Arno Kunath

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Arno Theodor Kunath (born February 27, 1864 in Neustadt in Saxony ; † October 27, 1936 in Bremen ) was a German pedagogue, gymnastics teacher and sports writer.

biography

Kunath graduated from the teacher training college in Bautzen from 1878 and then worked as an assistant teacher in Oberneukirch and Gaussig until 1884 . As a talented gymnast, he deepened his gymnastics training and completed it with a specialist examination. He initially worked as a gymnastics teacher in Leipzig. There he founded the first women's gymnastics department in Germany in 1887.

In 1890 he became a gymnastics teacher of the General Bremen Gymnastics Club - today " General Gymnastics and Sports Club Bremen from 1860 , briefly Bremen 1860 ". In Bremen in 1892 he founded women's and girls' gymnastics and in 1893 senior gymnastics and other departments for individual sports. He attended other seminars and courses in the field of sports. From 1895 he was district gymnastics supervisor of the Niederweser / Ems gymnastics district, Gauturnwart in Bremen and head of several gymnastics festivals for 25 years. In 1909 he became a member of the gymnastics committee of the "Deutsche Turner". From 1919 to 1926 he was senior gymnastics supervisor for Deutsche Turner (DT). At the German Gymnastics Association, he introduced an organization based on specialist areas, including women's gymnastics, and ensured that a uniform designation for gymnastics exercises was introduced.

In 1915 he was appointed senior gymnastics teacher in Bremen and lived in Bremen. He lived there from 1920 until his death in 1936 at Wernigerode-Straße 19, Bremen - eastern suburb. In 1926 he took over teaching at the advanced school of the school on Hamburger Straße in Bremen, and in 1931 he retired as a senior seminar teacher .

On October 12, 1933, he founded the gymnastics trip as a free association in Bremen so as not to be forcibly integrated into the Nazi regime at the time. The name of the "Turnfahrt" was renamed in 1936 in his honor to "Arno Kunath Wanderriege" (AKW). In 2018 the nuclear power plant celebrated its 85th year of existence.

Kunath is buried in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen in the Kunath family grave (grave site W357a). Parts of his estate are in the archives of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History and in the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Museum in Freyburg an der Unstrut.

photos

  • Arno Theodor Kunath when he was appointed head gymnast of the German gymnast in 1919 .

  • Arno Theodor Kunath with a group of "gymnasts" in 1904.

  • Arno Theodor Kunath with gymnasts from Bremen around 1904.

  • Arno Theodor Kunath with his group "Altersturnen" on November 18, 1904 on the way from Bremen to Fischerhude.

  • Gravestone donated in 1936 by the "Deutschen Turnerbund Berlin". Recording: July 29th, 2017

Honors

  • After his death, the gymnastics tour was renamed Arno Kunath Wanderriege . This will have its 85th anniversary in 2018.
  • The Kunath street in Bremen near the Weser stadium , was named after him 1965th (53 ° 4´ 07.50 ″ North / 8 ° 50´ 27.84 ″ East)
  • In 1988 she was accepted into the gallery of honor of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History Hoya (NISH).

Works

  • The name of the calisthenics. , Arno Kunath, Paul Eberhardt Verlag, Leipzig 1910.
  • The designation of the device exercises , Arno Kunath, Paul Eberhardt Verlag, Leipzig 1918.
  • Calisthenics and hand-held exercises by the gymnast, course for girls and women in schools and clubs, by Arno Kunath, March 27, 1919, 373 pages, with text, images, notes, format (W_H_D) 112 mm x165 mm x 15 mm, cardboard cover, publisher of Carl Schünemann, Bremen
  • Girls come to me , folk dances and songs, Arno Kunath, Albert Riesling, Friedrich Fuchs, mail order company of the Deutsche Turnerschaft, Erich Eberhard, Leipzig, 1921. - 63 pages, with text, sheet music and dance instructions.
  • Girls come to me, folk dances, etc. Liederspiele, by Arno Kunath, Albert Riesling, Friedrich Fuchs, fourth increased edition, June 1, 1921, publisher: Carl Schünemann, Bremen, 76 pages, format (W_H_D) 153 MM x 230 MM x 5 MM,
  • The gymnast , Arno Kunath, 1922.
  • Mein Vorurnerbuch , Arnon Kunath, 1924.
  • Mein Vorturnerbuch , Arno Kunath, (19 ??), second part - intermediate level, 5th edition, 216 pages with 156 exercise examples with 606 illustrations, format (W_H_D) 125 mm x 170 mm x 15 mm, linen-bound, publisher: Wilhelm Klimpert-Verlag Berlin SW68
  • Accident prevention when playing gymnastics, swimming and fencing, especially help with equipment exercises , Arno Kunath, (1919), publisher: Carl Schünemann, Bremen, 40 pages, format (W_H_D) 120 MM x 170 MM x 1.6 MM,
  • Hermannslauf der Deutschen Turnerschaft 1925, Arno Kunath November 1st, 1925, 111 pages, publisher. Willi Simon, Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt mbH, Berlin M54, Schönhauser Allee 9, Format (W_H_D) 235 MM x155 MM x 5MM, With numerous photos of the events and venues, 137197 gymnasts from 6236 clubs took part in the Hermannslauf.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inscription on his tombstone in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen
  2. ↑ http://nish.de/index.php/archiv.html
  3. ↑ http://www.jahn-museum.de
personal data
SURNAME Kunath, Arno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kunath, Arno Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnastics teacher and sports writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt in Saxony
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1936
Place of death Bremen