Lenchen Kunov

Lenchen Kunow (born April 12, 1911 in Uelzen ; † October 30, 1989 in Großburgwedel ) was a German sports functionary and author .

Life

Lenchen Kunow earned services in the period after the Second World War, especially in sports education , with a focus on women's sports . Among other things, she developed the Lüneburg Stegel . In 1949 Kunow was the first state woman warden in the Lower Saxony Gymnastics Federation (NTB), where she was five years later in 1954 in 1954. From the 1950s she wrote - together with Friedrich Preugschat - several sports books. In 1956 the gymnastics badge was introduced in Lower Saxony as a result of her work.

In 1972 Lenchen Kunow became deputy chairwoman of the NTB, and in 1978 its honorary member .

The sports functionary was posthumously honored with the Lenchen-Kunow-Weg in Hanover, Bothfeld district, which was laid out in 1999 .

Fonts

Lenchen Kunow was a co-author with several editions of the following titles:

• Lenchen Kunow, Friedrich Preugschat: movement education in the country school , in the series supplements of the Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education , Munich, volume 517, Seebruck am Chiemsee 1959: Heering
• Lenchen Kunow, Friedrich Preugschat: Modern physical education in the country school. Frankfurt am Main 1960.
• Lenchen Kunow, Friedrich Preugschat: We do gymnastics on the Lüneburger Stegel , with drawings by Karlheinz Grindler, in the Limpert reference books series , Frankfurt am Main; Vienna 1963: Limpert
• Lenchen Kunow, Friedrich Preugschat: Ejercicios en las barras de equilibrio , Spanish-language edition of Wir turnen am Lüneburger Stegel , Buenos Aires 1971: Editorial Kapelusz

literature

• Dirk Böttcher : KUNOW, Lenchen. 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. 218; online through google books
• Dirk Böttcher: Kunow, Lenchen. 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 , p. 377.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dirk Böttcher: KUNOW, Lenchen (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Compare the GND number of the German National Library
3. ^ Kurt Hoffmeister: Lower Saxony sports history: data on Lower Saxony sports history. Norderstadt 2005, p. 37.
4. ^ Kurt Hoffmeister: Lower Saxony sports history: data on Lower Saxony sports history. Norderstadt 2005, p. 37.
5. ↑ Significant Women in Hanover, p. 65  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.0 MB)