Franz Lotz (sports scientist)

Franz Lotz (born August 21, 1910 in Darmstadt ; † September 27, 1994 in Würzburg ) was a German sports scientist , university professor and sports official .

Life

After attending school in Darmstadt, Lotz, who as a teenager practiced soccer , handball and athletics , studied psychology, philosophy, modern languages and physical education in Frankfurt , Munich and Giessen between 1928 and 1932 . His doctoral thesis in psychology, which he accepted at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen in 1936 , was entitled “Integration Typology and Hereditary Character Studies. An Experimental Study of Their Relationships ”. Lotz worked as a university assistant at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen and then continued his academic career at the University of Berlin and Cologne. In 1939 he took over the management of the university institute for physical exercises in Leoben, Austria . After military service and the Second World War , he held a teaching position at the St. Blasien College , on May 1, 1949, he took up his post as director of the University Institute for Physical Education at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 1968 he was appointed to a chair for physical exercise theory there and was a professor in Würzburg until 1980.

Lotz advocated, among other things, sports for the disabled, sports for the elderly and sports in the professional environment, as well as sports science as an independent discipline. He dealt with the training of sports teachers, the Olympic Games, the relationship between church and sports and extracurricular professional fields for graduates of sports science courses.

From 1950 onwards, Lotz was chairman of the German Sports Advisory Board at the German Sports Association and between 1955 and 1970 a member of the board of the German Sports Association. From 1960 he was a member of the World Council for Sport and Physical Education and was temporarily represented on its executive committee. From 1970 to 1978 he held a seat on the board of directors of the Federal Institute for Sports Science. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Olympic Academy and was on the organizing committee for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Lotz co-founded the magazine "Sportwissenschaft", and until 1988 he was represented on the journal's editorial board.

In 1980 Lotz was awarded both the Bavarian Order of Merit and honorary membership of the German Sports Confederation. In 1990 he was honored again by the German Sports Association with the Ludwig Wolker plaque . In 1993 the International Olympic Committee awarded him the Olympic Order . Lotz was also a recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit and was an honorary member of the International Olympic Academy.

The sports historian Friedrich Mevert described Lotz as "one of the first important men in German sports science in the post-war period".

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e https://cdn.dosb.de/alter_Datenbest/fm-dosb/downloads/DOSB-Presse/2010_35_DOSB-Presse.pdf
^ Gerhard Engelhardt: Franz Lotz - Grand Seigneur des Sports. 1982, accessed January 13, 2020 .
^ Franz Lotz: Description: Integration typology and hereditary character studies. In: katalog.ub.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
↑ https://www.hdbg.eu/biografien/detail/prof-dr-franz-lotz/4936
↑ https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Franz+Lotz/1/695.html
↑ Franz Lotz: OLYMPIC GAMES - WITHOUT A FUTURE? IDEA AND REALITY YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW . In: Political Opinion . tape 17 , no. 143 , 1972, ISSN 0032-3446 , pp. 7–14 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on January 13, 2020]).
^ Franz Lotz: Church and Sport (= series of publications of the German Sports Association ). 1st edition Frankfurt / Main 1968 ( "BV003097010" + IN + [2 & v = sunrise uni-wuerzburg.de] [accessed on January 13, 2020]).
↑ https://www.bisp-surf.de/dokumente/1986_01_sonstiges.pdf
↑ Franz Lotz . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) / Kraatz - Menges . De Gruyter Saur, 2006, ISBN 3-598-25036-3 , pp. 568 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lotz, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sports scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 21, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH	September 27, 1994
Place of death	Wurzburg

[:0-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e https://cdn.dosb.de/alter_Datenbest/fm-dosb/downloads/DOSB-Presse/2010_35_DOSB-Presse.pdf

[2] Gerhard Engelhardt: Franz Lotz - Grand Seigneur des Sports. 1982, accessed January 13, 2020 .

[3] Franz Lotz: Description: Integration typology and hereditary character studies. In: katalog.ub.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .

[4] ttps://www.hdbg.eu/biografien/detail/prof-dr-franz-lotz/4936

[5] ttps://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Franz+Lotz/1/695.html

[6] Franz Lotz: OLYMPIC GAMES - WITHOUT A FUTURE? IDEA AND REALITY YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW . In: Political Opinion . tape 17 , no. 143 , 1972, ISSN 0032-3446 , pp. 7–14 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on January 13, 2020]).

[7] Franz Lotz: Church and Sport (= series of publications of the German Sports Association ). 1st edition Frankfurt / Main 1968 ( "BV003097010" + IN + [2 & v = sunrise uni-wuerzburg.de] [accessed on January 13, 2020]).

[8] ttps://www.bisp-surf.de/dokumente/1986_01_sonstiges.pdf

[9] Franz Lotz . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) / Kraatz - Menges . De Gruyter Saur, 2006, ISBN 3-598-25036-3 , pp. 568 .