Willi Nitschke

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Willi Nitschke (born January 4, 1912 in Prinzdorf, Bunzlau district , † June 13, 1981 ) was a German sports educator .

Life

Born in Prinzdorf in the Lower Silesian district of Bunzlau  , Nitschke passed the Abitur exams in 1931, studied at the Cottbus and Halle University of Education from 1931 to 1933 and then worked as a teacher in Alt-Schönau in his homeland in Lower Silesia from 1933 . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP , from the same year Nitschke had a position as a high school teacher at the Army Technical School Sagan (also Lower Silesia).

He took as a soldier of the Wehrmacht at the World War II in part, from 1942 he held the rank of lieutenant. Nitschke deserted and was a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union . He attended an Antifa school in Krasnogorsk and accepted membership of the NKFD . Following his return to Germany in 1946, Nitschke became a member of the SED . He worked on the island of Rügen  as a lecturer at the Institute for Teacher Training Putbus (1947 to 1950), from 1951 he taught at the Pedagogical Faculty of the University of Greifswald and between 1951 and 1953 at the University of Rostock . At the University of Greifswald he became director of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism and at the University of Rostock head of the department “Basics of Marxism-Leninism”.

In 1953, Nitschke switched to teaching at the German University for Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig , where he took up the post of Vice-Rector for Social Sciences. In 1955 his doctoral thesis on the subject of "The struggle of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung for the national liberation of the peoples in the revolutionary period of 1848/49 (with special consideration of the Polish, Hungarian and Czech national liberation movements)" was accepted at the University of Leipzig . In 1955 and 1956 Nitschke was the acting rector of the DHfK. From 1959 he was director of the DHfK Institute for Marxism-Leninism.

In 1961 he published the work “Can sport be neutral? on the character of physical culture and sport in both German states ”. He completed his habilitation in 1966 (title: “The role of national consciousness in the intellectual development of the German gymnastics and sports movement (a philosophical-historical investigation)”). Between 1955 and 1972 Nitschke was chairman of the city committee “ National Front ” in Leipzig . In 1971, together with Lothar Kleine, he published the essay "Scientific Theory Thoughts on a System of Sports Science".

He was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1971 , and he also received the Dr. Theodor Neubauer Medal and the GDR Medal of Merit .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Nitschke, Willi - Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Baumgartner, Gabriele & Hebig, Dieter (Ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. Volume 2 . KG Saur, 1996, ISBN 978-3-11-169913-4 , pp. 602 .
  3. ^ The struggle of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung for the national liberation of the peoples in the revolutionary period of 1848/49. In: katalog.ub.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  4. ^ Rectors of the DHfK . 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. 12 .
  5. ↑ Can the sport be neutral? In: katalog.ub.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ The role of national consciousness in the intellectual development of the German gymnastics and sports movement. In: katalog.ub.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Willi Nitschke: SCIENCE Theoretical considerations TO A SYSTEM OF SPORT SCIENCE . In: Scientific journal of the German University for Physical Culture . tape 13 , no. 3/4 , 1971, ISSN  0457-3919 , p. 65–68 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed February 9, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Nitschke, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports knowledge educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Prinzdorf
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1981