Gymnastics father
Turnvater is an epithet for the following pioneers of the gymnastics movement:
- Alfred Maul (sports teacher) (1828–1907), German gymnast, gymnastics official and gymnastics father in Baden
- Anton Schiestl (firefighter) (1832–1900), founder of the Bolzano gymnastics club and the Bolzano volunteer fire brigade
- Bernhard Christoph Faust (1755–1842), German doctor and gymnastics father in Lower Saxony
- Carl Schill (1862–1944), German entrepreneur and gymnastics father in Rheinhessen
- Carl Leuschner (1787–1861), German teacher and gymnastics father in Mecklenburg
- Friedrich August Ravenstein (1809–1881), German cartographer, topographer, bookseller and gymnast from Frankfurt
- Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778–1852), German educator, politician and pioneer of the gymnastics movement
- Georg Propping (1837–1920), German bank director and gymnastics father in Oldenburg
- Heinrich Range (1829–1894), German gymnastics teacher and gymnastics father in Pomerania
- Johann Friedrich Richter (teacher) (1794–1853), German schoolmaster and gymnastics father from Marbach
- Johannes Buhl (1804–1882), German businessman, gymnastics pioneer and fire department pioneer
- Justus Lion (1829–1901), sports educator and gymnastics father from Bremerhaven
- Karl Völker (gymnastics father) (1796-1884), German gymnastics teacher, pupil of gymnastics father Jahn
