Hermann Altrock

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Hermann C. Gottl. Altrock (born January 2, 1887 in Berlin , † March 15, 1980 in Gerlingen ) was a German sports educator .

Life

Hermann Altrock was born the son of an officer and graduated from secondary school in Charlottenburg in 1908 . From 1907 to 1909 he taught at an elementary school in Berlin. At the University of Berlin he began in 1908 - in the same year he passed the examination to become a sports teacher - to study Romance , English and German studies , which he continued at the University of Greifswald in 1911 and completed in 1912. During his studies he became a member of the Stauffia Berlin-Charlottenburg gymnastics club . By working as a teacher he was able to finance his studies and in 1912 also passed the first state examination. In the same year he received his doctorate . He was then a trainee lawyer for two years, then an assessor and from 1917 to 1925 senior teacher at the Berlin Körner Realschule. He also studied medicine .

During the First World War , Altrock was drafted in 1916/1917 and seriously wounded in the spine. He was awarded the Iron Cross II . After the end of the war, the state gymnastics institute in Berlin-Spandau appointed him as a gymnastics councilor in 1919. At the same time he founded the German Women's Rowing Association , which he headed until 1934. His academic career began in 1920: Hired as administrative director at the German University for Physical Education , he also taught pedagogy as a lecturer there . In 1925 he gave up both offices and on October 1st went to Leipzig University as associate professor for pedagogy of physical exercise . This makes him the first ever sports professor in Germany. He continued the efforts of the university gymnastics teacher Hermann Kuhr .

After the transfer of power in 1933, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2.988.255) and the NSLB (membership number 222.390) and on November 11, 1933, he signed the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state at German universities and colleges . In 1933 he worked as a visiting professor at Ankara University. The eldest of his two sons died in 1944 as a senior staff doctor in World War II . In 1945 he had to leave the University of Leipzig as a result of denazification and was banned from teaching in the Soviet Zone .

In 1948 he began teaching as an associate professor of sports science and pedagogy of physical education at the University of Frankfurt am Main until his retirement in 1955. There he built an institute for physical exercise. In 1956 he became the Second German International Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology . On January 14, 1957, he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class, for his work in building up German sports science. In 1960 the German Sports Association, of whose sports advisory board Altrock was a member, founded the Hermann Altrock grant . In 1964 he received the Carl Diem Prize. After a long illness, he died at the age of 93. He was married to Elisa Haas since 1914 .

Altrock was a member of several organizations: In the German Gymnastics Teachers Association, of which he was director from 1923 to 1933, in the Nazi Lecturer Association and in the National Socialist Reich Association for Physical Exercise . In addition, he joined the National Socialist People's Welfare in 1934 and the SA in 1937 .

Altrock was Germany's first sports professor and was one of the leading sports scientists.

Works

  • Parallelism, antithesis and romantic irony in Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (dissertation, Greifswald 1912)
  • Little sports studies for doctors, teachers, students of medicine and physical exercise (Leipzig 1928)
  • Basic questions of physical education (1935)
  • The cultural tasks of German sport (Kevelaer 1949)
  • Wrestling and heavy athletics (Berlin 1924)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnd Krüger : Gymnastics and gymnastics lessons at the time of the Weimar Republic. Basis of today's misery in school sports? (Ed.): Causes of the misery of school sports in Germany. Konrad Paschen on his 70th birthday. London: Arena 1979, 13-31.
  2. ↑ http://www.budrich-journals.de/index.php/bios/article/viewFile/7020/6035
  3. ^ Announcement from the Ordenskanzlei in the Office of the Federal President
  4. ↑ It is controversial who held the first German sports professorship. In 1968, Ommo Grupe was the first to complete his habilitation in sports science in Germany. uni-tuebingen.de: More than just somersault professors ( Memento from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Altrock, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Altrock, Hermann C. Gottl.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1980
Place of death Gerlingen