Ernes Erko Kalač

Ernes Erko Kalač (born June 28, 1964 in Rozaje , Yugoslavia ) is a former integration ambassador for the German Olympic Sports Confederation . He is a qualified sports trainer, karateka and kickboxer and was a speaker at the World Karate Federation (WKF) for people with disabilities and contact person for the Paralympic Committee . Kalač is a member of the SPD .

From 1970 to 1979 he attended the “Mustafa Pecanin” school (elementary school) in Rozaje (today in Montenegro ), from 1980 to 1984 the grammar school “30. September ”and graduated from high school there. Here he also completed an apprenticeship as a scientific assistant in mathematics . In 1984 he began his studies to become a mechanical engineer at the Technical University in Novi Sad, Serbia, which he successfully completed in 1989. At the same time he studied for four semesters at the Institute for Sport and Physical Culture, also in Novi Sad, the profession of qualified karate sports teacher; he also graduated successfully in 1989.

Coaching career

Ernes Erko Kalač (6th DAN Karate) started doing martial arts at the age of ten. In 1988 he founded the karate club "IBAR" Rozaje Montenegro in his hometown of Rozaje and worked there as a trainer. In 1998 he fled the war to Germany and worked as a kickboxing and karate trainer at the Killer Sports Club in Groß-Zimmer. From 1999 to 2002 he was a karate trainer in Maintal and a karate trainer in the Budokan Offenbach. Ernes Erko Kalač has held the B trainer license for the German Karate Federation and the A trainer license in the Karate Federation of Montenegro since 2002. He is also a qualified sports teacher. From 2002 to 2006 he was national coach in Kumite Karate for Serbia and Montenegro.

Sporting successes

Competition:

• 3rd place in the Karate Kumite World Championship in 1988
• 3rd place European Championship in Karate Kumite 1987
• Trainer and competitor of the KOI World Cup Winner 2002 in the Karate Kumite team
• Central European champion in full contact kickboxing in 1997
• Austrian champion in full contact kickboxing
• World Cup winner full contact kickboxing 1999

Trainer:

• 2002 World Cup winner with LOTUS Kumite team
• 2003 European champion with Afrim Latifi Kumite Allkat and 3rd place Kumite +80 kg
• 2004 European champion with Hüseyin Imam kickboxing -65 kg
• 2005 Hessian champion with LOTUS Kumite team

Awards:

• Gold plaque 2003 from the karate club Buducnost / Montenegro
• Gold plaque 2003 from the Karate Federation of Montenegro
• Gold plaque 2003 from the Ministry of Sport in Montenegro
• 2004 Youth Prize from the Darmstadt Sports Foundation
• 2005 youth advancement award from Sparkasse Dieburg
• Star in bronze, silver and gold 2005 from the German Olympic Sports Confederation
• Hessian Integration Prize 2006 from the Hessian Ministry of Social Affairs and the former Prime Minister. D. Roland Koch
• Heinz-Lindner Prize 2007 from the State Sports Association of Hesse
• 2008 Sports Honor Award of the Darmstadt-Dieburg district
• 2010 Gold Badge of Honor from the Bavarian Karate Association (BKB)
• 2014 Gold Badge of Honor from the German Karate Association (DKV)
• 2016 Honorary doctorate from the University of Applied Sciences and Sports Academy Belgrade

Integration work

In 2002 Ernes Erno Kalač founded the integrative health and martial arts association Lotus Eppertshausen / Rödermark . Both disabled people and refugees have the opportunity to learn martial arts in the association. It is z. B. also largely destitute refugee children are given free sports equipment and full membership is made possible. The association or Kalac, which has been the first chairman since 2003, has been awarded the Sports Star , the Hessian Integration Prize 2006 and the Heinz Lindner Prize 2007 several times for this exemplary work .

Due to his biography, the topic of “integration through sport” is central to the work of Ernes Erko Kalac: As a “political war refugee from the former Yugoslavia, it was and still is my goal to live in Germany, the country that gave me refuge, to integrate. Since I got to know the difficulties of this process through my own experience, it is now my goal to help young people to shorten this process and to feel at home in this country. "

"For me, integration means knowing the country's culture, accepting the rules and laws at all levels and generally adapting to social and cultural life."

“For me, integration does not only refer to the group of people with a migration background , but also to locals from socially stressed backgrounds. Since I know from my early days in Germany how difficult it is to build a secure existence, one of the main goals of my work is to support young people from socially disadvantaged backgrounds in particular. "

Karate for people with disabilities

Ernes Erko Kalač is the first World Karate Federation (WKF) member to have its own department for “Karate for people with disabilities”. In 2008 the first German championship took place in Erfurt. Kalač has worked on the concept of karate for people with disabilities, the competition rules, the competitive and popular sports concept.

Web links

• GKV Lotus
• WKF handicapped

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the GKV Lotus eV
2. ↑ GKV Lotus Eppertshausen also successful on the silver level ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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4. ↑ Erko Ernes Kalac, Georges Papaspyratos and Max Semenov are the new integration ambassadors of the DOSB.
5. ↑ Doing good and talking about it as a concept
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