Carl Schill

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Carl Schill

Carl Schill (born November 5, 1862 in Osthofen ; † October 22, 1944 ibid) was a German entrepreneur , councilor and “gymnastics father” from Rheinhessen.

Grave of the gymnastics father Carl Schill in the mountain cemetery of Osthofen
Carl-Schill gymnasium, Osthofen

Private career

Schill was the third of five children of the married couple Simon Friedrich Schill (born March 30, 1834 in Osthofen; † August 25, 1921 there) and his wife Barbara called Babette geb. Grittmann (born March 30, 1838 in Osthofen; † August 5, 1900 in Andernach). The father was a farmer, winemaker, entrepreneur, mayor and member of the state parliament. Carl Schill married Magdalene, born on August 31, 1889. Clauß (born January 3, 1864 in Osthofen; † March 18, 1928 ibid), the only daughter of the farmer Jakob Clauss and his wife Katharina born. Rißler. The daughter Elsbeth (* November 21, 1891; † 1972) and the son Otto (* June 20, 1893 in Osthofen; † March 16, 1968 there) emerged from the marriage. After the death of his first wife, he married the teacher Luise Claß on May 15, 1929 (born December 26, 1888 in Blödesheim , † October 28, 1969 in Alzey).

Education and professional career

Schill attended elementary school in Osthofen and from 1873 the secondary school in Worms. In 1880 he went to Bad Dürkheim to work with a master cooper for eight months and then worked as a brewing boy in his parents' malt house and in the Lanz brewery near Offenbach. In 1881 he attended the brewery school in Worms and in 1881 joined the Leibgarde Infantry Regiment (1st Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 115 in Darmstadt as a one-year volunteer , where he left as a sergeant a year later. He then joined his parents' business and with a happy hand led the expansion of the winery and the malt house, which he was able to hand over to his son Otto in 1919.

Honorary positions

Schill was elected to the local council in 1898 and worked here for over 25 years. In 1900 he was elected to the municipal council and the Hessian district school administration. In 1901 he became a member of the Hessian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and later appointed to the District and Reich Railway Council. Furthermore, he was chairman of the Rheinhessischer Elektrizitätsverband (Rheinhessischer Elektrizitätsverband) and the water supply association, and in this function he played a key role in bringing this institution to Osthofen. In recognition of his services, he was appointed councilor of commerce by the Grand Duke of Hesse and Rhein Ernst Ludwig in 1915 .

In 1908 he and Albert Wander, a cousin on his mother's side, founded a German subsidiary of the Wander factory in Osthofen for the production of Ovaltine . The malt for this came from our own malt house. As deputy chairman, he was a member of the supervisory board until his death.

At his suggestion, the Osthofen gymnasium was converted into a hospital during the First World War, where more than 1,500 wounded were treated. For this achievement he received the Medal of Honor for War Merit in 1916 and the Red Cross Medal 1st Class in 1918.

Schill was particularly active in the gymnastics movement, which was very popular at the time. As a teenager and young man, he achieved various successes as an active athlete. Later he got involved in the local gymnastics club and the higher-level organizations. As a result of his initiative, the gymnastics community acquired a piece of land in 1885 and built a gym that is now called the Carl-Schill Gym. In 1883 Schill became a gymnastics officer for the Worms gymnastics district and its 25 districts. In 1898 he became 1st district representative of the Turngau Rheinhessen . Under his leadership, the IX was also in 1895. Middle Rhine District was founded, which developed into an association of 1,048 clubs with 109,000 members within 14 years. This made him an honorary member in 1931. In the German Gymnastics Association, which had around 1.6 million members at the beginning of the 1930s, he held the post of chief treasurer from 1925 until the Nazis came to power and were brought into line in 1933.

literature

  • Susanne Konrad: Carl Schill , annual work 1979/80 at the German Gymnastics School Frankfurt / Main
  • Willi Ruppert: The story of the seven generations of Schill in Osthofen (on the establishment of the malt house 125 years ago), self-published in 1984

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GND 13374972X
  2. ↑ http://www.bundesarchiv.de/aktenreichskanzlei/1919-1933/1000/adr/adrsz/kap1_1/para2_92.html
  3. ↑ http://www.wormser-zeitung.de/region/osthofen/11063407.htm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wormser-zeitung.de  
  4. ^ Susanne Konrad, Carl Schill, annual work 1979/80 at the Deutsche Turnschule Frankfurt / Main
  5. ↑ Carl-Schill Gym
  6. ^ Susanne Konrad, Carl Schill, annual work 1979/80 at the Deutsche Turnschule Frankfurt / Main
personal data
SURNAME Schill, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, councilor of commerce and Rheinhessen "gymnastics father"
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Osthofen
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1944
Place of death Osthofen