Auguste Metz
Kunigunde Auguste Dorothee Metz (born Ravenstein , born July 28, 1836 in Frankfurt am Main , † November 22, 1922 in Hanover ) was a German gymnastics teacher and physiotherapist .
Life
Auguste Ravenstein was a daughter of Friedrich August Ravenstein , the director of the public gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main and founder of the first Frankfurt gymnastics club, which also campaigned for girls' and women’s gymnastics. In November 1855 she married Franz Wilhelm Metz , who became known as the Lower Saxon gymnastics father . The couple had seven children.
In 1856, Auguste Metz was granted permission from the Hanover City Council in 1856 as the first gymnastics teacher to give private gymnastics lessons at the “ Höhere Töchterschule am Aegidientor”, on the special recommendation of Pastor Hermann Wilhelm Bödeker , who wrote about her with admiration: “She also swims like a fish ”. In the following year she opened a girls’s gymnastics course on Hildesheimer Straße and gave lessons at other schools. From 1857 to 1858 she gave gymnastics lessons for girls at the Hanover School for the Blind . "Here she once organized a special night ball and showed that the poor blind girls had learned to dance properly ." Together with her husband, she founded a "gymnastics and therapeutic gymnastics institute" in their apartment in 1862 and was thus "decades ahead of their time".
In 1872 Auguste Metz was awarded the Cross of Merit for Women and Virgins .
Auguste-Ravenstein-Weg
The city of Hanover honored the pioneer of women's gymnastics by naming the Auguste-Ravenstein-Weg in the Bothfeld district, which was laid out in 2000 .
literature
- Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History (Ed.): Sports in Hanover from the founding of the city to today. Hoya 1991, pp. 49-50.
- Dirk Böttcher : Metz, (1) Auguste. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 251.
- Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.): Metz, (1) Auguste. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 439.
Individual evidence
- ↑ August Ravenstein founded the first Frankfurt gymnastics club on gymmedia.com
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: dshs-koeln.de )
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Franz Wilhelm Metz on nish.de ) (PDF; 12 kB)
- ↑ KH Quiet Meyer: Franz Wilhelm Metz . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover and Leipzig 1902, p. 29.
- ↑ KH Quiet Meyer: Franz Wilhelm Metz . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover and Leipzig 1902, p. 30.
- ↑ a b c Dirk Böttcher: Metz, (1) Auguste. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 251.
- ^ Dirk Böttcher: Metz, (2) Franz Wilhelm. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. P. 251.
- ↑ (PDF; 861 kB)
- ^ Karljosef Kreter : Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . Volume 54, Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Peine 2003, ISBN 978-3775259545 , p. 178.
- ↑ Compare the city map of Hanover
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Metz, Auguste |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ravenstein, Auguste (maiden name); Ravenstein, Kunigunde Auguste Dorothee |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gymnastics teacher and physiotherapist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1922 |
| Place of death | Hanover |