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1816 - F.L. Jahn/Ernst Eiselen: "A Treatise on
Gymnastics"
With this major work – to serve as a
manual for setting up gym fields - Jahn created a realistic mirror image of the
gymnastic activities on Berlin’s Hasenheide gym field.
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| 1817 |
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"Wartburg party"
climax of the patriotic gymnastics movement in Germany. There were more than 100 gym
fields in Prussia, 1,074 gymnasts trained at Hasenheide |
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Jahn held 21 lectures
about "German Nationality" with
attacks against reaction and small state
politics.
Honorary doctorates of universities in Kiel and Jena
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| 1819 |
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gymnasts and student’s societies fell under the
so-called ‘Prosecution of Demagogues’ (Act of Carlsbad - 31/8/1819) |
| 13/7/1819 |
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Jahn was arrested at the sickbed of his child and
imprisoned for five years in Spandau, Küstrin, Berlin and Kolberg |
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The Berlin Hasenheide gym field was not re-opened again as
it had been every year before.
Ban of all gymnastics in "Preussen" and other
german states |
| 13/1/1824 |
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first sentence against Jahn; 2 more years of imprisonment
in a fortress. |
| 15/3/1825 |
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aquittal on the condition not to settle in a university or
secondary school city of Germany |
| 1825-1852 |
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Jahn lived in Freyburg an der Unstrut under
police surveillance |
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"As long as man has got a body
here below... which enervates into
a vain shadow without power
and strength, without endurance and
persistence, without agility
and skills – the art of gymnastics
will have to take up a large
part of human education."
From: Jahn/Eiselen
"A Treatise on Gymnastics", 1828
At the age of 34 (1812)
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