Völkisch nach Rudolf Jahn
Völkisch by Rudolf Jahn

Summary/Abstract: Sudetendeutsches Turnertum is the title of a work in which its publisher Rudolf Jahn de scribed in detail the development of the Deutscher Turnverband and at this occasion also analysed the völkisch worldview held by this gymnastic organization. The paper deals with Jahn’s influential and still used interpretation of this complex ideology and searches for motifs that got Jahn to perceive the völkisch worldview in the Deutscher Turnverband as an outdated and time limited phenomenon. The conclusions of the research are based on a broad base of historical sources, which consist mainly of printed documents of the Deutscher Turnverband, of former gymnastic organizations as well as of groups of gymnasts who were expelled from the Czechoslovakia after 1945.

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