Book: Between pulpit, gymnasium and family Albert Baut-a Belzig churchman

Albert Baur's childhood was during the time of the anti-Napoleonic wars of liberation. Part of the patriotic aspirations of these years was the gymnastics movement, founded and popularized by „Turnvater“ Jahn. As a seven-year-old, Baur is said to have approached Jahn on the street and asked if he could come to gymnastics. This established the contact and from 1812 onwards Albert visited the gymnastics club. Baur is mentioned several times in Jahn's writings; he calls him his brother and praises his gymnastics skills, which he soon passed on in Sunday „gymnastics games“. He kept this up when he worked as a deacon in Belzig from 1836 onwards. Here he practiced gymnastics with young people, including girls, which was completely unusual at the time, and developed suggestions for appropriate gymnastics clothing. In 1862, Baur founded the Belzig Gymnastics Club.

He was active in the German gymnastics movement with speeches and writings. He performed his ecclesiastical duties with great dedication. Musically and literarily extremely educated, he enriched the social life of the city together with his wife Luise. Pulpit, gymnasium and family were the fixed points in the life of this Belzig churchman.