Günther Wonneberger

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Günther Wonneberger (born July 24, 1926 in Maxen ; † August 9, 2011 in Leipzig ) was a German sports historian of the GDR . He was rector of the German University for Physical Culture and Sport in Leipzig (DHfK).

Life

Wonneberger attended elementary school and was drafted into the armed forces for military service in 1944. From May to July 1945 he was a prisoner of war .

After his release he worked as a farm worker and was active in the anti-fascist youth committee. He became a member of the SED in 1946 and attended the preparatory college in Dresden in 1946/47 . Wonneberger came from the Friends of Nature movement, ran 400 meters hurdles and then played basketball . From 1947 to 1950 he studied history, cultural history and philosophy at the University of Leipzig . He then took up a teaching position at the DHfK in Leipzig. On March 20, 1952 he was married to Georg Buschner , Erich Riedeberger a . a. Appointed to the Scientific Council for Physical Culture by the head of the German Sports Committee, Fred Müller .

Wonneberger and Lothar Skorning and others were commissioned to work out the history of physical culture from a socialist perspective, so that the books by Carl Diem and Edmund Neuendorff no longer had to be used in the GDR . This was the basis of his doctorate to Dr. phil. (1957). Thereupon he was first appointed as a lecturer, after his habilitation in 1967 as professor for sports history at the DHfK, which he remained until his retirement in 1991. In 1981 he received the award of Honored University Teacher of the GDR . From 1967 to 1972 he was rector of the DHfK and in this function also had contacts with the Ministry for State Security . At the same time he was a member of the Presidium of the Federal Board of the German Gymnastics and Sports Federation (DTSB).

In 1967 he was a founding member and in 1971 the second elected President of the International Committee on Sports History (ICOSH) and was re-elected twice, so that he held this office until 1982 and in this capacity was a member of the World Council for Physical Education of UNESCO . In 1989, after the Association of Sports Historians, he was elected again for two years as Vice-President of the new sole International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES). After German reunification, he worked on a research project commissioned by the Federal Institute for Sports Science at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen together with Wolfgang Buss and Arnd Krüger to scientifically record and document the sports history of the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR between 1945 and 1965. After his retirement he took up his early passion for mountain hiking again and hiked through a. a. the Caucasus .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany , March 25, 1952, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Gerhard Oehmingen: obituary. Prof. Dr. phil. Günther Wonneberger. In: Contributions to the history of sports. 2011, No. 32, pp. 53-55.
  3. ↑ Awards "Honored University Lecturer of the GDR" on September 3rd, 1981. In: Award list for the honorary title “Honored University Professor of the GDR” from 1975 to 1989. Accessed on January 31, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Hans Joachim Teichler : The spying of West German sport by the Ministry for State Security of the GDR. In: Giselher Spitzer , Harald Braun (Ed.): The divided German sport. Conference of the dvs section on sports history from 24.-26. March 1995 in Potsdam. Cologne 1997, pp. 65-97.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Buss : Introduction. In: Wolfgang Buss, Christian Becker (ed.): Sport in the Soviet Zone and early GDR: Genesis - Structures - Conditions (= series of publications by the Federal Institute for Sport Science. Vol. 109). Hofmann, Schorndorf 2001.
  6. ↑ Obituary. http://www.sportgeschichte.net/files/pdf/Beitrag32.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Wonneberger, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports historian of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Maxen
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2011
Place of death Leipzig