Manfred Steinbach
Manfred Steinbach ( born August 18, 1933 Sprottau ) is a former German athlete who was a successful long jumper in the 1950s and 1960s, and sports official, ministry officials, and Professor of Sports Medicine and a specialist in neurology / psychiatry.
Life
Manfred Steinbach grew up in Quedlinburg / Harz (Saxony -Anhalt). In a school sports festival in 1951 his sprint and jump talent was discovered, and he ran from there to the Athletics. In 1952 he began in Halle ( Saale) a medical degree and started for the SC Science Hall. In 1953 he was inducted into the East German national team. In 1956 he was East German champion in the 100 - meter dash and the 200 -meter run. In the 1956 Olympics he was eliminated in the flow of the 100-meter individual competition. On August 19, 1956, he equaled in Budapest existing DDR record and in the autumn of the same year he ran in an all-German selection a season - European record (4 x 100 - meter: 40.0 s, Lothar Knörzer, Manfred Steinbach, Leonhard Pohl, Manfred Germar ).
After his parents had left the GDR in 1953, Manfred Steinbach fled on 20 April 1958, initially for West Berlin and started for VfL Wolfsburg (from 1961 for the USC Mainz) later. On August 20, 1958, he was involved in a world record in the 4 x 100 -meter run: The national selection of the Federal Republic ( Manfred Steinbach, Martin Lauer, Heinz Fütterer and Manfred Germar ) ran a time of 39.5 s and leveled so the existing world record of the U.S. Olympic season from 1 December 1956.
In the West German Championships 1960 in Berlin Steinbach surpassed in the long jump with 8.14 meters as the first athlete to an inch the world record distance of Jesse Owens in the year 1935. Due to strong tailwind but could not be recognized record. On 2 September 1960, he surpassed at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 as the first German regularly the eight- meter mark. With its width of 8.00 m, it peaked at number four of the competition ( series: 7.81 - invalid - 7.76 - invalid - invalid - 8.00 m ). 1960, 1961 and 1962, he became German champion in the long jump of the Federal Republic. He had a competition weight of 73 kg at a height of 1,81 m.
1959 Steinbach graduated in Göttingen his medical studies. In 1961 he qualified as a professor in Mainz and later became a professor of sports medicine. In 1967 he ended his sports career and supervised at the Universiade in Tokyo as a doctor, the German team. From 1973 to 1993 he served on the board of the German Athletics Federation ( DLV). Steinbach ran from 1965 to 1970, the Sports Medicine Institute of the University of Mainz. 1970 Steinbach went to Wiesbaden, where he worked as an Assistant Secretary in the Hesse Ministry of Social Affairs by the end of 1977. 1977 to 6 October 1993, he worked at the Federal Ministry of Health as head of department at the rank of Ministerial Director. He headed the Department of Medicine, pharmaceuticals and pharmacy sector. According to a 1993 affair became known to HIV - contaminated blood, he was transferred from Health Minister Horst Seehofer to retire early and gave the position in the DLV on. After that, he was medical director of the Johannesbad group of the bathroom Füssinger baths entrepreneur John Zwick. From 1999 to 2008 he was president of the German Spa Association (DHV ) and was subsequently its Honorary President. Also, he is still a professor of sports medicine and first aid at the TU Darmstadt.