Fritz Nopel

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Fritz Nöpel (born  November 3, 1935 in Breslau ) is a German karateka and the pioneer of Gōjū-Ryū - karate in Germany . He is holder of the 10th  Dan and the honorary title Hanshi and thus the highest-graded Dan holder in the German Karate Association .

Life

In 1954, after completing his professional training as a miner , Fritz Nöpel went on a bicycle tour through Asia with the aim of attending the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne , Australia . In Java he came into contact with karate for the first time. He took his first intensive karate lessons in Taiwan . After his first stay in Japan in the winter of 1957/58, he completed his training as a deep-sea diver in the USA and then worked as a professional diver in Japan. There he began in the Yuishinkan , the Dōjō of Kisaki Tomoharu in Osaka , as one of the few students to learn Gōjū-Ryū karate. In 1961 he married Eiko Nakabajasi in Osaka . In 1967 he returned to Germany with his wife Eiko and daughter Jaqueline , where he worked as a track builder / surveyor for the Deutsche Bundesbahn until his retirement in 1996 . He has lived in Kamen since 1982 . He has five children with his wife Eiko.

karate

Fritz Nöpel on a course in Witten 2010
Fritz Nöpel, Shigeru Nagoya and Toshiro Sasaki at the 11th Yuishinkan Kata Seminar 2009 in Japan

In 1967 Fritz Nöpel - at that time the owner of the 4th  Dan - founded a Gōjū-Ryū Karate department in the Dortmund Police Sports Club and thus the first Gōjū-Ryū-Karate-Dōjō in Germany. Shortly after moving to Kamen in 1978, he founded the Kamen karate-do club , which is now the Honbu Dōjō des Yuishinkan in Europe. In 1999 Fritz Nöpel was awarded the honorary title Hanshi together with the 8th Dan . The German Karate Association (DKV) awarded him the 9th Dan in 2007. During the Yuishinkan summer course in May 2016, on the occasion of his 60th karate anniversary, he was awarded the 10th Dan along with the platinum badge of honor. Fritz Nöpel is honorary chairman of the Goju-Ryu Karate-Bund Deutschland and the European Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Federation . He was significantly involved in the development of the DKV.

Jukuren

In recent years, Fritz Nöpel has concentrated on Jukuren training , published a book on this subject with Martin Nienhaus, and developed Jukuren no Kata , a Kata that older people can still practice.

literature

  • Fritz Nöpel, Martin Nienhaus: Jukuren. Martial art of the experienced . 2nd Edition. Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8391-2246-4 .
  • Fritz Nöpel: Dôjôkun. Preserve the noble . In: Uschi Schlosser-Nathusius, Florian Markowetz (Hrsg.): Martial arts as a way of life . 1st edition. Kristkeitz, Heidelberg / Leimen 2004, ISBN 3-932337-14-X .
  • Matthias Fahling: Fritz Nöpel. Karate Grand Master Fritz Nöpel. It all started with a trip around the world by bike . In: Matthias Fahling, Lukas Peuckmann (ed.): Victories, records, Olympic honors. Athletes from the Unna district . Aschendorff Verlag , Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-402-12843-5 , p. 42-45 .

Web links

Commons : Fritz Nöpel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Brzuska: Fukushima. Fritz Nopel. WAZ , March 8, 2012, accessed March 24, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Jacqueline Winkler. Yuishinkan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Kamen / Bergkamen, accessed December 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Matthias Fahling: Fritz Nöpel. Karate Grand Master Fritz Nöpel. It all started with a trip around the world by bike . In: Matthias Fahling, Lukas Peuckmann (ed.): Victories, records, Olympic honors. Athletes from the Unna district . Aschendorff Verlag , Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-402-12843-5 , p. 42-45 .
  4. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Adamek, Fritz Nöpel: On the way to Hanshi by bike. Fritz Nopel. 9. Dan Goju Ryu. Hamburger Karate-Verband, 2011, archived from the original on December 1, 2017 ; accessed on December 4, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Gabriele Thiele: Founder of Goju-Ryu-Karate in Germany. 30 years ago: By bike to Japan. Asia expert and karate pioneer Fritz Nöpel is 60 years old. (PDF) (No longer available online.) German Karate Association , 1996, p. 15 , archived from the original on June 17, 2012 ; Retrieved March 20, 2013 .
  6. ^ 9th Dan for Hanshi Fritz Nöpel. Goju-Ryu Karate-Bund Deutschland, September 30, 2007, accessed on December 4, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Roland Hantzsche : The German Karate Association breaks through a taboo border. Awarding of three 9th DAN grades to three karate pioneers of integrity. (PDF) (No longer available online.) 2007, p. 5 , archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; Retrieved March 20, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Eva Mona Altmann: Special distinction: 10th Dan and platinum badge of honor for Hanshi Fritz Nöpel. In: www.kdnw.de. Karate umbrella organization North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on September 17, 2016 .
  9. ^ Presidium of the GKD. Goju-Ryu Karate-Bund Deutschland, accessed on December 4, 2018 .
  10. ^ Committee. European Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Federation, accessed on March 17, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Judith Niemann: Half a century for martial arts. Fritz Nöpel celebrates 50 years of Karate-Do. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Deutscher Karate Verband, 2006, pp. 18–19 , archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; Retrieved March 20, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Noepel, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German karateka, pioneer of Gōjū-Ryū karate in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw