Rudolf Gasch

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Ferdinand Rudolf Gasch (born November 7, 1863 in Beutig ; † June 27, 1944 in Hosterwitz ) was a German author, teacher and gymnastics pioneer.

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Gasch was born in 1863 in the Saxon community of Beutig, today part of Ostrau , as the son of the landowner Ferdinand Gasch and his wife Mathilde Jeppe. From 1875 to 1883 he attended the Nikolaigymnasium in Leipzig. He then studied medicine and zoology in Leipzig and Munich. In 1888 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1889/90 he completed a geography degree in Leipzig and graduated with the state examination. In 1893 he became an assistant teacher, in 1897 senior teacher at the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig. In 1906 he moved to the König-Georg-Gymnasium in Dresden, where he was most recently a senior teacher. He taught geography, science and gymnastics.

Gasch was active in the general gymnastics club in Leipzig from 1879, in 1882 he became a gymnast, in 1885 a gymnastics teacher and finally from 1896 to 1903 the club's head gymnast. He wrote works on gymnastics and gymnastics history. From 1901 he published the folk gymnastics books and from 1906 the yearbook of gymnastics . In 1920 he revised the Encyclopedia Manual of the Entire Gymnastics System (after Karl Euler, 1895).

Works (selection)

  • Contributions to the comparative anatomy of the heart of birds and reptiles. Nicolaische Verl.-Buchh. R. Stricker, Berlin 1888 (Phil. Diss., Leipzig, 1889) ( online ).
  • with Georg Hirth (Ed.): The entire gymnastics: A reading book for German gymnasts. Rud. Lion, Hof 1893 ( online ).
  • 33 gymnastics tables for club swinging. Max Hesse, Leipzig 1899.
  • Wetturnerbüchlein Handbook for judges and Wetturner. Max Hesse, Leipzig 1900.
  • History of gymnastics. GJ Göschen, Leipzig 1910.
  • The popular betting exercises. Max Hesses Verlag, Leipzig 1906.
  • Handbook of all gymnastics and related physical exercises. Pichler, Vienna and Leipzig 1920.
  • 50 gymnastic tables for men's gymnastics . Max Hesses Verlag, Berlin 1921.
  • Freiringen, a wrestling booklet for beginners . Limpert, Dresden 1924.
  • Singing ways to the German marching songbook for clubs and schools . Limpert, Dresden 1925.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hosterwitz death register, 1944, entry no.41
  2. ^ Gasch, Rudolf In: Hermann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? Berlin 1935, retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, p. 310.
  3. ↑ Gasch, Dr. Phil. F. Rudolf In: Beckmanns Sport Lexicon AZ. Leipzig 1933, retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, p. 309.
personal data
SURNAME Gasch, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gasch, Ferdinand Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, teacher and gymnastics pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Booty
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1944
Place of death Host joke