Klemens Wildt

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Klemens Karl Wildt (born November 11, 1901 in Dortmund ; † August 27, 1980 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg ) was a sports scientist and sports historian . He was one of the first in 1933, located in Germany of Sport Science habilitated .

Life

After graduating from high school in Essen in 1922, he studied history, geography and German studies in Berlin until 1925 at the German University of Physical Education and, in parallel, at the University of Berlin . After graduating as a qualified sports teacher , he continued his studies of history, philosophy, education and psychology at the University of Leipzig from 1926 to 1929 . There he was also first assistant at the institute for physical exercises and was in history with the script Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and the German gymnastics. Represented not using published documents of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and the Prussian Secret State Archives in Berlin-Dahlem doctorate . From 1929 to 1931 he was a university gymnastics and sports teacher, from 1931 to 1944 director of the newly founded institute for physical exercises at the University of Rostock , where he completed his habilitation in 1933 with the development of the exercise material and the teaching method of German physical exercises in the 19th century . He continued his career as a private lecturer , from 1940 as a lecturer at the University of Rostock. From 1944 to 1945 he had a teaching position at the university institute for physical exercises at the University of Graz . Despite membership in the SS and habilitation , he was not appointed professor during the Nazi era . His denazification as SS-Scharführer lasted until 1949, then he was initially a sports teacher and from 1952 to 1967 director (from 1962 professor) of the Institute for Physical Education at the University of Bonn . From 1972 to 1980 he was Vice President of the International Committee on the History of Sport and Physical Education (ICOSH).

plant

  • Physical exercise in the German Middle Ages. Attempt at a cultural-sociological interpretation. Frankfurt am Main 1957.
  • Emigrants and Emigrants in the History of Physical Exercise. Schorndorf 1964.
  • Sports history data.
    • Part 1: The "Old World" and Europe until 1750. Schorndorf 1970.
    • Part 2: Europe from 1750 to 1894. Schorndorf 1974.
    • Part 3: North and Latin America up to 1900. Schorndorf 1977.
    • Part 4: Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand up to 1900. Schorndorf 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As a Catholic, there were doubts about his political reliability in terms of the NSDAP and SS, cf. Political judgment by the NSDAP (August 17, 1935, personal file, Rostock University Archives); http://cpr.uni-rostock.de/metadata/cpr_person_00002756 .
  2. ^ Arnd Krüger : Puzzle Solving: German Sport Historiography of the Eighties. In: Journal of Sport History. Volume 17, No. 2, 1990, pp. 261-277. http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1990/JSH1702/jsh1702h.pdf .
personal data
SURNAME Wildt, Klemens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wildt, Klemens Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports scientist and sports historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1980
Place of death Bonn-Bad Godesberg