Kurt Tittel

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Kurt Tittel (1997)

Kurt Tittel (born July 19, 1920 in Lübeck ; † August 20, 2016 in Leipzig ) was a German doctor who was widely recognized with his work on sports anatomy , the development of sports medicine in the GDR , in sports medicine teaching and in international sports medicine bodies got known.

Education and career

After studying medicine from 1939 to 1945 in Leipzig, Tittel worked at the Markranstädt Hospital at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Halle . Here he completed his habilitation in 1963 on the subject of functional anatomy and biotypology of the athlete . As early as 1950, teaching and supervisory tasks were performed at the German University for Physical Culture in Leipzig. Here he was given the chair for functional anatomy and was subsequently dean of the faculty for natural sciences and sports medicine at DHfK. In addition, from 1985 he held the chair for sports medicine at the Academy for Medical Training of the GDR Berlin-Lichtenberg. Even after his retirement from the DHfK in 1985, Tittel continued to take on management positions in sports medicine as a professor in Berlin, conference leader, speaker and expert. He was the editor of the specialist journal “The Column”.

Sports medicine services

As early as 1951, Tittel called a meeting of physicians interested in sports in Leipzig and in 1953 was a founding member of the working group for sports medicine, from which the Society for Sports Medicine of the GDR emerged . In this office he maintained contacts with his West German colleague Wildor Hollmann , which, given the difficult relationship between the two German states, was "not an easy and sometimes explosive task," as Georg Neumann noted in his obituary on the occasion of Tittel's death. In 2008, Tittel and Hollmann jointly published the book “History of German Sports Medicine”. He was president from 1972 to 1990. Since 1966, the GDR's delegate to the FIMS , Tittel was head of its science commission, member of the executive committee and member of the advisory committee of the IOC . As a sports doctor, he looked after the DHfK handball team (multiple national champion and also the European Cup winner) and the GDR handball team for over 22 years. At the Olympic Games in 1968 and 1972 he acted as a medical supervisor. In February 1990 he admitted the state-decreed doping in GDR competitive sport, which had been denied until then .

Publications

Kurt Tittel published more than 500 scientific papers, several textbooks and 18 textbook contributions. His standard work Descriptive and Functional Anatomy of Man , first published in 1957, had 14 German editions by 2003, as well as Italian, Greek, Japanese and Brazilian (Portuguese) editions. In the series of sports medicine publications of the German University of Physical Culture , which he has published since 1961, a total of 29 volumes appeared up to 1994, several of which were in a second edition. He was co-editor of the Olympic Book for Sports Medicine and coordinator for the other volumes of the Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine .

honors and awards

The GDR honored him with the GDR National Prize for Science and Technology (1972), the GDR Medal of Merit and the GutsMuths Prize . He received the Hufeland Gold Medal and the Honored Physician of the People . The DHfK was one of the first to award his traditional gold badge (1955) and made him an honorary senator in 1985. The University of Leipzig awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1996.

Internationally, Tittel received the Philip Noel Baker Research Prize, the Science Prize of the US Sports Academy and the Science Prize of the President of the IOC. There are also honorary memberships of several national sports medicine societies. The FIMS honored him with its gold medal in 2002 and made him a FIMS Fellow.

Fonts

  • Descriptive and functional anatomy. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1957; from 2nd edition: Descriptive and functional human anatomy. ; 15th edition: Descriptive and functional anatomy. Kiener, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-943324-10-5 .
  • On the current status of sports injuries and damage to the musculoskeletal system: With special consideration of the aetiology, the morphological change and prophylaxis. German University for Physical Culture, Leipzig 1960.
  • with Wildor Hollmann : History of German Sports Medicine. Druckhaus Gera, Gera 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811758-2-0 .

literature

  • Karl-Hans Arndt : Five decades of work for sports medicine - Kurt Tittel turned 80. In: The column. ISSN  1432-6043 , Vol. 11 (2001), H. 1, pp. 11-13.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SC DHfK Leipzig mourns the loss of Professor Kurt Tittel , m.lvz.de, September 3, 2016, accessed on September 3, 2016
  2. ^ Georg Neumann: Obituary Prof. Dr. med. habil. Dr. hc Kurt Tittel. In: German Association for Sports Science. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  3. ^ Wildor Hollmann, Kurt Tittel: History of German sports medicine . Dr.-Haus Gera, 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811758-2-0 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on February 9, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Klaus Latzel , Lutz Niethammer : Hormones and high performance: Doping in East and West , Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20123-4 , p. 145
personal data
SURNAME Tittel, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports medicine specialist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 2016
Place of death Leipzig