Ludwig Mester

Ludwig Mester (born October 17, 1902 in Flensburg , † January 2, 1975 in Limburg an der Lahn ) was a German sports teacher .

The son of a railway official attended school in Flensburg until he graduated from high school in 1922. Then he attended the evangelical teachers 'seminar in Lübeck until his teachers' examination in 1923. He was the Wandervogel guide in the Gau Nordmark. Due to the unemployment of teachers, he continued to study sports in Berlin-Spandau and at the University of Berlin , where he became Albrecht Hirn's assistant , as well as German, English, philosophy and pedagogy. In 1928 he moved to the University of Marburg and was planning a doctorate with Erich Rudolf Jaensch , who fell ill. After moving to Göttingen, Mester became a student of Herman Nohl and received his doctorate in 1930. He then taught physical education and youth care and later sports education: only from 1931 until its closure in 1932 at the Pedagogical Academy Altona under Erich Less , from 1934 to 1939 at the college for teacher training . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP and in 1938 became SA storm leader . During the Second World War, Mester served as a reserve officer and was taken prisoner of war.

From 1948 he taught again at the Pedagogical Institute Weilburg and from 1963 to 1970 at the University of Gießen , from 1969 as a full professor at the local University of Education (HfE). His long-time assistant was the later Cologne sports teacher Gerhard Hecker. His successor was Herbert Haag .

In 1977 the German Sports Association donated a Ludwig Mester Prize .

His didactic concept of physical education was still under the influence of reform pedagogy with an orientation towards community, camp and movement in the natural landscape. He was one of the most widely read authors until the 1960s, before narrower sports didactics ousted him.

Fonts

• Physical education in universities. A historical and systematic study of the importance of physical exercises for university life during the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the like. des Neuhumanismus, Beltz, 1931 [= Göttingen dissertation 1930]
• Well-planned physical education in childhood , Weilburg 1951 u.ö.
• Leisure education, Schorndort 1961
• Basic questions of physical education , Braunschweig 1962 u.ö.

literature

• Herbert Haag (Ed.): Didactic and curricular aspects of sport: Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Ludwig Mester , Schorndorf 1972
• Heinz Meusel: Introduction to Sports Education , 1976
• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 507–508 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Hecker, CV