Bernhard Hugo von Holleuffer

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Bernhard Hugo von Holle banks (also: Bernhard Hugo von Holleuffer * 6. October 1827 in Eisleben , province of Saxony ; † 9. August 1888 in Hildesheim ) was a Royal Prussian equerry at the Military Riding Institute Hannover and nonfiction - author for training of horses in particular for dressage .

life and work

family

Born in 1827 as a member of the noble family Holleuffer , Bernhard Hugo von Holleuffer married the widow Adele Graebe (born Schaumann; born June 25, 1828 in Hanover; † October 23, 1894 in Hildesheim; in.) On September 5, 1861 in the royal seat of what was then the Kingdom of Hanover first marriage to the merchant Otto Graebe, born August 7, 1817 in Braunschweig; † September 17, 1848 in Magdeburg), daughter of the British General War Commissioner August Schaumann and Charlotte Schwabe. Several children emerged from the marriage, including the son Hans Heinrich von Holleuffer (born June 18, 1862 in Schwedt an der Oder ; † March 10, 1908 in Niederlößnitz), retired royal Prussian captain. D. and Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John.

Career

Hugo von Holleuffer went through in Hannover trained as a " Scholar " in the Royal Hanoverian royal stables at the time of his famous General Hans Georg Meyer .

As the successor to the deceased in 1865, Holleuffer initially worked in Schwedt / Oder , taking over the traditions of his predecessor, before later becoming responsible for training school horses in Hanover, especially in the Pilaren, where he became a recognized authority. By the end of his service in 1887, however, von Holleuffer had grown beyond the narrow views of the settlers.

Already after the German War , the rider Adolph Schmidt had worked as the second stable master at the military riding institute before he moved to the later so-called Royal Bavarian Equitation Institute in Munich in 1876 .

Von Holleuffer worked as an officer in the Royal Prussian Army and first stable master at the Military Riding Institute. He published in the early days of the German Empire in 1882 on the Hahnsche bookstore his writing on the processing of the riding and carriage horse between the Pilaren ... . The work, illustrated with drawings by the horse painter Alfred Stocks , also contained translations by the French riding master François Robichon de la Guérinière on the subjects of hunting horses, tournaments, lance fights, carussels, head and ring races and ballet.

Almost a decade and a half later, the work was published in a second, improved edition in 1896, but now with 40 drawings by Alfred Stoecke and an appendix on hunting horses.

Von Holleuffer is considered by many to be the one who introduced the terms " back walker " and " leg walker " . Others, however, first name the brothers Günther (1859) and d´Elpons (1877).

In his adaptation of the riding and carriage horse ... von Holleuffer wrote about the leg walkers:

“[They] perform the movements without using the spine, the movements are hard or tense, do not take up ground, either hasty or sluggish, they ruin their legs and the riders, they either stand behind the reins or lie dead on it and are not reliable in obedience. "

He opposed this to the back walkers:

“The back walkers, on the other hand, use the forward and downward vibrations for all movements: the stronger and more playful these are, the more active and expansive, the softer and more elastic, fresher and more determined are the movements that keep horse and rider healthy and the former to play into the hand of the latter in complete obedience. "

However, von Holleuffer was wrong in his belief that “these vibrations consist of an upward and downward arching of the spine which is repeated with every sequence of movements.” Instead, Gustav Steinbrecht in his 1885 book Das Gymnasium des Pferd and the Swiss equine doctor Hermann Schwyter followed His 1907 work on the equilibrium of the horse reserved for von Holleuffer's theory "to be traced back to its correct size (the back provided)."

Towards the end of his career, von Holleuffer suffered very much from the fact that "before he left, the moment photographer Anschütz proved to him that his theory of foot following was partially wrong."

Fonts

  • Bernhard H. von Holleuffer: The treatment of the riding and carriage horse between the Pilaren as one of the easiest and most rewarding support in dressage , including: about hunting horses, tournaments, lance fights, carussels, head and ring races and ballet by de la Guérinière in one Translation by J. Daniel Knöll, illustrated with 9 b / w plates;

literature

  • Waldemar Seunig : Masters of the art of riding and their ways , Heidenheim: E. Hoffmann, 1960

Web links

  • Claudia Sanders: History: From back and leg walkers , in: Feeling and recognizing: Riding over the back (= dressage studies. Fair to the horse. The magazine for training and further education of rider and horse , issue 3/14, 2014) , Mörsbach: Dressur-Studien Verlag, 2014; Reading sample on the page dressur-studien.de from September 8, 2014

Remarks

  1. ↑ Notwithstanding , the date of death August 10, 1888 is given; compare oV : Deaths of officers and officials of the Royal Prussian Army , in: Militär-Wochenblatt , vol. 73, Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler, 1888, p. 2079; limited preview in Google Book search

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Claudia Sanders: History: From back and leg walkers , in: Feeling and recognizing: Riding over the back (= dressage studies. Fair to the horse. The magazine for training and further education of rider and horse , issue 3/14, 2014), Mörsbach: Dressur-Studien Verlag, 2014; Reading sample on the page dressur-studien.de from September 8, 2014, last accessed on January 31, 2018
  2. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b c d Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 43, Ostsee: CA Starke, 1969, p. 194; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Lisei Müller-Sturmhöfel: BH von Holleuffer ; Quotes on their website liseimuellersturmhoefel.com ( undated , last accessed on February 1, 2018), according to information from Waldemar Seunig: Masters of Riding Art and their Ways , Heidenheim: E. Hoffmann, 1960
  5. ^ Adolph Schmidt: New sermons on horseback. Comparative retrospectives on some regulations of the old riding instruction and the principles of a scientifically founded art of riding , reprint of the 2nd edition Munich 1909, with a foreword by Bertold Schirg, Hildesheim; Zurich; New York: Olms-Presse, 1999, ISBN 978-3-487-08377-3 and ISBN 3-487-08377-9 , p. VIIf .; Preview over google books
  6. ↑ Compare the information provided by the Austrian Library Association (OBV)
  7. ↑ Compare the information from the OBV
personal data
SURNAME Holleuffer, Bernhard Hugo von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holleufer, Bernhard Hugo von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian-Hanoverian stable master and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisleben
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1888
Place of death Hildesheim