Richard Riecken

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Richard Riecken (born September 28, 1935 in Hamburg ; † September 12,  2004 ) was a German sports educator and university professor .

Life

Riecken, who was born in the Hamburg district of Altona , came to Großdrebnitz in Saxony during the Second World War as part of the children's area . There he attended elementary school until 1950, later he completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter at the Sachsenwerk and completed his studies at the University of Education in Leipzig. From 1954 to 1960 Riecken worked as a teacher in Berlin  , including at the children's and youth sports school . At the same time, he ran athletics  (middle-distance running) and was involved as an athletics trainer in the unity of pedagogy and SC Dynamo Berlin .

In 1960 Riecken became a research assistant at the Pedagogical Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin , from 1962 he also completed a degree in educational science , which he completed in 1967, and in 1971 he obtained a doctorate in the same subject. In 1972 he was promoted to senior research assistant at the Humboldt University. In 1975 Riecken was doing research at the Department of Didactics at the University of Warsaw , and in 1977 he took up a position as a university lecturer for didactics at the Humboldt University.

In 1979 Riecken moved to the German University for Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig , where he worked as a lecturer in sports education in the field of sports psychology / sports education. In 1981 he completed his habilitation (subject: "To promote high-performing students in the compulsory teaching of the middle and upper level of the general polytechnic high school") and one year later he became professor for sports education at the DHfK and head of the sports education science department, after graduating from sports psychology had been separated and moved to a separate area. Among other things, Riecken headed the collective of authors who wrote the study book “Sports Pedagogy”, which was published in several editions, and also dealt with development issues in sports pedagogy in the German Democratic Republic . He was instrumental in preparing and organizing the 1983 symposium on "Sports Education, Physical Education and Personality" in Potsdam on behalf of the UNESCO World Council for Sport Science and Physical Education . His main research areas included didactics, the structure and promotion of educational processes, support measures for high-performing students and aspects of promoting talent.

After the end of the GDR and the liquidation of the DHfK, Riecken was part of the founding committee of the Sports Science Faculty of the University of Leipzig , was involved in its preparation and establishment and, when the company started operating in 1993, took over the professorship for sports education and the management of the institute for sports psychology and sports education. From 1996 to 1999 Riecken was dean of the sports science faculty. In 1995 and 1996 he headed the research project “Professional careers of graduates of the sports science degree in Leipzig” and from 1996 to 1998 the project “Approaches and conditions for environmental education in sports clubs”. Riecken examined the challenges of reunification from a sporting perspective and in relation to a change in social values. He was one of the directors of the project “Analysis and optimization of processes in the design of sports-oriented schools in the Free State of Saxony into centers for the educational and sporting promotion of talented children and young people in competitive sports”, which was carried out from 2000 to 2004.

He was active as chairman of the sponsoring association of the sports science faculty of the University of Leipzig and from 1998 to 2003 as editor-in-chief of the "Leipzig Sports Science Contributions".

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  • Helmut Kirchgässner & Jürgen Krug: "Obituary: Richard Riecken - A Life for Leipzig Sports Science", In: Leipzig Sports Science Contributions, 2004 - Issue 1 (45), pp. 168–170
  • Obituary for Prof. Richard Riecken
  • Wolfram Sperling: On the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr. Richard Riecken, In: Leipzig Sports Science Contributions, 2000 - Issue 2 (41), pp. 161–163

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To support high-performing students in the compulsory classes of the middle and upper grades of the general polytechnic high school. In: hu-berlin.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Sports pedagogy / (=  study texts for distance learning on the subject of sports pedagogy ). 3rd edition, unchanged. Reprint Dt. Hochsch. für Körperkultur ,, 1987 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on January 15, 2019]).
  3. ^ Richard Riecken: Trends and Problems of the Development of Sports Education in the GDR . In: Scientific journal of the German University for Physical Culture . tape 25 , no. 1 , 1984, ISSN  0457-3919 , pp. 43–56 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed January 15, 2019]).
  4. ^ Richard Riecken: Professional career of graduates of the diploma course in sports science Leipzig. 1995, accessed January 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Richard Riecken: Approaches and conditions for environmental education in sports clubs. 1996, accessed January 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Richard Riecken: On epistemological and practice-related challenges to sport and its classification in the dynamics of social value change with special consideration of the reunification of Germany. Approaches to organized sport in the state capital Dresden. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Klaus Rost: Analysis and optimization of processes in the design of the sports-oriented schools in the Free State of Saxony into centers for the educational and sports promotion of talented children and young people in competitive sports. 2000, accessed January 15, 2019 .
  8. ↑ History | Leipzig sports science contributions. In: Leipzig sports science contributions. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Riecken, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports pedagogue and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 2004