Alfred Alsleben (athlete)

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Alfred Alsleben

Alfred Carl Alsleben (Latvian: Alfrēds Alslēbens) (born July 24, 1891 in Riga , Livonia Governorate ; † November 26, 1930 in Riga, Latvia ) was a German-Baltic athlete and officer. He was a co-founder (1909) and board member of the Hagensberg gymnastics and sports club.

Life

As the sporty son of Alfred Woldemar August Alsleben , Alsleben set records in athletics as a student at the Riga secondary school . He was the Baltic champion in the high jump (1.77 m) and long jump (6.62 m), Saint Petersburg champion in the high jump, brilliant gymnast and football goalkeeper of the Riga city selection. In the decathlon he took part in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm for Russia . He was eleventh out of 27 athletes. But none of the 178 Russian athletes or those competing for Russia achieved an Olympic victory. In Riga, Alsleben was the leading figure of the Hagensberg gymnastics and sports club and goalkeeper of the Hagensberg I.

Since there at that time in the Russian Empire , a military service was, but only the eldest son to the Imperial Russian Army was conscripted, he enlisted as a one-year volunteer . He was able to choose his regiment himself and went to the 3rd Imperial Hussars in Mariampol in Lithuania. The regiment owner was the Tsar's daughter Olga Nikolaevna Romanowa . Alsleben had to bring his parade uniform and his black horse and his father had to pay for the high costs. When the war broke out in 1914, the young Alsleben had just become a lieutenant, and participated in the entire First World War . He suffered a wound , was appointed Rittmeister and received the Order of Anne from the hand of Princess Olga in Petersburg. After the October Revolution he served in many armies, for example in the Joint Army as an interpreter , in the Red Army (the Bolsheviks ) as a gymnastics instructor , with Anton Ivanovich Denikin in Odessa as a tank driver and as an aviator for the French operating in the Ukrainian-Soviet war . He was abandoned in Varna , Bulgaria, because of typhus . He survived in the vineyards, founded a band and played in a restaurant. He wrote the scores himself. In 1920 he made his way to Riga via Vienna and Berlin.

He became an accountant at the French company Huguenin Frères . Afterwards, drafted again, he served as a captain in the Latvian cavalry regiment. He then went to Chrysler's automobile dealership in Riga as an accountant . In local politics he was active on the German list (homeowners). In terms of sport, he was again very active in the Hagensberg gymnastics and sports club, he also took part in competitions. In gymnastics he became a Latvian master. He returned home from the German Gymnastics Festival in Munich in 1923 (gymnastics, pentathlon) and the German Gymnastics Festival in Cologne in 1928 with wreaths . As a gymnast (1922-1930) and gymnast (1926/27) of the Hagenberger gymnastics and sports club, he played a key role in the upswing of this large German club in the Baltic region. As a gymnastics and sports instructor for athletics, he brought the athletic performance to a previously unknown level. An idol for many , he succumbed to meningitis . Remaining unmarried and only 39 years old, he was buried in the Martins cemetery in Riga. Horst Alsleben is a nephew.

“[Alsleben] is a pioneer of the new movement that came to us from Germany and that is gradually starting to gain a foothold here - physical exercise. In a very emotional way he recognized physical exercise as a German cultural asset, since he was self-taught in this area, and he used all his creative and labor power for this cause. In order to promote this healthy movement, in order to be able to take up the fight with our backward views on the field of physical exercise, he did not get involved in theoretical arguments or discussions, but rather took a path that until now no one had found - him won over the youth, the youth who suffered most from our backwardness, and thus provided practical proof that he was on the right track. The youth, neglected in this field by the school, flocked in large droves, because they felt they had found a teacher, a comrade who knew how to support them in their natural urge to move freely, to fight and to play. "

- Rigasche Rundschau , No. 271, of November 29, 1930

Alfred, also known as Fredy among young people, was one of the sports pioneers of that time from 1903 to 1914 not only in Riga and the Baltic States, but also abroad .

Honors

Hussar in the Imperial Russian Army (1913)

Sporting successes

The Riga press often reported on Alfred Alsleben's sporting achievements and successes. The following are to be mentioned:

  • First place in the three-way fight ( high jump , javelin throw , 800 meter run ) at the Junior Sports Festival of the General Cyclists Union in Riga on September 2, 1909.
  • First places in the long jump and in the javelin throw at the autumn sports festival of the General Cyclists Union in Riga on August 29, 1910
  • At the external spring sports festival of the General Cyclists Union in 1911 in Riga, he set a new Russian record in the high jump.
  • First place in the three-way fight (long jump, 400-meter run, javelin throw) at the sports festival of the Wolmarschen Radfahrverein on June 24, 1911 in Wolmar.
  • First place in the long jump at the championship of the Baltic provinces at the autumn sports festival of the General Cyclists Union in Riga on September 11, 1911.
  • Eleventh in the decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm with the following results: 100 m 12.2 sec, long jump 6.27 m, ball 8.48 m, high jump 1.70 m, discus 29.21 m, 110 m hurdles 19, 5 sec, pole vault ./., Spear 37.34 m, 1500 m 5.08.6 min
  • First place in the high jump and second place in the long jump at the Sports Festival of the General Cyclists Union on September 16, 1912 in Riga.
  • First place in the high jump at the big sports festival of the General Cyclists Union in Riga on May 19, 1913

See also

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Printed sources

  • Archive German-Baltic Genealogical Society V. Darmstadt.

Unprinted sources

  • Latvian State Historical Archives, civil status archives, call number: LVVA – 2996–1–8214.
  • Herbert Oskar Alsleben: Family Chronicle Alsleben , Part I.–II. Riga 1933, part III. Gardelegen 1995. (unpublished)

Web links

Commons : Alfred Alsleben (sportsman)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family Chronicle Alsleben, Part II. Riga 1933, p. 6. (unpublished)
  2. ^ Latvian State Historical Archives, Riga. Civil status archive, signature: LVVA-2996-1-8214
  3. ^ Latvian Sports Museum in Riga
  4. ^ Family Chronicle Alsleben, Part II. Riga 1933 (unpublished).
  5. ↑ Rigasche Rundschau, September 3, 1909.
  6. ↑ Rigasche Rundschau, October 10, 1925.
  7. ↑ Family Chronicle Alsleben, Part II. Riga 1933, p. 49, Sport in der Jugendzeit. (Unpublished)
  8. ^ Letter from the Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté from Stockholm on September 6, 1976 from the Deputy General Secretary Wolf Lyberg.
  9. ↑ Chronicle of the 1912 Olympic Games. Photo of the invasion of the Russian team at the opening parade of the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.
  10. ^ Family Chronicle Alsleben, part I. Riga 1933, p. 49, part II. Riga 1933, p. 6. (unpublished)
  11. ^ Family Chronicle Alsleben, Part II. Riga 1933, p. 6. (unpublished).
  12. ↑ Family Chronicle Alsleben, Part II. Riga 1933, p. 7. (unpublished.)
  13. ^ Family chronicle Alsleben, part II. Riga 1933, p. 7. (unpublished).
  14. ^ Family chronicle Alsleben, part II. Riga 1933, p. 7. (unpublished).
  15. ↑ Rigasches Rundschau, May 24, 1911.
  16. ↑ Rigasche Zeitung, May 25, 1911.
  17. ↑ Family Chronicle Alsleben, Part II. Riga 1933, p. 7.
  18. ↑ Family Chronicle Alsleben, Part II. Riga 1933, p. 7.
  19. ↑ Rigasche Zeitung, June 29, 1911.
  20. ↑ Rigasche Rundschau, November 27, 1930.
  21. ^ Family chronicle Alsleben, part I. Riga 1933, p. 49, Sport in der Jugendzeit. (unpublished)
  22. ↑ Rigasche Zeitung, September 1, 1910.
  23. ↑ Rigasche Zeitung, June 29, 1911.
  24. ↑ Rigasche Zeitung, September 14, 1911.
  25. ↑ Letter from the Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté, Stockholm on September 6, 1976 to Ms. Edith Kern in West Berlin for Mr. Herbert Alsleben in Gardelegen, was only possible because of the control of western correspondence at the time.
  26. ↑ Rigasche Zeitung, September 17, 1912.
  27. ↑ Rigasche Zeitung, May 20, 1913.
personal data
SURNAME Alsleben, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alfrēds Alslēbens (Latvian spelling); Alsleben, Fredy (common name); Alsleben, Alfred Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic athlete in Riga
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1930
Place of death Riga