Ernst Münter

Ernst Münter (born June 10, 1899 in Cammin ; † 1983 ) was a German sports scientist .

Life

Münter belonged to the generation that was shaped by two world wars and the dawn of organized physical exercise into science. After attending primary and secondary schools in Cammin, Münter chose the teaching profession. The military service interrupted training at the teachers' college in 1917. He was one of the first to serve as a pilot in the West.

After the war, in a crash course for combatants in 1919, he was able to take the first teacher examination. He then taught in Gollnow and Pyritz . From 1921 to 1922 he studied at the Prussian University for Physical Education in Spandau and at the German University for Physical Education in Berlin, which he graduated from in 1922. He then worked from 1922 to 1925 as a gymnastics and sports teacher at the Prussian University for Physical Education. From 1925 to 1928 he was an assistant to Bernhard Zimmermann at the Institute for Physical Education at the University of Göttingen . In Göttingen he also began studying natural sciences at the same time, which he continued from 1928 to 1932 at the University of Königsberg , where he continued to work at the Institute for Physical Exercise, but also in physics in 1931 to become a Dr. phil. nat. ( Experimental Investigations on Diffusion of Liquids ). In 1931 the 1st state examination for teaching at secondary schools followed (in 1933 the 2nd state examination).

In 1933 he was an assistant at the Prussian University of Physical Exercise, in 1934 senior assistant at the Institute for Physical Exercise at the University of Berlin and only weeks later he was appointed director of the Institute for Physical Exercise at the University of Kiel , before returning to Königsberg in 1937 as director of the institute. In Kiel and Königsberg he built up the gliding departments of the universities with funds from the Reichswehr .

Between 1939 and 1945 he was an officer in the air force and at the end of the war as a major air base commander in the defense ring around Berlin. From 1945 to 1953 he was a prisoner of war in the USSR . After denazification as a member of the NSDAP , he became director of the Institute for Physical Education at the University of Frankfurt in 1955 (successor to Hermann Altrock ), where he retired in 1964.

From 1957 to 1961 he was chairman of the working group of directors of the institutes for physical exercise (AID). Münter is one of the founders of physically oriented biomechanics in Germany.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arnd Krüger & Frank von Lojewski: Selected aspects of military sports in Lower Saxony in the Weimar period . In: Hans Langenfeld & Stefan Nielsen (eds.): Contributions to the history of sports in Lower Saxony. Part 2: Weimar Republic. (⇐ Series of publications by the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History, Vol. 12) Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History NISH, Hoya 1998, ISBN 3-932423-02-X , pp. 124–148.
2. ↑ Jan-Peters Janssen: On the development of the subject »Sport« at the Christiana Albertina - a historiographical sketch; University of Kiel
3. ^ Friedrich Fetz : Dr. Ernst Münter Emeritus . In: Die physical education , 14 (1965), no. 1, p. 21
4. ^ Rainer Ballreich, Angela Kuhlow (ed.): Contributions to the biomechanics of sport. The honored founder of the biomechanics of sport at the University of Frankfurt / Main Director Dr. phil. nat. Dedicated to Ernst Münter on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1980.