Ernst Fuhry

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Ernst Fuhry (born November 23, 1903 in Worms ; † April 28, 1976 ibid) is considered a personality in German football in connection with the ideals of the Bundestag youth with a Catholic character. He was the first "Reichsführer" of the Catholic Quickborn youth and leader of the Catholic-Bundischen "Märkische Jungenschaft" in Berlin.

Birth and education

Ernst Fuhry was born in Worms in 1903. Already in his youth he was active in sports in Worms, initially in athletics and swimming. In his hometown he completed an apprenticeship in banking after leaving school in 1919 at the request of his father. During the inflationary period, he quickly converted his small salary into books and thus continued his self-study. As early as 1921 he founded a sports club in Worms, the Poseidon swimmers' association . In 1925 he gave up his profession and began studying at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich. The type artist Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke became his main teacher and sponsor there.

Activities at the DFB and in the youth movement

Since 1927 there was the magazine Süddeutsche Sportjugend , based in Nuremberg, published by the South German Football and Athletics Association. Their editor-in-chief Philipp Schindel was a sports comrade of Fuhry's days in Worms; he recommended Fuhry to entrust the magazine, which had been published in Berlin since April 1929 and renamed Deutsche Sportjugend .

In addition to the activities in the DFB, Fuhry was heavily involved in groups of the Bundestag youth , in particular their Catholic character. In 1930 he was elected the first Reichsführer of the Catholic Quickborn youth at Rothenfels Castle , a center for the renewal of the Catholic liturgy and ecclesiastical practice around Romano Guardini . During the Third Reich he remained leader of the Catholic Union of Märkische Jungenschaft in Berlin as long as possible.

The DFB magazine offered him opportunities to develop his literary talents, but also to apply his artistic training. He wrote numerous texts and songs for the youth movement, T. are still known in the Catholic scouting community, so z. B. Alf Zschiesche's later set to music "Comrades, on the horses". He was also able to bring his graphic training to bear in youth work. And besides all that, he was also a successful soccer coach. He tried to educate what he called the Spartans team to an intelligent, “disembodied” way of playing through discipline for body and mind. This caused a sensation even then. But he was successful with it and soon had a good reputation as a football expert. Presumably in 1934 he was able to publish the textbook football primer for the DFB.

In 1935 Fuhry published the book Kampf und Sieg, Junge! - The German boy's sports book . out. After the "Gleichschaltung" in the Nazi society, a book was published which, in spite of the Hitler photo and "words of the Führer", reflected the form and spirit of the youth associations and scouts in terms of design and content as well as the choice of those involved. In 1938 the work was no longer allowed to appear. In the Soviet zone of occupation, Buch found itself on the list of literature to be segregated after 1945 .

The secret police , determined on the operation of the protection relay against Fuhry suspicion of homosexual.

In 1965 he was interviewed together with Sepp Herberger on ARD about the "High School of Football". In 1971, Spiegelbilder des Sports was published again in Worms, which he himself published . Of the diverse significance of physical exercise for people and their lives . In 1954 Ernst Fuhry registered a shot amplifier for soccer shoes with the German Patent Office.

Sporting success in Nordhorn

Ernst Fuhry was involved in the founding of several Nordhorn football clubs, including the "White Elf", which merged with VfL Nordhorn in 1974.

From 1946 Fuhry was a trainer in Nordhorn. The greatest sporting success was the rise of Nordhorner Eintracht in the Oberliga Nord (at that time the highest German division) in the 1954/55 season with national player Alfred Post . In March 1957 Fuhry was dismissed as a coach. In 1959, the Nordhorn team rose again from the league.

Graphic work

Designed by Ernst Fuhry

As a salaried editor at the German Football Association since 1929, he designed the DFB emblem in the thirties in the form that was used as a logo until 1995 and is still easily recognizable today. Before it was the three letters in black, white and red in a circle, the shape has now become more modern and Fuhry chose green as the color. In Nordhorn on the Dutch border - which is where he ended up from Berlin in 1946 - he later developed similar activities as a football coach and organizer. He also designed the club emblem of SV Eintracht Nordhorn in 1947 .

He also designed the poster for the German national soccer team's first international match after the war against Switzerland.

Fuhry continued to run his graphic work well into old age - the Worms City Archives have their legacy until 1980.

Quotes from Fuhry

“Sports victories are beautiful, but they cannot be compared with the much less acclaimed victories that often have to be won in abandon against hunger, poverty and disease in the world. There is a ranking of values. The sport and its victories, as attractive as they are, are not at the top of the table. "

- Ernst Fuhry in the seventies : Pro and Contra, magazine of the Association of German Football Teachers. Probably in the first quarter of 1976 issue as well as Ernst Fuhry-Zur memorial (editor Dr. Ulrich Schoe, Berlin, November 1978), article "In memoriam Ernst Fuhry" p. 32

“Sport is a school of character, a purgatory of purification and a test bench of the higher man - provided that he is made to do so by us. He fulfills his deepest mission when our boys emerge from every game more honest and chivalrous than they went into it. "

- Newspaper quote from 1965, taken from the Internet archive of Rot-Weiss Damme.

“You can't always be lucky enough to finish first; but one cannot lag behind oneself. "

- Fuhry, Ernst : Mirror images of sport, of the diverse significance of physical exercises for people and their lives, self-published, 6520 Worms, 1971. Printing: Erich Norberg, Worms

Works

  • as editor: Reflections of sport: of the diverse importance of physical exercise for people and their lives . E. Fuhry, Worms, 1971, DNB 871327163
  • with Carl Koppehel: Football Primer . German Football Association, Berlin, 1934, DNB 573189420 . Weidmann, Berlin, 1951, DNB 451409647
  • Fight and win, boy! The German boy's sports book, commissioned by the German Football Association . German Football Association, Berlin, 1937, DNB 573189439

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alf Zschiesche . ( Memento of November 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Scout-o-Wiki, accessed on May 24, 2016.
  2. ^ Ernst Fuhry and the DFB magazine Deutsche Sportjugend . In: Nils Havemann: Football under the swastika: the DFB between sport, politics and commerce (= series of publications by the Federal Agency for Political Education, vol. 519). Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn, 2005, ISBN 3-89331-644-2 , pp. 181–190. Excerpt from Google Books, accessed May 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ Martin Krauss : Homophobia in football: The coach and the boys . Die Tageszeitung (taz), November 15, 2014, accessed on April 8, 2016.
  4. ^ Program of Monday, December 13, 1965 . Acquired by Karl-Heinz Wenisch, accessed on May 24, 2016.
  5. ↑ Patent No. 910395, Class 71a, Group 17 10: Shot amplifier for soccer shoes and soccer shoes equipped with them . ( Memento from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) German Patent Office, July 4, 1955 (PDF; 182 kB).
  6. ↑ In the sixties Fuhry turned to a project that was to bring together the ideals of his life again: the "White Elf". He saw them as an exemplary youth team, which should also practice the sport against the background of Fuhry's catholic-alliance ideals. So “white” meant pure, clean. The abstinence from alcohol and nicotine, which had already been upheld in Quickborn, was required, as well as camp activities and much more. Over time, however, the “White Elf” developed into an ordinary sports club and finally merged with the Nordhorn club VfL.
  7. ↑ Football: The good spirit of unity . Der Spiegel 22/1959 of May 27, 1959, pp. 60-61.
  8. ^ German Football Association: 100 Years of the DFB, The History of the German Football Association . Article by Wolfgang Niersbach on the design of the emblem, p. 129. Ed .: German Football Association. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-328-00850-0 .
  9. ↑ Frank Hinken, Michael Siemer: Exactly 50 years ago: Eintracht inaugurates the stadium on Heideweg ( memento from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Website of SV Eintracht Nordhorn, accessed on May 25, 2016.
  10. ↑ Jürgen Bitter : Germany played its first international match after the war 60 years ago - "It was like a miracle ...": a minute of silence for the war victims instead of an anthem . Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , November 21, 2010, accessed on April 8, 2016.
  11. ^ "Franz Ballhorn, DJK (German Youth Force) magazine, June 1976"
  12. ↑ here: p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Fuhry, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer coach, graphic artist and editor
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1976
Place of death Worms