Ferdinand Wilhelm Fricke

Ferdinand Wilhelm Fricke (also: FWF ) (born October 11, 1863 in Hanover ; † January 17, 1927 there ) was a German teacher and founder of the first lawn sports club in Germany. He was one of the first to advocate the spread of the idea of ​​sport in Hanover and is considered the "father and creator of Hanoverian lawn sport".

Life

Ferdinand Wilhelm Fricke attended the Hanover “ Realgymnasium ” on Georgsplatz

After the English had made the rugby sport known in Hanover, Ferdinand Wilhelm Fricke, at the age of 14, founded what is now the oldest German lawn sports club, "German Football Association Hanover of 1878" (DFV) , with some like-minded people on September 14, 1878 . There he was elected chairman and held this position until 1898.

In 1879 Fricke became a "one year old" in the DFV, played rugby himself and trained as a track and field athlete .

Professional underwent Fricke trained as a teacher and as such was two years in Moringen action to then - until his death at the - again in Hannover Bürgerschule meters of road to teach.

1890 called Fricke the "introduction of school games," published to the football game , its history, advantages and its operation on German playgrounds .

In order to create sporting competition with the DFV, Fricke promoted the formation of further rugby clubs: “On April 12, 1896, the time had come: previous members of the DFV from 1878, all of them community students, founded a new club with friends and called it» Hanover Football Club von 1896 "" - Hannover 96 was born.

In 1900 Fricke was also a co-founder of the German Rugby Association and its chairman until 1905 . Also in 1900 he founded the " Association of Hannoverscher (rugby) football clubs ".

In 1925 Fricke became vice principal at the Bürgererschule in Meterstrasse.

Works

• The soccer game, its history, advantages and how it works on German playgrounds. Hanover-Linden 1890.

Honors

• In 1924 Ferdinand Wilhelm Fricke was elected honorary president of the DFV; since then Fricke has been known as the "father and creator of Hanoverian lawn sport".
• According to the city of Hanover's address book, the Ferdinand-Wilhelm-Fricke-Weg in Calenberger Neustadt , which was laid out in 1957, honors the mediator of the idea of ​​sport by giving it a name. The path leads from the stadium bridge at the HDI-Arena along the Leine to the Parrot Bridge .

literature

• Arnd Krüger , Hans Langenfeld (Hrsg.): Sport in Hannover. From the city's foundation to today , ed. from the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History , Hoya eV, Scientific Advisory Board, Hoya: Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History, 1991, ISBN 3-923478-56-9 , p. 72
• Kurt Hoffmeister: pioneer - doer - winner of sport in Lower Saxony. 160 short portraits , Braunschweig, Wendentorwall 18: K. Hoffmeister (self-published), 1998
• Dirk Böttcher : FRICKE, (1), Ferdinand Wilhelm. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 122.
• Dirk Böttcher: Fricke, (1) Ferdinand Wilhelm. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 191f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Dirk Böttcher: Fricke, (1) ... (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Zimmermann : Ferdinand-Wilhelm-Fricke-Weg. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 77
3. ↑ ^{a b} Wolf-Dieter Mechler : One shot - one goal. Hannover-96 - Pictures from the early years , richly illustrated booklet to the exhibition from May 16 to August 28, 2012, an exhibition of the Historisches Museum Hannover , Hannover: Historisches Museum Hannover, 2012, p. 4
4. ↑ ^{a b} Dirk Böttcher: FRICKE, .... (see literature)