Ferdinand Hueppe

Ferdinand Hueppe ( born August 24, 1852 in Neuwied - Heddesdorf in Rhineland-Palatinate, † September 15, 1938 in Dresden ) was a German bacteriologist, hygienist and high school teachers. From 1900 to 1904 he was the first president of the German Football Association.

Professional career

In World War I he served first as a general physician and a consulting hygienist in the Southern Army in the Carpathians, where he soon suffered injuries. Back, he wrote in 1915 about the emergence and spread of epidemics and war other works. End of his life spent Hueppe in Dresden.

1920/21 he was chairman of the Scientific Society Isis in Dresden whose honorary member in 1926. In 1938 he died of a pulmonary embolism.

Sporting career

Even as a youth played Hueppe in his home town of Neuwied students with English football. As a student he was a member of a sports club. 1890 called Hueppe the central committee for youth and popular games to life. At the first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, he participated as judges. In 1898 he was co-founder of the German Sports Authority for athletics, today's German Athletics Association.

As Chairman of the DFC Prague Hueppe represented on this January 28, 1900 and the German FC Germania 1898 Prague at the founding meeting of the German Football Association in Leipzig, where he was at age 47 the oldest participant. On October 7, 1900, he was elected as the first chairman of the DFB. With the accession of the German Football Association FIFA 1904, the Prague clubs from the association had to retire. Hueppe resigned as first Chairman and was appointed honorary member of the DFB.

Honors

  • Dr. iur. H.C. the University of Aberdeen
  • Imperial and Royal Councilor
  • 1936: Goethe Medal for Art and Science
  • 1937: Great honor letter of the German Reich Federation for Physical Education

Critical Appraisal

In December 2005, the City Council of Neuwied, rename the professor - Hueppe Stadium decided. Background to the decision were, among others Hueppes observations and statements in connection with his work as a " eugenicist ". The role Hueppes as a "pioneer " of the German sports movement is scrutinized in more recent research. Hueppe joined in his hygiene scientific representations of the sport of football with the racial hygiene and in particular the Social Darwinism. His concept for football did not see the sport as a real purpose, but as a flanking measure for the " survival of the Germanic master race ".

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