Rainer Ballreich

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Rainer Ballreich (born February 26, 1930 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † October 26, 2010 in Bad Soden-Salmünster ) was a German biomechanic and the leading exponent of physically oriented external biomechanics.

Life

After graduating from the Parier-Gymnasium in Schwäbisch Gmünd, he studied mathematics , physics and physical exercise at the University of Heidelberg and was a competitive athlete who was particularly active in athletics and handball . Among other things, he was in 1948 Württemberg youth champion in the discus throw for TSV Alfdorf . After the first and second state examination for higher teaching, he was teacher at the Friedrich-Eugen-Gymnasium Stuttgart and at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium Stuttgart and lecturer at the Institute of Physical Education of the Technical University of Stuttgart and athletics coach at MTV Stuttgart . From 1960 to 1963 he was the honorary national coach for shot put women of the German Athletics Association as well as in the trainee training. From 1963 to 1967 he was a lecturer in physical education at the Karlsruhe University of Education . In 1965 he was seconded to the Institute for Physical Exercise at the University of Frankfurt , where he received his doctorate in 1969 under Friedrich Fetz in the theory of physical exercises (minor subjects in education and psychology) (Phil. Diss .: Path and time characteristics of sprint movements: a contribution to the theory of movement of physical exercises. January 29, 1969). This was immediately followed by the habilitation (Habil .: long jump analysis: model and results of a multivariable analysis of kinematics and dynamic characteristics of jumping movements . 1970). Thereupon he was initially acting head of the institute and, after being appointed in 1970, he was Fetz's successor to the chair in Frankfurt, where he was professor of biomechanics until 1997 .

Scientific importance

Ballreich had the motion sequences of all athletic exercises recorded by top athletes and other sports using high-frequency cameras and analyzed. Ballreich surpassed what his Stuttgart colleague Toni Nett had recorded with conventional cameras with state-of-the-art technology. These scientific movement analyzes have shaped a generation of physical educators, as he was able to influence the financing of research directions in all decision-making bodies of the Federal Institute for Sports Science and the German Sports Association for Biomechanics. In contrast to the sports science of the GDR , however, no direct connection to training science could be established with this method . In 1987, Ballreich said at an event organized by the DSB that those murdered in the Holocaust in German concentration camps were exaggerated by a factor of 10. Only after the coach Günter Hagedorn , who was present , had a massive follow-up , proceedings were initiated , albeit after the limitation period . This led to his early retirement and his resignation from all bodies of the DSB.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James G. Hay: Sports Biomechanics: A 25-Year Retrospective. Hans-Joachim Menzel; Rüdiger Preiss (Ed.): Research subject sport: Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Rainer Ballreich. Frankfurt / M .: German 1990; ISBN 3-8171-1169-X , pp. 17-29.
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tsv-alfdorf.de
  3. ↑ Henning Haase: Died: Rainer Ballreich. http://www.unireport.info/44479484/ur_ausgabe_2-11.pdf ?
  4. ^ Arnd Krüger & Paul Kunath: The development of sports science in the Soviet zone and the GDR, in: Wolfgang Buss , Christian Becker u. a. (Ed.): Sport in the Soviet Zone and the early GDR. Genesis - structures - conditions. Schorndorf: Hofmann 2001, 351 - 366.
  5. ↑ Sports Policy: Coalition of Silence . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1993 ( online - 12 April 1993 ).
  6. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/TheJournalOfHistoricalReviewVolume13Number5/TheJournalOfHistoricalReviewVolume13-number-5-1993#page/n37/mode/2up/search/Ballreich , p. 36
  7. ↑ https://paedagogikundns.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/vortragskonzepte-zur-ns-zeit-komplett-stand-22-1-12.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Ballreich, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biomechanics
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Gmünd
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 2010
Place of death Bad Soden-Salmünster