Siegfried Melchert

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Siegfried Melchert (* 1936 in Schmolsin ; † September 14, 2013 in Potsdam ) was a German sports historian and university professor .

Life

Melchert lived in Schmolsin in the Upper Pomerania until 1947 and went to school there too. After the German population - the now Polish community - had to leave as a result of the Bierut decrees , his family was relocated to Thuringia . There he attended in Ilmenau school, where he also in 1955 High School took off and then for a year as a home educator worked. From 1956 to 1961 Melchert completed a teaching degree at the University of Jena for the subjects of history, sport and art education.

In 1966 Melchert received his doctorate at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Jena (see publications) and worked until 1970 as a specialist at the Ministry of Higher Education . In the following years he taught at the Humboldt University in Berlin , the University of Education in Zwickau and the University of Education "Karl Liebknecht" (since 1991 University of Potsdam ).

Melchert completed his habilitation in Potsdam in 1976, where he worked as a lecturer from 1979 and was appointed to a full professorship in 1989 . He also taught as a visiting professor in Minsk and Saint Petersburg .

In 1994 Siegfried Melchert became a full member of the Petrowskaya Academy of Sciences and Arts in Saint Petersburg and from 1999 was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Kashubian Museum in Kartuzy and a member of the editorial board of the Kaszubskie Zeszyty Muzealne project .

In 2001 Melchert left university. After that, he was primarily involved in the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Society , for which he received the Society's golden badge of honor in 2006 and was made an honorary member in 2008. Melchert was married and had five children.

Fonts (selection)

  • State political education of the West German gymnastics and sports youth. 1949-1965. Dissertation from February 3, 1966, University of Jena.
  • with Siegfried Harmel and Norbert Heise: Sport und Recht: Handbuch für den Sportpädagogen. Sportverlag, Berlin 1982 (2nd edition 1986).
  • Sports cadre formation in the USSR - Thoughts on the further development of sports cadre formation in the GDR: a study on the goal, content and process of sports cadre formation at the Leningrad Institute for Physical Culture P. F. Lesgaft in the field of social science disciplines of sports science and trends in scientific development in this area. Pedagogical University "Karl Liebknecht", Potsdam 1985.
  • Gymnastics and sports history in Brandenburg. Brandenburgische Verlags- und Druckgesellschaft, Potsdam 1995. (without ISBN)
  • Popular children's and youth games in Pomerania in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Childhood and youth in the modern age 1500–1900 (Ed. Werner Buchholz ) Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07259-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b short vita. Retrieved September 24, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Obituary. on GYMmedia.de, accessed on September 24, 2013.
  3. ↑ 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 .
  4. ↑ Kaszubskie Zeszyty Muzealne ( Memento from December 7, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on rastko.net, accessed on December 7, 2013.
  5. ↑ List of awards from the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Society. ( Memento of September 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on September 24, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Melchert, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports historian, university professor and specialist author
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmolsin
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 2013
Place of death Potsdam