Gisela Bentz

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Gisela Bentz (* July 17, 1920 on the Elbe island Krautsand as Gisela Helmke ; † November 2,  2011 in Achim (Verden district) ) was a German sports educator , university teacher and sports official .

Life

Helmke (she had the last name Bentz after her marriage to the educator Jürgen Bentz in 1949) was born on the Elbe island of Krautsand, where her father worked as a teacher. From 1923, she grew up in Bremen district of Hemelingen on. As a teenager she practiced the sports of apparatus gymnastics , fistball and volleyball at TV Hemelingen (predecessor club of SV Hemelingen ) and got involved in the club's work as a youth warden. Between 1947 and 1966, Bentz also volunteered for the gymnastics association of the federal state of Bremen as a state youth warden. At SV Hemelingen she acted as a trainer, among other things in the area of ​​women's gymnastics (1960 to 2009) and folk dance (1947 to 1956).

After completing her studies, she held a position as a gymnastics teacher at the Bremen girls' high school at the Kleine Helle from 1942 to 1949. In addition, from 1947 onwards she held a teaching position in the subject of physical education at the newly founded University of Education in Bremen. In 1951 she took up a full-time position at the University of Education, and in 1961 she became a professor. In 1971 the university was transferred to the University of Bremen , where Bentz held a professorship for sports science, and in 1977 she left university.

Bentz 'main topics in research and practice were women's sports as well as popular and recreational sports. From 1980 to 1990 she headed the Spieltreff in Bremer Bürgerpark . In addition to her voluntary work in the Bremen sport, Bentz also got involved nationwide: Between 1948 and 1962 she sat in the small youth committee of the gymnastics youth in the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB), was a member of the DTB artistic gymnastics committee from 1962 to 1964, from 1950 to 1966 in "Working Committee German Sports Youth " as well as in the "Girls Committee" of the German Sports Youth, from 1951 to 1954 she was represented in the working committee for girls' work in German sport, from 1958 to 1961 Bentz held the office of Federal Youth Warden of the German Gymnastics Association and was responsible for the design of the Participated in the Olympic youth rides in 1960 and 1964 as well as in the 1972 youth camp. She worked from 1960 to 1970 at the German Sports Association (DSB) in the "Second Way" working group, was a member of the DSB Federal Committee for Science and Education between 1974 and 1978, and from 1976 to 1986 she was deputy chairman of the DSB Federal Committee for Women sports. From 1974 to 1984 she was also the chairwoman of the department of popular and recreational sport in the Bremen State Sports Association and from 1984 to 1990 deputy chairwoman of the State Sports Association. From 1948 until her death she took part in all German gymnastics festivals.

In 1972 she and Gudrun Manns published the book "Trimm Dich am Feierabend", and in 1978 she published the essay "The social position of women and their influence on sport, with particular emphasis on overcoming the distance between workers and sport". She was also involved in the 1984 book “Movement. Developments in the gymnastics youth 1921-1934 and 1947-1962 ”. Bentz was one of the authors of the book "Sport in Bremen and Bremerhaven" published in 1991. In 1999 she contributed the essay "Over 100 years of women's gymnastics and sports in Bremen" to the work "Illustrated history of gymnastics and sport in the state of Bremen". In 2001, in the essay "It wasn't always easy ...", she outlined the role of women in 50 years of the German Sports Association.

For her work in sport, Bentz was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit , the Ludwig Wolker plaque , the Alice Profé Prize, the plaque of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, the Jahn plaque of the German Gymnastics Federation, the honorary discus of the German Sports Youth as well as awarded the badge of honor of the state sports association Bremen. In the obituary of the German Olympic Sports Confederation on the occasion of her death, Bentz was described as "a formative personality and a pioneer of sport in Germany after World War II".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bentz, Gisela. In: Bremer Frauenmuseum eV October 27, 2018, accessed on March 1, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Bentz, Gisela. In: Bremer Frauenmuseum eV October 27, 2018, accessed on March 1, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ a b c Mourning for Gisela Bentz. In: DOSB. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Bremen Women's History - Biographies: Bentz, Gisela. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  5. ^ Hall of Fame - NISH - Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History. Accessed on March 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b mourning for Gisela Bentz. In: Weser Courier. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Get in shape after work. In: katalog.ub.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Gisela Bentz: Social position of women and their influence on sports activities with special consideration of overcoming the distance between workers and sports. 1978, accessed March 1, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Scheller, Lisa; Eimermacher, Harald; Bentz, Gisela: Movement. Developments in the gymnastics youth 1921-1934 and 1947-1962 . Pohl-Verl., 1984, ISBN 978-3-7911-0138-5 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on March 1, 2020]).
  10. ^ Sports in Bremen and Bremerhaven. In: State and University Library Bremen. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Gisela Bentz: Over 100 years of women's gymnastics and sports in Bremen . In: Illustrated history of gymnastics and sport in the state of Bremen; Vol. 1: . 1999, ISBN 978-3-9801388-8-8 , pp. 161–195 ( k10plus.de [accessed March 1, 2020]).
  12. ↑ Gisela Bentz: It wasn't always easy ... 2001, accessed on March 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bentz, Gisela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helmke, Gisela (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports educator and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Krautsand (island)
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 2011
Place of death Achim (Verden district)