Andrzej Wohl (sociologist)

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Andrzej Wohl (born February 27, 1911 in Stanislau , Galicia , † September 1, 1998 in Warsaw ) was a Polish sports sociologist and sports philosopher .

Life

Andrzej Wohl survived the Holocaust as a Galician Jew in a Soviet prison. He was a member of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine from his youth and worked as a journalist for communist newspapers. Through family tradition and the German occupation, he learned German like a second mother tongue. After the war he made up his Abitur, studied sport at the Sports University in Warsaw and philosophy at the University of Warsaw , where he also received his doctorate in 1960. This was followed by his habilitation in Marxist philosophy at the University of Warsaw (1967), whereupon he was given the chair in sports sociology at the Warsaw Sports University, the first in the world, where he stayed until his health-related early retirement in 1984. From 1965 to 1984 he was editor of the International Review of Sport Sociology and in 1965 the founding chairman of the International Committee for the Sociology of Sport .

Scientific importance

Well explored the importance of Marxism for understanding sport. Since he was close to orthodox Marxism , he had a high reputation both in the GDR and in the Federal Republic of Germany and was u. a. Visiting professor at the University of Hamburg . He was considered a line-loyal thinker who, in the tradition of Pavlov, practiced a solid quantitative sociology and thus took a position in the movement theory of the time against Nikolai Bernstein . During the Cold War he managed to maintain an open dialogue within the framework of the scientific journal for which he was responsible.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arnd Krüger , Paul Kunath: The Development of Sports Science in the Soviet Zone and the GDR. In: W. Buss, C. Becker u. a. (Ed.): Sport in the Soviet Zone and the early GDR. Genesis - structures - conditions. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2001, pp. 351-366.
  2. ↑ A. Wohl: Sociology of Sport: general theoretical foundations. (Expert edit. Sven Güldenpfennig). Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-7609-0538-2 .
  3. ↑ Dietmar Kesten: K groups, DKP and (workers) sport. Part II. Materials for Analysis of Opposition. mao-projekt.de, January 2011. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
  4. ↑ W. Petrynski et al. a .: The common path of Nikolai Bernstein and Andrzej Wohl. In: Yearbook 2012 of the German Society for the History of Sport Science. LIT, Münster 2014, pp. 69–82.
  5. ^ Günther Lüschen : OBITUARY FOR ANDRZEJ WOHL. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 34 (1999) , pp. 341-342.
personal data
SURNAME Well, Andrzej
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Well, Andrei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish sports sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Ivano-Frankivsk , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1998
Place of death Warsaw