Heinz Schwidtmann

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Heinz Schwidtmann (born October 15, 1926 , † July 16, 2001 ) was a German sports educator and university professor .

Life

Schwidtmann grew up in the Berlin district of Oberschöneweide . As a teenager, at the age of 17, he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and then into the Navy of the Wehrmacht . During the Second World War he was a radio operator on a ship stationed in northern Norway and was taken prisoner by the British.

From September 1946 Schwidtmann worked as a primary school teacher in Leipzig . He passed exams as a sports and history teacher, graduated from the party college "Karl Marx" and became school director and school councilor. From 1958 he taught at the Institute for Pedagogy at the German University for Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig, where together with Paul Kunath and Günther Röblitz he built up the basics of sports education, for example as recorded in the book “About the education of socialist athletes”. In 1960 he completed his doctoral thesis at the DHfK (title: "The development of the scientific worldview of the schoolchildren - a necessary component of the upbringing and educational process in the ten-year polytechnic high school"). In a work published in 1962 Schwidtmann dealt with the "ideological upbringing and education of high school students". In 1965 his habilitation (title: “Socialist physical culture and educated nation: extended synopsis to attempt a theoretical foundation”) was accepted.

Schwiedtmann was rector of the DHfK from 1963 to 1965. In March 1963 he was accepted by the GDR Council of Ministers into a newly formed “State Commission for the Development of the Principles for the Design of the Unified Socialist Education System”. In 1969 he took up a position as a lecturer in sports education at the Leipzig Research Institute for Physical Culture and Sport and was appointed full professor a year later. He later became deputy director and dean of the institute. In his research work, Schwidtmann dealt, among other things, with aspects of the "educational and personality-building relevance of high-performance sport", a "socialist education in school sport", the "relationship between personality development and top sporting performance", questions of "collectivity and sporting activity in socialism", the Model effect of sports teachers and exercise leaders as well as philosophical problems of a theory of sports. He was the editor of the book "Personality Development and Communist Education in Competitive Sport in the GDR" published in 1981.

In 1974 Schwidtmann became chairman of the German Boxing Association of the GDR (DBV) and remained in office until 1989. On September 1, 1990, as part of the dissolution of the German University of Physical Culture, he was retired as professor, but in the following years he continued to publish articles in the GDR-related journal “Contributions to Sports History”, among others on sports education such as the article “Sports Education - Forgotten history? ”, In which he and Karsten Schumann dealt with a treatise by Ommo Grupes on the history of German sports education. Among other things, the handling of the legacy of sports education in the GDR is criticized and "prejudices and clichés about GDR sport as well as about sports science and its development" are criticized. On a political level, Schwidtmann became involved in the PDS after the fall of the Wall and was a member of the party's council of elders.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Volker Mattausch: Commemoration: Heinz Schwidtmann . In: Contributions to the history of sports . tape 13 , 2001.
  2. ^ A b Rainer Rau: Farewell to Heinz Schwidtmann . In: New Germany . August 3, 2001.
  3. ↑ Paul Kunath: About the education of socialist athletes / (=  small library for the trainer and sports teacher ). 1st edition. Sportverl., 1960 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Heinz Schwidtmann: The development of the scientific worldview of the students - a necessary component of the upbringing and educational process in the ten-year polytechnic high school / . 1960 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Heinz Schwidtmann: On the ideological upbringing and education of high school students / (=  educational science and socialist school ). VEB Dt. Verl. D. Sciences ,, 1962 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Heinz Schwidtmann: Socialist physical culture and educated nation: extended synopsis to attempt a theoretical foundation / . 1965 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  7. ^ Rectors of the DHfK . In: Gerhard Lehmann, Lothar Kalb, Norbert Rogalski, Detlev Schröter and Günther Wonneberger (eds.): German University for Physical Culture Leipzig 1950-1990 . Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8403-0034-9 , pp. 12 .
  8. ↑ Principles for the design of the uniform socialist education system (draft). (PDF) In: University of Leipzig. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Heinz Schwidtmann: Educational and personality-building relevance of high-performance sport - social problem and educational task: Brief presentation at the 1972 scientific congress in Munich / . 1972 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Socialist education in school sport: selected contributions to educational work in physical education and in non-curricular sport / . 1st edition. Volk und Wissen, VEB, 1976 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  11. ↑ Heinz Schwidtmann, Margot Budzisch, Lothar Kleine: On the relationship between personality development and top athletic performance . In: Theory and Practice of Competitive Sports . tape 23 , no. 9/10 , 1985, pp. 60–72 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Heinz Schwidtmann, Margot Budzisch: collectivity and sporting activity in socialism. Viewpoints and thoughts on essential theoretical foundations of collective development and education in the area of ​​life of body culture and sport in socialism . In: Theory and Practice of Physical Culture . tape 31 , no. 2 , 1982, ISSN  0563-4458 , pp. 88–96 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  13. ↑ Heinz Schwidtmann: On the role model effect of sports teachers and trainers . In: Theory and Practice of Physical Culture . tape 26 , no. 3 , 1977, ISSN  0563-4458 , pp. 188–191 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  14. ↑ H. Schwidtmann, L. Small: PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF THEORY OF SPORT . 1972 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  15. ↑ Heinz Schwidtmann: On the role model effect of sports teachers and trainers . In: Theory and Practice of Physical Culture . tape 26 , no. 3 , 1977, ISSN  0563-4458 , pp. 188–191 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  16. ↑ Personality development and communist upbringing in competitive sport in the GDR: theoretical basics and methodological outline of the educational preparation for high athletic performance in the 1980s / . DHfK, 1981 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
  17. ↑ Contribution books - sporting goods like Olympia in GDR - BRD. In: sportgeschichte.net. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
  18. ↑ HEINZ SCHWIDTMANN and KARSTEN SCHUMANN: Sports pedagogy - history oblivion ? In: Contributions to the history of sporsch . tape 14 , 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Schwidtmann, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports pedagogue and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1926
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2001