Adolf Dorner

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Adolf Dorner (1840-1892)

Carl Adolf Dorner , also Carl Adolph Dorner , (born August 12, 1840 in Markersdorf , Kr. Guben , † March 17, 1892 in Berlin ) was a German gymnastics teacher and municipal gymnastics supervisor in Berlin.

Dorner came from a Lusatian family who had been a country teacher without interruption since the peasants were liberated. One of his maternal uncle was the entrepreneur Johann Carl Kupka , founder of a factory in Schkeuditz and market leader in the field of millstone sharpening tools for decades.

His son Adolf (1887–1963) should be mentioned among his children because he played a certain role in their upbringing under National Socialism ; he wrote a book entitled "Mathematics in the Service of National Political Education" (Diesterweg Verlag, 1936).

His granddaughter Rotraut Dorner (1915–1995) was married to field handball player and so-called “Herberger des Handball” (cf. Munzinger archive) Fritz Fromm (1913–2001), who won Olympic gold in 1936 and vice world champion in 1954 as national coach with his handball team has been.

Fields of activity

  • Municipal gymnastics supervisor and gymnastics teacher in Berlin (Königsstädtisches Gymnasium and Realgymnasium as well as at the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster)
  • 2nd chairman of the Berlin gymnastics council
  • Gymnastics warden and chairman of the gymnastics association of Berlin teachers
  • Member and 1st secretary of the Berlin gymnastics teachers association
  • Member of the board of the Brandenburg gymnastics teachers association
  • District representative and district gymnastics supervisor of the German gymnastics district Mark Brandenburg
  • the Kgl. The Ministry of Education used him to edit the guidelines for physical education in Prussian schools

Honors

In 1893 he renamed itself in honor of the men's gymnastics club Reinickendorf in gymnastics club Dorner (since 1947 Reinickendorfer Füchse ). Furthermore, the Dorner Foundation for Orphaned Children of Merited Turner was named and established after him.

literature

  • Euler, Carl (1894): Encyclopedic Handbook of the Entire Gymnastics and the Related Areas , Leipzig, Volume I (Art. Dorner).
  • Reinickendorfer Füchse eV (1966): From Jahn to Dorner - From Hasenheide to Reinickendorf , in: 75 years of Reinickendorfer Füchse eV, Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Dorner, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dorner, Carl Adolf (full name); Dorner, Carl Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnastics teacher and municipal gymnastics supervisor in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Markersdorf , district of Guben
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1892
Place of death Berlin