Johannes Runge

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Johannes Runge at the 1904 Olympic Games

Johannes Runge (born January 24, 1878 in Braunschweig ; † November 12, 1949 in Bad Harzburg ) was a German athlete , Olympian and sports official. At the beginning of the 20th century he was the first significant German middle-distance runner and also started in the long jump , triple jump and pole vault .

He was a member and from 1903 to 1914 chairman of FC Eintracht Braunschweig . In 1906 he ended his career and became a sports official. He also served as a soccer referee and wrote several athletics textbooks. He died of a heart attack in 1949 on the day the German Athletics Association was founded.

Sports career

Johannes Runge was initially a football player from 1895. In 1896 he achieved the first registered German best performance in the 1,500 meter run with 4: 32.4 minutes. His 3.20 m in the pole vault of 1897 (Braunschweig) and the 12.17 m in the triple jump of 1898 (Berlin; first German over 12 meters) are also registered as early achievements. By 1906 he set a total of 12 German records.

  • II. Summer Olympics 1900 in Paris : The pedagogy student Johannes Runge was denied permission to start because he was just taking his exams.
  • Johannes Runge won three competitions in the "sighting competitions" held in Hanover on July 24, 1904 for participation in the Olympic Games:
    • 400 m in 53.0 s (German record)
    • 800 m in 1: 59.4 min (German record and first German runner under 2 minutes)
    • Long jump with 6.23 m
In the triple jump he was second with 12.44 m.
  • III. Summer Olympics 1904 in St. Louis : Johannes Runge and Paul Weinstein were the only athletes starting for Germany. As a teacher and thus as a civil servant, Runge had postponed the request for permission to take off until the ship was on the high seas in the direction of New York ; he received a severe reprimand for leaving the service without authorization. He finished fifth in the 800-meter run (1: 57.1 min, estimated) and 1500-meter run (time was not determined).
  • He also took part in the 1906 Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens . Over 800 m he gave up in the preliminary run, in the long jump he finished 12th with 5.90 m.

The 1909 Athletics Yearbook reports on him: There is hardly a second German athlete who has played a role similar to Johannes Runge from the very beginning of our sport's flourishing. For well over a decade he had absolute control over the running distances from 400 to 1500 meters. During his 14-year career, he was only beaten once in a 400-meter race.

Activity as a functionary

After completing his sporting career, Johannes Runge became a functionary in the German Sports Authority for Athletics ( DSBfA ), the forerunner of the German Athletics Association (DLV), from 1906 as an assessor, from 1910 as deputy chairman and from February 16, 1913 as chairman . In 1904 Runge became chairman of the football association for the Duchy of Braunschweig , and from 1909 to 1918 he also served as deputy chairman of the North German Football Association (NFV).

From 1919 on, Runge was a ministerial official responsible for sports training in the Reichswehr . In 1913 he wrote together with Eugen Wagener (sports journalist and sportsman of the DSBfA, 1881-1965) the first German championship in the forest run. As a ministerial official, he built up sport in the German Wehrmacht from 1919. At the end of 1919, he resigned from his honorary posts, as an Allied decree prohibited professional soldiers from holding positions in sport. In 1923 he was a teacher and from 1934 a senior government councilor in the Reichswehr Ministry. He became the editor of military sports publications. He actively campaigned for the popular sports schools in order to spread the idea of ​​military sports among the German population.

In 1914 he took over the chairmanship of the IAAF committee for competition and amateur regulations, after he had already been elected chairman of the committee for preparing the amateur regulations at the second IAAF congress in Berlin in 1913. His special concern was the promotion of women's sports. In 1919 he asked the sports clubs to create departments for women's athletics.

For his services to sport in Lower Saxony , he was accepted both as an athlete and as a sports official in the Lower Saxony Sports Honor Gallery of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History.

References

  1. ↑ Bläsig / Leppert: A Red Lion on the Chest - The Story of Eintracht Braunschweig, Göttingen 2010, page 396.
  2. ^ Football in the Braunschweig region. 60 years NFV Braunschweig district, publisher: NFV Braunschweig district, Goslar 2006, p. 12.
  3. ↑ Jankowski / Pistorius / Prüß: Fußball im Norden, Bremen 2005, pages 200 and 392 f.
  4. ↑ u. a. Runge, Johannes: Youth companies and military gymnastics. Instructions and textbook for youth leaders. (= German Sports Library; Vol. 6. 7) Leipzig: 1918.
  5. ^ Arnd Krüger , Frank von Lojewski: Selected aspects of military sports in Lower Saxony in the Weimar period. In: Hand Langenfeld , Stefan Nielsen (Hrsg.): Contributions to the history of sports in Lower Saxony. Part 2: Weimar Republic. (⇐ NISH series of publications, Vol. 12). Nish, Hoya 1998, ISBN 3-932423-02-X , pp. 124-148.

Publications

  • Johannes Runge: light athletics. Training, technique and tactics of running and jumping. 1908
  • Hermann Nitschmann, Johannes Runge: How do I practice running, jumping, throwing? 1919

literature

Kurt Hoffmeister : pioneer - doer - winner of sport in Lower Saxony. 160 short portraits , Peine 1998, p. 70

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personal data
SURNAME Runge, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1949
Place of death Bad Harzburg