Arne Güllich

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Arne Güllich (* 1965 ) is a German sports scientist and university lecturer .

Life

Güllich completed a degree in sports science at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz between 1984 and 1990 , which he completed with a diploma. The topic of his diploma thesis was: “The image of athletics from a student's point of view. Report on a student survey in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. ”He was supported by a scholarship from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and received an award from the Minister of Education of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate for his diploma .

Between 1991 and 1993 Güllich worked on a fee basis at the Olympiastützpunkt Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland as an employee for performance diagnostics, he also worked as an athletics trainer at the University Sports Club Mainz (USC) Mainz , the Athletics Association of Rheinhessen and the State Sports Association of Rhineland-Palatinate . From 1993 Güllich was also a research associate in the performance diagnostics department of the Institute for Sports Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . His dissertation, completed in 1996, on the subject of "rapid strength performance immediately following maximum and submaximal strength applications" was awarded the Herrmann Altrock Prize by the German Sports Association and also awarded by the German Association for Sports Science in the Training Science section.

From 1996 Güllich worked for the German Sports Association (DSB) or its successor organization, the German Olympic Sports Association (DOSB) in the competitive sports division: until 2003 as a consultant for young athletes, from 2003 as head of youth sports, from 2005 as head of sports science and youth sports and from 2007 to 2008 as head of the department for fundamental questions and knowledge management. In addition to his work for DSB and DOSB, respectively, Güllich worked for the State Sports Association of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1998 and 1999 on the project "Management Promotion and Success in Rhineland-Palatinate", between 2001 and 2003 he was again part-time at the Frankfurt Institute for Sports Science and was one of the scientific staff the Department of Sports Development and Society.

In 2008 Güllich completed  his habilitation at the University of Saarland , the title of his habilitation thesis was: “Training - Promotion - Success. Control assumptions and empirical findings ”. In the same year he worked at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in the sports science department. In 2010 he was appointed director of the Institute for Applied Sports Science, and in 2011 he took up a professorship for sports science in Kaiserslautern.

Güllich's main research areas include talent issues, aspects of top-class sport, sport in children and adolescents, including high-performance sport for the young, and school sport.

Güllich is co-editor of "Sport - The Textbook for Sports Studies" and was co-author of the official framework training plan of the German Athletics Association for basic training.

He was the only European scientist to work on recommendations for a youth initiative of top-class basketball in the United States launched by the NBA  and the US Basketball Federation.

Following the 2012 Summer Olympics , Güllich clearly criticized the sports funding system in Germany and complained about waste and unwillingness to change.

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.sport.uni-mainz.de/mueller/Texte/Meyer-Stellenwert-der-Leichtathletik-in-Sekundarstufe1.pdf
  2. a b c d Güllich, Arne. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  3. Summary: Sport: the textbook for sport studies. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  4. Summary: Student athletics: official framework training plan of the German Athletics Association for basic training. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  5. Professor in Kaiserslautern advises American professional basketball associations on promoting young talent. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  6. Sports funding: "In German sport there is a planned economy" . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on April 23, 2018]).