Carl Loges
Carl Bernhard Loges , also Karl Bernhard Loges (born May 14, 1887 in Hanover , † July 10, 1958 in Freden ) was a German sports and gymnastics teacher.
He “is not only considered a innovator of female gymnastics through rhythmic gymnastics, but also as an important choreographer of chamber and mass designs ... (and is) in a row with his contemporaries Rudolf Bode and Hinrich Medau ... (named) who helped gymnastics to gain a high reputation in Germany. "
family
Karl was the son of the businessman Bernhard Loges (* 1851) and Anna Koop (1851–1929) from Diepholz. He married Helene (1890–1966) in Bremen in 1913, the daughter of the businessman Heinrich Bobenhausen (1864–1928 in Bremen) and Helene Treis. Loges had a daughter and son Helmut (* 1914), who also became a gymnastics teacher and a writer (see literature).
Career
youth
After attending elementary school, Loges completed an apprenticeship in graphic design from 1907 to 1908. He began his gymnastics career in the men's gymnastics club (MTV) founded in Hanover in 1848 .
From 1908 to 1913 he worked as a gymnastics teacher in Bremen ( MTV Bremen ) and then took part in the Nordic Games in Malmö in 1913 as one of the best twelve fighters in the German gymnastics club . From 1914 to 1918 he again held the position of gymnastics teacher (this time in Oldenburg) , interrupted by his participation in the First World War from 1915 to 1918 .
Loges continued his training at the gymnastics teacher training institute in Dresden .
From 1919 to 1928 Loges taught in Hanover as a gymnastics teacher at Realgymnasium II , while at the same time he held the function of women's gymnastics supervisor in the Hanover gymnastics district .
Hanover model gymnastics school
Meanwhile, in 1921 he founded a model team of girls for the purpose of modernizing female gymnastics in the sense of rhythmic gymnastics, from which the " Hannoversche model gymnastics school " emerged, "the first German leisure club on a gymnastic basis, which in 1932 had 2,300 members of all ages." Meanwhile, Loges founded In 1925 he also launched his “Loges School for the Art of Movement” to train teachers for gymnastics and dance in gymnastics. All of this cemented his reputation as the "inventor" of modern gymnastics.
In 1928 Loges became the first gymnastics supervisor of the German Gymnastics Association (DT) and as such struggled to introduce gymnastics into gymnastics clubs. As the DT women's gymnastics manager from 1932, Loges had a significant influence on the development of German women's gymnastics:
“Performances of the new festival culture of physical exercises in the city hall in Hanover attracted thousands from Europe and America every year. Demonstrations of the Loges sample groups in Holland, Denmark, Poland and numerous German cities as well as courses spread L's method of rhythmic gymnastics. Loges teachers worked in Germany, Norway, Holland, Austria, Romania, Switzerland and Russia. "
Swing-emphasized gymnastics mass demonstrations, the mass blocks of which were choreographed loosened up into partner and small groups, bear Loges's signature. Spectators at the German Gymnastics Festival in Cologne in 1928 were able to watch such performances .
After Karl Loges worked as a teacher at the Normal College of the American Gymnastics Union in Wisconsin / USA in 1932 , he designed a new "choir dance" the following year as the DT's women's manager and rehearsed it with 19,000 women and girls at the 1933 German Gymnastics Festival in Stuttgart. "Since 1935 he was the coach of the German women's gymnastics team for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin (gold medal)". In 1938 Loges designed and directed a German performance at the German Gymnastics and Sports Festival in Breslau and in 1939 at the Lingiade in Stockholm.
Due to the air raids on Hanover in 1943, Loges lost property and the Loges school in Hanover. The school was relocated to Freden and shortly afterwards closed by the NS Gauleiter; Loges himself had to become a soldier again.
reconstruction
Since Loges identified with the National Socialists' view of sport , he had difficulties rebuilding his "Loges School" after the Second World War :
“In 1948 the seminar of the Loges School started again in ... Rustersiel (a district of Wilhelmshaven ). There L. rehearsed the 'daily gymnastics lesson' with his seminarians and also with elementary school students, his educational dream since 1923. "
In 1950 Loges became gymnastics supervisor in the Lower Saxony Gymnastics Federation and in 1956 achieved the introduction of the gymnastics badge for gymnasts, which later became the "German gymnastics badge".
Loges schools existed in the Federal Republic in Bad Harzburg, Wilhelmshaven, Oldenburg and Nuremberg (status: 1987).
Works
- 1921: Popular exercises - athletics
- 1921: Turner calendar , published by Zss. Gymnastics Dance (from 1927 to 1934)
- 1937: Women's gymnastics - preparatory gymnastics
- 1949–1954: Sports education and physical education
- 1958: Popular gymnastics
Awards and honors
Karl Loges received the following awards, among others:
- 1923: Decoration of honor from the Dutch Gymnastics Association
- 1930: Bronze medal of the International Olympic Committee
- 1957: Letter of honor from the German Gymnastics Federation
- 1988: Admission to the Lower Saxony Sports Honor Gallery of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History
- 1989: The city of Hanover posthumously honored its son by naming the newly created Carl-Loges-Strasse .
literature
- Helmut Loges: Loges, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 118 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Helmut Loges: Carl Loges and Reform in Turnen. In: Movement Education, its Evolution and a Modern Approach , 1969, p. 59 f.
- Helmut Loges: History of modern gymnastics , 1977;
- Helmut Loges: Form and Freedom of Movement, Carl Loges 1887-1987 , 1986 ISBN 978-3-932423-27-7
- German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 6, p. 460
- Lower Saxony Life Pictures , 9 volumes, Hildesheim, Leipzig 1939–1976, here: Vol. 9 (1976), p. 237ff.
- Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History , Hoya eV, Scientific Advisory Board (ed.): Sport in Hanover from the city's foundation to today , Hoya 1991, pp. 136–140. ISBN 978-3-932423-30-7
- Kurt Hoffmeister: pioneer - doer - winner of sport in Lower Saxony. 160 short portraits , Braunschweig 1998
- Dirk Böttcher : Loges, Carl (Karl) Bernhard. 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. 415.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Helmut Loges: Loges, Karl in, Neue Deutsche Biographie (see literature)
- ^ The Stadtlexikon Hannover, however, mentions Loges as a decathlete
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loges, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Loges, Carl Bernhard (full name); Loges, Karl Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sports and gymnastics teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1958 |
| Place of death | Freden |