Friedrich Eduard Keller

Friedrich Eduard Keller in 1912

Friedrich Eduard Keller (born July 10, 1859 in Berlin , † August 7, 1929 in Hain in the Riesengebirge / Przesieka ) was a German writer and pioneer of water sports . He is the author of the first German river guide .

Life

Friedrich Eduard Keller was born in Berlin in 1859. As a teenager, in 1874 he drove his own rowing boats with his brothers on the Berlin Spree and Dahme and in 1880 took part in the “First Berlin Rowing Regatta” in Grünau .

Keller married in 1886 and in the years that followed went on numerous rowing trips , including first trips to rivers that were not previously open to tourists, together with his wife, which was extremely unusual for the time and a violation of social rules. The first female rowers did not officially exist until 1892. The couple's honeymoon in the summer of 1886 led in a covered Einskuller across the Mecklenburg lakes and the Müritz-Elde waterway . In the same year, the first time they sailed the Stremme , in 1888 that of the upper reaches of the Dosse , both in a rowing boat, and in 1896 that of the Dahme from Krossen in a wooden canoe.

In 1881, Keller joined the “Stralauer Segel-Verein”, which had been in existence for a year (from 1883 “Berliner Seglerverein”), but left it again after a few years because he was more interested in rowing. On August 31, 1887, Keller founded the "Association of Touring Rowers Berlin", whose boathouse was on the Treptower Spree bank not far from the S-Bahn bridge (Treptower Chaussee 17). In 1912 he was made an honorary member of the association.

In 1909 Keller also belonged to the “Frithjof” sailing club and the “Berlin Gigsegler Competition”. Three years later he became a member of the “German Cruiser Yacht Association”, which had been founded a year earlier, and took on the function of treasurer until the merger with the German Sailing Association in 1917. Thereupon he was elected in 1917 as a member of the board of the German Sailing Association and, upon leaving, he was made an honorary member of the association.

At the same time, Keller was a member of the "Bund Deutscher Wanderpaddler", one of the many paddling associations in Germany at the time, which in 1929 joined the German Canoe Association . In 1919 he also called himself a member of the German Canoe Association, but no longer in 1925. In 1926 his first visit to the Schwansee, two kilometers east of Jamlitz, is documented in a folding boat. The awards he received include honorary membership of the "Verein für Kanusport Berlin" and the badge and flag of honor of the Austrian Kayak Association.

Keller spent the last year of his life with his wife with his daughter in Hain in the Giant Mountains (today Przesieka in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland ), after having lived for many years in Berlin-Köpenick ( Wendenschloß ); Due to the "overabundant professional activity and the work associated with a lot of worry and effort to develop the 'Hip hip Hurray' '... in terms of health in recent years, various shackles have been imposed on him". Keller, who suffered from an eye and nerve ailment, died in 1929, a few weeks after his 70th birthday. His estate went under at the end of the war in 1945. The "Verein der touring rowers", which was still located in the boathouse in 1937, was recorded by the Charlottenburg district court in 1954 as dissolved. His boathouse in Treptower Park fell victim to World War II .

Writing

Keller's life coincided with the blossoming of water sports in Germany. In the 70s to 90s of the 19th century, many rowing and sailing clubs came into being in Berlin, which was rich in water, and their members went on excursions to the surrounding area described by Theodor Fontane at the same time during his hikes through the Mark Brandenburg .

For his club mates, Keller wrote the first river guide for water distances in 1890 , which should serve as a guideline for tours in the surrounding area, because "in no other major German city is rowing and sailing as passionate as in Berlin". In 1897 it emerged under the title Hip Hip Hurray! Guide for rowers, sailors and steamer owners on the waters of Germany, the first German water sports guide .

From the 4th edition in 1922 only hip hip hurray! Titled Straube’s Guide for Water Hikers , the work had six editions that were revised and expanded each time until 1929; It got its value from the fact that Keller considered all water sports. From 1922, the guide drew a complete picture of the waters of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg that could be used for water sports, and in the same year a sub-volume on the other German river basins (East Prussia, Oder, Elbe, Weser and Rhine) was added. The river guide "is both for the textual as the attached maps of the well most perfect of its kind, which was transmitted to the public over the years." Keller himself called Hip Hip Hurray! than his life's work. He did most of the research himself, "because the cooperation of the canoeists and the DKV as the largest German water sports association has unfortunately not yet been as it would have been".

Individual paddlers and rowers nevertheless sent in driving reports, including a. Rudolf Stelzer from Berlin-Pankow and Otto Protzen organized for the Märkischer Wanderpaddler Association . Keller himself undertook numerous inspection trips, including a. still in 1928 on the Müritz-Elde-Wasserstraße , and revised the texts accordingly. The accuracy achieved in this way ensured that the work was widely used among water sports enthusiasts in Berlin, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg.

While the guide for hiking rowers created in 1910 and the river guide of the German Canoe Association, the German River Hiking Book, first published in 1927, concentrate on water information in list form, Keller wrote essays about the water bodies, which, in addition to water sports accuracy, also include sights, impressions of the landscape, cultural history, Fontane's hikes, etc. a. illuminate. Describing contemporary historical details (traffic regulations, landowners on the bank, cityscapes before the war's destruction, etc.) between 1900 and 1930 creates Hip Hip Hurray! a contemporary document from the early days of German water sports.

Until the mid 50s of the 20th century, Hip Hip Hurray! Although the GDR's water hiking book had been around since 1952 , it was the basis for articles in the magazine Der Kanu-Sport . In 1977 Herbert Rittlinger listed the work in his New School of Canoeing as being relevant for water sports.

In addition to this guide, Keller wrote numerous articles for the German water sports magazines Fluss und Zelt , Kanusport und Wassersport. Sole official body of the German Rowing Association .

Works

• Straube's hiking guide Hip Hip Hurray! Guide for rowers, sailors and steamer owners on the waters of Germany. Geographical Institute and map publisher Jul.Straube, Berlin 1897.
• Straube's hiking guide Hip Hip Hurray! Signposts for rowers, sailors, motor and steam boat drivers on the Brandenburg, Mecklenburg and neighboring waters. 2nd Edition. Geographical Institute and map publisher Jul.Straube, Berlin 1909.
• Straube's Hip Hip Hurray! Guide for water hikers on the waterways between the Elbe and the Vistula. 3. Edition. Geographical Institute and map publisher Jul.Straube, Berlin 1919.
• 50 water hiking trips in the Elbe and Oder regions. Geographical Institute and map publisher Jul.Straube, Berlin 1921.
• Hip Hip Hooray! Straube's guide for water hikers. 4th edition, Geographisches Institut and map publisher Jul. Straube, Berlin 1922 (two volumes: "On the waterways between the Elbe and the Vistula" and "On the waterways of Germany")
• Hip Hip Hooray! Straube's Guide for Water Hikers 5th edition. Geographisches Institut und Landkarten-Verlag Jul. Straube, Berlin 1925 (two volumes: 1st part: "Märkische und Mecklenburgische Gewässer with appendix: Driving instructions for folding boat waters in the Mark Brandenburg" as well as 2nd part about the rest of Germany (without special title))
• Hip Hip Hooray! Straube's Guide for Water Hikers Part 1: Brandenburg and Oder. Part 2: Mecklenburg. (Two volumes) Geographisches Institut and map publisher Jul.Straube, Berlin 1929.

literature

• 25 years of history of the Touring Rowers Association V. Berlin 1887–1912. Leipzig 1912.
• Fritz Baldus († 1935): Friedrich Eduard Keller 70 years. In: water sports. Sole official organ of the German Rowing Association , 47th year 1929, No. 28, p. 728.
• Fritz Baldus: Obituary for Friedrich Eduard Keller. In: water sports. Sole official organ of the German Rowing Association , 47th year 1929, No. 35, p. 908.
• Fritz Baldus: Friedrich Eduard Keller 70 years. In: Canoeing and folding boats. 10th year 1929, No. 28, p. 308.
• Fritz Baldus: Obituary for Friedrich Eduard Keller. In: Canoeing and folding boats. 10th year 1929, No. 35, p. 392.

Web links

• Archive material on the "Association of Touring Rowers Berlin"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Eduard Keller: Hip Hip Hurray! Straube's guide for water hikers. Part 1: Brandenburg and Oder. Geographical Institute and Map Publishing House Jul. Straube, Berlin 1929, DNB 366370588 , p. 1 f.
2. ^ Fritz Baldus: Friedrich Eduard Keller 70 years . In: water sports. Sole official organ of the German Rowing Association , 47th year 1929, No. 28, p. 728.
3. ^ History of water sports. ( Memento of the original from February 19, 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. on: wassersportmuseum-gruenau.de 
4. ^ The development of inland sailing in Germany. on: sonderklasse.org
5. ↑ Inventory overview of the Berlin State Archive: Verein der Tourenruderer e. V. Berlin. ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: landesarchiv-berlin.de  
6. ^ Fritz Baldus: Friedrich Eduard Keller 70 years . In: water sports. Sole official organ of the German Rowing Association , 47th year 1929, No. 28, p. 728.
7. ↑ Straube's Hip Hip Hurray! Guide for water hikers on the waterways between the Elbe and the Vistula. 3. Edition. Geographical Institute and Map Publishing House Jul. Straube, Berlin 1919, p. X
8. ↑ Hip Hip Hurray! Straube's guide for water hikers. 1st part: Märkische and Mecklenburgische waters. plus appendix: Driving instructions for folding boat waters in the Mark Brandenburg. 5th edition. Geographic Institute and Map Publishing House Jul.Straube, Berlin 1925, p. IV.
9. ^ Friedrich Eduard Keller: Hip Hip Hurray! Straube's guide for water hikers. 1st part: Brandenburg and Oder. Geographical Institute and map publisher Jul.Straube, Berlin 1929.
10. ^ Fritz Baldus: Friedrich Eduard Keller 70 years . In: Water sports, sole official body of the German Rowing Association. 47th year 1929, No. 28, p. 728.
11. ^ Friedrich Eduard Keller: Hip Hip Hurray! Straube's Guide for Water Hikers Part 1: Brandenburg and Oder . Geographic Institute and Map Publishing House Jul.Straube, Berlin 1929, p. IV
12. ↑ Hackers Ruderbuch: Directory of the rowing associations in Berlin and the surrounding area from 1876 to today. Self-published rowing collection Susanne and Stefan Hacker, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-025477-2 , p. 158.
13. ^ Friedrich Eduard Keller: Hip Hip Hurray! Straube's Guide for Water Hikers Part 1: Märkische and Mecklenburgische Waters . Geographical Institute and Map Publishing House Jul.Straube, Berlin 1925, p. 2.
14. ^ Friedrich Eduard Keller: Hip Hip Hurray! Straube's Guide for Water Hikers Part 1: Brandenburg and Oder . Geographical Institute and map publisher Jul.Straube, Berlin 1929, p. 161.
15. ^ Fritz Baldus: Friedrich Eduard Keller 70 years . In: water sports. Sole official organ of the German Rowing Association , 47th year 1929, No. 28, p. 728.
16. ^ Friedrich Eduard Keller: Hip Hip Hurray! Straube's Guide for Water Hikers Part 1: Brandenburg and Oder. Geographic Institute and Map Publishing House Jul.Straube, Berlin 1929, p. IV
17. ^ Friedrich Eduard Keller: Hip Hip Hurray! Straube's Guide for Water Hikers Part 1: Märkische and Mecklenburgische Waters . Geographical Institute and Map Publishing House Jul. Straube, Berlin 1925, p. III
18. ↑ "The present book owes its creation to a request from the Hanoverian Rowing Club at the Rowing Days in Hamburg 1908. The author carried out the work on behalf of the committee of the German Rowing Association and is most grateful for the execution of the large majority of the association clubs has been supported. “Oskar Ruperti: Guide for touring rowers , 1st edition. “Watersport” publishing house Berlin 1910, p. 1
19. ^ Heinz A. Oehring: Canoeing in Germany. 75 years of water sports in the German Canoe Association e. V . DKV Wirtschafts- und Verlags-GmbH, Duisburg 1989, ISBN 3-924580-17-0 .
20. ↑ "Of course we used it." Oral. Message from Dr. Lothar Prahl, former hiking supervisor of the Brandenburg State Canoe Association, September 20, 2012.
21. ↑ “The Zschopau is a small tributary of the Mulde,” wrote Keller in his guide for water hikers in 1922, and no longer about it. ”In: Rudolf Schnabel: Gute alte Zschopau. In: Der Kanu-Sport, information sheet of the Canoe Section of the German Democratic Republic. 3rd year No. 4 / April 1956, p. 62.
22. ^ Herbert Rittlinger: The new school of canoeing. Water, sun, boat and tent . FA Brockhaus Verlag, Wiesbaden 1977, p. 465.