Hermann Kuhr

Hermann Kuhr (born September 19, 1879 ; † January 20, 1925 ) is the founder of the academic gym teacher training in Leipzig .

Live and act

He was the first gymnastics teacher in Leipzig and thus in Germany at all. From the General Academic Gymnastics Evening, which he had founded himself in 1905/06, he succeeded in developing a four-semester, later eight-semester course as a senior gymnastics teacher at the University of Leipzig and, from 1908, integrating academic gymnastics into the university's curriculum. Due to his early death in 1925, he did not experience the expansion to a professorship in sports science. This was done by Hermann Altrock . He can be described as a pioneer of sports science in Germany. Hans-Jörg-Kirste writes about Kuhr: The prehistory began in 1921 when the University of Leipzig opened its gymnastics institute under the direction of the academic gymnastics and sports teacher, Prof. Dr. phil. Hermann Kuhr, opened. When Hermann Kuhr died in January 1925 at the age of 45, he left behind not only a university institute that was being established, but also a student body that was extremely interested in university sports and academic gym teacher training. Kuhr had developed the originally four-semester gymnastics philologist training into an eight-semester course. For general student sport, he created the prerequisites for its obligatory introduction for the first two semesters. In 1912, a team of gymnasts traveled to the Olympic Games in Stockholm under his leadership and took fifth place in the German Empire .

Works

Kuhr, Hermann: History of the 1st German gymnastic school, opened at the University of Erlangen in spring 1806. Leipzig 1906.
Kuhr, Hermann: The fight for the Leipzig university gym - its significance for the academic and gymnastics life of the present, Leipzig, 1909.

literature

Hehl, Ulrich von (Ed.): History of the University of Leipzig 1409–2009. Faculties, institutes, central facilities. Vol. 4. Leipzig 2009. pp. 910-919.

Web links

Kuhr, Hermann (1879-1925). Historical course catalogs of the University of Leipzig, March 3, 2016, accessed on June 15, 2016 .

Individual evidence

↑ https://www.archiv.uni-leipzig.de/blog/deutsche-mannschaft-bei-der-v-olympiade-1912-in-stockholm-mit-hermann-kuhr-dem-ersten-leipziger-turnlehrer/
↑ The fencing master Gustav Berndt had already planned to institutionalize gymnastics in the 1860s through a plan for a gymnastics institute .
↑ A life for sports science - Hermann Altrock became Germany's first sports professor 80 years ago ( Memento from March 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Kuhr, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German gymnastics teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	September 19, 1879
DATE OF DEATH	January 20, 1925

[1] ttps://www.archiv.uni-leipzig.de/blog/deutsche-mannschaft-bei-der-v-olympiade-1912-in-stockholm-mit-hermann-kuhr-dem-ersten-leipziger-turnlehrer/

[2] The fencing master Gustav Berndt had already planned to institutionalize gymnastics in the 1860s through a plan for a gymnastics institute .

[3] A life for sports science - Hermann Altrock became Germany's first sports professor 80 years ago ( Memento from March 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )