Guido Schilling

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Guido Schilling (born March 17, 1939 in Basel ) is a Swiss sports psychologist and sports scientist. He is considered the doyen of Swiss sports science.

Life

After graduating from high school in Basel, one year at Williams College (Massachusetts), where he a. a. started as a sprinter for the university team, he studied sports and psychology at the ETH Zurich and at the University of Zurich from 1960–1967 , which he obtained with a diploma as a gymnastics and sports teacher I and as a Dr. phil. (Major in psychology) graduated (Diss. 1968: On the selection of airline pilots ). After a brief activity for the human resources department of Swissair , he became the founding representative of the SOV (National Association for Sport) for an inter-association top trainer training in Switzerland. This culminated in the management of the Swiss trainer training at the Federal University of Sport Magglingen . This training was a role model for the German trainer academy in Cologne . Here he also took over the expansion of the media department and from 1983 became the school's deputy director. He interrupted this work in 1979 for a semester as a visiting professor for sport psychology at the University of Hamburg . From 1985 on he was appointed director of the sports teacher courses at the ETH Zurich. He diversified the training courses before he went into early retirement in 2001 and started his own business as a sports psychologist. He is the author of over 200 publications on sports psychology and has organized ten international congresses in Magglingen.

Publications

As an author

  • On the selection of airline pilots , Bern / Stuttgart: Huber-Verlag, 1968
  • With Ramon Gill and Reinhard Hänggi: Developmental Psychology: Demolition for Trainers in Sport = Psychologie du développement , Magglingen: ETS-Bern: National Committee for Elite Sport, 4th edition 1980
  • With Monika Biedermann and Sabine Rehmer: Psychological aspects of sporting performance: a text book on sport psychology , Zurich: Society for the Promotion of Sport Science at the ETH Zurich, 2002, ISBN 978-3-9521633-8-2

As editor

  • Sports psychology, what for? = Psychology sportive, pourquoi? , Basel: Birkhäuser-Verlag, 1974, ISBN 978-3-7643-0706-6
  • Audiovisual media in sport: Congress 1978 , Basel / Boston / Stuttgart: Birkhäuser-Verlag, 1980, ISBN 978-3-7643-1157-5

Honorary positions

  • 1975–1983 President of the FEPSAC Fédération Européenne de Psychologie des Sports et des Activités Corporelles
  • 1999 honorary member of the Swiss coaching association
  • 2000 Honorary member of SASP (Swiss Association for Sport Psychology)
  • 2001 honorary member of the editorial board of the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education
  • 2013 Honorary Award of the International Sports Psychologists (ISSP)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arturo Hotz : Doyen of Swiss sports science. NZZ March 17, 2014; http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/sport/uebersicht/doyen-der-schweizer-sportwissenschaft-1.18264142
  2. ↑ Arnd Krüger : The job description of the trainer in sport. International comparative study and perspectives of trainer education and training in the Federal Republic of Germany . (= Series of publications by the Federal Institute for Sport Science . Volume 30). Hofmann, Schorndorf 1980, ISBN 3-7780-7311-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Schilling, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sports psychologist and sports scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel