Hajo Bernett

Hajo Bernett (born February 16, 1921 in Oldenburg ; † August 29, 1996 in Bonn ) was a German sports historian and university professor.

Career

Bernett was born the son of the teacher Nikolaus Bernett (1882-1969), a colleague of Edmund Neuendorff in the gymnastics youth of the Weimar Republic . He spent his school days in Oldenburg, where he passed the Abitur in 1939 and was then drafted into the Reich Labor Service . As a member of an anti-aircraft unit, he was mainly used in the Balkans . After a short American prisoner of war , he graduated from 1945 to 1946 at the Pedagogical Academy Oldenburg (with his father Nicholas Bernett) a shortened primary school teacher studies , which he completed with the first teacher exam for elementary schools. Bernett then studied German, philosophy, psychology, pedagogy and physical education at the University of Hamburg and passed his state examination for teaching at the grammar school in 1951 for the subjects of history, German and physical education. After completing his studies, he worked as a teacher in Hamburg from 1954 to 1966 and received his doctorate there in 1959 at the Philosophical Faculty under Wilhelm Flitner with a dissertation entitled The Pedagogical Redesign of Civil Physical Exercise by the Philanthropists . With his book "Basic Forms of Physical Education" published in 1965, he was one of the scientists who represented a historically based sports education.

The senior student adviser for physical exercises dealt in particular with the preparation of the history of sports from the time of National Socialism , on which it carried out a first investigation in 1966 and published it as a source collection under the name "National Socialist Physical Education". On April 1, 1967, Dr. phil. Bernett held an H 3 professorship, taught and researched in Bonn at the Institute for Sport Science and Sport , of which he was director from 1968 until his retirement in 1986. From 1969 he held the chair for the theory of physical education, where his students included Hans Joachim Teichler and Giselher Spitzer . Since he did not belong to any faculty in Bonn, he had no right to award doctorates. He obtained this through an honorary professorship at the Sports University in Cologne . Bernett was from 1957 to 1961 editor of the journal "Leibesübungen" and later a member of the editorial boards of the specialist publications "Physical Education" (from 1962) as well as "Sportunterricht" and "Sportwissenschaft". He was also one of the authors and scientific advisors of the magazine “ Stadion ” from its publication in 1975.

Hajo Bernett was on the “Information and Documentation” advisory board of the Federal Institute for Sports Science , on the first board of the “Sports History Section” of the German Association for Sports Science and in other institutions and commissions. Bernett withdrew from the bodies of the German Sports Confederation after it did not want to distance itself from the former chief of staff of the National Socialist Reichsbund for physical exercises , who later became General Secretary of the German Sports Confederation, Guido von Mengden . The WorldCat has 91 works by / about him.

In 1994 Bernett published a final monograph. On August 29, 1996, he underwent routine knee surgery, but he never woke up from the anesthetic.

Publications (selection)

• National Socialist physical education. 2nd revised edition. Schorndorf: Hofmann 2008.
• Athletics in a historical change. Schorndorf: Hofmann 1987.
• Physical education lessons at the National Socialist school. Sankt Augustin: Richarz 1985.
• The way of sport into the National Socialist dictatorship. Schorndorf: Hofmann 1983.
• Jewish Sport in National Socialist Germany 1933–1938. Schorndorf: Hofmann 1978.
• Guido von Mengden . Berlin: Bartels & Wernitz 1976
• Nikolaus Bernett - A gymnast's life in Lower Saxony. (= Series of publications Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History Volume 5). Duderstadt: Mecke 1988.
• Physical culture and sport in the GDR. Documentation of a closed system. Schorndorf: Hofmann 1994.
• Sport in the crossfire of criticism. Schorndorf: Hofmann 1982.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Michael Krüger: Introduction to the history of physical education and sport. Physical exercise in the 20th century: sport for everyone. 2nd, revised edition 2005, p. 239.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Dieter Schmidt: VIta Hajo Bernett. In: Giselher Spitzer, Dieter Schmidt (Hrsg.): Sport between independence and external determination. Festschrift for Hajo Bernett. Bonn 1986, ISBN 3-921285-50-X .
3. ↑ Bahro, Berno, Hans Joachim Teichler: Hajo Bernett and the end of the war in 1945 , in: Stadion 40 (2014) 2, pp. 207–220.
4. ^ Hajo Bernett: Sports Policy in the Third Reich. Hofmann, 1971, p. 132.
5. ↑ Josef Recla: Habilitation in theory of physical education, in sports science. Institute for Physical Education, 1970, p. 159.
6. ↑ Later, too, he repeatedly dealt with the historical training of sports teachers, cf. Hajo Bernett: Science and Worldview - Sports Teacher Training in the Third Reich. In: Arnd Krüger , Dieter Niedlich (Hrsg.): Causes of the school sport misery in Germany. Festschrift for Professor Konrad Paschen . London: Arena Publ. 1979, pp. 32-44; ISBN 0902175378
7. ↑ Articles on the history of sports (PDF; 823 kB), Issue 3/1996, p. 110.
8. ↑ Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Teichler: University of Potsdam ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 5, 2013.  
9. ↑ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=%27Hajo+Bernett%27&dblist=638&fq=ap%3A%22bernett%2C+hajo%22&qt=facet_ap%3A auf. February 24, 2019
10. ↑ On the death of Hajo Bernett (PDF; 80 kB), dvs-Informations 4/1996, p. 76, accessed on May 5, 2013.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hajo Bernett in the catalog of the German National Library