Wilfried Ehrler

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Wilfried Ehrler (born May 20, 1929 ; † February 2, 2016 ) was a German sports scientist . He was one of the "founding fathers" of the endurance three-way fight ( triathlon ) in the German Democratic Republic .

Life

Ehrler studied at the German University of Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig in the 1950s . He then worked as a university lecturer at the Institute for Leisure and Recreational Sports at the DHfK. In 1972 he wrote his doctoral thesis on the subject of "Investigations into the applicability of an objectified method of needs assessment of sports facilities in different catchment areas ”.

In his academic work, Ehrler dealt with leisure games such as miniature golf, croquet, pendulum ball, pritshentennis, shuffleboard, indiaca, ring tennis and badminton. Furthermore, topics such as sporting activities in the residential area as well as in companies, the influence of the sports communities of the DTSB of the GDR on the sporting activities of the population, training-scientific aspects of athletics, popular sports aspects of skiing and the area of ​​"endurance training and health", were the focus of his sports science work. Ehrler was a member of the Committee for Recreational Sports on the World Council for Physical Education in Sports.

 Ehrler contributed the essays "The GDR Sports Badge: Between Intention and Reality" and "Triathlon in the GDR: Popular Sport Under Modernization Pressure " to the book "Everyday Sport in the GDR" published by Jochen Hinsching in 1998 .

He also dealt extensively with the sport of triathlon, initially under the name of endurance triathlon. In 1987 he brought out the book "Triathlon: Endurance three-dimensional" together with Christian Menschel and Jochen Meyer. On the occasion of his death in 2016, Ehrler was named by the German Triathlon Union (DTU) as “one of the founding fathers of triathlon in the GDR”.

As head of the "Leipzig Mile Committee", he played a decisive role in the first staging of the Leipzig Cup runs (later city ranking runs). Ehrler was called "Nestor of the Leipzig running movement". In 1984 he was one of the initiators of the first Leipzig endurance triathlon at Lake Kulkwitz . Between 1984 and 2004 he was responsible for organizing the event. In 1990 Ehrler was a founding member of the Leipziger Triathlon eV

After the end of the GDR, Ehrler was involved in the merger of the two professional associations from the FRG and the GDR, temporarily held the office of vice-president of the German Triathlon Union and became honorary president of the DTU in 1994.

As an active athlete, Ehrler took part in the GutsMuths-Rennsteiglauf 27 times and became German champion in rugby .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfried Ehrler: Contributions to the functional adaptation of the organism before the skier's competition with special consideration of warming up . DHfK, 1953 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed July 1, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Wilfried Ehrler: Investigations into the applicability of an objectified procedure for determining the needs of sports facilities in different catchment areas . 1971 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed July 1, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Wilfried Ehrler: Instructions for building and playing miniature golf . 3rd edition Inst. Freizeit- u. Recreational sports d. DHfK, 1981 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed July 1, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Wilfried Ehrler: Leisure games: croquet, pendulum ball, pritshentennis, shuffleboard, Indiaca, ring tennis, badminton . 2nd edition 1976 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed July 1, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Wilfried Ehrler: Recommendations for the establishment and equipment of conditioning rooms in residential buildings and businesses . Working group for leisure and recreational sports DHfK ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on July 1, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Wilfried Ehrler: The design of programs for organized and independent sporting practice . In: Theory and Practice of Physical Culture . tape 22 , no. 4 , 1973, ISSN  0563-4458 , pp. 325–329 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed July 1, 2019]).
  7. ↑ The influence of the sports communities of the DTSB of the GDR on the sports activities of the population: selected. Research results . Inst. For leisure and Recreational sport , 1985 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed July 1, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Wilfried Ehrler: Athletics: Instructions for the trainer . 1. Aufl. Sportverl., 1984 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on July 1, 2019]).
  9. ^ Ernst Herberger: Skiing for everyone . 1st edition Sportverlag, 1972 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed July 1, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Siegfried Israel: Endurance training and health (=  information and argumentation material for health education / 1, 8 ). German Hygiene Museum in d. GDR, Inst. For Health Education , 1979 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on July 1, 2019]).
  11. ↑ Management, industrial relations and training tasks . In: Gerhard Lehmann, Lothar Kalb, Norbert Rogalski, Detlev Schröter and Günther Wonneberger (eds.): German University for Physical Culture Leipzig 1950-1990 . Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8403-0034-9 , pp. 83 .
  12. ↑ Wilfried Ehrler, Frigga Dickwach: The sports badge of the GDR: Between intention and reality . 1998, ISBN 978-3-89124-462-3 , pp. 97–111 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed July 1, 2019]).
  13. ^ Wilfried Ehrler: Triathlon in the GDR: popular sport under pressure to modernize . 1998, ISBN 978-3-89124-462-3 , pp. 259–271 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed July 1, 2019]).
  14. ↑ Neues Deutschland editorial team: Leipzig would be poorer in terms of sport without this triathlon (Neues Deutschland). Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  15. ↑ a b The DTU mourns Dr. Wilfried Ehrler. Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  16. ↑ History of the city ranking list | Leipzig is running. Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Wilfried Ehrler died - We mourn a good sportsman and our honorary member. Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Founder of the Leipzig Triathlon turns 80. Accessed on July 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ehrler, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1929
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 2016