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Volume 8 – Outstanding Leader in Sport: Harold W. Henning – Leadership Between Swimming and Politics [in English]

Hans-Georg John

The main concern of the book is to introduce the reader into the manifold challenges and high demands a leader of an international sports organization was continuously encountered . Harold W. Henning, a dental doctor and, besides his professional occupation, an excellent athlete, couch, judge, administrator and leader, run an amazing, unique career which reached its summit in his functions as Hon. Secretary and President of the World Swimming Federation (FINA). Just during his turns of office there were many complicated political, social, economical and other involvements and made high demands on the leadership qualities at the top of an International Sports Federation. The book demonstrates in some selected examples his continuous ridge walk between sports and politics and summarizes his brilliant leadership, success, acknowledgment and distinction inclusive the retroactive effect on the self confidence and ambition.

ISBN: 3-89124-944-6
Aachen Meyer & Meyer Verlag 2002

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Volume 7 – The men around Willibald Gebhardt: Beginnings of the Olympic movement in Europe [in German and English]

Roland Naul/Manfred Lämmer (Hrsg.)

In this book results of the second Willibald Gebhardt symposium are published which took pace in Berlin in 1999 with international participation. The authors of the articles picked out different aspects of the early history of the Olympic movement from 1894 to 1914. The first chapter deals with the development of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since 1894 and provides insight into the world around 1900. Chapter 2 describes persons who supported Dr. Willibald Gebhardt and his efforts for Germany’s participation at the Olympic games. Gebhardt’s biography is further examined with view to his support of fencing in Germany and Austria. In Chapter 3 the beginnings of the Olympic movement in other European countries are portrayed – those countries whose representatives worked together with Gebhardt in the IOC. Also potential influences of the English sport on Coubertin’s idea to organize international Olympic games are studied as well as the resistance against Coubertin’s idea in his home country France. Depictions of the Olympic beginnigs in Sweden, Italy and Russia follow, and at the end particularities of the multiracial state Austro-Hungary from Austrian, Hungarian and Czech point of view are subject of inquiry.

ISBN 3-89124-791-5
Aachen Meyer & Meyer Verlag 2002

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Volume 6 – Floorball: historical development and didactic structure [in German]

Andreas Franke-Thiele

With floorball a stickball game had been developed that is suitable for children according to their individual development, and that now belongs to the canon of modern physical education at school. Elements of its own speak for an integration into school curricula next to hockey and ice-hockey, and also arguments are given which explain the advantage to stickball games traditionally found in physical education curricula. The investigation of floorball as new school game consists of an analysis on three levels. On the historical and intercultural level the genesis of floorball is reconstructed and it is analysed what background for an assimilation had been in Germany. On the sport cultural and sociological level changes of movement opportunities in the environment of children, adults and at school are portrayed and linked with tragets of a future development of sport and physical education at school. With the analysis of the object “floorball” in the syllabus the subject floorball is presented from its functional point of view and compared with hockey as reference. The arguments result in a curricular format that can be used in school physical education as well as in teacher training. Floorball can be used methodically as basic game where other games and sports can be developed from. The volume comprises an extended summary in English.

ISBN 3-89124-790-7
Aachen Meyer & Meyer Verlag 2001

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Volume 5 – Sport science in Germany and Japan [in German and English]

Roland Naul / Yoshinori Okade (Hrsg.)

In the collection, leading sport scientists from Germany and Japan provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the current state of research and development of the history of sport (Krüger, Kusudo), sport education (Grupe, Okade), sport psychology (Fujita, Teipel, Kemper, Miki), movement theory (Asaoka, Roth), sport economics (Hirata, Zieschang), and sport technology (Nakajima, Yatsushiro). It also introduces the results of comparative projects carried out by German and Japanese sport scientists.

ISBN 3-89124-262-X
Aachen Meyer & Meyer Verlag 2000

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Volume 4 – German gymnastics, sport and games at school and in sport clubs. Youth sport between 1870 and 1932. [in German]

Roland Naul/Ludger Jonischeit/Uwe Wick

At the time of the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic, the physical education curriculum included various forms of gymnastics, games and sport, each with its own emphasis. These same elements also lastingly shaped the unregimented physical activity of children and young people and the first clubs that were organised for them in the late 19th and early 20th century. This book provides an overview of the development of school sport, the early days of club gymnastics for schoolchildren, and young people’s sport in games and sports clubs. It includes a historical retrospective of the previously almost unknown early interaction between schools and clubs as institutions for the development of youth sport in the period from 1870 to 1932. The volume comprises an extended summary in English.

ISBN 3-89124-272-7
Aachen Meyer & Meyer Verlag 2000

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