Schick, Peter

Gymnast, gymnastics teacher

born: 30.06.1900 in Weinheim an der Bergstraße

died: 05.02.1996 in Wiesbaden

Schick studied mechanical engineering and then trained as a gymnastics teacher at the German Gymnastics School in Berlin. He won the German Gymnastics Festival several times and was one of the best artistic gymnasts of his time. In 1927, he moved to the MTV Cuxhaven, after which he was in charge of the Turnverein 1860 Frankfurt am Main.

On October 1, 1929, he became a full-time gymnastics instructor at the Wiesbaden J.P. Gymnastics Association (TBW), which already had 1,200 members at the time. For over 35 years, Schick served the association, with which he twice became German champion in the club group competition and where he trained, among others, the 1936 Olympic participant Hanni Meurer-Högel. Schick was exemplary in his ability to challenge and promote the life of the association as a whole. In 1932, the Turngau Süd Nassau elected him Gauoberturnwart. Just one year later, Peter Schick joined the SA, followed by membership of the NSDAP in 1937. He was also a member of the NS-Reichsbund für Leibesübungen and the National Socialist People's Welfare Organization. Peter Schick acted as district sports administrator in the Wiesbaden/Rheingau district of the NSRL and from 1935 to 1939 as Gau instructor of the NSRL. During the war years, Schick kept in touch with the members of the Turnerbund who were scattered everywhere and with whom he rebuilt the destroyed TBW hall after the end of the war.

In 1947, he was elected head of the regional gymnastics association. During his 20-year term of office, he organized four state gymnastics festivals. In 1966, he was appointed Honorary State Gymnastics Director. He was awarded the Wiesbaden Citizens' Badge, the Badge of Honor of the German Gymnastics Federation and the Silver Badge of Honor of the Hessian Minister President. The Wiesbaden Gymnastics Association honored his work by naming the club halls on Kurt-Schuhmacher-Ring after him in March 1991. Schick was buried in the Südfriedhof c emetery.

[This text was written by Peter Schinköthe in 2012 for the printed version of the Wiesbaden city encyclopaedia and revised and supplemented by Lena Böschemeyer in 2023]