Willi Schröder (sports scientist)
Willi Schröder (born July 15, 1927 in Schönebeck / Elbe ; † May 8, 2012 in Jena ) was a German sports scientist and sports historian at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .
In the last year of the war, when he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, Schröder worked as a farm laborer after the end of the war, before completing his Abitur in 1947. He then studied German , history and sports in Halle (Saale) . After completing his studies, he became a lecturer at the Institute for Physical Education in Halle in 1952 and received his doctorate at the same time in 1958 at the University of Leipzig on a sport-historical topic: The image of Jahn in the German gymnastics and sports movement. He was part of the Leipzig group of young sports historians around Günther Wonneberger , which dominated the GDR's sports history for the next forty years. In Halle, Schröder was one of the young activists who replaced the institute's director Gerhard Lukas , who had contacts with the West as a former NSDAP member. However, Schröder only became acting director in Halle for a short time. Since Lukas was an unofficial employee of the Stasi , he was soon reinstated and Schröder was compensated with the management of the sports institute in Jena . In 1959, Schröder was given a probationary teaching position at the University of Jena and after one semester was appointed director, which he remained until the fall of the Berlin Wall . Schröder was also a city councilor for the SED in Jena. After his habilitation, boy gymnast in the struggle for unity and freedom , he received a full professorship for sports science in 1966. He was the leading head of tradition maintenance in sport in the GDR. A large number of traditional cabinets and association chronicles go back to his work. At the turn of 1989/90 he was the chairman of the round table on sport in Jena. He retired in 1992.
As a patron, Schröder helped the GutsMuths Rennsteiglauf run through all problems of the organization of the ultra-long courses rejected by the DTSB since 1975 . From 1990 to 2000 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History .
Awards
- 1966 GutsMuths Prize 2nd class and 1974 1st class a. a. for the design of the GutsMuths memorial
Web links
- Literature by and about Willi Schröder in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnd Krüger (1990): Puzzle Solving: German Sport Historiography of the Eighties. In: Journal of Sport History 17 (2), 261-277; http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1990/JSH1702/jsh1702h.pdf
- ^ Hans-Georg Kremer: The founding history of the institute for physical education , pp. 1346-1373, in: Uwe Hoßfeld u. a. (Ed.): University in Socialism: Studies on the history of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. 1945-1990 . Vienna: Böhlau 2007
- ↑ Obituary Prof. Dr. Willi Schröder
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schröder, Willi |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sports scientist and sports historian at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1927 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Schönebeck / Elbe |
DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 2012 |
Place of death | Jena |