Gertrude Krombholz

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Gertrude Krombholz (born July 13, 1933 in Northern Bohemia ) is a German dance and sports teacher and the founder of wheelchair dance . She is also the author of several specialist books.

biography

Krombholz is the only daughter of a sports-loving mother and a lawyer. She first attended elementary school and then high school in Leitmeritz / Northern Bohemia. After the expulsion she went to Regensburg am Städt. Girls high school graduated from high school. From 1952 to 1957 she studied sports at the Bavarian Sports Academy for teaching at grammar schools and chemistry and geography at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the Technical University of Munich (now the Technical University of Munich ). After completing her legal traineeship, she graduated with the second state examination in 1959. She completed a broad dance education at home and abroad; Among other things, she passed the exam as a dance teacher for the General German Dance Teachers Association (ADTV).

From 1959 to 1962 she taught at the grammar school of the Marquartstein State School Home . From 1962 she was a lecturer and from 1963 head of the sports philologist training at the Bavarian Sports Academy, which was integrated into TUM in 1973. There she was initially in charge of the areas of gymnastics, dance and movement at the sports center and was then senior academic director of sports teacher training until retirement.

She was the chief hostess and co-choreographer for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1972 , 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games . As part of the choreography work for a sporting event to mark the farewell to Rudi Sedlmayer as President of the Bavarian State Sports Association , her idea for wheelchair dance was born in 1973, which she presented to the audience at the World Gymnaestrada in Berlin in 1975 . She was able to spread wheelchair dance and sport at home and abroad and finally establish it in the international disability associations (ISOD, EPC, IPC) as chairperson of the “Wheelchair Dance Sport Committee” from 1989 to 2002. As a "Member of the Paralympic Order" (2002), she is now part of the Paralympic Family and was involved in award ceremonies at 10 Paralympics (2004-2016).

Using surviving sources and literature from the Munich City Archives and Leipzig Dance Archives, she reconstructed the medieval Moriskentanz in 1976 and founded the Münchner Moriskentänzer , a dance group at the Technical University of Munich, which is affiliated with the Central University Sports and has since performed more than 500 performances in Germany and abroad .

From 1978 to 1981 she studied modern history and received her doctorate summa cum laude . In 1982 her dissertation was awarded the prize for one of the best doctoral theses by the Association of Friends of the Technical University of Munich (BdF). In 1998 she retired and donated the TUM prize named after her and first awarded in 1998 for the best scientific work in applied sports science.

Honors

1976 Austrian Olympic medal of the Republic of Austria
1991 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
1991 Golden badge of honor of the German Wheelchair Sports Association (DRS)
1992 Silver badge of honor of the general German Dance Teachers Association (ADTV)
1993 Medal " PRO MERITIS " from the Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Culture, Science and Art
1997 Golden Ring of Honor from the Technical University of Munich
1998 Bavarian Order of Merit
1998 Golden badge of honor from the Technical University of Munich
2001 Honorary award of the women's council of the Bavarian State Sports Association
2002 Paralympic Order of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
2002 Bavarian Sports Prize of the Prime Minister ("Innovation in Sport")
2002 Honor plaque of the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS)
2007 Golden Ring of Honor of the City of Munich

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hanna Lauterbach: Alumni portrait: Quantum leaps in sports education , Technical University of Munich, 2004.
  2. ↑ Dr. Gertrude Krombholz Prize awarded for the first time Press release from the Technical University of Munich.
  3. ↑ TUM overview: Golden Ring of Honor of the Technical University of Munich (accessed on December 1, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Krombholz, Gertrude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports and dance teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH North Bohemia