Edmund Neuendorff

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Gustav Rudolf Edmund Neuendorff (born April 23, 1875 in Berlin ; † August 30, 1961 in Bramsche ) was a German educator and sports leader during the Nazi era.

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Edmund Neuendorff grew up as the son of a businessman in Berlin and passed his Abitur at the Sophiengymnasium there in 1894 . During his studies he became a member of the Academic Gymnastics Club in Berlin . After studying philosophy and philology, he received his doctorate in 1897 with a thesis on Immanuel Kant , passed his examination as a gymnastics teacher and passed the state examination in 1899. The professional entry as a senior teacher in Ohrdruf (1899) was followed in 1901 by the appointment to the headmaster in Haspe . In 1911 he moved to Mülheim an der Ruhr to take over the management of the municipal high school . Beyond school life, he was involved in the organization of the Fatherland Festival (1911) and in founding the Mülheim adult education center (1919). He was also a leader in the Wandervogel eV . In 1913, at the Wandervogels delegates' conference, he applied for no more Jews to be accepted, which was not accepted, but impressively shows his anti-Semitism , which he never abandoned.

Neuendorff left Mülheim in 1924 and went back to Berlin, where the German University for Physical Education (DHfL) had offered him a position. At the same time, he moved to the top of the largest German sports association, the German Gymnastics Association (DT), which he took over in 1933. He operated the exclusion of communists, social democrats and Jews, using the Aryan paragraph he introduced on April 8th. As a result of disputes with the Reich Sports Leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten , he was released from all his offices in 1934 and given early retirement. From then on, Neuendorff, who had been a member of the NSDAP since 1932, took over leadership positions in the Nazi organization “ Kraft durch Freude ” (KdF). In 1936 he became a lecturer for sports education at the University of Bonn. From 1941 he was department head of the KdF in Prague , where he was arrested and interned in 1945.

Studying theology during his teaching activity in Bonn qualified Neuendorff for ordination as a pastor in 1945 after he had passed his exam on February 6, 1946, i.e. at the age of 70. He "dived into the church service", to a pastoral position in Groß Buckow in Niederlausitz . After he was unable to stay there as a result of a ruling by the denazification commission, he managed to get a job as a refugee pastor in Voltlage near Bramsche, where he worked as a pastor until 1959. He died on August 30, 1961 at the age of 86.

Edmund Neuendorff left behind a journalistic legacy of 37 books and more than 500 essays, including numerous philosophical and educational works, writings on the profession of gymnastics teacher and on gymnastics lessons in schools, general and methodical writings on the subject of sport and treatises on the history of gymnastics.

Fonts (selection)

  • Gymnastics, games and sports for German girls. Hermann Paetel Verlag, Berlin 1910.
  • Gymnastics, games and sports for German boys. Hermann Paetel Verlag, Berlin 1911.
  • The gym class in the boys' school. Wilhelm Limpert Verlag, Dresden 1920.
  • Youth gymnastics mirror. A book of life for young gymnasts of the German Gymnastics Association. Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1923.
  • German folklore. Body and physical exercises in the early German Middle Ages. Wilhelm Limpert Verlag, Dresden 1925.
  • The German physical exercises. Great manual for gymnastics, games and sports. Wilhelm Andermann Verlag, Munich 1927.
  • German gymnastics for girls. Wilhelm Limpert Verlag, Dresden 1930.
  • The German gymnastics club 1860-1936. Wilhelm Limpert Verlag, Berlin 1936.
  • History of the more recent German physical exercise from the beginning of the 18th century to the present 4 volumes. Limpert, Dresden 1930–1936.

swell

  • City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr: holdings 1203, 1212 and 1550

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ German bibliography
  2. ↑ Deutsches Pfarrerblatt, issue 1/2013
personal data
SURNAME Neuendorff, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neuendorff, Gustav Rudolf Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and sports guide
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1961
Place of death Bramsche