Johannes Runge
John Runge ( born January 24, 1878 in Braunschweig, † November 12, 1949 in Bad Harzburg ) was a German track and field athlete, Olympic athlete and sports official. He was at the beginning of the 20th century, the first major German middle distance runner and started also in the long jump, triple jump and pole vault.
He was a member, and from 1903 to 1914 chairman of FC Eintracht Braunschweig. In 1906, he ended his career and became a sports official. He also worked as a soccer referee and wrote several athletics textbooks. He died in 1949 on the day of the founding of the German Athletics Association of a heart attack.
Athletes career
John Runge was from 1895 first football player. In 1896 he scored with 4:32,4 min the first registered German best performance in the 1500 meter race. ( First German about 12 meters Berlin) registered as early achievements are his 3.20 meters in the pole vault in 1897 (Braunschweig) and 12.17 m in the triple jump in 1898. Until 1906, he set up a total of 12 German records.
- II Summer Olympic Games in Paris in 1900: the pedagogy students Johannes Runge was denied permission to take off, because he happened to be on the exam.
- In the most July 24, 1904 discharged in Hannover " Sichtungswettkämpfen " for participation in the Olympic Games John Runge won three competitions: 400 m in 53.0 s ( German record )
- 800 m in 1:59,4 min ( German record and first German runners under 2 minutes)
- Long jump with 6.23 m
- III. Olympic Summer Games 1904 in St. Louis: John Runge and Paul Weinstein were the only starting for Germany athletes. As a teacher and thus as an official Runge had a request for permission to start delayed until the ship was in the direction of New York on the high seas; he was therefore a severe reprimand for unauthorized leaving the service. He was fifth in each 800 -meter run ( 1:57,1 min, estimated) and 1500 -meter run (time has not been determined ).
- He took part in Athens and at the 1906 Summer Olympics. About 800 meters he gave up the lead, in the long jump, he finished in 12th place with 5.90 m
The Athletics Yearbook 1909 reports of him: It is unlikely to be a second German athlete who has played a similar role from the beginning of the flowering of our sport, like John Runge. Well over a decade he has held over the running routes from 400 to 1500 meters an absolute rule. During his 14-year career, he has been beaten only once in a 400 - meter race.
Activity as an official
After finishing his sports career was John Runge official in the German Sports Authority for Athletics ( DSBfA ), the forerunner of the German Athletics Federation ( DLV), beginning in 1906 as assessors, in 1910 as vice chairman and 16 February 1913 as Chairman. 1904 Runge Chairman of the Football Association for the Duchy of Brunswick, from 1909 to 1918 he also served as Vice Chair of the Northern German Football Association ( NFA ).
From 1920, Runge was responsible ministry official for Sports training in the Reichswehr. In 1913 he co-wrote with Eugene Wagener ( sports journalist and sports director of DSBfA, 1881-1965 ), the first German Championship of the forest run.
In 1914 he took over the presidency of the IAAF Committee on Competition and Amateur provisions after he had been elected on the second IAAF Congress in Berlin in 1913 as Chairman of the Committee to prepare the amateur regulations. His particular concern was the promotion of women's sports. In 1919, he called on the sports clubs to call departments for women's athletics into life.
For his services to the sport in Lower Saxony, he was accepted both as an athlete and as a sports official in the gallery of honor of Lower Saxony Sports of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History.
References
Publications
- John Runge: Light Athletics. Training, technique and tactics of running and jumping. 1908
- Hermann Nitsch man, John Runge: How I practice running, jumping, throwing? 1919