Fred Gras

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Friedrich-Wilhelm "Fred" Gras (* 1927 in East Prussia ) is a German sports sociologist and university professor .

Life

Grass was born in East Prussia . He studied gardening and landscaping and worked in this field. At the German University for Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig he completed a distance learning course, which he completed in 1960 with the diploma thesis "The development of the sports community Machern, Wurzen district after 1945 until the establishment of the DTSB taking into account the rural structure".

From 1961 Gras was employed in teaching at the DHfK and from 1979 to 1990 professor of sports sociology. From 1966 to 1989 he supervised more than 50 doctoral theses. His research focused on the topics of youth and sport, the way of life and personal development of competitive athletes, physical culture and sport as part of the culture and way of life, developments in the Marxist-Leninist sociology of sport, socialist way of life and sporting activities, as well as the sporting activities of students and university graduates in the GDR . In 1971 he was given the task of serving as co-director of the international study "Involvement in Sport". Gras headed a collective of authors of DHfK scientists who were responsible for a project study carried out on behalf of Unesco to develop a transnational concept on the subject of "Development of Sport for All" and for which Unesco was awarded.

Gras, an internationally recognized sports sociology according to the German Association for Sports Science, was a member of the World Council's Committee for Sports Sociology for Physical Education and Sport, he was a member of the board of the International Committee for Sports Sociology (ICSS) and, from 1971, was a member of the editorial committee of the journal International Review for the Sociology of Sport .

In 1990 he retired. Gras criticized the fact that the dissolution of the DHfK with the end of the GDR was based on “political and ideological considerations”. Together with Bero Rigauer and Klaus Rohrberg , he published the article “Sports sociology and sports practice in the GDR and FRG” in 2007, in which an attempt was made to establish “a sociological dialogue on the level of empathic and enlightening” between representatives of the sports sociology of the FRG and the GDR To conduct communication ”without wanting to decide which sports sociology of the two post-war German states could possibly have been superior to the other. In the book “German University for Physical Culture Leipzig 1950–1990”, which was published in 2007, Gras contributed to the chapter “Development of Sports Sociology at the DHfK”. In 2011 Gras put the work “From East Prussia to Saxony. A biography ”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b grass, Fred. In: Engelsdorfer Verlag. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Fred Gras: The development of the sports community Machern, Wurzen district after 1945 up to the establishment of the DTSB, taking into account the rural structure . University of Leipzig, Faculty of Sports Science ,, 1960 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  3. ^ Contributions to the history of sports, Issue 8/1999: THE AUTHORS. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
  4. ^ Fred Gras: Youth and Sport (=  Sociology series ). Dietz, 1987, ISBN 978-3-320-00918-2 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  5. ^ Fred Gras: About the Way of Life and Development of Personality of Competitive Sportsmen. In: journals.sagepub.com. March 1, 1976, accessed January 23, 2019 .
  6. ^ Fred Gras: Physical Culture and Sport as Part of Culture and the Way of Life from the Sociological Point of View. In: journals.sagepub.com. December 1, 1981, accessed January 23, 2019 .
  7. ^ Fred Gras, Brigitte Reinhardt: The Situation and Developmental Tendencies of Marxist-Leninist Sport Sociology in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). March 1, 1987, accessed January 23, 2019 .
  8. ^ Socialist way of life and sporting activity: (Findings - points of view - development tendencies) / . [State Secretariat for Physical Culture u. Sport] ,, 1985 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Description: Athletic activities in the life of students and graduates in the German Democratic Republic. In: katalog.ub.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
  10. ^ Lothar Kalb: The international scientific relations of the DHfK . In: Gerhard Lehmann, Lothar Kalb, Norbert Rogalski, Detlev Schröter and Günther Wonneberger (eds.): German University for Physical Culture Leipzig 1950-1990 . Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8403-0034-9 , pp. 83 .
  11. ↑ Alumni of Sports Science. In: German Association for Sports Science. January 30, 2017, accessed January 23, 2019 .
  12. ↑ International Review for the Sociology of Sport; Editorial Board. September 1, 1984, accessed January 23, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Friedrich-Wilhelm Gras: An educational institution with a worldwide reputation must go. In: Society for Legal and Humanitarian Aid. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Fred Gras, Bero Rigauer, Klaus Rohrberg: Sports sociology and sports practice in the GDR and the FRG. A comparative study . In: SportZeiten: Sport in history, culture and society . tape 7 , no. 3 , 2007, ISSN  1617-7606 , p. 53–92 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  15. ↑ SportZeiten. Sport in Geschichte, Kultur und Gesellschaft 7 (2007), January 3, 23, 2019, accessed on January 23, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Fred Gras: Development of Sports Sociology at the DHfK . In: Gerhard Lehmann, Lothar Kalb, Norbert Rogalski, Detlev Schröter and Günther Wonneberger (eds.): German University for Physical Culture Leipzig 1950-1990 . Meyer & Meyer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8403-0034-9 , pp. 427-441 .
  17. ↑ Fred Gras: Gras, F: From East Prussia to Saxony a biography . Engelsdorfer Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86268-491-5 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Grass, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gras, Friedrich-Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH East Prussia