Helge Kildal

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Helge Kildal (center) in 1968

Alexander Albert "Helge" Kildal (born May 7, 1932 in Riga ; † August 19, 2011 in Leipzig ) was a German sports sociologist and chess official .

Life

Kildal grew up first in Riga, then in Schwerin , he was already a talented chess player as a teenager, among other things he took part in the East Zone Championship in 1949 and the German Championship in 1950.

He studied social sciences at the Karl Marx University (KMU) in Leipzig and passed the state examination at the faculty of philosophy in 1958. From 1956 he was active as a chess player at SC Rotation Leipzig (and later at SC Leipzig), where he also took over as an official. From the end of the 1950s until 1971 he was chairman of the club's chess department. Kildal won the GDR team championship in chess with the Leipzig team in 1984 . During the Chess Olympiad held in Leipzig in 1960, he was part of the organizational staff.

From the 1960s, Kildal worked at the German University of Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig, where from 1965 he held the office of administrative director at the Institute for Sports Medicine. He took up a position as senior scientific assistant at the research institute for physical culture and sport affiliated with the DHfK . In 1977 he completed his doctoral thesis on the subject of "The use of socially determined factors for the development of competitive sport in leading imperialist countries: illustrated by facts and problems in the 1972/76 Olympic cycle". In his academic work he dealt in particular with sport-political issues such as the Olympic idea and the "German Sports Youth". An important aspect of his work was the sport-political analysis of major sporting events from the perspective of the German Democratic Republic . The focus was often on the sporting and sport-political disputes between the two German states and, above all, between capitalism and socialism. He saw the Olympic idea as "striving for peace, friendship between peoples, mutual respect and the ethical development of man" as a reality in the GDR. In addition, in essays that appeared in the journal Theory and Practice of Competitive Sports, he analyzed the influence of the media on sport, sport-political disputes in the International Olympic Committee and top-class sport in Western countries. In the article published in 1984 together with Gerhard Oehmigen , "Olympic Summer Games 1984 - A Means for Implementing the Hegemonic Policy of the Reagan Administration" , he accused NATO of "a policy of confrontation with the socialist states" in which sport "played a special role" is intended.

A significant part of Leipzig's development into the "center of the GDR chess sport" was ascribed to Kildal. He was awarded the gold badge of honor by the university and technical school sport of the GDR. After the end of the GDR, he played chess for the Leipzig-Gohlis chess club and was active in the Saxony Chess Association as head of the technical commission as well as state game manager and referee. The German Chess Federation and the Saxony Chess Association each awarded him the Golden Badge of Honor. In 2004 he was made an honorary member of the Chess Association of Saxony.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogy Kildal - Kildal, “Helge” Alexander Albert. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ TeleSchach / German Youth Chess Championships 1949. Accessed on February 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 30.07.-13.08.1950: German Championships 1950 (East) Sömmerda. In: deutsche-schachjugend.de. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Schachgemeinschaft Leipzig - Obituary for the death of Dr. Helge Kildal. In: schachgemeinschaft-leipzig.de. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Gerhard Schmidt: Dr. Helge Kildal (May 7, 1932 - August 19, 2011) An obituary. In: schachverband-sachsen.de. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Helge Kildal: The use of socially determined factors for the development of competitive sport in leading imperialist countries: illustrated by facts and problems in the Olympic cycle 1972/76 / . 1977 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on February 28, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Helge Kildal: The German Democratic Republic: the home of the Olympic idea . In: Theory and Practice of Physical Culture . tape 21 , no. 5 , 1972, ISSN  0563-4458 , pp. 397–404 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on February 28, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Helge Kildal: On the political and educational activities of the "German Sports Youth" (DSJ) . In: Theory and Practice of Competitive Sports . tape 18 , no. 3 , 1980, p. 83–99 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on February 28, 2019]).
  9. ^ The German Democratic Republic - Home of the Olympic Idea. In: Theory and Practice of Competitive Sports. 1972, accessed February 28, 2019 .
  10. ↑ THE STATIONS "RADIO FREE EUROPE" AND "RADIO LIBERTY" IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR AGAINST THE 1980 SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES IN MOSCOW. In: Theory and Practice of Competitive Sports. 1978, Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
  11. ↑ ON THE STATUS OF THE DISCUSSION OF THE ADMISSION REGULATIONS IN THE IOC AND IN THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATIONS. In: Theory and Practice of Competitive Sports. 1980, Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
  12. ↑ 1984 SUMMER OLYMPICS - A MEANS TO IMPLEMENT THE HEGEMONIC POLICY OF THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION. In: Theory and Practice of Competitive Sports. 1984, Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
  13. ↑ New association management in Saxony - German Chess Federation. In: schachbund.de. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kildal, Helge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kildal, Alexander Albert (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports sociologist and chess official
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 2011
Place of death Leipzig