Knud Ahlborn

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Knud Ahlborn (born March 14, 1888 in Hamburg , † May 9, 1977 in Kampen (Sylt) ) was one of the most important personalities of the early youth movement . He was significantly involved in the First Freideutschen Jugendtag as well as in the founding of the Freideutschen camp Klappholttal on Sylt .

Life

Knud Hermann Friedrich Ahlborn was born as one of three sons of the zoologist and physicist (flow researcher) Friedrich Ahlborn . As a 14-year-old he already went hiking with students in the nearby heath. In 1905 he founded the Hamburg hiking club as a “self-education community for high school students”, from which the Bund Deutscher Wanderer (BDW) later emerged. Ahlborn joined the Göttingen Alt-Wandervogel in 1908 and founded the Academic Freischar zu Göttingen, which merged with other freelancers to form the German Academic Freischar (DAF), of which Ahlborn was chairman until 1917.

One of the first calls for the Meißner meeting in 1913 was signed by Knud Ahlborn. At this meeting, Ahlborn was responsible for the direction and the fire speech. He is also credited with the words of the Meißner formula, which he formulated together with the young physicians Erwin von Hattingberg and Gustav Franke on the way between Hanstein Castle and Meißner. Ahlborn was also elected first chairman of the Free German Youth Committee.

During the First World War he took part as a senior physician in the Bavarian field hospital No. 17. From the field he took over the editing of the newspaper Freideutsche Jugend and drafted a draft constitution for the leadership council of the Freideutsche Jugend .

After the war, Ahlborn continued to be involved in the interests of the Free German youth. In Hamburg he rented the so-called Freideutsche Haus , which housed a publisher he co-founded and their newspaper Junge Menschen . In 1919 he discovered the former war camps Klappholttal and Puan Klent on Sylt, which he acquired. One of them became the Puan Klent holiday camp with the help of Ahlborn and the support of the City of Hamburg . As a Free German camp, Klappholttal temporarily became a gathering place for the Free German movement. The home still exists today under the name of Nordseeheim Klappholttal . The Klappholttal adult education center was created from the layout of this home . It has been known as the Akademie am Meer since 1976 , and Ahlborn is listed as the founder. In his honor, a day room bears the name Ahlbornsaal .

After the beginning of the Second World War , Ahlborn served as a military doctor, first in the West and later in Russia, where he was promoted to medical officer. At the end of the war he was transferred to France. While on the run he was taken prisoner of war with a medical department, from which he was released in 1946 as a result of dysentery.

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Meißner meeting, Ahlborn and like-minded people founded the Guild Hoher Meißner , which he chaired. On the island of Sylt, he became increasingly involved in landscape protection and environmental initiatives. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Klappholttal, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon by the then Federal President Theodor Heuss on June 5, 1959 . Ahlborn was buried in the cemetery of the island church St. Severin (Keitum) . His estate is in the archive of the German youth movement .

literature

  • Knud Ahlborn: Klappholttal. The idea of ​​a youth camp. (1921), Sylter Druckerei Jueptner, Westerland 1989, afterword by Manfred Wedemeyer
  • Erich R. Andersen: Adult Education Center in the dune sand . Pro Business, Berlin 2009
  • Sigrid Bias-Engels: Between Wandervogel and Science - on the history of the youth movement and student body , Cologne: Wissenschaft & Politik, 1988 (= Edition Archive of the German Youth Movement, Vol. 4)
  • Hinrich Jantzen: names and works . Volume 2, dipa, Frankfurt / Main 1974, pp. 15-22

The archive of the German youth movement ( Ludwigstein Castle ) acquired his estate in 1978 (2.9 running meters)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1. Call for the First Freideutschen Jugendtag. Retrieved July 30, 2010 .
  2. ↑ see: Schiller, Hartmut: Manfred Wedemeyer †, Nordfriesland 165, March 2009, p. 6, on the website http://www.nordfriiskinstituut.de/165.pdf (accessed on October 25, 2011)
  3. ↑ Information from the Order's Chancellery in the Office of the Federal President.
  4. ↑ Hans-Holger Paul, Archive of Social Democracy Bonn (ed.): Inventory of the legacies of the German labor movement (1993) , pp. 3-6
  5. ↑ Ahlborn, Knud (1888–1977)  (AdJb inventory N 2). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
personal data
SURNAME Ahlborn, Knud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, personality of the youth movement
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1977
Place of death Kampen (Sylt)