Erich Beyer
Erich Beyer (born July 18, 1911 in Leipzig ; † March 25, 2012 ) was a German university professor, sports scientist and sports official.
Life
Beyer was born in Leipzig and graduated from the Helmholtz Reform Realgymnasium. From 1932 to 1936 he completed a teaching degree in Leipzig in the subjects of English, history, physical exercise, philosophy and educational science. From 1936 to 1938 he worked for the German Reichsbund for physical exercises as a hiking sports instructor before starting his legal clerkship in Leipzig in 1938. During the Second World War he was employed as a news interpreter in English and French.
Following the end of the war, Beyer took a position as a high school teacher in Bad Soden am Taunus and also taught German and French to US soldiers. In 1948 he completed his doctoral thesis (subject: "The American sports language with special consideration of the baseball game and its vocabulary"). In 1951 he was in the United Kingdom , where he worked as a PE teacher at Prince Henry's Grammar School in Evesham . In 1954 he became chairman of the Hessian gymnastics, sports and gymnastics teachers association and in 1960 he was vice-president of the Association of German Physical Educationists.
From 1962 to 1974 Beyer was director of the "Institute for Physical Exercise" at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , which later became the Institute for Sport and Sports Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He was appointed professor in 1976 and for decades was the German representative on the board of the Fédération Internationale d'Éducation Physique (FIEP) and later its honorary member. The main areas of his professional engagement were dealing with the "history of sport", maintaining international sports contacts and leading the editing of various series of publications, such as the "Contributions to Teaching and Research in Physical Education".
In the period from 1965 to 1969 Beyer was chairman of the working group of directors of the institutes for physical exercise in the Federal Republic of Germany (AID). From 1973 he worked on a multilingual sports science dictionary, which was published in 1987 after collaboration with Peter Röthig , among others ("Dictionary of Sports Science. German-English-French").
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Erich Beyer 100 years. In: German Association for Sports Science. January 3, 2019, accessed January 13, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beyer, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sports scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 2012 |