Hans Simon (sports scientist)

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Hans (Hannes) Simon (born November 15, 1928 - † February 19, 2020 ) was a German sports historian and university professor .

Life

From 1951 to 1990 Simon was a  university lecturer for sports history at the German University for Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig . Under the direction of Lothar Skornings with Günter Erbach , Paul Marschner , Hans Schuster , Georg Wieczisk and Günther Wonneberger he was one of the authors who wrote the book “Brief Outline of the History of Physical Culture in Germany since 1800”, which was published in 1952 by Sportverlag Berlin . In his research work he dealt with the following topics:

  • History of physical culture, and development of physical culture and sport in the German Democratic Republic ,
  • The role of sport "in the struggle of the German working class for power and in building up socialism in the German Democratic Republic",
  • Olympic Games, Spartakiads, Workers' Sports and Classification of the 1936 Summer Olympic Games ,
  • Development of competitive sports in the GDR and the fight for GDR sports for international recognition,
  • " Revanchism in West Germany and its work in West German sport".

Together with Margot Budzisch , Klaus Huhn and Lothar Skorning he is one of the authors of the book "Chronicle of GDR Sports" published in 2000.

Hans Simon died at the age of 91.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ THE AUTHORS. In: Contributions to the history of sport, issue 14/2001. Accessed on January 27, 2019 .
  2. ^ Library - NISH - Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History. Accessed on March 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Hans Simon: History of physical culture: Instructions for distance learning / . German Hochschule für Körperkultur, 1962 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on January 27, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Hans Simon: On the development of physical culture and sport in the GDR from 1971 to 1978 / (=  study material on the theory and history of physical culture ). 1st edition Ger. Hochschule für Körperkultur, 1980 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on January 27, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Hans Simon: Physical culture and sport in the struggle of the German working class for power and in the socialist construction in the German Democratic Republic: A @historisches Exposé / . 1982 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed January 27, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Hans Simon: OLYMPIC GAMES AND SPARTAKIADS. COMMON AND DIFFERENT . In: Theory and Practice of Physical Culture . tape 22 , no. 5 , 1973, ISSN  0563-4458 , pp. 397–399 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed January 27, 2019]).
  7. ^ Hans Simon: 90 years of workers' sport . In: Theory and Practice of Physical Culture . tape 32 , no. 5 , 1983, ISSN  0563-4458 , pp. 347–351 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed January 27, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Hans Simon: 50 years after the Nazi games - how to deal with it? In: Olympic Youth . No. 5 , 1986, ISSN  0343-0235 , pp. 10–13 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed January 27, 2019]).
  9. ^ Hans Simon, Günther Wonneberger: On the development of the GDR competitive sport in the first two decades after the constitution of the German sports committee . In: Theory and Practice of Competitive Sports . tape 26 , no. 10 , 1988, pp. 66–79 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed January 27, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Hans Simon: Main tendencies in GDR sport and the struggle for its international recognition between 1961 and 1970/71 . In: Theory and Practice of Physical Culture . tape 37 , no. 6 , 1988, ISSN  0563-4458 , pp. 362–365 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed January 27, 2019]).
  11. ↑ On the character of revanchism in West Germany and its work in West German sport. 1970, Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Klaus Huhn, Margot Budzisch, Klaus Huhn, Hans Simon, Lothar Skorning: Chronicle of GDR Sports . Spotless-Verl., 2000, ISBN 978-3-933544-35-3 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on February 6, 2019]).
  13. ^ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from February 29, 2020, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Simon, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simon, Hannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports historian, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1928
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 2020