Working group of directors of the institutes for physical exercise

The working group of the directors of the institutes for physical exercises (AID) represented the interests of sports teacher training and university sports at German universities from 1948 to 1971 .

Characterized by the selection of the institutes for physical exercises under Carl Krümmel , they implemented the training as in the Nazi era (exception: boxing was abolished). They coordinated the range of courses and made it possible (e.g. by means of standardized performance cards ) to easily switch between universities in Germany and Austria . It was founded on November 17, 1948 in Bonn , and Hermann Altrock was elected as the founding chairman. In order to have the necessary continuity with changing chairpersons, the secretariat was located at the secretary Wilhelm Henze ( University of Göttingen ).

Only in the course of the democratization tendencies in the German universities after 1968 and the expansion of the institutes through the creation of corresponding professorships for sports science was the monopoly in the selection of young scientists broken. In 1971 the AID became part of the Working Group of Institutes for Physical Exercise (ASI), which merged in 1976 with the specialist group for physical education at universities of teacher education (FLPH) as the German Association for Sports Science .

Individual evidence

^ Katrin Bosch: The meaning and function of the Neustrelitz leadership school in the system of National Socialist physical education. Dissertation . University of Essen, 2008.
^ Arnd Krüger : Sport and Politics. From gymnastics father Jahn to state amateur . Torch bearer, Hanover 1975, ISBN 3-7716-2087-2 .
↑ Wolfgang Buss : The Working Group of Institute Directors (AID) and the development of sports science in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Wolfgang Buss, Arnd Krüger (Hrsg.): Sports history: maintaining tradition and changing values. Festschrift for Wilhelm Henze . NISH, Duderstadt 1985, ISBN 3-923453-03-5 , pp. 35-51.

[1] Katrin Bosch: The meaning and function of the Neustrelitz leadership school in the system of National Socialist physical education. Dissertation . University of Essen, 2008.

[2] Arnd Krüger : Sport and Politics. From gymnastics father Jahn to state amateur . Torch bearer, Hanover 1975, ISBN 3-7716-2087-2 .

[3] Wolfgang Buss : The Working Group of Institute Directors (AID) and the development of sports science in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Wolfgang Buss, Arnd Krüger (Hrsg.): Sports history: maintaining tradition and changing values. Festschrift for Wilhelm Henze . NISH, Duderstadt 1985, ISBN 3-923453-03-5 , pp. 35-51.