Wilhelm Henze (sports scientist)

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Peter Wilhelm Henze (born March 8, 1910 in Steigerthal ; † December 20, 2004 in Göttingen ) was a German sports scientist , sports historian and sports official .

After studying history, geography, German literature and physical exercises at the Georg-August University of Göttingen (1st state examination in 1932) and legal clerkship (2nd state examination in 1936), he first became an assistant and later a senior assistant with Bernhard Zimmermann in Göttingen , where Henze in the SA entered. After Zimmermann's compulsory retirement, Henze became acting director of the institute before doing his military service as an officer in World War II . He defended his historical dissertation (Dr. phil.), Which was largely completed before the war, during a leave from the front in 1941 . During the war he was appointed director of the institute for physical exercises at the University of Halle in absentia , a position he did not take because he did not want to work in the Soviet occupation zone after the war . After the war he worked as an archivist at the monastery chamber of Hanover until he was denazified ("fellow traveler") before returning to Göttingen in 1948 as (initially acting) director of the Institute for Physical Activity. In 1972 he was appointed to the first chair for sports science in Göttingen, which he held until his retirement in 1978.

After 1945, Henze was a founding member and secretary of the Working Group of Institute Directors for Physical Exercise (AID). In 1980 he was the riding discipline of the General German University Sports Association, President, later Honorary President of the Lower Saxony Association for Modern Pentathlon and President of the German Association for Modern Pentathlon (in the capacity of the person responsible for the pentathlon at the 1972 Olympic Games ). As a board member of the International Association for Modern Pentathlon , he pushed through the pentathlon for women against much resistance. He was the founding president of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History .

Henze was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class , the Medal of Honor of the Conference of Ministers of Education , the Dr. Bernhard Zimmermann Medal and a number of other honorary prizes. For his services to sport in Lower Saxony , he was accepted into the gallery of honor of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History. A large part of his estate is in the archive of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History .

Publications (selection)

  • Motivation in sport . K. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1971.
  • Game and competition . K. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1970.
  • The design . K. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1967.
  • The performance . K. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1964.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Henze: The fencing and dueling at the University of Göttingen: 1734-1940. Phil. Diss. Göttingen 1941, DNB 570320488 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Buss , Arnd Krüger (Ed.): Sports history. Maintaining tradition and changing values. Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. W. Henze . Mecke, Duderstadt 1985, ISBN 3-923453-03-5 .
  3. ↑ Buss, Wolfgang (2012): Wilhelm Henze - biographical notes on an unbroken career from the Nazi dictatorship to the federal republican democracy. In: Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History eV (Ed.): Yearbook 2011/12 . Printed by Hubert & Co .: Hanover, 37-66.
  4. ↑ Arnd Krüger , Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe (ed.): Learn sports history from biographies. Festschrift for the 90th birthday of Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Henze . NISH, Hoya 2000, ISBN 3-932423-07-0 .
  5. ^ Rolf Dieckmann (Ed.): Sportpraxis und Sportwissenschaft. Festschrift for the 70th birthday v. Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Henze . Hofmann, Schorndorf 1980.
  6. ^ Uta Engels: Now the Problem Modern Pentathlon for Ladies. On the role of Prof. Dr. Peter Wilhelm Henze on the development of the modern women's pentathlon . In: Arnd Krüger , Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe (Hrsg.): Learn sports history from biographies. Festschrift for the 90th birthday of Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Henze . NISH, Hoya 2000, pp. 47-66 .
  7. ^ Arnd Krüger : In Memoriam Wilhelm Henze . In: Yearbook of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History . NISH, Hoya 2004, pp. 1-4 .
  8. ↑ http://nish.de/index.php/archiv.html

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personal data
SURNAME Henze, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henze, Peter Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports scientist, sports historian and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Steigerthal
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 2004
Place of death Goettingen