Klaus Roth (sports scientist)

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Klaus Roth (born December 1, 1951 in Darmstadt ) is a German sports scientist who is best known for his publications on motor learning, differential motor research ( coordinative skills ) and training in childhood and adolescence. Through his work on early motor development, he influenced the development of exercise programs for kindergarten and primary school children.

Career

Klaus Roth studied physical education, mathematics and pedagogy in Darmstadt from 1970 to 1975 . After the final exam for teaching at high schools, he was a research associate at the Institute for Sports Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt and received his doctorate there in 1980 on "structural analysis of coordinative abilities".

From 1980 to 1988 Klaus Roth worked as a research assistant, university assistant and university lecturer at the Institute for Sports Science at Bielefeld University. In 1987, he has in Bielefeld habilitation ( "tactics in the sports game") and followed a 1989 offer of a professorship for motion / Training Administration at the Free University of Berlin . From 1994 Klaus Roth was Professor of Sports Science at the Ruprecht-Karls- University of Heidelberg . From 1994 to 2004 he was director of the Institute for Sport and Sport Science, from 2004 to 2007 Dean and from 2012 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Behavioral and Empirical Cultural Studies. He retired in November 2018.

Act

Klaus Roth is a co-founder of the Movement and Training Section and the Sports Games Commission in the German Association for Sports Science (DVS). In November 2018 he was awarded the DVS Golden Badge of Honor. He is the sole initiator and concept giver of the Heidelberg Ball School , which has developed into a national German sports science transfer project since 1998.

Memberships

  • 1989–1997: Vice President of the German Association for Sports Science (DVS)
  • 1989–1997: Member of the editorial board of the journal Sportpsychologie
  • 1989–1994: DFG special reviewer (exercise and training)
  • 1990–1994: Board member of the Management and Administration Academy of German Sports (FVA)
  • 1991–1997: Member of the editorial board of The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness
  • 1992–2006: Deputy Chairman of the Conference of Sports Science University Institutions (KSH)
  • 1994–1998: Member of the DSB Federal Committee "Education, Health and Science"
  • 1997–2006: Member of the editorial board of the journal Sportwissenschaft
  • 1997–2015: Member of the Board of Trustees for the award of the DOSB Science Prize
  • 1999–2003: Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisory Board of the German Sports Association
  • 2001–2014: First chairman of the Ballschule e. V.
  • since 2013: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Golf Association
  • since 2013: Deputy Chairman of the Sportregion Rhein-Neckar e. V.
  • since 2014: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Handball Association
  • since 2015: Partner of the gGmbH Vision BewegungsKinder

Publications (selection)

  • Structural analysis of coordinative skills. Limpert, Bad Homburg 1982.
  • with K. Willimczik: Movement theory. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983.
  • with O. Meijer (Ed.): Complex Movement Behavior: “The” Motor-Action Controversy. North Holland, Amsterdam 1988.
  • Tactics in sports game. On the explanatory value of the theory of generalized motor programs for the regulation of complex movements. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1989.
  • as publisher: Technique training in top-class sport. Everyday theories of successful trainers. Strauss, Cologne 1996.
  • with EJ Hossner (Ed.): Sport - Game - Research: Between coaching bench and chair. Czwalina, Hamburg 1997.
  • with C. Kröger: Ball school - an ABC for beginners. 4th edition. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2011.
  • with T. Pauer and K. Reischle (eds.): Dimensions and visions of sport. Czwalina, Hamburg 1999.
  • with K. Willimczik: Movement Science . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999.
  • with C. Kröger and D. Memmert: Ball school return games. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2002.
  • with A. Hohmann and M. Kolb: Handbuch Sportspiel. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2005.
  • with D. Memmert and R. Schubert: Ball school throwing games. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2006.
  • with T. Damm, M. Pieper and C. Roth: ball school in primary school. Primary school sports lesson. Volume 1, Hofmann, Schorndorf 2014.
  • with C. Kröger: coordination training in children and adolescents. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2014.
  • with C. Roth and U. Hegar: Mini-Ballschule. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sports scientist Klaus Roth is retiring. Retrieved December 7, 2018 .
  2. ^ Golden badge of honor of the dvs for Prof. Dr. Klaus Roth. May 31, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt