Karl Feige (sports scientist)

Karl Feige (born December 6, 1905 in Berlin ; † September 3, 1992 in Gießen ) was a sports scientist. He was one of the founders of German sports psychology .

Life

After graduating from the VI. Upper secondary school in Berlin Feige studied psychology , musicology, pedagogy , philosophy and at the German University of Physical Education from 1928 to 1931. After graduating as a gymnastics and sports teacher at the German University of Physical Education in 1931 , he switched to Carl Diem the University of Rostock , where he was on the one hand a scientific employee at the Institute for Physical Education and on the other hand a doctoral student. He completed his doctorate in psychology, philosophy and education in 1934 in Rostock at the Institute for Educational Psychology. In 1935 and 1936 he was senior assistant and head of the institute at the University of Greifswald , and in 1936 water sports commissioner at the Reich Academy for Physical Activity . Through these two activities he had contacts with the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht , which as the Black Reichswehr had promoted university sports in sailing and gliding by providing messengers and gliders. After many years of membership in the SA (briefly also the SS ), he joined the NSDAP in 1937 , so Feige fulfilled the requirements to become director of the IfL at the University of Jena from 1937 to 1945 . Here he used his contacts in the Reichswehr and immediately founded a gliding department. From autumn 1938 he was a naval officer , but he kept checking that everything was in place in Jena, since he was only on leave from his position as director in the interests of the service. As a member of the Navy, his membership in the NSDAP was suspended. Feige returned to Jena for a few months in 1940 before he was transferred to Kiel in January 1940 and to Tübingen in 1941 as a marine psychologist and later as head of training for physical exercises at the Marine Medical Academy . In 1946 Feige became acting head of the institute for physical exercises at the University of Kiel . Denazified as a fellow traveler in 1947, he was appointed head of the institute (though as an employee). In 1959 he was appointed director of studies (and now also a civil servant), in 1965 he became senior director of studies at the IfL in Kiel until his retirement in 1970. Feige died in 1992 at the annual meeting of the working group for sport psychology in the Federal Republic of Germany (asp), which he co-founded .

Honors

• 1979: Honorary professor at the University of Kiel
• 1986: Federal Cross of Merit on the ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Every two years since 1997, asp has been awarding the Karl Feige Prize for the best young scientists in sports psychology.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the entry of Karl Feige's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ↑ Gerhard Grasmann, Eberhard Jeran and Eleonore Salomon: On the history of the Greifswald Sports Institute . Chapter 2. From the founding of the institute to the end of the war, p. 32. Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Arnd Krüger , Frank von Lojewski: Selected aspects of military sports in Lower Saxony in the Weimar period. In: Hans Langenfeld , Stefan Nielsen (Hrsg.): Contributions to the sports history of Lower Saxony . Part 2: Weimar Republic. (⇐ NISH series of publications , Vol. 12). NISH, Hoya 1998, ISBN 3-932423-02-X , pp. 124-148
4. ↑ Since he studied and did his doctorate with David Katz , who, however, left Germany shortly before the Rigorosum of Feige, Feige had a not uncomplicated relationship with the NSDAP. Katz was insulted by the Mecklenburg Gauleiter as a “Jewish-Marxist professor” who should not be entrusted with the training of future educators. His wife, who comes from Odessa, was placed under intelligence links with the Soviet Union. David and Rosa Katz were able to emigrate to Sweden via England, cf. Institute for Educational Psychology at the University of Rostock. Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Kremer, Hans-Georg: When ball sports moved into the ballroom.
6. ↑ Kremer, Hans-Georg (2003): The establishment of the Institute for Physical Exercise Jena in 1934 and its development until 1945. In: Hossfeld, Uwe u. a. (Ed.): "Combative Science". Studies at the University of Jena under National Socialism. Cologne: Böhlau, pp. 967-989
7. ↑ Apel, Stephan: The Marine Medical Academy 1940 to 1945 . Med. Diss. Uni Düsseldorf 1991.
8. ↑ Gillner, Heinz: Professor Dr. Karl Feige passed away. Military Medical Monthly 37 (1993), 3, 98.
9. ↑ Jan-Peters Janssen: On the development of the subject »Sport« at the Christiana Albertina - a historiographical sketch. http://www.iss.uni-kiel.de/geschichtefachsport.pdf-2 ; for his writings cf. Psychomotor skills and athletic performance, hrs. Hermann Rieder , Erwin Hahn. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1976, pp. 266-268