chairman. In 1928 he was elected to Amsterdam in the Presidium of the Association Internationale de la Presse Sportive. His last sporting activity he will probably have accomplished in 1937 as a 63- year-old. On the sports festival of the BFC Germania 1888 in Lichtenrade he ran the 50 - meter track nevertheless still in His fastest time was 7.5 s for decades at 5.6 s in this discipline.