Günter Thieß

Günter Walter Otto Karl Thieß (born March 19, 1926 in Barth , Franzburg district ; † December 25, 2000 in Olpe ) was a German sports teacher and sports scientist . He is considered the father of the talent development system of the former GDR.

Life

After primary school in Barth, Thieß attended the teacher training college in Orlau / Upper Silesia , but was drafted into the Navy in 1943 and served as an ensign . After the end of the war, he began an apprenticeship in a dairy before switching to a new teacher course in 1946 . In 1948 he passed the second teacher examination. He continued his studies at the Humboldt University Berlin with the subjects sport and geography, which he graduated in 1951 with the state examination. From 1951 to 1952 Thieß was a teacher in Eisenach . In 1952 he was appointed to the newly founded State Committee for Physical Culture and Sport at the Council of Ministers of the GDR in Berlin and tasked with intensifying children's and youth sports. At the same time, he began his doctorate at the newly founded DHfK in Leipzig, before becoming an assistant at the Humboldt University in 1954, where he received his doctorate in 1956 ( The Authority of the Gymnastics Teacher of the German Democratic School ). From 1956 to 1972 he worked at the research center of the DHfK and the research institute for physical culture and sport in Leipzig on the development of systematic children and youth sports in the GDR.

In 1963, together with Paul Kunath , he presented the systematic talent promotion system, which included a relatively late specialization on a broad basis in selection steps from the competitive group to top-class sport in the sports club ( uniform screening and selection of young sports talent (ESA)). As training science in Leipzig became more and more biochemical , Thieß was transferred to Magdeburg , where he set up the sports institute of the University of Education . After his habilitation in 1975 he was appointed professor of sports science, which he remained until his early retirement in 1988 for health reasons. He is the author of over 150 scientific publications.

In 1988 he began to work on the 2nd editions of his terminology books at the Institute for Sports Science at the University of Göttingen . Even before the GDR joined the Federal Republic of Germany, Thieß was the first (and only) sports scientist in the GDR who became a member of the editorial team of a West German sports science journal (“competitive sport” of the DOSB ) and played an important role in training science in both German states.

Fonts

• Athletics. A book for teachers, trainers and trainers in children's sports. 1961 (3rd edition 1966)
• The identification of the internal structure of the physical performance of children and young people in the GDR. 1975
• Training from A to Z. 1978
• Basic concepts of training. 1986 (with Günter Schnabel)
• The sporting competition. Preparation - implementation - evaluation. 1997
• Handbook for competition teaching. 1999 (with Peter Tschiene)

Web links

• Norbert Heise: Thieß, Günter. University of Magdeburg, March 1, 2005, accessed on November 14, 2014 . 

literature

• Paul Kunath: Günter Thieß. In: Contributions to the history of sports. Issue 12, 2001, pp. 115-118. ( Online , PDF ).
• Peter Tschiene, Helmut Nickel: Initiator of a sports science-based training and competition practice. (Obituary) In: competitive sport. 31, H. 1, 2001, p. 28.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Winfried Joch : Promoting talent and training for young talent. Academia, St. Augustin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89665-577-6 , p. 31.
2. ↑ Arnd Krüger , Uta Engels: 30 years of competitive sport - aspiration and reality [PDF; 139 kB] ( Memento from December 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: Competitive Sport Vol. 31, No. 5, 2001, 5, pp. 4-9.