Friedrich Fetz

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Friedrich Fetz (born November 2, 1927 in Schlins , Vorarlberg ; † October 25, 2013 in Arzl ) was an Austrian high-performance athlete , sports scientist and biomechanic.

Life

As a working class child, Fetz did not have an easy youth. After military service as a mountain hunter from 1944 to 1945 , Fetz passed the Matura in Dornbirn in 1947 and studied mathematics, physical exercise and physics at the University of Innsbruck until 1951 . After graduating, he began to work as a teacher at various schools in the Innsbruck area and was also a lecturer for sports practice at the university.

His dual career included participation in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki (Olympic Twelve Fight in Artistic Gymnastics ) and in 1954 at the Austrian State Championships in Artistic Gymnastics in the Olympic Twelve Fight. After receiving his doctorate in 1956 as Dr. phil. in theory of physical exercises he became a research assistant at the Institute for physical exercises at the University of Innsbruck, where he also qualified as a professor in 1959 for the theory of physical education. In 1964 he was appointed acting director of the institute for physical exercise at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he was appointed to the first post-war professorship at a university in the Federal Republic of Germany for the theory of physical exercise in 1965. In the course of stay negotiations, he was given the chair for the theory of physical exercise in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1968. In the end, however, he preferred to accept a chair at the University of Innsbruck (the first chair in this field in Austria). Here he was u. a. elected dean of the humanities faculty. He stayed in Innsbruck until his retirement in 1996. The focus of his research work was on movement studies, often using his favorite sports disciplines, apparatus gymnastics and skiing, as examples.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ E. Kornexl: Friedrich Fetz. Pioneer in sports science. In: E. Kornexl (Ed.): Spectrum of sports sciences . ÖBV, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-215-06766-8 , pp. 9-14.
  2. ↑ Chairs for the theory of physical education at universities of teacher education were filled earlier. Arnd Krüger : Trasybulos. Or why we have to start earlier with the history of sports science. In: N. Gissel, JK Rühl, J. Teichler (Ed.): Sport as a science. Annual meeting of the DVS Sports History Section (1996) (= DVS publications, Volume 90). Czwalina, Hamburg 1997, pp. 57-74.
personal data
SURNAME Fetz, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian athlete, sports scientist and biomechanic
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlins , Vorarlberg
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2013
Place of death Arzl