George Brosius
George Brosius ( September 9, 1839 - March 17, 1920 ) was an American gymnastics teacher. From 1854 to 1915 he was a coach in the Milwaukee Gymnastics Club, which still exists today, and a gymnastics instructor in Milwaukee , Wisconsin in the USA .
Life
George Brosius served in the Northern Army from 1861 to 1864 (see: Civil War ). He taught gymnastics in the public schools in Milwaukee in 1875 and coordinated and supervised the lessons until 1883. He was director of the American Gymnastic Union's Normal College of Physical Education in Milwaukee 1875-1899. A student of Brosius later introduced his training methods at the West Point Military Academy , which significantly influenced physical fitness training for the US Army .
He had his greatest success as a gymnastics teacher when in July 1880 gymnasts of the Milwaukee Gymnastics Club under his direction (coach of the First International American Gymnastics Team) won five prizes in competitions on the occasion of the V General German Gymnastics Festival in Frankfurt (The Frankfurt Squad: Hermann J. Koehler (2nd prize), Otto Wagner (3rd prize), Anton Schäfer (4th prize), Wilhelm Lachenmaier, Carl Mueller (5th prize), Friedrich Kasten, Carl Paul (21st prize).
Web links
- The Milwaukee Turners (English)
literature
- George Brosius, Fifty Years Devoted to the Cause of Physical Culture, 1864-1914 , Milwaukee 1914, Germania.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See also: History of the Milwaukee Turners ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2016 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. (English).
- ↑ Technique , an official publication of USA Gymnastics (August 25, 2001, p. 24 f). See also: George Brosius, Fifty Years Devoted to the Cause of Physical Culture , p. 27.
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| SURNAME | Brosius, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American gymnastics teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1839 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1920 |