Friedrich Friesen
Karl Friedrich Friesen ( born September 25, 1784 in Magdeburg, † March 16, 1814 at La Lobbe, today part of Rethel (Ardennes ), France) was a founder of the German gymnastics art, educator, and freedom fighters.
Life
Friesen was the son of an accountant. He first visited the Old Town public school in Magdeburg. His teacher was George Samuel Albert Mellin, the Frisians early on the ethics of Immanuel Kant savant. 1801 and 1802 Friesen learned at the Academy of Architecture in Berlin and others Land surveying, then became interested in but more for pedagogy and philosophy. From 1806 to 1811 he was employed by Alexander von Humboldt to the development of the Mexican Atlas and acted, inspired by Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Addresses to the German nation since 1808 with Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and Wilhelm Harnisch together to Johann Ernst Plamanns after Pestalozzi's principles furnished Plamannsche reformatory.
In the years the grounds of the German gymnastics art by Jahn, he was actively involved. He founded in 1808 a fencing company, in addition to fencing and political discussions, against the backdrop of 1806 occupied by Napoleon Fatherland were made. Friesen led in Berlin temporarily turn the Association of Artists, developed many new gymnastics and founded at the Berlin sub-tree bridge one of the first German swimming baths.
In 1808 he worked as a scout for Ferdinand von Schill and his military group and spied in Magdeburg.
Along with Wilhelm Harnisch, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and others, he founded the German Confederation in 1810. This secret society pursued the goal of an armed uprising and a moral renewal of the people.
Friesen co-authored with Jahn 's memorandum order and organization of German Fraternities and had a considerable share in the fraternity movement.
He prepared the 1812 active uprising against Napoleon before. In 1813 he was. Shared with Adolf Freiherr von Lützow one of the major advertisers and designers of its volunteer corps to which he then belonged to an officer and adjutant Lützows The raid at Fawns he escaped along with Theodor Körner, who then died in Gadebusch in his arms.
In 1814 he fell in the wars of liberation. After the invasion of the Russian- Prussian corps Pries Chen by Napoleon Reims scattered in the Ardennes, he was captured on March 16 near the village of La Lobbe at Rethel of Lorraine auxiliary troops and killed defenseless.
It was a long search for Friesen. 1816 was his friend August von Vietinghoff the remains. A proper burial was not due to the political situation, as a result of the Wartburg Festival (1817 ) and the Demagogenverfolgung (1819 ), initially possible.
His remains rest in the cemetery disability in Berlin near where Scharnhorst since 1843.
Honor
His hometown Magdeburg honored him, among other things by naming a street (Fries Road ). Furthermore, stands in Magdeburg Fürstenwall Park Hegelstrasse a monument Eichenau near Munich has a frieze road and a community center " Friesenhalle " ( former gymnasium of 1937). In Wittstock / Dosse is a Friesen- Jahn- grains monument and in Oberhausen, there is a sports complex " Fries hill ". In Vienna, a favorite of the frieze square was named in 1897 by Friedrich Friesen.
In Berlin carries a street in the city 's Kreuzberg district since the turn of the century, and the main avenue of the Olympic Park since 1936 his name; further comprises a building of the German Sports Forum and the court ( " Friesenhof "). On the occasion of the III. World Festival of Youth and Students in 1951 in the People's Friedrichshain park in Berlin a large open-air swimming stadium was built, which was named Karl- Friedrich Friesen Stadium. The stadium consisted of a 50-meter competition pool and a diving pool with a 10 -meter diving tower and had amphitheatrically bleachers for up to 8000 spectators. Was used stadium for the children, youth and sports performance. In the late 1970s, the stadium was independent of the weather by means of a sliding roof. In the great transformations after 1990 the stadium was demolished, thus honoring the athlete was over.
Today is the struggle Fries, a sporty all-around, named after him.
Friesen in the literature
Literary expression, he found, among other things at Ernst Moritz Arndt ( It sits on the same beach ), Max von Schenkendorfstraße Immermann ( in the epigones ) and Jahn's introduction to the " German Gymnastics Art ". Biographies written Schiele (Berlin 1875) and Euler ( 1885).