Jürgen Seydel

Jürgen Seydel (born September 12, 1917 , † August 3, 2008 ) is considered the father of karate in Germany .

In 1939 Seydel began judo training at the University of Bonn . In 1955 he found out about karate, which was previously unknown in Germany, through an article in a French magazine. According to the JKA, Seydel founded Germany's first karate club in Bad Homburg in 1957 and soon opened a studio in Usingen . Here he taught from a textbook by Henry Plée and with the knowledge he had acquired in courses. In 1959 he passed the 1st Dan exam . Until 1965 he was the only Dan carrier in Germany. Seydel's most prominent student was GI Elvis Presley , who was stationed in Germany .

Jürgen Seydel was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker for his services to karate in Germany .

Publications

• Youth memories and war reports - Kamen: Karthause-Schmülling, 2007, 1st ed.
• Karate - Bad Homburg vdH: Kratschmer

literature

• Werner Lind : The dictionary of martial arts. China, Japan, Okinawa, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, India, Mongolia, Philippines, Taiwan, etc. Sportverlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-328-00838-1 , ( Edition BSK ).

Web links

• Biography of Jürgen Seydel in the Budo Study Circle
• Karate pioneer Jürgen Seydel
• Chronicle from the German Karate Association
• Literature by and about Jürgen Seydel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The beginnings of Jürgen Seydel
2. ^ Rex and Elisabeth Mansfield: ELVIS in Germany. Collectors Service, Bamberg 1981, ISBN 3-922932-00-2 , p. 72.
3. ↑ Short résumé and letters from Elvis Presley to Jürgen Seydel
4. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Jürgen Seydel. In: German Karate Association (Hrsg.): Karate magazin. No. 2, 1989, p. 16 ( PDF; 5.7 MB ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2012 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. ).