Hans Eberspächer

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Hans Eberspächer (born April 15, 1943 in Stuttgart ; † October 7, 2014 in Heidelberg ) was a German psychologist , sports instructor and sports scientist who became known primarily for his work in stress and regeneration research with training concepts for mental action regulation in high-performance sports . He was regarded as a leading representative of his specialist areas and a pioneer in applied sports psychology . He was the editor and author of 15 books.

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Hans Eberspächer studied in Cologne , where he graduated as a sports teacher from the German Sport University and as a psychologist from the University of Cologne . There he obtained his doctorate in 1971 at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. rer. nat., followed by a habilitation and a professorship at the University of Frankfurt .

In 1976, Hans Eberspächer was officially accredited sports psychologist for the German Olympic team at the Summer Olympics in Montreal .

Eberspächer was active in various committees. Among other things, he was a founding member and member of the board of the German Association for Sports Science (dvs) from 1977 to 1985 and from 1985 to 1989 as a member of the board of the Working Group for Sport Psychology in Germany (asp). Not least with the initiation of the Central Coordination of Sport Psychology (ZKS) of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) in 2003, Eberspächer played a part in establishing sport psychology as an institution.

For many years, Eberspaecher worked with professional athletes , national teams and coaches to prepare them for sports competitions.

Hans Eberspächer was an active athlete himself until the end. In his youth he was an athlete and handball player .

Eberspächer was a professor at the University of Frankfurt until he was appointed to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 1978 , where he was professor for sports psychology at the Institute for Sports and Sports Science until 2007 . The main focus of his scientific interest were the subject areas “stress and strain”, “strain” and “regeneration”, “cognitive skills training” and especially mental training . The use of mental training outside of sport, in areas in which one has to act successfully under pressure, is also due to his work.

His scientific work was reflected in many publications . Most of his works are not only written for the scientifically interested reader, which makes the sports psychological content accessible to a wide range of readers. His standard work "Sportpsychologie", published in 1982, became one of the most widely read books in the field. With his last book “Motorcycling - mentally trained”, he left a practice-oriented standard work for motor sports enthusiasts .

Works (selection)

  • Sports psychology . Reinbek 1993, Rowohlt Verlag , 5th edition
  • Psychological training after sports injuries . Munich 1994, FSVO (with H.-D. Hermann)
  • Hand Lexikon Sportwissenschaft . Reinbek 2002, Rowohlt Verlag, 2nd edition
  • Mental walking training . Heidelberg 2003, Springer Verlag (with J. Mayer and P. Görlich)
  • Mental Training - The manual for coaches and athletes . Munich 2007, Copress, 7th edition
  • Resource me - stress management in work and everyday life . Munich 2009, Carl Hanser, 3rd edition
  • Be good when it matters - learn from top performers . Munich 2011, Carl Hanser, 3rd edition
  • Mentally trained motorcycling . Stuttgart 2012, Motorbuch, 2nd edition

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary of the University of Heidelberg ; accessed on August 12, 2015
  2. ↑ Interview from February 26, 2010 on the website of the DOSB Management Academy; accessed on August 12, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Eberspächer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist, sports teacher and sports scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 2014
Place of death Heidelberg