Erwin flour

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Erwin Mehl (born March 28, 1890 in Klosterneuburg , Austria-Hungary ; † December 28, 1984 there ) was an Austrian sports scientist .

Life

Erwin Mehl studied classical languages, gymnastics and German for teaching in Vienna. In the interwar period, after his military service on the Isonzo front , he became a teacher of gymnastics history, swimming and athletics in the Viennese gymnastics teacher training course. After 1923 he held the position of director of the university gymnasium. Mehl became a member of the NSDAP on June 1, 1940 . In 1941 he received the first chair for older ski history.

From the winter semester of 1927/28, Mehl held a "grammar school theoretical seminar". Due to the increased importance of the subject of sports history, from 1935 Mehl also offered the seminar "Gymnastics History and Administration". Mehl taught sports history at the University of Vienna until his dismissal in 1945 . With his habilitation he was able to establish this new subject and supervised a total of ten dissertations until his retirement in 1948.

From 1949 to 1954 Erwin Mehl was deputy chairman and from 1954 to 1984 chairman and editor-in-chief of the Mutterssprache (Vienna branch) founded in 1949 , the successor to the General German Language Association . His work at the Mother Language Association includes, among other things, the processing of the work of Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall and Josef Weinheber . He was in scientific correspondence with Fridtjof Nansen .

time of the nationalsocialism

According to the Association of Teachers in Austria for Exercise and Sport, Erwin Mehl is considered a national ideologue who helped initiate the National Socialist radicalization of the German Gymnastics Federation . According to current knowledge, he was a central person in the field of sports science during the National Socialist era - alongside his superiors Karl Schindl and Erich Klinge - and from the winter semester 1943/44 also held a two-hour course entitled “Race and Physical Education”. Mehl's involvement in National Socialism, his habilitation , his work as deputy head of the institute for sports science and the circumstances of his reappointment from 1959 have not yet been dealt with satisfactorily according to the institute for sports science at the University of Vienna.

The club native moved 1,978 flour appreciation of the nationalist "Turn Father" Jahn . In the same year Mehl was also a signatory of the right-wing extremist Deutsche National-Zeitung's appeal for a general amnesty of Nazi crimes.

Publications

  • Author:
    • 1922: Swimming, diving and diving: a guide for the operation in schools and clubs with esp. Berücks. the gymnastics clubs
    • 1927: The ancient art of swimming
    • 1964: Outline of the world history of skiing
      • Volume 0: the path from stone age hunting equipment to modern sports equipment
      • Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the beginning of the modern age of skiing
    • 1965: Mathias Zdarsky (1856–1940) in Lilienfeld-Marktl: Lilienfeld as the cradle of alpine skiing technology and gate movement; this is where Zdarsky invented his life-saving tent
    • 1978: Jahn as a language teacher: for his 200th birthday
  • Editor:
    • with Knud Anton Knudsen and Karl Gaulhofer: 1924: Textbook of Danish gymnastics
    • with Hermann Leitner: 1930: Outline of German gymnastics
    • 1936: Zdarsky. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of the founder of alpine skiing on February 25, 1936. A contribution to the history and teaching of alpine snow running. Vienna: German publishing house for youth and people
    • with Kurt Wiessner and Johannes Müllner: 1939: Natural swimming lessons
    • with Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall: 1959: Hammer-Purgstall in Klosterneuburg-Weidling
    • with Rudolf Jahn: 1960: On the world history of physical exercises: Festgabe for Erwin Mehl on his 75th birthday.
    • with Josef Nadler and Hedwig Weinträger: 1968: Josef Weinheber and the language

literature

  • Gabriel, Leo: Erwin Mehl's activity in the Viennese gymnastics teacher training . In: Rudolf Jahn (Ed.): Zur Weltgeschichte der Leibesübungen , Vienna 1960, 143 - 146.
  • Kienbacher, Dieter: The physical education in National Socialism with special consideration of the person Erwin Mehls . Dipl. Arb. Vienna 1990.
  • Müller, Rudolf: The mobilization of the body. School and university sports in National Socialist Austria . Vienna 1993.
  • Tekusch, Karl: "To our chairman [Erwin Mehl] on his 70th birthday". In: Wiener Sprachblätter 10/1. P. 2.
  • Toilf, Alexandra: Biographical investigation into the life of Erwin Mehl . Dipl. Arb. Vienna 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Vogl: Espionage at Stalin Peak: Austrian mountaineers in Soviet exile . In: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.): Fanatiker, Duty Fulfiller, Resistance. Reichsgaue Niederdonau, Greater Vienna . Vienna 2016, p. 309
  2. ↑ a b Handbook of Austrian Right-Wing Extremism, 2nd edition, Vienna 1996, p. 338
  3. ↑ VDLÖ -Aktuell (Association of Teachers in Austria for Exercise and Sport), Issue 6/97, 4ff. Vienna 1997
  4. ^ On the history of institutionalized sports history in Austria ( Memento from June 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Institute for Sports Science, University of Vienna
  5. ↑ Erwin Mehl: Jahn as a language teacher. For the 200th birthday of the gymnastics father (born October 11, 1778 in Lanz) . Klosterneuburg-Weidling: Verein Mutterssprache, 1978, 56 p. (Scientific series Mutterssprachige; Issue 9) (Wiener Sprachblätter; 7)
  6. ↑ The appeal can be found in the edition of the Deutsche National-Zeitung No. 45, published on November 3, 1978.
personal data
SURNAME Flour, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sports scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Klosterneuburg
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1984
Place of death Klosterneuburg