Adolf Grahn

Adolf Grahn (born July 23, 1841 in Hanover ; † September 2, 1916 there ) was a German businessman , sports official and gymnastics warden . The “gymnastics father” influenced gymnastics in Lower Saxony for decades and, with a 36-year term in office, is considered the longest-serving gymnastics leader in Lower Saxony.

Life

The hall of the Gymnastics Club in Hanover on Maschstrasse became the focus of gymnastics training in the German Empire

Adolf Grahn was the son of a police director . After attending the higher middle school , he began his career in the Hanoverian cotton spinning and weaving mill in 1857 , still under the Kingdom of Hanover . From the secure professional position there and without a family of his own, Grahn was able to devote all of his free time to gymnastics . In 1861 he became a member of the Gymnastics Club in Hanover (TKH), from 1867 he was gymnastics warden. According to the city of Hanover's address book from 1868, Grahn lived at Schillerstrasse 16 II at that time .

Grahn had to give up his activity as a gym teacher after 23 years due to a hearing impairment.

After the proclamation of the German Empire , Adolf Grahn was the chairman (“district representative”) of the “VI. Turnkreis Hannover-Braunschweig ”. Under his leadership, the training of gymnastics teachers and pre-gymnasts began, and regular "pre-gymnastics training courses" began in the hall of the TKH, which thus became the "focus of the gymnastics training for the entire gymnastics group". On his 25th anniversary as a district representative, Grahn donated 2500 marks to an accident insurance company .

In 1911 Grahn resigned from his sports office. He died at the time of the First World War in 1916.

Honors

Part of Spittastrasse, which was laid out in 1894 in the Hanover district of Vahrenwald , was renamed Grahnstrasse in 1937 .

In 1988 Adolf Grahn was included in the "Honor Portal" of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History (NISH).

literature

Lothar Wieser (Red.): Sport in Hanover. From the foundation of the city until today. 1st edition. Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History, Hoya 1991, ISBN 3-923478-56-9 , p. 54.
Kurt Hoffmeister: pioneer - doer - winner of sport in Lower Saxony. 160 short portraits. Braunschweig 1998, pp. 156-171.
Dirk Böttcher : GRAHN, Adolf. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 134.

Web links

Arnd Krüger (responsible): ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Adolf Grahn ) with a portrait photograph of the “gymnastics father” on the website of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History, last accessed on December 24, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nish.de

References and comments

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Dirk Böttcher: GRAHN ... (see literature)
↑ Compare the GND number of the German National Library .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Arnd Krüger (responsible): Adolf Grahn (see under the section web links ).
↑ Compare the information in GenWiki .
↑ Note: Deviating from the information on resignation (arithmetically in 1890) on the NISH website (see the section on web links ), the Hannoversche Biographische Lexikon indicates employment as tower warden from 1867 to 1900.
^ Helmut Zimmermann : Grahnstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 96.

personal data
SURNAME	Grahn, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German businessman, gymnastics supervisor and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH	July 23, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	September 2, 1916
Place of death	Hanover

[HBL-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Dirk Böttcher: GRAHN ... (see literature)

[2] Compare the GND number of the German National Library .

[NISH-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Arnd Krüger (responsible): Adolf Grahn (see under the section web links ).

[4] Compare the information in GenWiki .

[5] Note: Deviating from the information on resignation (arithmetically in 1890) on the NISH website (see the section on web links ), the Hannoversche Biographische Lexikon indicates employment as tower warden from 1867 to 1900.

[6] Helmut Zimmermann : Grahnstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 96.