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Turn Verein Standard with Father Jahn (Item GERMAN SPORTS 1-1; OLY 7-7)

DESCRIPTION: The first Turn Verein was established by Father Ludwig Jahn in 1809. This was developed by this priest to drill his followers in gymnastics, but also in military tactics because this was the time when Germany was being suppressed by Napoleon. In later years, however, music, theatricals, and oratory were added to the social function of the Turners in the German community. The watchword was always “a sound mind in a sound body.” It must always be kept in mind that the original organization was first formed as a nationalistic response to the war of liberation against Napoleon and fostered rigorous exercise among boys and young men to produce a healthy body and to enable them to be able to effectively protect their Fatherland. Suffering repression in its early decades it eventually became absorbed within the state. Father Jahn was born in 1778 in Brandenburg, Prussia. In 1806 he witnessed the defeat of Prussia and the conquest of Germany, which sparked his decision to work for the unity and freedom of Germany. In 1813 gymnasts and students proved their worth in the volunteer Lützow Corps; Jahn himself was one of the commanding officers. All this was good preparation for the “big one,” “the Battle of Nations” at Leipzig in 1813 followed after Napoleon’s utter defeat. The allies marched into Paris in 1814. Jahn’s demands of the day—“Freedom of Speech,” a real constitution; the unity of the Fatherland. Today, freedom of speech in Bundes-Deutschland is a joke. Father Jahn was imprisoned and persecuted for years for his thoughts and utterances just as scholars in Europe are also jailed for their thoughts and utterances. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn died at the age of 74 in Freyburg an der Unstrut. His name lives on all over the world in the gyms and stages of the Turner Veriens. Its motto “Frisch, Fromm, Frölich, Frei,” “Hardy, Pious, Cheerful, Free.” The banner measures 37 x 37 inches and is in beautiful almost-mint condition and it is the type that would be carried in a parade of the Turners and also would hang in its headquarters. The words at the top are “Wer Seinen Körper Stählt,” and at the bottom there are the words “Pflegt Seine Seele.”

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