On Saturday, May 10, 2025, an information event will take place at the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Museum Freyburg as part of the nationwide Urban Development Day (www.tag-der-staedtebaufoerderung.de). Between 2 and 4 pm, interested…
The Presidium of the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Society has appointed Dr. Norma Henkel as the new Director of the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Museum and the new Managing Director of the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Society with effect from March 1, 2025.…
The Jahn Museum is looking for new colleagues - Are you looking to enter the world of work, would you like to reorient yourself professionally or are you already retired? Are you looking for a useful and fulfilling task…
"Fresh, free, cheerful and pious - that is the gymnast's wealth. Who was the so-called "Turnvater Jahn"? How did he come to Freyburg? Why is the town of Freyburg the Mecca of…
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Bartmuß passed away on January 6, 2023 in Halle. With him, the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Society not only loses an outstanding scientist and patron, but also an impressive personality and a…
The President of the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Society will celebrate his 70th birthday on November 15, 2022. For all information, please refer to the press release.
When E.T.A. Hoffman, born in Königsberg in 1776, was writing "Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr," he was commissioned to investigate the demagogue trial against the "gymnastics father" Friedrich Ludwig Jahn.…
As part of the annual conference of the Working Group "Places of the History of Democracy" in Berlin, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier received members of the Working Group in Bellevue Palace on 8 October 2021. He praised the work of the…
In 2021, the Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo for the first time since 1964. On the occasion of this not only sporting but also media mega-event and the fact that this year also…
Increasingly, various institutions of the working group experience a direct and indirect appropriation of the history of democracy by right-wing populist groups. The speaker's council of the working group has therefore decided on a statement "Places of the history of democracy against right-wing populist appropriation"…
