Manfred Lammer

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Manfred Lämmer (2010)

Manfred Lämmer (born February 13, 1943 in Gladbeck ) is a German sport historian and professor emeritus at the German Sport University Cologne .

Professional career

Manfred lambs completed his high school at the high school Theodorianum in Paderborn . He then studied Latin , Greek and history at the University of Cologne as well as sports science at the sports university there . Since the mid-1960s, he has expanded the research focus “gymnastics and agonistics of Greco-Roman antiquity” with an extensive collection of sources and secondary literature. In 1967 he was awarded a Dr. phil. doctorate , his dissertation was on Olympics and Hadrians in ancient Ephesus . His habilitation thesis entitled The Significance of Epigraphic Evidence for the History of Greek Gymnastics and Agonistics also dealt with ancient sports history.

In 1975 Lämmer was appointed to the chair for sports history at the German Sports University and appointed head of the institute for sports history. His research interests include the history of gymnastics and athletics in Greco-Roman antiquity and their influence on modern sport, the history and ideology of the modern Olympic movement and sport in Judaism .

In 2010 Manfred Lämmer received the ISHPES Award from the International Society for History of Physical Education and Sport . The laudation stated that Lämmer, who had degrees in sports science, Greek , Latin and history, had combined this knowledge to research ancient sports and the Olympic movement.

Relations with Israel

In 1963 Manfred Lämmer was one of the first German sports group invited to Israel after the Second World War . In the following years he was involved as the Israel Commissioner at the Cologne Sports University in the initiation and maintenance of sports and sports science relations between Germany and Israel. Lämmer assigns a special function to sport, especially soccer, as a "bridge builder" between the two countries. From 1971 to 2009 he was coordinator of the partnership between the sports university and the “Wingate Institute for Physical Education and Sport” in Netanya . He has been teaching at Israeli universities several times, and since 2009 he has headed the research project “The Contribution of Sport to the Development of German-Israeli Relations”. In February 2015, he and Markwart Herzog led the conference “German-Israeli Football Friendship” at the Swabian Academy in Irsee, Bavaria . In 2019, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class , for his services to German-Israeli relations .

Olympic games

From 1972 to 2004 Lämmer was involved in the preparation of the content and scientific support for all Olympic Games for the German NOK . Lämmer has been a member of the board of directors of the German Olympic Institute and the German Olympic Academy since 1993 , and for many years he was vice-president and member of the executive committee of the German Olympic Society . From 2003 to 2004 he was a member of the application committee of düsseldorf rhein-ruhr 2012 for the 2012 Summer Olympics .

Offices and functions (selection)

  • 1972–2004 General Secretary, President or Vice President of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sports (HISPA, from 1989 ISHPES)
  • since 1975 publisher of Stadion . International magazine for the history of sport
  • since 1990 Vice President of the European Fair Play Movement

Memberships

Manfred Lämmer is a member of the German Academy for Football Culture .

Publications (selection)

  • Edited with Giselher Spitzer : Sport as a profession . Academia-Verlag, Sankt Augustin 1992.
  • Edited with Rolf Geßmann: Articles and bibliography on GutsMuths research . Academia-Verlag, Sankt Augustin 1998.
  • Edited with Roland Naul: Willibald Gebhardt. Pioneer of the Olympic movement . Meyer and Meyer, Aachen 1999.
  • Edited with Barbara Ränsch-Trill: The "artificial human" - a sports science perspective? Academia-Verlag, Sankt Augustin 2003.
  • Edited on behalf of the National Olympic Committee for Germany: Germany in the Olympic Movement. An interim balance. Frankfurt 1999.
  • With Christoph Vedder : Olympic Charter 2001 . Frankfurt 2002.
  • With Hartmut Gustmann: Olympic Spirit 2012 . Cologne 2003.

literature

  • Ellen Berthke / Heike Kuhn / Karl Lennartz: Foreword. In: Institute for Sport History and Carl and Liselott Diem Archive of the German Sport University Cologne (ed.): Olympically moves. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Prof. Dr. Manfred Lammer . Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-88338-006-7 , pp. 13-14.

Web links

Commons : Manfred Lämmer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Berthke / Kuhn / Lennartz: Foreword
  2. ↑ Heather Dichter: Manfred Lämmer is the 2010 ISHPES Award Winner. In: Ishpes. July 14, 2010, accessed June 30, 2015 .
  3. ^ Ronny Blaschke: diplomats in shorts. In: Deutschlandfunk. May 27, 2012, accessed June 22, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Gereon Tönnihsen: Israel Commissioner Lämmer: "Sport is a unique bridge-builder". In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. July 8, 2008, accessed June 22, 2015 .
  5. ↑ [1] (PDF file)
  6. ↑ Carsten Germann: When Germans and Israelis celebrated their summer fairy tale in 1969. In: welt.de . February 27, 2015, accessed June 22, 2015 .
  7. ↑ https://www.doa-info.de/akademie/neuheiten/589-verdienstorden-laemmer auf. December 11, 2019
  8. ↑ https://www.fussball-kultur.org/adresse/address/manfred-laemmer
personal data
SURNAME Lambs, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor for sports history
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Gladbeck