Gerhard Lehmann (sports scientist)

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Gerhard Lehmann (born July 21, 1935 in Leipzig ) is a German sports scientist and former president of the German Judo Association (DJV).

Gerhard Lehmann attended high school and began judo training in 1952 at the BSG Turbine Leipzig Süd . After graduating from high school, he studied geography and physical education / sport from 1954 to 1959 at the Karl Marx University and at the German University for Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig. At the DHfK he completed in- depth specialist training in the sport of judo with Horst Wolf . During and after his studies he worked as a judo instructor and trainer. After graduating, he went to school and worked from 1959 to 1963 as a high school teacher.

Career as a sports scientist

Gerhard Lehmann began his sports science career in 1963 as an assistant at the Institute for Movement Science of the DHfK under the university teachers Kurt Meinel and Günter Schnabel . In 1969 he received his doctorate from the DHfK. paed. and in 1980 Dr. sc. paed. (habil). In 1977 he became head of the sports games research department and from 1978 worked as a university lecturer in the field of martial arts . After his habilitation , Gerhard Lehmann was appointed full professor for theory and methodology of training for martial arts in 1982 . In the 1980s he worked at the DHfK in various management positions and took over the office of Rector from 1987 to 1990. As rector of the DHfK, he was also a member of the DTSB Presidium and Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Council at the State Secretariat for Physical Culture and Sport . During the reunification in the GDR , Gerhard Lehmann campaigned for the preservation of the DHfK, but was relieved of his duties as rector in mid-1990. After graduating from university, he moved to Maria Enzersdorf in Austria as a sports scientist at the Institute for Medical and Sports Science Consulting (IMSB) in January 1991 . In addition to the sports science supervision of a junior training center and competitive athletes from different sports, he worked in Austria in the training of coaches. Associated with this was a teaching assignment for the training of trainers and instructors at the Federal Institutes for Physical Education in Vienna and Linz . Gerhard Lehmann has been retired since 1999. He then received invitations as a speaker for the training and further education of instructors and trainers from Austria as well as from sports associations for karate and taekwondo in Bavaria, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia.

International lecturer and speaker activities

In 1971, Gerhard Lehmann worked for three months in Egypt as a lecturer in the field of training and movement theory at the Higher Institutes of Physical Education in Cairo and Alexandria . He has also given lectures at sports science conferences, including:

  • 1987 and 1989 in Spała (Poland),
  • 1988 and 1990 in Seoul (Republic of Korea)
  • 1995 in Vienna (Austria)
  • 2003 in Ancona and Senigallia (Italy)

Career as a judo official

Gerhard Lehmann began his career in the DJV in 1957, initially as a trainer and later as a judo trainer. In 1966 he passed the 1st Dan exam before the DJV's Dan Examination Board. Due to his research work at the DHfK with a focus on kinesiology and training methodology for judoka in childhood , he became a member of the children and youth commission of the DJV from 1968 to 1970. Together with the DJV young trainer Hans Müller-Deck and his designated successor Willi Lorbeer , he created the training program in the German Judo Association of the GDR, which was valid from 1969 . In 1970 Gerhard Lehmann became a member of the DJV Presidium. He was also awarded the 2nd Dan by the DJV in 1970. From 1974 to 1988, in the role of Vice President, he was responsible for developing long-term concepts for training young people. In 1988 he was elected President of the DJV as the successor to Gerhard Grafe . Under his responsibility, among other things, the Olympic promotion of female judoka was made possible from 1988 and the congress of the European Judo Union was held in Berlin in 1989 . He also campaigned for the inclusion of the martial arts karate and taekwondo in the DJV. In 1990, the previous Vice President Erhard Buchholz succeeded Gerhard Lehmann as the last President before the merger of the DJV with the German Judo Association (DJB) in February 1991. As part of the unification process, Gerhard Lehmann headed the AG Judo 2000 commission in the DJB in 1990/91 . He is the holder of the 5th Dan Judo, the 1st Dan Karate and the 1st Dan Taekwondo.

Awards

As a sports educator, judo trainer and judo official, Gerhard Lehmann received the following awards in the GDR:

Publications in sports science periodicals (selection)

  • For developing strength endurance in judoka between the ages of nine and ten and a half years. Theory and Practice of Physical Culture , Volume 20 (3), pp. 247–254, Berlin 1970
  • Investigations at the best time to start training in judo martial arts . Theory and Practice of Physical Culture, Volume 20 (8), pp. 715–727, Berlin 1970
  • Training methodical principles for the training of beginners in judo martial arts. Theory and Practice of Body Culture, Volume 21 (4), pp. 321–324, Berlin 1972
  • Comparative studies on performance development in judoka . Theory and Practice of Physical Culture, Volume 23 (5), pp. 428–437, Berlin 1973

Gerhard Lehmann has published more than 100 articles in various sports science journals, 16 of them after 1991 in “ Leistungssport ” - a magazine for further training of coaches, exercise instructors and sports teachers, published by the DOSB .

Book publications

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Herbst, Winfried Ranke, Jürgen R. Winkler: This is how the GDR worked . Volume 3 - Lexicon of Functionaries, Rowohlt Taschenbuchverlag, Reinbek 1994, p. 202, ISBN 3499163500
  2. ↑ Publishing information about the author Gerhard Lehmann: Judo - Classic and modern throwing techniques. Meyer & Meyer publishing house, Aachen 2007
  3. ^ Dan exams in the DJV of the GDR (chronicle by Willi Gruschinski)
  4. ↑ ibid
  5. ^ Judo - Bulletin of the German Judo Association of the GDR, March 1988
  6. ↑ ibid


personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig