Ferdinand Hueppe

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Ferdinand Hueppe (born August 24, 1852 in Heddesdorf near Neuwied , Rhine Province ; † September 15, 1938 in Dresden ) was a German doctor , bacteriologist , hygienist , university teacher and sports official . He is considered the founder of constitutional hygiene . From 1900 to 1904 he was the first president of the German Football Association .

Life

Ferdinand Hueppe, who was already enthusiastic about sport and science as a child, lost several siblings to diphtheria . He attended the Progymnasium in Neuwied, completed the Obersekunda in Koblenz and the Prima at the grammar school Philippinum Weilburg . After graduating from high school, Hueppe studied medicine at the military medical Friedrich Wilhelm Institute in Berlin from 1872 . In 1871 he became a member of the Corps Alemannia Berlin. After graduating , he received his doctorate in 1876 as Dr. med. et chir. , did his military service as a military doctor with a regiment in Rastatt and returned to Berlin in 1879, where he worked at the Imperial Health Department. From 1880 to 1884 he was one of Robert Koch's first students and employees there . In 1885 Hueppe said goodbye and began to set up a department for bacteriology at the Fresenius Chemical Institute in Wiesbaden . In 1889 he followed the call of Karl Ferdinand University to the chair of hygiene. As a full professor and senior medical officer he headed the Hygiene Institute until his retirement in 1912. Oskar Bail was his successor .

During the First World War , he initially served as a general doctor and hygienist in the Southern Army (German Empire) in the Carpathian Mountains , where he suffered wounds . Back, he wrote in 1915 about the emergence and spread of war epidemics and other works. He spent his old age in Dresden .

In 1920/21 he was chairman of the Isis Natural Science Society in Dresden, of which he became an honorary member in 1926. In 1938 he died of a pulmonary embolism.

Sports

As a teenager, Hueppe played football with English students in his hometown of Neuwied. As a student he was a member of the Berlin gymnastics association. In 1890 Hueppe called the Central Committee for Youth and Popular Games into being. At the first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 , he took part as a referee. In 1898 he was a co-founder of the German Sports Authority for Athletics, today's German Athletics Association . He was close to the early nudist movement and practiced a.o. a. Naked oars.

As chairman of the DFC Prague , Hueppe represented this and the German FC Germania 1898 Prague on January 28, 1900 at the founding meeting of the German Football Association in Leipzig, where he was the oldest participant at the age of 47. On October 7, 1900 he was elected first chairman of the DFB. When the DFB joined FIFA in 1904, the Prague clubs had to leave the association. Hueppe resigned as first chairman and was made an honorary member of the DFB.

Honors

Critical appraisal

In December 2005 the city council of Neuwied decided to rename the Professor Hueppe Stadium. The background to the decision was, among other things, Hueppe's observations and statements in connection with his work as a eugenicist . The role of Hueppe as a “pioneer” of the German sports movement is critically questioned in recent research. In his hygienic presentations, Hueppe connected football with racial hygiene and especially with social Darwinism . His conception of football did not see the sport as an actual purpose, but as an accompanying measure for the "struggle for survival of the Germanic master race". The idea of natural selection was also widespread in the early nudist movement, which Hueppe was close to .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Mettenleiter : Personal reports, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements II (A – H). In: Würzburg medical history reports. 21 (2002), p. 517
  2. ↑ Kösener Corps Lists 1910, 3 , 32
  3. ^ Ferdinand Hueppe: Hygiene of physical exercises . Leipzig: Hirzel 1922, p. 255. cf. Arnd Krüger : There Goes This Art of Manliness: Naturism and Racial Hygiene in Germany, in: Journal of Sport History 18 (Spring, 1991), 1, 135–158. http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1991/JSH1801/jsh1801i.pdf
  4. ↑ cf. Communication from the Neuwied press office dated June 25, 2006: Archive - July 2006
  5. ^ TAZ: First DFB President Hueppe born 150 years ago (August 24, 2002)
  6. ^ Thomas Schnitzler: Football and racial hygiene. The DFB founding president Ferdinand Hueppe . In: Beatrix Bouvier (Ed.): On the social and cultural history of football . Trier 2006, p. 110 f.
  7. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Between sex and selection. Nudism and Naturism in Germany and America . In: N. Finzsch, H. Wellenreuther (ed.): Liberalitas: A Festschrift for Erich Angermann (= Transatlantic Studies Vol. 1). Stuttgart: Steiner. 1992, 343-365.
personal data
SURNAME Hueppe, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic and President of the German Football Association
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Heddesdorf , Rhine Province
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1938
Place of death Dresden