Arnd Krüger

Arnd Krüger ( born July 1, 1944 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia ) is a German track and field athlete, sports historian, professor and director of sports science institute at the University of Göttingen.

Sporting career

Kruger started as a middle distance to 1967 ( with interruption of starts for UCLA ) for the CSV Marathon Krefeld, then joined Bayer Leverkusen, occurred from 1972 to 1974 in Darmstadt for ASC and let his career with the OSC Berlin and TSV Waake finish. Kruger was 1963 German Vice Champion in the 800 - meter race, 1968 and 1969 he was vice- champion in the 1500 meters. In the hall he was in 1966 and 1969 German champion in the 800 meters. Overall, he was 1962-1976 times German champion and twice German University Champion (1964, 1969). In Kruger National jersey was used eleven times. At the Olympic Games in 1968, he left more than 1500 meters in the intermediate run. His best performance in the 800 meters he set in 1966 with 1:47,7 min, 1973 2:20,5 min over 1000 feet, about 1500 meters he reached in 1968 and 1972 respectively 3:38,8 min.

Career

Krüger studied after graduating from the Gymnasium am Moltkeplatz in Krefeld history, English, philosophy, and sports at the University of Mainz, the University of California, Los Angeles, where in 1967 he earned a bachelor's degree, and the University of Cologne, where he eventually 1971 his doctorate with Erich Angermann. This was followed up in 1974 to work as a secretary at the German Sports Federation ( in parallel, lecturer at the Technical University of Darmstadt ) from 1974 to 1978 as a Research Assistant at the Teacher Training College in Berlin at the Department of Physical Education ( in parallel, a lecturer at the trainer academy Cologne). 1978-1980 he was then a professor in the work area training and exercise of the Institute of Sports Science at the University of Hamburg. Since 1980 he has been Professor of Sports Science at the Georg -August- University Göttingen, Head of Dept. ' society and training '. He was elected several times to the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. In 1995 he was the founding President of the European Committee for Sports History. He is since 1990 an International Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology since 1996 Fellow of the European Committee for Sports History, since 2009 Fellow of the Willibald Gebhardt Institute for Sport and Society and in 1981 founding member and since 2000 the chairman of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History. It was the beginning of his high school teachers work a promoter of sports scientists. This is demonstrated more than 50 supervised by him promotions and Habilitation. He is the author / editor of more than 40 books that have been published in 15 languages. He was a visiting professor in Japan and Mexico.

Scandal 2008

Particular caused a stir Kruger giving a presentation at the 2008 annual meeting of the German Association of Sports Sciences (DVS ), in which he grappled with the hostage-taking of Munich during the 1972 Summer Olympics. He put this on the thesis that the Israeli athletes could possibly be gone voluntarily and knowingly to his death, which could be due to an alleged Jewish body awareness. Kruger is accused of methodological shortcomings, but also that his presentation borders on sedition. Kruger has become distant and excused from his theses. In the DVS an exclusion proceeding was initiated, because of its achievements to date, however, only a sharp reprimand was issued. There it was clarified that Kruger's work taken hostage in Munich did not meet the standards of the humanities and social scientific work. The competent Ombudskommission the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen, chaired by a judge to qualified law professor turned but after hearing testimony that: " No scientific misconduct ".