Christian Georg Kohlrausch

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Christian Georg Kohlrausch, 1851–1934, oil painting

Christian Georg Kohlrausch (born April 2, 1851 in Benneckenstein , † December 11, 1934 in Halberstadt ) was a German gymnastics teacher .

Its merit which should be emphasized is the rediscovery of the discus throw . Since the fall of the Olympic Games in antiquity , the disc was only known from statues and drawings. The exact size, mass and throwing technique were not handed down.

In 1880 Christian Georg Kohlrausch a. a. Appointed as a gymnastics teacher at the Magdeburg Convent School Pedagogy for the Convent of Our Dear Women . He worked here until his retirement in 1913 and became known worldwide for his studies and experiments with students on discus throwing published in 1882.

Christian Kohlrausch has (re) developed the discus throwing discipline and made it competitive through many years of studies and experiments with his students . Through his research in 1896, these so-known discipline was of the ancient Olympic Games in the Olympic Games of the modern era are included.

Around 1880/81 he conducted " outdoor games " and thus helped spread football in Germany , which is mainly attributed to Konrad Koch .

Kohlrausch's work on the discus

  • The discus. Instructions from Christian Georg Kohlrausch, 1882

  • Woodcuts from The Discus. Instructions from Christian Georg Kohlrausch, 1882

  • Turn Newspaper, No. 40, 1880, The introduction of the discus on our gymnastics grounds

Web links

Commons : Christian Georg Kohlrausch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Yearbooks for Philology and Education, 1880, gymnastics games. Need and introduction
  • Turn Newspaper, No. 16, 1880, The Spring Movement
  • Turn Newspaper, No. 40, 1880, The introduction of the discus on our gymnastics grounds
  • The discus. Instructions for the introduction of discus throwing on our gymnastics and playgrounds for all gymnasts, especially for gymnastic teachers and students of higher education institutions, Leipzig 1882
  • Gymnastics in Magdeburg. A historical outline of the development of physical exercise in Magdeburg, 1892
  • German gymnastics. Lectures and Curriculum, 1908

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Harting: Like the hero from a comic by Michael Reinsch on FAZ.net from August 7, 2012, accessed on October 15, 2015
  2. ↑ Football in the Ottostadt: Brief history of football in Magdeburg on sfv-magdeburg.de, accessed on October 15, 2015
  3. ↑ About Konrad Koch - or: How modern football came to Germany - a lecture ( memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by heiner1 on January 20, 2011, accessed October 15, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / neustadt-tiger.blog.de
personal data
SURNAME Kohlrausch, Christian Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnastics teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Benneckenstein
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1934
Place of death Halberstadt