Max Danz (6 September 1908 – 20 June 2000) was a German

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. He competed in the men's 800 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics. He graduated from

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as an MD. He worked during

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in Berlin in various hospitals and was a

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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

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(''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. From 1952 to 1981 he was a member of the European Committee of the IAAF.Winfried Joch, K. Wilhelm Köster: ''Dr. Max Danz. Eine biographische Skizze.'' Arete, Hildesheim 2017.

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* 1908 births 2000 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics German male middle-distance runners Olympic athletes of Germany Place of birth missing Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany German prisoners of war in World War II {{Germany-middledistance-athletics-bio-stub