Anna Müller-Herrmann

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Anna Müller-Herrmann (* 1888 , † 1975 , née Anna Müller, from 1944 after the second marriage: Anna Herrmann-Kölschbach) was a gymnastics teacher and founder of gymnastics schools. She developed u. a. the system of nursing gymnastics .

Life

Anna Müller-Herrmann was born as the daughter of Josef Müller and his wife Therese Müller. In 1916 she passed the exams to become a gymnastics teacher. This was followed by training in the seminar for classical gymnastics of the Mathilde Zimmer Foundation and a collaboration with its founder, Zimmer, the Mensendieck student Louise Langaard and the Kallmeyer student Hedwig von Rhoden . In 1922 she married Christian Herrmann and their son Wolfgang was born. Anna Herrmann belonged to the third generation of those who built up women's gymnastics in Germany. Also in 1922 she founded the Anna Herrmann School named after her - training institute for nursing gymnastics in Berlin-Eichkamp. In Berlin, Müller-Herrmann actively supported the pedagogical concept of the naturist gymnastics teacher Adolf Koch , for example in her book The question of clothing in physical education . Müller Hermann was a member of the German Gymnastics Association (DGB), but was excluded on February 27, 1931 "for reasons that cannot be reconstructed". In 1932 she gave a radio lecture in Berlin on nursing gymnastics.

In November 1935 the concept of nursing gymnastics was fixed in an order issued by the Reich Association of German Gymnastics, Sport and Gymnastics Teachers. 1943 the school was destroyed in a bomb attack on Berlin, and in 1944 the school was relocated to Freiburg im Breisgau . Anna Müller married the painter Josef Kölschbach from Cologne in 1927 .

In 1947 the state-recognized technical school for gymnastics in the Cologne-Müngersdorf stadium (German Sport University) was opened, in 1956 a second institute was opened in Cologne city center and in 1974 the notarial transfer of the Anna Herrmann School to Heidi Bosen, her student from 1948 to 1951 Since 1975 it has been operating as the Anna Herrmann School Cologne , vocational school for gymnastics, a state-recognized substitute school for training gymnastics teachers.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Müller: Psychotherapy and body work in Berlin: history and practices of establishment. Edition 86 of essays on the history of medicine and the natural sciences, Matthiesen Verlag 2004, ISBN 378-6-840-865 , pp. 187, 322.
  2. ↑ Hans Joachim Teichler: Workers ' Culture and Workers' Sport. Verlag DVS 1985, ISBN 3-923-5921-83 , p. 88.
  3. ↑ Karoline von Steinaecker: Jumps in the air, beginnings of modern body therapies. Munich 2000, p. 163.
  4. ↑ Katharina Scheel: Models and Practice Concepts of Physiotherapy: A Location within Anthropology and Ethics. Volume 6 of Education - Sport Culture - Philosophy, LIT Verlag, Münster 2013, ISBN 3-643-1204-00 , p. 125.
  5. ↑ Christine Wolters, Christian Becker: Rehabilitation and prevention in the history of sports and medicine. Volume 23 of the series of publications by the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History, Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History Hoya, LIT Verlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 3-643-1279-01 , p. 43.
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Herrmann, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Anna (maiden name); Herrmann-Kölschbach, Anna (after the second marriage)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnastics teacher and founder of gymnastics schools
DATE OF BIRTH 1888
DATE OF DEATH 1975