Max Danz

Max Danz
Personal information
Nationality	German
Born	6 September 1908; Kassel, German Empire
Died	20 June 2000 (aged 91); Kassel, Germany
Sport
Sport	Middle-distance running
Event	800 metres
Club	SCC Berlin

Max Danz (6 September 1908 – 20 June 2000) was a German middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 800 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics.^[1]

He graduated from University of Marburg as an MD. He worked during World War II in Berlin in various hospitals and was a prisoner of war for a short time. After the war he set up private practice in his native Kassel, from 1952 onward specialized in internal medicine, combined the local sports clubs to form Hessen Kassel, helped to set up the German Athletics Association (DLV) and served as its President from 1949 to 1970. At the same time he was also vice-president of the (West) German National Olympic Committee. After the German athletics team boycotted the 1969 European Championships in Athens, he was forced to resigh.^[2] From 1952 to 1981 he was a member of the European Committee of the IAAF.^[3]

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Max Danz Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
^ Arnd Krüger: A Cultural Revolution? The Boycott of the European Athletics Championships by the West German Team in Athens 1969. In: European Committee for Sports History (Hrsg.): Proceedings Fourth Annual Conference. Vol. 1, Universitá, Florenz 1999, S. 162–166.→
^ Winfried Joch, K. Wilhelm Köster: Dr. Max Danz. Eine biographische Skizze. Arete, Hildesheim 2017.