Kurt Kohl

Kurt Kohl (born November 15, 1918 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 4, 2002 there ) was a German psychologist. He was a pioneer of Gestalt psychology and Gestalt theory in the field of sensorimotor and sport psychology .

Life

Kohl passed his physical education teacher examination in 1939. He was then drafted into military service, where he was mainly deployed in France. After his release from American captivity, he was able to complete his (elementary) teacher training at the Pedagogical Institute in Weilburg (1946). He then worked as a sports teacher at the Institute for Physical Education at the University of Frankfurt (he taught basketball , among other things ) and also began studying psychology: 1951 pre-diploma, 1953 diploma psychologist. Kohl received his doctorate in 1955 from the University of Frankfurt under Edwin Rausch , an important gestalt psychologist in Germany. phil.nat. His dissertation on the problem of sensorimotor functions is still regarded as a standard work in sports psychology. In it, Kohl systematically presented the Gestalt theory of sport for the first time on the basis of diverse phenomenological experiments and investigations. Kohl was in university teaching as a sports teacher in Frankfurt (1955–1964), as an assistant and teacher in the university service in Giessen (1964–1966), as a senior teacher at the TH Aachen (1966–1968) and then as a full professor for physical education at the Pedagogical University Berlin (1968–1973) before he switched to a full professorship for physical education and its didactics at the Pedagogical University of Westphalia-Lippe in 1973 (altern Integrated into Bielefeld University in 1980 ). Although committed to basic research, it was important to him that the context of use (especially to sport) always played a role. The gestalt psychologist Paul Tholey continued his scientific and sport psychological work .

Kurt Kohl was an honorary member of the German Working Group for Sport Psychology (ASP) , of which he was a co-founder.

Selected publications

To the problem of the sensorimotor system. Psychological analyzes of targeted actions in the field of sport . Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt 1956.
Gestalt theory in the treatment of motor learning in the field of sport . In: Kurt Guss (Ed.): Gestalt theory and specialist didactics . Steinkopff, Darmstadt 1977, ISBN 3-7985-0484-9 , pp. 64-83.
Psychological knowledge and sports practice (= sports science and sports practice . Volume 34). Czwalina, Ahrensburg near Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-88020-069-6 .
Collaboration with Hans Gerhard Sack: On the psychology of young competitive athletes (= series of publications by the Federal Institute for Sports Science . Volume 29). Verlag Hofmann, Schorndorf 1980, ISBN 3-7780-7301-X .
From sports specialist to sports scientist . In K. Zieschang (Hrsg.): Sportwissenschaft in Lebensbildern (= writings of the German Association for Sport Science . Volume 100). Czwalina, Ahrensburg near Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-88020-335-0 , pp. 83-92.
Rolf Andresen, Erwin Hahn (eds.): Sensorimotor learning and sports game research. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr. Kurt Kohl. bps-Verlag, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-92238-615-6 .

Web links

Literature by and about Kurt Kohl in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ cf. on this: G. Stemberger : We mourn Kurt Kohl (1918–2002) . In: Gestalt Theory , Volume 25, No. 3, 2003, p. 138.
↑ See Andresen & Hahn 1984, see publications; Eberhart Loosch (1993): The whole is more precise than its parts. On the history of motor skills research from 1925–1939 at the Psychological Institute in Leipzig. In: Sportpsychologie , No. 1/1993, pp. 26-30.
^ Committee of German Physical Education: Lecturers and speakers at the congress . In: Motivation in Sport . K. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1971, p. 392.
↑ See the obituary of Bielefeld University , accessed on October 18, 2013.
↑ Kurt Kohl & Arnd Krüger : Psychical processes in sport motor skills, in: competitive sport 2 (1972), 2, 123-127.

↑ cf. in addition: Jan Peters Janssen: Gestalt theory and sport psychology - historical perspectives and facets , in: H. Metz-Göckel , Gestalt theoretical inspirations - applications of the Gestalt theory. Handbook on Gestalt Theory Volume 2 , Krammer: Wien 2011, 71-98. Furthermore: G. Stemberger (2003), see above; Kohl 1999.

↑ cf. Gerhard Hecker, Prof. Dr. Kurt Kohl 1918–2002 (PDF; 984 kB). In: dvs-Informations , Volume 17, No. 3, 2002, p. 15 (accessed on October 18, 2013).

personal data
SURNAME	Kohl, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 15, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	October 4, 2002
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] . on this: G. Stemberger : We mourn Kurt Kohl (1918–2002) . In: Gestalt Theory , Volume 25, No. 3, 2003, p. 138.

[2] See Andresen & Hahn 1984, see publications; Eberhart Loosch (1993): The whole is more precise than its parts. On the history of motor skills research from 1925–1939 at the Psychological Institute in Leipzig. In: Sportpsychologie , No. 1/1993, pp. 26-30.

[3] Committee of German Physical Education: Lecturers and speakers at the congress . In: Motivation in Sport . K. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1971, p. 392.

[4] See the obituary of Bielefeld University , accessed on October 18, 2013.

[5] Kurt Kohl & Arnd Krüger : Psychical processes in sport motor skills, in: competitive sport 2 (1972), 2, 123-127.

[6] . in addition: Jan Peters Janssen: Gestalt theory and sport psychology - historical perspectives and facets , in: H. Metz-Göckel , Gestalt theoretical inspirations - applications of the Gestalt theory. Handbook on Gestalt Theory Volume 2 , Krammer: Wien 2011, 71-98. Furthermore: G. Stemberger (2003), see above; Kohl 1999.

[7] . Gerhard Hecker, Prof. Dr. Kurt Kohl 1918–2002 (PDF; 984 kB). In: dvs-Informations , Volume 17, No. 3, 2002, p. 15 (accessed on October 18, 2013).