Willi Schröder (sports scientist)

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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
  3. ↑ Obituary Prof. Dr. Willi Schröder
personal data
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