Carl Leuschner

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Leuschner's grave in Roga
Jahn- Leuschner monument Friedland

Christian Ehregott Carl Leuschner (born February 7, 1787 in Collmen ; † January 19, 1861 in Roga (now part of Datzetal )) was a German theologian, high school teacher and Evangelical Lutheran clergyman. He is considered to be Mecklenburg's father of gymnastics .

Life

Carl Leuschner was a son of the school teacher Carl Gottlob Leuschner. From 1799 to 1804 he attended the Princely School in Grimma ; from 1804 to 1808 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig . After his exams, he first came to Mecklenburg as a private tutor, but in the same year he became vice-principal at the school of scholars in Friedland (Mecklenburg) , the importance of which reached far beyond the small town at that time.

Leuschner was personally acquainted with Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and in 1814 was one of the few guests at his wedding celebration in Mecklenburg. Shortly before, in May 1814, before the end of the wars of liberation against Napoleonic France, Leuschner had started to carry out various gymnastics exercises for "patriotic education" based on the model of Jahns with the boys at his school . The city of Friedland made the area available for a gymnastics area and took over part of the costs for the equipment. On Leuschner's initiative, the Friedländer Turnplatz was set up in 1814 and a gymnastics club was founded, which he headed as gymnastics warden until 1818. Since then, 1814 has been the founding date of TSV 1814 Friedland . He documented the development of gymnastics in Friedland in a gymnastics album , which is now kept in the Friedland Museum. On October 19, 1814, a delegation under his leadership took part for the first time at the gymnastics festival on the first anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig on the Hasenheide in Berlin . In 1815, songs to sing on the Turnplatz appeared, initially for the Turnplatz zu Friedland in Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

On May 31, 1818, Leuschner became pastor of the Roga village church in the west of Friedland village of Roga, to which Bassow and Pleetz also belonged. Here he stayed until the end of his life.

Since July 28, 1818 he was married to Johanna (Dorothea Friederike), geb. Uterhart (1794–1858), a daughter of the mayor of Friedland, Hofrat (Carl) Friedrich Uterhart (1755–1829), and sister of the doctor Carl Uterhart (1793–1852). The couple had four daughters, of which the two eldest - Johanna (1819–1837) and Therese (1820–1860) - remained unmarried. His two youngest daughters, Ida (1823–1856) and Luise (1836–1885), married the manor owner (Carl) Hermann (Otto) Runge (1812–1895) on Züsedom and Alt Damerow [Pomerania] one after the other (1841 and 1858) , a nephew of the early romantic painter Philipp Otto Runge . Leuschner had 18 grandchildren from both marriages of these daughters.

Honors

On his 50th anniversary as pastor, he was honored many times in 1868. He received the title of Council of Churches and became an honorary citizen of Friedland; the school dedicated a school program to him .

In 1879 the gymnasts Friedlands Leuschner and Jahn erected a memorial on the Friedländer Turnplatz with the inscription “In memory of the founder of gymnastics in Friedland, the prorector Leuschner and the sponsor of his work, the gymnastics father Jahn, who once happily stayed here” , Sports facility on the Hagedorn was implemented. The Carl-Leuschner-Straße in Friedland also remembers him.

Leuschner's grave in the Roga churchyard is still looked after by TSV Friedland. His iron grave cross, which had only been preserved in remnants, was replaced by a new memorial stone in 1989 for the anniversary "175 years of gymnastics in Friedland" by the BSG Traktor Friedland after consultation with the church administration. Since 2014 it has been the destination for the TSV's annual Leuschner run from Friedland along the Datze to Roga.

Works

  • Wolfgang Barthel (Ed.): Friedländer Turnalbum. Yearbook of the Turnplatz zu Friedland started in 1814. Czwalina, Hamburg 2000. ISBN 3-88020-360-1

literature

  • Hugo Bosselmann: History of the gymnasium in Friedland. The period from 1814 to 1818. In: Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the Schola Fridlandensis. 1929, pp. 51-80
  • Georg Krüger-Haye : The pastors in Stargard since the Reformation. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology 69 (1904), pp. 1–270, here p. 159 ( full text )
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5854 .

Web links

Commons : Carl Leuschner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Gottlob Lorenz: Grimmenser album. List of all pupils of the royal school in Grimma from its opening to the third jubilee celebration. Grimma 1850, p. 350
  2. ↑ National-Zeitung der Deutschen 1814, Sp. 926
  3. ↑ Singing songs on the Turnplatz, initially for the Turnplatz zu Friedland in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. New Brandenburg 1815
  4. ↑ TSV 1814 Friedland , accessed on May 9, 2019
  5. ↑ Cyclists dominate the 5th Carl Leuschner Run on May 13, 2018 , accessed on May 10, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Leuschner, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leuschner, Christian Ehregott Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, high school teacher and Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Collmen
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1861
Place of death Roga (today part of Datzetal )