Pim Mulier

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Pim Mulier
Team photo of the Koninklijke HFC from 1887, with Mulier (front, black cap)

Willem Johan Herman "Pim" Mulier (born March 10, 1865 in Witmarsum , † April 12, 1954 in The Hague ) was a Dutch sports official and journalist . He is considered one of the founding fathers of modern Dutch sport.

biography

Engagement in sport

Pim Mulier came from a well-to-do respected family in Friesland ; his father was the last grietman (a kind of justice of the peace) and from 1850 mayor of Wonseradeel . The ancestors of the family came from France, which is why Mulier himself pronounced his last name in French. An ancestor of the family, Jan Mulier, fought alongside Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé , in the Huguenot Wars in the 16th century .

Until Pim Mulier was two years old, the family lived in his native Witmarsum in the official residence of his father Aylva State , then they moved to Haarlem after the father Tjepke Mulier was defeated in a mayoral election. Tjepke Mulier and his wife Rolinda had five children, two of whom died as infants. Pim Mulier was the youngest child and the "offspring".

Tjepke Mulier founded the Vereniging IJsclub for Haarlem and the surrounding area . He put his son Pim on the ice when he was four years old to train speed skating with his older brother Pieter and a house servant . All three Mulier children were also active as draftsmen and attended art schools; their sister Elinda was later a respected artist and had her own studio.

After the completion of primary education in school Pim Mulier was after England sent to in Ramsgate a college visit. Later he graduated from a commercial school in Lübeck and traveled to Russia and Scandinavia on behalf of a bulb grower and then a timber trade . During this time he learned several languages, from which he later benefited as a sports official.

Pim Mulier first came into contact with football in England. At the age of 14 he was one of the co-founders of the oldest football club in the Netherlands, the Koninklijke HFC, which still exists today . He went to the mayor himself and negotiated permission for him to use a field as “worstelstrijdperk voor Pim Mulier en zijn kornuiten” (“as a battle arena for Pim Mulier and his cronies”). At first rugby was played, from 1883 mainly football. Mulier became "naturally" the leader of the club, and his colleagues called him meneer Mulier . In 1894 and 1895 he played twice for the Dutch national soccer team. On April 10, 1894, he scored the first goal for the Elftal in a friendly against a Maidstone FC called thrown team . In addition to soccer and speed skating, Mulier was active in tennis , athletics and bandy .

In 1889 Pim Mulier became the first president of the Nederlandse Atletiek en Voetbal Bond (NVAB). When this association fell apart and was only continued as a football association, he founded the Nederlandse Athletiek Bond (NAB). He introduced Bandy in the Netherlands and helped found the International Skating Union , of which he was president from 1892 to 1895. He was convinced of the need for comprehensive sports organizations to standardize rules and make national and international competitions possible.

From 1891 Mulier was president of the Nederlandsche Cricketbond for a few years . Mulier was also active as a sports official during his time in the Dutch East Indies: for example, shortly after his arrival, he founded the football club Sportclub Sumatra's Oostkust with two Dutch plantation employees . Contrary to the usual customs in the colony, this association was multicultural .

When the Nederlandse Bond voor Lichamelijke Opvoeding (a popular sports organization mainly for hiking) was founded in 1907 , Pim Mulier was appointed to represent the sport. Mulier initiated two sporting events that are still the largest and most popular in the Netherlands today: the Elfstedentocht (speed skating) and the Nijmegenmarsch people's hike . In 1890 Mulier himself completed the daughter, a Frisian winter tradition, in a time of 12 hours and five minutes, which was long considered a record. In 1909 it was organized for the first time on his initiative. In 1917, at the age of 51, he started again in the Elfstedentocht . The Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant wrote about the busy sports pioneer: "Zitvlees heeft de energieke Mulier nooit gekweekt." ("Sitzfleisch is never up to the energetic Mulier.")

Work as a journalist and private

In 1889 Pim Mulier founded the newspaper het Sportblad , which was supported by 30 sports associations, and became its editor-in-chief. He published the books Wintersport (1893), Athletiek en Voetbal (1894) and Cricket (1897). From 1890 to 1899 Mulier also dealt with a legal reorganization of freshwater fishing and submitted his notes to the General Director for Agriculture, Cornelis Jacob Sickesz, who let Mulier's considerations flow into a new law. He also published the book Vischkweekerij en instandhouding van den vischstand .

In 1899 Mulier went to the Dutch East Indies for five years , where he worked as editor-in-chief of the Deli Courant . As a columnist Flaneur , he campaigned against the "absolute dependence of married women". He found it “nonsensical” that “women” had fewer rights than men in legal matters. He also advocated women's suffrage and admired women's rights activists Aletta Jacobs and Cornélie Huygens . One of his closest friends was the writer Arij Prins , who was just as enthusiastic about sports as Mulier.

Mulier's departure from the Netherlands was preceded by family disputes: At first, his now widowed mother had rejected his marriage, which he entered into in 1895, as a “ mesalliance ”: his wife Cornelia Constance, born von Duin, was a former maid. Since brother Pieter Mulier a "frivolous" life as unmarried playboy led afraid Eldina Mulier that the family tradition will not continue from lucrative marriages. She died in 1898, and then there was a falling out between Pim Mulier and his sister; The reason could have been inheritance disputes. Mulier's marriage ended in divorce after around 25 years; one of the reasons for failure was childlessness. Mulier married his grandniece Maria Louise Haitsma Mulier for the second time, but this marriage also remained without children.

Under the pseudonym Pim Pernel , Mulier wrote travel reports, literature and columns for newspapers such as the Algemeen Handelsblad and Het Vaderland . He illustrated his articles and books with his own drawings.

Pim Mulier laid out an impressive botanical garden in his house in The Hague, which even students from Wageningen University visited to see. He was a collector of antique glass and bequeathed his extensive collection to the Haags Gemeente Museum . He died in 1954 at the age of 89.

Honors

Bust of Mulier in front of the church of Witmarsum (The numbers do not refer to his life data, but to the existence of the KF Pim Mulier association .)

For his services to Dutch sport, Mulier was awarded the highest civilian order of merit in the Netherlands, the Order of the Dutch Lion , in 1940 . He was named honorary president of several sports associations. In 1951 he was the first to receive the Zilveren Anjers ( Silver Carnation ) from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds . He also became an honorary citizen of the municipality of Wûnseradiel , to which his birthplace Witmarsum belongs, and a bust of him was placed in front of the church for the 100th anniversary of the speed skating club named after him, Keatsforiening Pim Mulier . In the Netherlands, clubs, sports fields and other facilities are named after him, such as a stadium in Haarlem, the street next to it and the Pim Mulier tennis association .

In 2002, the independent, non-profit Mulier Instituut was opened in Utrecht , which studies sport from a social science perspective.

Fonts

as Pim Mulier

  • Winter sports (Haarlem, 1893)
  • Cricket (Haarlem, 1897)
  • Vischkweekerij en instandhouding van den vischstand (Haarlem, 1900)
  • Arbeidstoestanden op de Oostkust van Sumatra (Medan, 1903)
  • Over de onderwerping en ontwikkeling van Sumatra in verband met eenige vraagstukken van den dag (Amsterdam, 1904)
  • Tim. Roman van 'n Hondenleven (Amsterdam, 1931)

as Pim Pernel

  • Bokkesprongen ('s-Gravenhage, 1925)
  • Zilte verhalen ('s-Gravenhage, 1925)
  • Naar het land van Mussolini ('s-Gravenhage, 1926)
  • Co-author and co-illustrator: Wat niet in Baedeker Staat (1931)

literature

  • Daniel Maurice Ferdinand Rewijk: Captain of Jong Holland. A biography of Pim Mulier . Diss. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Gorredijk, Bornmeer 2015.
  • Haags Gemeentemuseum (ed.): Glas uit de oudheid: Legaat WJH Mulier . 's-Gravenhage 1966.

Web links

Commons : Pim Mulier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g A. van Emmenes: Mulier, Willem Johan Herman (1865-1954). Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland, November 12, 2013, accessed June 10, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Rewijk, Captain Jong Holland. , P. 29.
  3. ↑ Rewijk, Captain Jong Holland. , P. 38.
  4. ↑ a b Pim Mulier. In: Olympisch erfgoed.nl. Retrieved June 10, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Rewijk, Captain Jong Holland. , P. 57.
  6. ↑ a b Janny Groen: Deftig en belezen, maar wars van 'stroef-seniele heeren'. In: de Volkskrant. December 31, 1997, accessed June 11, 2016 (Dutch).
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Fons Kemper / Daniël Rewijk: Pim Muliers 150e geboortejaar. De rol van Pim Mulier in de Nederlandse sport. Factsheet. Ed .: mulier instituut. February 2015. (PDF)
  8. ↑ Rewijk, Captain Jong Holland. , P. 167.
  9. ↑ Nicholas Piercey: Four Histories about early Dutch Footbal 1910–1920 . UCL Press, London 2016, pp. 43 .
  10. ^ Arnout Janmaat: 120 jaar bandygeschiedenis in Nederland (1891-2011). March 7, 2013, accessed December 19, 2016 . (PDF file)
  11. ↑ Rewijk, Captain Jong Holland. , P. 223f.
  12. ↑ Rewijk, Captain Jong Holland. , P. 133f.
  13. ↑ Rewijk, Captain Jong Holland. , P. 178.
  14. ↑ Rewijk, Captain Jong Holland. , P. 190f.
  15. ↑ Rewijk, Captain Jong Holland. , P. 174.
  16. ↑ Rewijk, Captain Jong Holland. , P. 211.
  17. ↑ Rewijk, Captain Jong Holland. , P. 178.
  18. ↑ Tennis Association Pim Mulier
personal data
SURNAME Mulier, Pim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mulier, Willem Johan Herman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch sports pioneer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Witmarsum
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1954
Place of death The hague