Hans Fellgiebel

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Victor Hans Fellgiebel (born November 17, 1889 in Breslau , † after 1977 ) was a German country stable master and hippologist .

family

Hans Fellgiebel was born in 1889 as the son of the landowner Albert Fellgiebel and his wife Wilhelmine nee Schmidt. He was the younger brother of the German resistance fighter Erich Fellgiebel and the father of the German rider Inge Theodorescu and thus the grandfather of Monica Theodorescu .

Life

The Elmshorn riding and driving school, today the center of Holstein horse breeding

Until World War II

Fellgiebel grew up on the family-owned Poklatki estate in Buchenhagen near Kostschin in West Prussia . After school, he did an apprenticeship in agriculture and animal husbandry.

After the First World War , the family domain was dissolved, Fellgiebel subsequently worked with driving horses on various estates in Western Pomerania . During this time he already had business contacts in Elmshorn , where he was brought in in 1926 as director of the riding and driving school. Here he made sure that the focus of the activities there was placed on the blossoming show jumping sport, which today is formative for Holstein horse breeding. From 1936 onwards he worked in Soltau , Aalen and Bremen .

Janów Podlaski Stud, where Hans Fellgiebel worked during the Second World War

War years

After the invasion of Poland in 1939, Fellgiebel was appointed to the occupied Polish territories by Gustav Rau , who was now Chief Intendant and Commissioner for Horse Breeding and Stud Management in the General Government. From 1940, Hans Fellgiebel took over the management of the great Arabian stud Janów Podlaski . Here he kept the Polish staff at management levels and stood up for them.

In 1942 he met the behaviorist Bernhard Grzimek here . This should investigate whether horses have a sense of direction and can find their way back to their stable alone over unfamiliar territory. Fellgiebel initially rejected Grzimek's research because the stud was without a veterinarian at the time and Grzimek was not ready to undertake the urgently needed veterinary measures. In the end Fellgiebel made his daughter Karin available to Grzimek, who also interpreted the Polish for Grzimek. Hans Fellgiebel was quoted by his daughter Inge about these experiments:

"Every idiot knows that a horse can only find home if it has already gone the same way."

This was also confirmed by Grzimek's research. Regarding Fellgiebel's good dealings with the Polish population and its rejection of the Hitler government, Bernhard Grzimek said in an interview in 1977:

“I have only now found out that all the partisans who were sitting around in the woods had been informed that if an officer came out of the stud, nothing should happen to him. At the time I was glad that my horses did not voluntarily run into the forest. "

In 1944 the stud was evacuated to the west. Fellgiebel, at that time a lieutenant colonel , was summoned to the Fuehrer's headquarters . He was arrested here because his brother Erich was a co-conspirator of the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt . Hans Fellgiebel remained in custody until the end of the Second World War, after which he was taken prisoner by the French. From this he was probably released in November 1945.

Working in the Federal Republic

After the war Fellgiebel was given a management role again: He was now in charge of what was then the Bad Harzburg- Bündheim State Stud . Fellgiebel retired in the 1950s. However, he was still active and ran a riding school in Bündheim with an attached boarding school for children who could learn to ride here.

He was also a board member of the Society of Breeders and Friends of the Arabian Horse, founded in 1949 .

Driving

Fellgiebel took over the basics of his driving activities from Benno von Achenbach .

At the end of the 1950s, the performance drive of the German Driving Derby came under fire after horses were put to shame due to excessive driving. Fellgiebel commented on this:

"What is it [...] to drive with a whip and all other help, hell come out." I saw drivers who stood at the end of the tiller and [...] behaved like crazy. "

In September 1961 Fellgiebel drove a 256-kilometer rally to Innsbruck for three days with a team of four Haflingers . This trip was organized by Otto Schweisgut, President of the World Haflinger Association, in order to promote carriage driving and Haflinger breeding. Fellgiebel, who had not previously worked with Haflingers, is quoted on this trip:

“I would never have thought these small, strong horses would have such a willingness to perform. With their friendly, cuddly nature they will conquer the world as practical economic horses. "

Today Hans Fellgiebel is considered one of the most important representatives and teachers of the German driving system. His book “Die Fahrschule”, published in 1930, is seen as one of the foundations of today's driving sport in a series with “Tensing up and driving” by Benno von Achenbach and “A magyar koscizás” by Tibor von Pettkó-Szandtner .

Works

  • The driving school: the principles of harnessing, harnessing and driving in the work train and in the carriage. Olms , Hildesheim 1986, ISBN 3-487-08272-1 . (Reprint of the edition: Parey , Berlin 1930)
  • The main Polish Arabian Stud Janow Podlaski 1919–1946. Self-published, Bad Harzburg 1952.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wroclaw II registry office : birth register . No. 5642/1889.
  2. ↑ a b c d Dieter Ludwig: Inge Theodorescu: A memory of Inge Theodorescu, parts of a letter. In: Website of Monica Theodorescu. Archived from the original on June 22, 2011 ; accessed on July 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Erich Fellgiebel's parents' house in Buchenhagen. In: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg; Depositum Fellgiebel, owned by Susanne Potel, b. Fur gable. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012 ; accessed on July 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Claudia Sewig: The man who loved animals: Bernhard Grzimek: Biography . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7857-2367-8 , p. 101 ff.
  5. ↑ a b Thomas Druml, Gertrud Grilz-Segert: Driving culture, part 3: From cultural technology to sport. (pdf, 1.1 MB): Horse Revue 9/2011. August 12, 2011, p. 43 , archived from the original on April 23, 2016 ; accessed on July 9, 2018 .
  6. ^ The career of Walther-Peer Fellgiebel after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944. Karl Heinz Wildhagen (Ed.): Erich Fellgiebel: Master of operational communications. A contribution to the history of the news troop . Hannover, 1970, pp. 319-320 , archived from the original on July 31, 2012 ; accessed on July 9, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Jasper Nissen: Large equestrian and horse dictionary. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, 1977, ISBN 3-570-04580-3 .
  8. ↑ Georg Zimmermann: Help for a horse: "Cora" should not die. (pdf) In: Hamburger Abendblatt . October 29, 1959, archived from the original on July 10, 2018 ; accessed on July 9, 2018 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abendblatt.de
  9. ↑ 60 years of VZAP: We say thank you! (No longer available online.) Arab Breeding Association of Bavaria, formerly in the original ; accessed on July 9, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.araberzuchtverband-bayern.de
  10. ↑ Driving derby: No talk of torture? In: Der Spiegel 30/1959. July 22, 1959, p. 49 , accessed July 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Fellgiebel, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fellgiebel, Victor Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German country stable master and hippologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH after 1977