Paul Kunath

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Paul Kunath (left) presents diplomas at a DHfK trainer course (1970)

Paul Kunath (born July 26, 1926 in Reichenbach ) is a German sports psychologist and university professor.

Life

Kunath, who did athletics and gymnastics, took part in World War II as a marine and was wounded. After the war, he studied general pedagogy and didactics at the Potsdam University of Education, where he obtained the pedagogical doctorate degree in 1957 (Diss .: The content and organization of the cooperation between school and home: examined at the Pestalozzi School in Pirna-Copitz. ). He built up the sports psychology department at the German University of Physical Culture in Leipzig and from 1961 headed the institute for sports psychology, and from 1968 he was a full professor for sports psychology. At the international level, Kunath campaigned for the establishment of sport psychological associations. In 1963 he was one of the founders of the World Federation of Sports Psychologists. He was also instrumental in founding the European Association for Sport Psychology FEPSAC and was president of the organization from 1983 to 1991. In 1991 Kunath retired and was honored with a commemorative publication by his colleagues from Germany. In 2001 he was made an honorary member by the Working Group for Sport Psychology in Germany .

One of his most important publications is the book "Sportpsychologie für alle". As part of his research, Kunath dealt with issues of leadership in sport, the influence of sporting activities on personal development, sport as a contribution to the formation of the socialist type of people and training and competition stress from a sport psychological point of view. In addition, he was intensively involved in training the next generation of sports scientists and supervised more than 160 doctoral students and 35 post-doctoral students. After his retirement he helped u. a. In 2002 she supervised Gustav Weder's dissertation at the University of Göttingen and worked a. a. with Günther Wonneberger , Wolfgang Buss and Arnd Krüger on the history of sports science in the GDR.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Search results: Sport psychology for everyone . 1st edition. Meyer & Meyer Sport, Aachen 2001, ISBN 3-89124-781-8 .
  2. ^ FEPSAC :: Former Managing Councils. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
  3. ^ Kratzer, Hannes & Beier, Günther (Ed.): Contributions to the psychological regulation of sporting activities: Festschrift on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr. Paul Kunath. Cologne: bps-Verl. 1991; ISBN 3-922386-42-3
  4. ↑ a b Jens Broens: Working Group for Sport Psychology | Honors. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Summary: Sports Psychology for Everyone. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Summary: LEADERSHIP FUNCTION AND LEADERSHIP IN SPORT GROUPS. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Summary: Psychological foundations of personality development in sporting activity. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Summary: The contribution of body culture and sport to the development of the socialist type of personality. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Summary: The problem of training and competition stress in the view of the sports psychologist. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
  10. ↑ https://www.sportwissenschaft.de/fileadmin/pdf/dvs-Info/1996/1996_1_kunath.pdf
  11. ↑ Gustav Weder : Optimal action - using the example of high speed: an empirical approach to the psychological regulation of optimal action based on the action spaces sport and aviation. Diss. University of Göttingen 2002. ISBN 3-03708-001-9
  12. ↑ Arnd Krüger & Paul Kunath: The development of sports science in the Soviet zone and the GDR, in: W. BUSS, C. BECKER u. a. (Ed.): Sport in the Soviet Zone and the early GDR. Genesis - structures - conditions. Schorndorf: Hofmann 2001, 351 - 366. ISBN 978-3-7780-0909-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Kunath, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach in Vogtland