Alfred Böttcher (gymnastics teacher)

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Alfred Böttcher (born April 6, 1851 in Görlitz ; died June 12, 1912 in Hanover ) was a German gymnastics teacher , city gymnastics inspector, association official and textbook author.

Life

Alfred Böttcher was the son of the Görlitz gymnastics teacher Alfred Moritz Böttcher (1820–1907) or Moritz Böttcher or August Moritz Böttcher and attended the Augustum-Annen-Gymnasium there .

During the Franco-German War from 1870 to 1871, Böttcher served as a war volunteer . He then completed training as a teacher in Berlin . After his teacher examination in 1872, he took on a position as a gymnastics teacher in Leipzig , then in Zwickau in 1875 . From 1875 to 1890 he worked as a gymnastics teacher at the General Bremer Gymnastics Club in Bremen , where in 1879 his instructions for gymnastics . Pre-gymnasts for advice and action. A collection of examples ... appeared.

In 1890 Böttcher moved to Hanover, where he took over the management of the entire Hanover school gymnastics system in the same year. He called for school class gymnastics and promoted the subject teacher system. In 1892 he was appointed city gymnastics inspector in Hanover. In the same year his work, written together with Arno Kunaath, was published, course for boys' gymnastics at elementary school . In 1897 Böttcher published his course for girls' gymnastics , which appeared in several editions until the beginning of the 20th century. In 1904 Böttcher's playbook for girls was published . The city gymnastics inspector supported the organization of courses for gymnastics teachers.

Under Alfred Böttcher's influence, numerous gyms were built in Hanover from the 1890s. During the same period, under his direction, holiday games were set up for elementary school students and playgrounds were created for "game afternoons" for students from higher education institutions.

As a member of the Gymnastics Club in Hanover, Böttcher worked on a voluntary basis as its secretary. He also acted as chairman of the local gymnastics teachers 'association, until 1908 as managing director of the North German gymnastics teachers' association and the north-west German gymnastics teachers 'association, and for a short time as chairman of the German gymnastics teachers' association.

In the year of his death, according to the address book, city and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden as well as the village of Ricklingen and the colony of Leinhausen in 1912, Böttcher lived on the third floor of the house in Ifflandstrasse 17 in the Hanover district of Südstadt .

Honors

In 1988 Alfred Böttcher was accepted into the honor portal of Lower Saxony sports.

Fonts

  • Pre-gymnastics for advice and action! A collection of examples of regular, free, stick and device exercises for regular club gymnastics, set up in three stages ... , Bremen: Heinsius, 1879
    • ... set up and worked on ... together with examples from the show gymnastics regulations of the General Bremen Gymnastics Club , Bremen: Heinsius, 1888
  • Course for boys' gymnastics in elementary schools - Explanations of the curriculum for gymnastics lessons at the citizen schools of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover, presented to the gymnastics teachers at elementary schools by Alfred Böttcher , with illustrations and music examples, Hanover: Meyer, 1892
  • August Ravenstein, Alfred Böttcher: Volksturnbuch in the sense of Jahn, Eiselen and Spieß and according to the principles adopted in Berlin on August 11, 1861 by the assembly of German gymnastics teachers. A leader in the field of men's and club gymnastics , Frankfurt am Main: Sauerländer, 1894
  • Course for boys' gymnastics in elementary schools. Comments on the curriculum for physical education at the public schools of ... Hannover , Hannover: Meyer, 1895
  • Alfred Böttcher, Arno Kunath: Course for girls' gymnastics , Hanover [u. a.]: Meyer, 1897
    • ... with an appendix “permanent exercises”, gym instructors presented by Alfred Böttcher and Arno Kunath , 3rd, modified and expanded edition, Hanover; Berlin: Meyer, 1906
  • Game book for girls , 1904

literature

  • Klaus Reinartz: Urban commitment to gymnastics. The first gymnastics inspector, 1st edition , In Lothar Wieser, Hubert Dwertmann et al. (Red.): Sport in Hannover: from the founding of the city until today , publisher: Lower Saxony Institute for Sport History, Hoya eV For the scientific advisory board: Arnd Krüger et al, Göttingen: Verlag Werkstatt, 1991, p. 53
  • Kurt Hoffmeister : pioneer - doer - winner of sport in Lower Saxony. 160 short portraits , Braunschweig, Wendentorwall 18: Kurt Hoffmeister, 1998, pp. 24–25

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b o. V .: Böttcher, Alfred in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of February 4, 2016, last accessed on July 5, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Dirk Böttcher : Böttcher, (1) Alfred , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 62
  3. ↑ Information in the catalog of the German National Library in the version dated April 10, 2017; last accessed on July 5, 2020
  4. ↑ Compare the - unoccupied - information in the Stadtwiki Görlitz and the inserted photo of the tomb with the inscription "Moritz Böttcher" , [undated], last accessed on July 5, 2020
  5. ↑ a b c o. V .: Alfred Böttcher / Turnvater on the website of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History [undated], last accessed on July 5, 2020
  6. ^ Hubert Wania: 15 years in Bremen. 1906-1920 , 1st edition, Bremen: Europäische Hochschulverlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86741-536-1 , p. 113; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ^ Address book, city and business handbook of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden as well as the village of Ricklingen and the colony of Leinhausen 1912 , section III: Alphabetical directory of residents and trading companies , p. 52; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
  8. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Ifflandstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 124
personal data
SURNAME Böttcher, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnastics teacher, city gymnastics inspector, association official and specialist writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1912
Place of death Hanover