Niels Bukh

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Niels Bukh

Niels Ebbesen Mortensen Bukh (born June 15, 1880 in Snejbjerg, Herning, Jutland ; † July 7, 1950 in Egense Sogn ) was a Danish gymnast and sports educator who founded the first Danish folk high school for gymnastics in Ollerup Sogn .

Life

After the elementary school teacher examination in 1912, he taught at the Vallekilde Højskole and thus became the coach of the Danish gymnastics team at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm . Here he was enthusiastic about rhythmic gymnastics for women and was particularly influenced by the Finn Elli Björksténs (1870–1947) and the health-oriented gymnastics according to Kaare Theilmann (1870–1934). In the tradition of Pehr Henrik Ling, he developed his own natural Danish gymnastics tradition , which is located between the Swedish and the German. In 1920 he founded the Ollerup Sports School (now the college), in which he combined the goals of the Danish adult education movement with his gymnastics. In 1931 he went on a world tour with his gymnastics team, through which his methodology found many fans, especially in Japan , South Africa , Argentina and Germany . In 1933 Bukh confessed to National Socialism , because his goal was to improve the health of the Aryan race . In 1936, Bukh headed the Danish gymnastics team at the Olympic Games in Berlin . Especially after the invasion of Denmark by Germany in 1940, he was very controversial in Denmark as a committed National Socialist. He was in close contact with the Reich Sports Leader . His opponents in Denmark made his homosexuality public in order to discredit him with the National Socialists. After the war he was classified as a fellow traveler .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Else Trangbaek : Denmark. In: James Riordan , Arnd Krüger (Ed.): European Cultures in Sport: Examining the Nations and Regions . Intellect, Bristol 2003, ISBN 1-84150-014-3 , pp. 47-56.
  2. ^ Hans Bonde: The Battle of Youth: Niels Bukh and the Creation of Modern Gymnastics (1880-1950). Tusculanum Museum, Copenhagen 2004.
  3. ^ Arnd Krüger: Strength through joy. The culture of consent under fascism, Nazism and Francoism. In: James Riordan, Arnd Krüger (Ed.): The International Politics of Sport in the 20th Century. Spon, London 1999, pp. 67-89.
  4. ^ Jörn Hansen: Denmark. Living with reality. In: Arnd Krüger, William Murray (Ed.): The Nazi Olympics. Sport, Politics and Appeasement in the 1930s. Univ. of Illinois Press, Champaign, IL 2003, pp. 195-209. http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/73twb5fw9780252028151.html
  5. ↑ Hans Bonde: Gymnastics and politics: Niels Bukh and male aesthetics . Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 2006.
  6. ↑ Hans Bonde, HG Wells: Gymnastics and politics. Niels Bukh and the German occupation of Denmark. In: Scandinavian Journal of History. 29.2, 2004, pp. 119-141.
personal data
SURNAME Bukh, Niels
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bukh, Niels Ebbesen Mortensen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of Danish gymnastics
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Snejbjerg, Herning, Jutland, Denmark
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1950
Place of death Egense Sogn , Denmark