Anton Schäfer (gymnast)

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Anton Schäfer (2nd from left) and the successful athletes in 1880 (The Frankfurt Squad).

Anton Schäfer (also: Anton Schaefer, born November 28, 1854 in New York , New York ; † July 5, 1911 in Saint Paul , Minnesota ) was a member of the Milwaukee Turners gymnastics club that still exists today and a member of the United States' First International American Gymnastics Team .

Life

Schäfer attended the public school in St. Paul and began his professional career as a traveling salesman in the shoe and leather industry and later also worked as an insurance agent.

He was a participant in the Spanish-American War in 1898, where he received the rank of Captain of the Army and was elected captain of a company of the National Guard of the United States for several years .

Schäfer was always politically active, but did not hold any higher public office. In 1906 he was a candidate for the Democratic Party as plenipotentiary for railways and warehousing. In 1907 he was appointed state auditor by Governor Johnson. He held this office until his death.

He died at the age of 57 trying to stop shy horses, presumably of heart failure .

Athletic success

He celebrated his greatest sporting success in July 1880 as a gymnast of the Milwaukee Gymnastics Club and as a member of the First International American Gymnastics Team . On the occasion of the 5th General German Gymnastics Festival in Frankfurt, he won a 4th prize and was then at times one of the four best athletes in the USA.

Web links

Commons : Anton Schaefer  - Collection of Images

literature

  • George Brosius, Fifty Years Devoted to the Cause of Physical Culture, 1864-1914 , Milwaukee 1914, Germania, 129.
  • Herbert Neumann, Deutsche Turnfeste , Wiesbaden 1985, Limpert Verlag des Deutschen Turnerbundes, p. 271.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paragraph quoted from: New Ulm Review from New Ulm , Minnesota, July 5, 1911, p. 8.
  2. ↑ Technique , an official publication of USA Gymnastics (August 25, 2001, p. 24 f). See also: George Brosius, Fifty Years Devoted to the Cause of Physical Culture , p. 129.
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1911
Place of death Saint Paul , Minnesota , United States