Kurt Meinel

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Kurt Meinel (born December 1, 1898 in Steindöbra ; † October 27, 1973 ) was a German  sports educator  and movement scientist .

Life

After attending primary school (1905 to 1913), he attended a teachers' seminar for four years and worked as an assistant teacher in the Vogtland from 1917 to 1922 . Between 1922 and 1927 he  studied philosophy, history, geography and gymnastics (physical education) at the University of Leipzig . In 1925 he passed the state gymnastics teacher examination and in 1927 the final examination for the higher teaching post. From 1925 to 1927 he worked as a gymnastics teacher at a Leipzig school. Meinel wrote a dissertation on the topic “ Otto Leonhard Heubner . His life, its historical and political significance ”and in 1928 he obtained the doctorate degree.

In 1927 and 1928 Meinel worked as a research assistant at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Leipzig, in 1928 he was appointed to the Pedagogical Institute for Teacher Training in Leipzig, where he taught as a lecturer, particularly in physical education.

In 1940 Meinel was called up for military service. After the end of the Second World War he worked as a farm worker until 1947. In 1948 he was employed as a lecturer at the People's Education Office in Leipzig, and from 1950 Meinel was a teacher at the German University of Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig.

In 1952 he took up a professorship with a teaching position at the DHfK and took over the management of the institute for physical education, from 1955 Meinel officiated as head of the institute for physiology, psychology and kinetics. From 1956 he was a professor with a chair in the subject of "Theory of Physical Education" and, until his retirement in 1964, head of the Institute for Movement Science.

Meinel's primary scientific achievement is the foundation of a pedagogically oriented movement theory. His book “Bewegungslehre. An attempt at a theory of sporting movement from an educational point of view ”is considered a“ classic of German sports science ”and was  revised in several editions in the following decades by his student Günter Schnabel, among others . In an essay in the publication series "Leipzig Sports Science Contributions" on the occasion of Meinel's 100th birthday, his scientific work was classified primarily with regard to "education and upbringing, health maintenance and performance enhancement" and the "systematic and coherence of his educational work to this day as very important from a sports science perspective".

But looking back on 40 years of work as a university teacher and 50 years of work as a sports educator, I am still happy about a larger number of schoolchildren, for whom my work helped to open up ways for further work. For the educator there is no better reward, no deeper satisfaction than that he recognizes himself in the work and way of thinking of his students and lives on in this work.  Kurt Meinel, 1968

In 1998 the Kurt Meinel Prize was awarded for the first time for outstanding achievements by young scientists.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Kurt Meinel. Retrieved April 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Movement theory - sports motor skills. Retrieved April 1, 2018 .
  3. ^ History. Retrieved April 1, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Summary: On the basic understanding of human movement development by Kurt Meinel. Some reminiscences on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Retrieved April 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Kurt Meinel: Personal comment by Kurt Meinel (1968) from his estate . In: Leipzig sports science contributions . Issue 1 (54), 2013, pp. 103 .
  6. ↑ http://www.sportwissenschaft.de/fileadmin/pdf/dvs-Info/1998/1998_2_sektionen.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Meinel, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Stone Dobra
DATE OF DEATH 1973