<\/a>His self-defence, which he had written a year earlier with the Kolberg town syndic, leads to his acquittal. The state continues to pay his honorary pension on condition that he does not live in any university or high school town in the future; he is also obliged to report regularly to the police. Jahn marries Emilie Hentsch, who gives birth to their daughter Sieglinde, and takes up residence in Freyburg (Unstrut).<\/p>\n\t\t\t1828<\/h3>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
Because he had contact with students of the local grammar school in Merseburg, Jahn had to move with his family to K\u00f6lleda; in 1836 he returned to Freyburg (Unstrut).<\/p>\n\t\t\t
1838<\/h3>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
A fire in his rented apartment destroys his belongings. Jahn decides to build a residential house below the Neuenburg on today's Schlossstra\u00dfe. Money collections among his former followers – gymnastics students, L\u00fctzowers, Burschenschafter – support his project and contribute decisively to the fact that he can keep his generously designed house.<\/p>\n\t\t\t
1840<\/h3>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
As his father's successor, the new Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV pardons Jahn, who until then had been under police supervision, and awards him the Iron Cross.<\/p>\n\t\t\t
1842<\/h3>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
After the lifting of the gymnastics ban in Prussia, the independent gymnastics movement experiences a revival. Starting in southwest Germany, men's gymnastics clubs are formed in almost all states of the German Confederation over the next few years, which venerate Jahn as the \"father of gymnastics\".<\/p>\n\t\t\t
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After the March Revolution, Jahn is a member of the preliminary parliament and is elected to the Frankfurt National Assembly, which he remains a member of until the end. In April, he supports the founding of the German Gymnastics Federation in Hanau, but falls out with the republican-minded gymnasts, so that he is caricatured as a \"democrat exterminator\".<\/p>\n\t\t\t
1852<\/h3>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
After serving as a member of parliament in Frankfurt, Jahn returned to Freyburg in disappointment. Here he died on October 15 – hardly noticed by the public.<\/p>\n\t
Life and work<\/p>\n\t
The defeat of Prussia at the Battle of Jena and Auerstedt and the occupation of German territorial states by Napoleon shaped the decision of his life to work for the liberation and unity of Germany. In the years leading up to 1810, he visited GutsMuths in Schnepfenthal and became interested in his gymnastic exercises and school reform ideas. He was a teacher in Berlin and founded the secret \"Deutscher Bund“ with Friesen;<\/strong>. Jahn's aspiration was the training of young people through outdoor physical exercise, combined with national and patriotic education. He laid down his thoughts on this in the book published in 1810 \"Das Deutsche Volkstum“<\/strong> . His efforts to promote \"gymnastics“ – as he called it – culminated in the inauguration of the first public gymnastics ground on Berlin's Hasenheide on June 18, 1811.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t![\"image-museum@2x\"](\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image-museum@2x.jpg\" "\\"image-museum@2x\\"")
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\n\tThe home of the „father of gymnastics“ around 1894.<\/p>\n\t
His gymnasts proved themselves in 1813 in the L\u00fctzower Freikorps, in which he himself was one of the commanders. After the victorious Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, Jahn was involved with various commissions for the Prussian government, which granted him a lifelong honorary salary in recognition of his work.<\/p>\n
In his marriage with Helene Kollhof (1814) three children were born. In 1815 the former L\u00fctzowers founded the Urburschenschaft on the basis of Jahn's ideas: free rights for all citizens, constitution and unity of the fatherland.<\/p>\n
During this time he continued his work on gymnastics, which culminated in 1816 with the publication of his book, written with the gymnastics teacher Ernst Eiselen. \"The German Art of Gymnastics“<\/strong> reached a climax. In it, he described the variety of physical exercises that he considered to fall under the term \"gymnastics“: Walking, running, jumping, swinging on the swing, today's pommel horse, hovering (balancing), exercises on the parallel bars and high bar, climbing, wrestling as well as gymnastic games, swimming, fencing, riding and dancing. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn's work began to bear fruit: By 1819, more than 150 gymnastics centres had been established in Prussia and other German states; Jahn gave lectures on German nationality in which he attacked the political system and small-scale statehood.<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom 1818\/19 Jahn and his gymnastics were banned in Prussia and other German states at the instigation of Metternich, the gymnastics centres were closed, Jahn was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, which he served in Spandau, K\u00fcstrin, Berlin and Kolberg.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t![\"erinnerungsturnhalle@2x\"](\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/erinnerungsturnhalle@2x.jpg\" "\\"memory")
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The memorial gymnasium with crypt was consecrated in 1894.<\/p>\n\t
After the death of his wife Helene, he married Emilie Hentsch in 1825, who bore him a daughter. In the same year he was acquitted. The maintenance of the honorary pension was linked to the condition not to settle in any university or high school town in the future. Since then Jahn lived with a short interruption (banishment to K\u00f6lleda) in Freyburg an der Unstrut.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t![\"F_2017_644\"](\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/F_2017_644.jpg\" "\\"F_2017_644\\"")
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In 1838\/39 he built his residence there, which today houses the Jahn Museum. In 1840 he was rehabilitated by King Frederick William IV and awarded the Iron Cross“<\/strong>.<\/p>\nJahn was pleased to see the ban on gymnastics lifted in 1842, even though he was no longer active himself. He had lagged behind social progress during this time. During the revolution of 1848, he no longer understood the revolutionary gymnasts and was criticized by contemporaries as a \"gymnastics maniac\" because of his Germanism and other things. Nevertheless, the gymnasts of the Merseburg constituency delegated him as their former fellow campaigner to the Frankfurt National Assembly, which ultimately failed. The complete break with the gymnasts occurred because the gymnasts felt betrayed by Jahn's reactionary positions in the National Assembly (open letter from the Hanau gymnasts).<\/p>\n\t
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn took part in the founding of the German Gymnastics Association in 1848. The \"Swan Speech“, in which he declared his support for German unity, was his reaction to the rift with the republican-minded gymnasts. On 15.10.1852 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn died in Freyburg \/ Unstrut.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n\t
Meaning and valuationMeaning and valuation<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t![\"SCN_0005\"](\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SCN_0005-scaled.jpg\" "\\"SCN_0005\\"")
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For the establishment of gymnastics and the construction of the first public gymnastics area, Jahn is still honored today.<\/p>\n\t
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn experiences his current importance as the creator of the national gymnastics movement<\/strong>which led to the foundation of an immense number of gymnastics clubs, the German Gymnastics Federation and ultimately to the emergence of apparatus gymnastics as a world sport. The accusation that his motivation was based solely on his German nationalist and military concerns is true to a certain extent, but it must also be put into perspective insofar as Jahn's ideas and his work must be judged in the context of the historical circumstances. His politically contradictory behavior in the course of his life provided scope for the later different political systems in Germany to evaluate his thought in different ways.<\/p>\nThe Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Society tries to research and discuss Jahn, his work and the reception associated with him, in cooperation with scholars from very different disciplines, in order to achieve a critical but differentiated and balanced localization and evaluation.<\/p>\n
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Jahn's life and work were contradictory. Today his merits for the development of gymnastics and his commitment to the liberation from Napoleonic rule are undisputed. The exaggeration of his nationally oriented thoughts led in his speeches, letters and writings to xenophobia and exaggerated nationalism. Included in his nationalist ideas were also derogatory statements against Jews, French and other people who, in his view, acted contrary to his world view.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t![\"img-jahndenkmal-in-der-ehrenhalle@2x\"](\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img-jahndenkmal-in-der-ehrenhalle@2x.jpg\" "\\"img-memorial-in-the-hall-of-honor@2x\\"")
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