Gerd Wischnewski

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Gerd Wischnewski (* 1930 ) is a German aikidōka .

Wischnewski had emerged in the 1960s through his knowledge of various disciplines of Budo and from 1965 belonged to the first generation of teachers of Aikido in Germany. At that time he had the 2nd Dan in Aikidō, 2nd Dan in Jūdō , 2nd Dan in Kendō , 1st Dan in Karate and was referred to as the "samurai with the blue eyes". He was later awarded the 3rd Dan in Aikido.

Wischnewski began his way into the Japanese martial arts in the Jūdō during the 1950s. In 1963 he went to Japan for three years to learn other disciplines. He learned Aikidō in Tokyo from Ō-Sensei Ueshiba Morihei , who awarded him the 2nd Dan, Karate from Masatoshi Nakayama and Kendō from Kawaguchi Toshihiko . He characterized his studies of Budo in Japan as follows: "I lived like a Japanese and immersed myself completely in my studies".

Back in Germany, Wischnewski taught Aikidō and Kendō first in the Jūdō Club Wiesbaden and later in the German Jūdō Association and wrote the first textbook for Aikidō in German with the book Aikidō - Modern Japanese Self-Defense , published in 1969 . From 1966 he was also the technical director of the Aikidō Commission in the German Jūdō Association and a member of the German Dan College . In the early 1970s he retired from Aikidō and Kendō for health reasons.

See also

Other first generation aikidō teachers in Germany:

Student of Gerd Wischnewski:

literature

  • Gerd Wischnewski: Aikidō - the most modern Japanese self-defense , Falken-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1969, ISBN 978-3-8068-0248-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Wischnewski: Aikido - most modern Japanese self-defense; Page 10. Hartmut Gerber et al. (1992): The Aikido Breviary; Berlin (Weinmann-Verlag); Page 18. Aikido info
  2. ^ Aikido lexicon by Rolf Brand
  3. ↑ Gerd Wischnewski: Aikido - most modern Japanese self-defense; Page 9.
  4. ↑ Hartmut Gerber et al. (1992): The Aikido Breviary; Berlin (Weinmann-Verlag); Page 18.
  5. ↑ Max Depke, in: Gerd Wischnewski: Aikido - advanced Japanese self-defense; Page 7.
  6. ^ Aikido lexicon by Rolf Brand ; Aikido info
personal data
SURNAME Wischnewski, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German martial arts teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany