Heinz Bäskau

Heinz Fritz Bäskau (born April 11, 1925 in Klein-Sausgarten ; † June 27, 2015 in Warnemünde ) was a German educator and sports scientist .

Life

Heinz Fritz Bäskau, from East Prussia , was the son of the farmer Friedrich Bäskau and his wife, the farmer Anna Bäskau. He was educated in elementary school for four years , then in middle school for a year, and passed his Abitur in 1943 . His time in the Wehrmacht began that year , during which he also became a non-commissioned officer , but was finally captured by the British. From 1945 onwards he was a farm worker and took part in a course for new teachers . Because there was a shortage of teachers in the area, he became a school assistant and director of a primary school in Düssin . From 1949 to 1954 he was a teacher at a Hagenow high school , a specialist advisor for physical education and then a ministerial assistant in the school department of the state of Mecklenburg . He also headed the physical education department in the GDR Ministry for Popular Education . Then he was appointed as a teacher and deputy director at the Rostock children's and youth sports school. In 1958, he received the Honored Teacher of the People Award for his services .

Since 1960 Bäskau was a perception lecturer at the University of Rostock . In 1961 he became director of his institute and next year by the University of Doctor of Pedagogy PhD . His dissertation was the development of children's and youth sports schools in the German Democratic Republic into special schools for young athletes . In 1967 he finally became a lecturer , the following year director of the section instead of the institute and member of the scientific council. Another year later, in 1969, the university promoted him to full professor .

1973 took place at the University of Bäskaus habilitation , he wrote extracurricular sport in socialist education . He was awarded the German Democratic Republic's Medal of Honor for Physical Culture and Sport in 1977 and the GDR Medal of Merit in 1980 . After serving as a lecturer at the International Olympic Academy in 1987, he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit a year later . In 1990 he retired .

Bäskau had several teaching assignments at the Leipzig German University for Physical Culture as well as in Algeria and Yemen . In total he gave guest lectures in 21 countries, in the Soviet Union , Ukraine , Estonia , Latvia , Poland , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Bulgaria , France , Portugal , Great Britain , the Netherlands , Denmark , Sweden , Finland , Algeria, Tunisia , Yemen, Iraq , Cuba and the USA .

Works

• Physical education in primary school (Berlin: Volk und Wissen Volkseigener Verlag 1954, Bäskau headed the collective of authors)
• Methodology of physical education: University textbook (Berlin: Volk und Wissen Volkseigener Verlag 1965, four editions, managerial assistance from Bäskau)
• Exercise and training operations in school sports communities (Berlin: Volk und Wissen Volkseigener Verlag 1972, two editions, Bäskau headed the collective of authors)
• Sports science teaching material. Physical Education Methodology (two volumes)
• Extra-curricular sport in socialist education (1973)

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Bäskau in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Heinz Bäskau in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Heinz Bäskau in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice , North German Latest News from July 4, 2015.