Carl Steding

Carl Steding (born August 18, 1881 in Bremen , † September 10, 1941 in Heidelberg ) was a German educator and sports organizer.

biography

Training and teachers

Steding was the son of the head of the poor house in Bremen. He graduated from the cathedral school at Bremen Cathedral and attended the Bremen teachers' seminar from 1896 to 1902 . In his early years he was active as a gymnast in the general Bremen gymnastics club . In 1902 he was an assistant teacher at the school Habenhausen , 1905 teachers of the school at the Sternstraße , 1910 at the School Birch Street and 1912 at the School Hemelinger road . Since 1913 he was a teacher and since 1931 senior teacher at the secondary school in Dechanatstrasse .

Sports organizer

From 1908 to 1931 he took over the management of the men's gymnastics department at the Vorwärts club in Bremen. At the same time he tried to further develop school gymnastics. He organized competitions for clubs and schools. Since the 1920s he was increasingly active for the German Turnerschaft (DT), as the umbrella organization of the bourgeois-conservative gymnastics clubs in Germany, and he was Gauturnwart des Gaus Bremen. Since 1928 he had been largely on leave from school service because of his activities in sports. At the 20th German Gymnastics Day in Berlin in 1929, he was given the post of Oberturnwart, which he had held provisionally since 1928, after the death of Max Schwarze . When von Tschammer was appointed Reich Sports Leader in July 1933 , Steding was appointed his deputy in 1934. He was formally retired as a teacher in 1935 and he moved to Berlin to devote himself to the tasks in the DT.

For his services to sport in Lower Saxony , he was accepted into the Lower Saxony Sports Honor Gallery of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History in 1988.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Web links

• Steding at nish.de
• Photo of Kurt Krötzsch with Carl Steding ( Memento from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )