Gerard Karel Meijers

Gerard Karel Meijers (according to his own, not independently confirmed information, Prince Jero Khan , Chero Kahn , Sifu Tze or Sifu Tze Chen Tao Tze Prince Ganjuurin Dschero Khan ) is a Dutch martial artist . Together with Carl Faulhaber he is the founder of the martial art Shaolin Kempo .

Life

According to his own, unverified information, Meijers was born in 1928 near Ulan Bator as a descendant of the old Mongolian nobility and was given the name Ganjuuryn Dschero Khan. In the turmoil of the Chinese civil war , he fled to Indonesia, where a Dutch soldier adopted him. The experiences during the escape as well as during the Indonesian War of Independence and the Korean War shaped his martial arts. However, the credibility of the information about the first decades of his life is doubtful.

In 1969 Meijers attacked the editorial building of the newspaper Het Vrije Volk with a bulldozer. The newspaper had made fun of one of his Kempo afternoons in its Arnhem local edition with a satirical picture. However, he was only sentenced to a short prison term for this. In 1976 he founded the “Eerste Nederlandse Shaolin Kempo Bond” (ENSKB) together with Frits Drijssen, and became its chairman. In 1976 Meijers trained, among other things, the Rheydt Police Sports Club in the Mönchengladbach district of Rheydt and martial arts schools in the Federal Republic of Germany. In the mid-1980s he withdrew from the public martial arts scene in Germany and on May 20, 1984 founded the Klewang Association "Oude Korps Marechaussee". He heads this corps as a colonel.

In 2009 the journalist and author Karel Michiels wrote a biography for him with the title De laatste Khan ("The Last Khan"), the credibility of which, however, was strongly doubted due to the fantastic descriptions.

Web links

Dschero Khan on the website of the “First German Klewang Association”, accessed on September 6, 2014
Dschero Khan on the website of the Martial Arts Academy Dresden e. V. (Association for Contemporary Chinese Martial Arts) accessed on August 29, 2015
The origin of Shaolin-Kempo and the founder Sifu Tze on the website of Kempo Kleve eV accessed on August 29, 2015

Individual evidence

^ Curriculum vitae of Prince Dschero Khan, PdF file, by Christoph Lemm (German, accessed September 6, 2014)
↑ ^a ^b ^c Shaolin Kempo. In: SHAOLIN KEMPO BOND. March 21, 2014, accessed June 25, 2019 (Dutch).
↑ 35 years of Shaolin Kempo in Goch , Niederrhein Nachrichten, February 23, 2019
↑ ^a ^b ^c Dschero Khan, vechtersbaas en fantast. Retrieved June 25, 2019 (Flemish).
↑ Boze kempoleraar ramt gebouw van Het Vrije Volk . In: Het vrĳe volk: democratic-socialist dagblad . Dag edition. Rotterdam January 29, 1969 ( kb.nl [accessed June 25, 2019]).
↑ "Be on your ears, that the heather weeps" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 1976, p. 100-108 ( Online - May 3, 1976 ). , P. 107
↑ De laatste Khan - Boeken - Houtekiet. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Meijers, Gerard Karel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Chero Kahn; Sifu Tze; Sifu Tze Chen Tao Tze Prince Ganjuurin Jero Khan; Meijers, Gerard Karel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch martial artist
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[kwoon-1] Curriculum vitae of Prince Dschero Khan, PdF file, by Christoph Lemm (German, accessed September 6, 2014)

[:0-2] Shaolin Kempo. In: SHAOLIN KEMPO BOND. March 21, 2014, accessed June 25, 2019 (Dutch).

[3] 35 years of Shaolin Kempo in Goch , Niederrhein Nachrichten, February 23, 2019

[:1-4] Dschero Khan, vechtersbaas en fantast. Retrieved June 25, 2019 (Flemish).

[5] Boze kempoleraar ramt gebouw van Het Vrije Volk . In: Het vrĳe volk: democratic-socialist dagblad . Dag edition. Rotterdam January 29, 1969 ( kb.nl [accessed June 25, 2019]).

[6] "Be on your ears, that the heather weeps" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 1976, p. 100-108 ( Online - May 3, 1976 ). , P. 107

[7] De laatste Khan - Boeken - Houtekiet. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .