Karl Thiele (water sports enthusiast)
Karl Thiele (born October 16, 1867 in Hanover ; † September 6, 1940 there ) was a German master carpenter and water sports enthusiast . He founded “probably the first canoe club in Germany at all” and is considered the “father of the Maschsee ” ideas .
Life
Karl Thiele was born the son of a carpenter, even a carpenter completed and closed with the title from. In the same year he began - " obsessed " with water sports - building boats from boards in his father's carpentry workshop.
At the age of 16, Thiele and six friends founded the Hannoverscher Canoe-Club sports club on November 29, 1883 . But difficulties arose with the strict orthodox rowers - in 1885 the club was renamed the Hannoverscher Ruderverein Triton .
In 1903 Thiele first had the idea of building a lake in the Aegidienmasch , and in 1904 he founded the “Maschsee Commission ”.
From this association, Karl Thiele founded today's Hanoverian Canoe Club from 1921 (HKC) with its headquarters in the Glocksee district, near the Justus Garten restaurant at the confluence of the Leine and Ihme rivers .
Karl Thiele sat on the board of the HKC for 17 years , was first chairman for 5 years and was made an honorary member in 1935 . But already before had the citizens superintendent College still in 1932, in the Weimar Republic, the construction of the Maschsee, decided as Thiele could experience than a quarter century after its initial idea to begin construction more: On March 21, 1934 the by the Nazis so-called " Day of the National Labor Battle ”, construction began, initially with only 100 unemployed , later with more than 1,650 people.
Thiele ran temporarily the canoe - ranks the Hanover rowing clubs from 1880 (HRC), which was formerly also based on the Glocksee (in Glockseestraße moved) and 1936 is based on the Maschsee.
Further honors
- In 1940 Karl Thiele was awarded the Golden Needle of the German Rowing Association.
- Around 1936, when the Maschsee was built, a path was created from the (today's) Rudolf-von-Bennigsen-Ufer in the southern part of the city to Waldhausen ; According to the address book of the city of Hanover from 1958, this path was named Karl-Thiele-Weg in 1957 .
- On the grounds of the HRC on Karl-Thiele-Weg 20 a was Karl Thiele memorial stone erected.
literature
- Lothar Wieser (editor): Sport in Hanover. From the city's foundation to today , ed. from the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History , Hoya eV, Scientific Advisory Board, Hoya: Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History, 1991, ISBN 3-923478-56-9 , p. 252
- Dirk Böttcher : THIELE, Karl. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 358.
- Dirk Böttcher: Thiele, Karl. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 621f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Dirk Böttcher: THIELE, Karl (see literature)
- ↑ a b Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Maschsee. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 430ff.
- ^ Karl-Heinz Grotjahn MA: Hannoverscher Ruder-Club v. 1880. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 265
- ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Karl-Thiele-Weg. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 139
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thiele, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German master carpenter and water sports enthusiast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1940 |
| Place of death | Hanover |