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Daume, Willi

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  • May 24, 1913 - May 20, 1996

Willi Daume was a German entrepreneur, athlete, and sports official. He was a German national player in basketball and handball in the 1930s and was a substitute for the German basketball team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Daume was also 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 born on May 24, 1913 in Hückeswagen, Germany to the manufacturer Wilhelm Daume and Emilie Daume (née Rademacher). Willi spent most of his life in Dortmund, where he owned an iron foundry in the Dortmund harbour. On May 1, 1937, he joined the Nazi Party with much of his age cohort. After the death of his father in 1938, he finished his studies without a degree and took over the management of the foundry. He was active in athletics, both European handball and basketball, with Eintracht Dortmund and represented Germany on the basketball team at the 1936 Olympics, though he remained a substitute and did not see playtime. During the war, his iron foundry employed 65 slave labourers. At this time, he also worked as a youth handball warden at his club Eintracht Dortmund. From 1943 on, he was an informant for the SS and prepared reports for them. According to his own unverified statement, he only did this to avoid being deployed at the front, and wrote reports so “stupid” that the SS lost interest in its cooperation. With his wife, Rose, he had two children, Kai and Doreen.

After the end of the war, he was initially involved at the regional level for the reconstruction of the sports organizations, and, in 1947, became Chairman of the Working Committee for Handball and, in 1949, President of the German Handball Federation, a position he held until 1955. In 1950, he was elected President of the German Sports Confederation and held the presidency until 1970. In 1956, he was appointed to the International Olympic Committee, was its vice-president from 1972 to 1976 and from 1978 to 1991. He was awarded the Olympic Order of Gold by the IOC in 1992. He was also President of the German National Olympic Committee from 1961 to 1992. In his later years, he lived in Munich, where he had a small apartment in the Olympic Village. Daume died at the age of 82 on May 20, 1996 and was buried in the main cemetery in Dortmund. In memoriam, the headquarters of the German Handball Federation in Dortmund was named 'the Willi-Daume-Haus' after him. In his hometown of Hückeswagen, the local pool was christened Willi-Daume-Bad after him. On May 4, 2007, the German Olympic Academy Willi Daume was constituted in Frankfurt am Main. In the Munich Olympic Park, Willi Daume-Platz was christened in 1998. In 2006, Daume was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports. In 2010, the district council of Brackel renamed a road Willi Daume Strasse near the Borussia Dortmund training centre.

Blair, Hugh

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  • [fl. 1960s-]

Cross, L.

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  • [fl. 1960s-]

Bedard, Andre

  • CA-BC-BA012
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