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The German Democratic Republic (GDR), often called ''' East Germany ''', had founded a separate " National Olympic Committee for East Germany" on 22 April 1951 in the Rotes Rathaus of East Berlin, two years after the National Olympic Committee For Germany , recognized by the IOC, had been founded in 1949 to continue the Olympic tradition of Germany that started in 1895. After the division of Germany following World War II , three separate states had been founded under occupation. After the Saarland and its NOC (SAA) joined the Federal Republic Of Germany after 1955, German athletes from the two remaining states competed at the Olympic Games in 1956, 1960 and 1964 as the United Team Of Germany (currently designated EUA by the IOC). During Cold War , the socialist GDR erected the Berlin Wall in 1961, and renamed their NOC to ''Nationales Olympisches Komitee der DDR'' in 1965. It was recognized as an independent NOC by the IOC in 1968. Thus, the GDR left the United Team of Germany and started to send a separate East Germany At The Olympics team for five events between 1968 and 1988, being absent in 1984 in support of the Soviet-led Boycott Of The 1984 Summer Olympics . The German Democratic Republic ceased to exist after 1989, with their states joining the Federal Republic Of Germany in the process of German Reunification in 1990. Accordingly, the "NOC of the GDR" joined the "NOC of Germany" on 17 November 1990, and the German athletes competed at the Olympic Games in a single team again from 1992 onwards. An important figure in the GDR was Manfred Ewald (1926-2002), member of SED Central Committee since 1963. He was 1952 to 1960 president of the "Staatliches Komitee für Körperkultur und Sport" (Stako). Since 1961, he became president of the "Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund" ( DTSB ), governing all sport in the GDR, and in 1973 also of the NOC. He is considered the organiser of the "GDR sports miracle". His post-1990 autibiographie was titled "''I was the Sport''". He fell from grace in 1988, being removed from the DTSB office. In 2001, he was sentenced for his role in Doping . MEDALS See Also: Summer Olympics medal count |
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