Manfred Höppner

Manfred Höppner (16 April 1934 – 20 October 2023) was an East German physician who served as the German Democratic Republic's (GDR) top sports doctor. He and Manfred Ewald, the GDR's minister of sport (1961–1988) and president of the country's Olympic committee from 1973 to 1990, are considered the architects of the GDR's state-sponsored system of the illicit use of performance-enhancing drugs, believed to account for the GDR's Olympic successes between 1972–1988. Höppner allegedly had ties to the East German secret police, the Stasi. Born in Weinböhla, Germany on 16 April 1934, he died on 20 October 2023, at the age of 89. Provided by Wikipedia