Lothar Kalb

Lothar Kalb (* 1936 ) is a German sports educator , university lecturer and sports book author.

Life

Kalb worked at the Workers and Farmers Faculty of the German University of Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig as a teacher in the subjects of German and history, from 1963 he was decisively involved in the development of the international trainer courses in the training department. From 1964 to 1990, Kalb then headed the Institute for Foreign Studies, and from April 1964 28 participants from Asian and African countries took part in the first year of the nine-month courses. In publications he dealt several times with the training and further education of trainers from Africa, Asia and South America carried out at the DHfK. The topic of the courses for foreign trainer candidates was also his book “Sendboten Olympias. The History of Foreign Studies at the DHfK Leipzig ”to the content.

In the meantime, he completed his studies at DHfK with a doctorate, the subject of his dissertation A  , submitted in 1975, was “On the role of physical culture and sport in the process of national and social liberation on the African continent”. From 1975 to 1982 he was the chairman of the HSG DHfK Leipzig .

In 1985 he completed his dissertation B , the title of his thesis was “Social determinants and special development factors in the design of physical culture and sport in the nationally liberated states and the content, forms and results of solidarity-based cooperation between GDR sport and the countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America ”.

Kalb was appointed to a UNESCO specialist group that worked out training programs for developing countries and of which he was a member from 1985 to 1990.

He is co-editor of the book "German Sports University for Physical Culture Leipzig 1950-1990", which appeared in 2007. Kalb contributed to this work “The international scientific relations of the DHfK”, “The training and further education of foreign sports experts at the DHfK” and, together with Walter Renner, “Cooperation in the HSG - an integral part of the course”.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} About the author and other contributors: German Sport University for Physical Culture Leipzig 1950-1990. In: amazon.de. Retrieved January 23, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Friedrich-Wilhelm Gras: An educational institution with a worldwide reputation must go. In: Society for Legal and Humanitarian Aid. Retrieved January 23, 2019 . 
3. ^ History - International trainer courses. In: itk.spowi.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved January 23, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Lothar Kalb: The education and training of sports cadres from developing countries at the DHfK . In: Scientific journal of the German University for Physical Culture . tape 16 , no. 3 , 1975, ISSN  0457-3919 , pp. 31–39 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
5. ^ Lothar Kalb: On the training and further education of sports cadres from Africa, Asia and Latin America at the German College for Physical Culture in the GDR . 1980 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
6. ↑ Messenger of Olympia. he history of foreign studies at the DHfK Leipzig. In: univerlag-leipzig.de. Retrieved February 7, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Lothar Kalb: On the role of physical culture and sport in the process of national and social liberation on the African continent / . 1975 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
8. ↑ Sportestrade on the occasion of 60 years of HSG DHfK Leipzig. In: hsg-dhfk-leipzig.com. Retrieved February 2, 2019 . 
9. ^ Lothar Kalb: Social determinants and special development factors in the design of physical culture and sport in the nationally liberated states and the content, forms and results of solidarity-based cooperation between GDR sport and the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America / . 1985 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
10. ↑ Contents . In: Gerhard Lehmann, Lothar Kalb, Norbert Rogalski, Detlev Schröter and Günther Wonneberger (eds.): German University for Physical Culture Leipzig 1950-1990 . Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8403-0034-9 , pp. 5 .