Egon Steinkamp passed away on June 12 at the age of 96. From 1980 until his retirement in March 1988, he was professor or university professor for didactics of physical education at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster.
As a student he was drafted as an air force helper in Münster at the end of the war and became a prisoner of war. In 1947 he passed his Abitur and then studied English, mathematics and physical education for the teaching profession. For two semesters (1949/50) he studied at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the Normal College of the American Gymnastic Union was located. After a traineeship and school service at the Schillergymnasium Münster, he received his doctorate in American Studies in 1956. From 1961 to 1966, Steinkamp taught as a senior teacher at the German School in Rome. In 1971 he became a lecturer at the Westphalia-Lippe University of Education, Münster Department, with teaching duties for the subject of physical education, and in 1975 he became a full professor of physical education and its didactics. When the PH was integrated into the University of Münster in 1980 as part of the university reform, he received the title of university professor in 1987.
Professor Steinkamp was not only a popular and respected university teacher, but also a researcher in the field of American literature and sports. Inspired by his studies in the United States, he wrote a book in 1973 on "Sports and Race. The Black Athlete in the United States." His biography of "Gottfried von Cramm," the German "tennis baron" is also still read today (1990).

- Obituary by Michael Krüger (with the help of Sabine Happ and Klaus Prange