Henni Warninghoff

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Henni Warninghoff (* 31 October 1892 in Leer (Ostfriesland) ; † 18th August 1962 in Hannover ) was a German girl - middle school - teacher , Sportfunktionärin and editor . It has for decades, the gymnastics of women in Germany helped shape and was considered "probably the most important woman in the German Turnerschaft "

Life

Born in East Frisia at the time of the German Empire , Henni Warninghoff completed a teacher training seminar in 1912 .

After the First World War , Warninghoff represented the interests of women in the Hanover- Braunschweig district in the Weimar Republic from 1921 to 1924 , and began gymnastics in 1922 through the Wandervogel movement.

Carl Bernhard Loges , founder of the “Loges School” among his students;
around 1930, Bismarck Stadium in Hanover
The "Loges School" at 8:00 am: " Grace and grace, [...] hardly woke up and already so funny"

From 1926 onwards, Henni Warninghoff worked almost continuously until 1957 as a teacher at the “Girls' Middle School” in Hanover. From 1926 until 1929 she also influenced - together with Carl Loges - women's gymnastics in general in Hanover.

In the German Gymnastics Association, Warninghoff worked on the youth committee from 1926 to 1933 , and from 1927 also on the women's council . In 1929 Henni Warninghoff - the first woman ever in Germany - gave a speech at the German Gymnastics Day (DTT): At the 20th DTT event in the Berlin Reichstag , she “ vehemently advocated a female gymnastics supervisor”, which made Elisabeth "Els" Schröder stand up from Kaiserslautern as the first female gymnastics attendant "with 188 against 148 votes [...] against a man proposed by the election committee".

From 1930 to 1933 Warninghoff acted as the gymnast's representative in the German Gymnastics Association.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933 , according to whose ideology women were mainly allowed to exercise gymnastics , Henni Warninghoff became Reichswrauenwartin in the National Socialist Reich Association for Physical Exercise (NSRL). As such, she commented on women's sports:

“For the woman to carry out her motherly task, the unity of nature and view of life preserved for her by fate must be preserved. For them there is therefore only one thing in physical education: versatile natural forms of exercise with organically increasing increases in performance in close connection with the forces of nature. "

From 1935 on, Henni Warninghoff represented the interests of organized gymnasts in the NSRL's “international women's committee”.

During the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , Henni Warninghoff looked after "the women in the German Olympic team", and in the same year visited Bad Nauheim with her coach Carl Loges and the Olympic women's team.

According to the city of Hanover's address book from 1939, the year the Second World War began , the secondary school teacher lived at Haasemannstrasse 2 in the (present-day) Hanover district of Linden-Mitte . In contrast to their male colleagues, who were expected to be “ruthlessly combative” especially during the war according to the “ Guidelines for Nazi Physical Education of 1941” and who were subjected to total coverage and constant surveillance, the women were more likely a more measured will formation and character formation. For example , Henni Warninghoff postulated :

“The German woman is neither the 'playful female' of the degenerate West nor the 'male woman ' of a false emancipation . Species-appropriate strength and natural beauty are the indispensable qualities of the German woman. Therefore the concept of achievement cannot be dispensed with in their physical exercises either. "

After the war - Henni Warninghoff was still working at the Hanover girls' secondary school - the sports functionary became a member of the council of elders of the Lower Saxony gymnastics association in 1952 . Despite this honor, the formerly feminist pioneer of the 1920s had apparently no longer been able to assert herself against the conservative world views of the now dominant men: Meanwhile, the former German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) systematically prevented “its best female athletes from winning for ten years ". "After the 1952 Olympics [were] the German gymnasts from international competition transport pulled [...], were allowed only to Schauturnen After participating." The Yearbook of gymnastics were "for the German gymnastics sisters [... just yet] own Hours for rhythmic-musical work with drums , woods , triangles and cymbals ”. The later of the magazine Der Spiegel , like Sophie Dapper and Irmgard Foerster , as "DTB governess called" Altturnerin Warninghoff now refused compulsory exercises for women over, formulated the pious exercises of German women instead of in other countries operated competitive sports now be more than "Lively, organic, cheerful and community-binding".

In 1958, a few years before her death, Henni Warninghoff became a member of the DTB's council of elders. In the 1950s, Warninghoff was also in correspondence with Carl Pape (1901–1980), the former "(Deputy) Gaufführer of the Rhenish Gymnastics Federation and the German Gymnastics Association".

Works

  • Henni Warninghoff (eds.), Margarete Güssow (collaborators): German womanhood and physical exercises , Berlin: Reichssportverlag, 1936, with numerous illustrations
  • Sports forms for women , 1939

Honors

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Dirk Böttcher: WARNINGHOFF ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ↑ Quotation from Wilhelm Braungardt in Dirk Böttcher: Warninghoff, Henni (see literature)
  4. ↑ Jan Kutscher: We want to stretch. In: Die Zeit Nº 20/1996 of May 10, 1996; last accessed online on August 30, 2014
  5. ↑ a b c Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe (ViSdP): Henni Warninghoff (see under the section Web Links )
  6. ↑ a b c Martin Krause: Colonel Schiel and the Turbine / The European championship in women's football currently taking place in Germany can look back on a long history. In: Jungle World No. 27, June 27, 2001; online ( memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. last accessed on August 30, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jungle-world.com
  7. ↑ Bad Nauheim, 1936 / Visit of the Olympic women's team ... (see the section on web links )
  8. ↑ Achim Brandau: (ViSdP): Copy for Haasemannstraße through the history workshop in the Linden leisure center , downloadable ( memento of the original from February 14, 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. as a PDF document on haasemannstraße.de , last accessed on August 30, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / haasemannstrasse.de
  9. ↑ a b Individual reference and quotation in Stefan Jacob: Sport in the 20th Century (= Sport: Culture, Change. Social-Scientific Analyzes of Sport , Vol. 25), Münster; Hamburg: Lit, 1994, ISBN 3-89473-832-4 , pp. 106f .; partly online via Google books
  10. ↑ NN : FEDERAL REPUBLIC / Drums and Triangles / KUNSTTURNEN. In: Der Spiegel , issue 23/1966 of May 30, 1966, digital version
  11. ↑ Stadtarchiv Solingen , Findbuch RS 3.2.0, inventory Na 026, Carl Pape ; downloadable ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as a PDF document @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.solingen.de
  12. ↑ Quotation from the German National Library , The Federal Archives , Central Database Estates
  13. ↑ Title according to Google
personal data
SURNAME Warninghoff, Henni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official and publisher, was considered "probably the most important woman in German gymnastics"
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Leer (East Frisia)
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1962
Place of death Hanover