Richard

Born:
18th December 1869 in Artern
Died:
17th December 1958 in Stuttgart


Champion and organizer of the first nudist movement

Today it seems many of us as a matter of course, move around in the nude in nature, in the clubs or at the designated beaches. The number of nudists is great. Unfortunately, we forget what it cost at the beginning of battles, bear the thought of the hygienic and moral nakedness in public.

Even if today we have to "fight back", so yes, this struggle is an entirely different battle. No battle against dwindling membership numbers, but in general the struggle for the right to their naked bodies.

By 1900, a period of corsets and top hats, it was Richard storm, which occurred first in the wider public nudity.
All current work in the free body culture, we have some, thanks to a few courageous people whose earliest fighters storm was Richard.

Richard storm was on 18 Artern in December 1869, Thuringia, was born. The home education was the customs of that time, following strict. For years he worked in various nurseries as an assistant, including two years in Norway. Subsequently he was co-founder of a bread factory (Simon bread factory, but what a short time later went into bankruptcy), and then representatives.

In his spare time Richard made ​​storm so his thoughts on life forms and life reforms, health, naturalness and beauty. His first articles appeared in the journal "Strength and beauty." It was followed by his book "Re-naked" people have become that much more intense already dealt with the nudism.

After the surprising success of his essays and his book, Richard tempest came up with the idea to present his thoughts on nudity in a larger book. And so in a relatively short period (4 weeks) the work "The nudity in historical development, health, moral and artistic lighting," in brief "The nudity called". as a book with such basic ideas could not expect to find a publisher, it first had to be printed at his own expense and risk.

His boldness with which he pursued his ideas and published, was not without consequences. Such were his works a slap in the face of the existing public morality, and called the prosecutor on the plan. All procedures were "unscathed" from Richard tempest.

The study, published in 1908 "Naked" refuted the objections of opponents and made ​​them their own sins against true morality in mind - hence new processes came up to him, which he won again. Even if Richard tempest always did well in court, the processes were still financially devastating for him. He had a circulation Sieyes book "Culture and nakedness" (1911) to withdraw and rewrite (1912). Addition, there were still the legal costs, together about 20,000 mark for that time quite a large sum.

"After the publication of" nudity and ascent in 1925, the permanent display at police and prosecutors to finally be heard. Meanwhile, the theses had become common tempest of nudism.

Nude skiing Site hut Naked - 1909


In terms of the free body culture, we certainly owe much to Richard storm, but there's another side of Richard storm, a "dark" side. And these "dark" side is justified in his racism fantatischem.

(Quote) "The greater racial differences are now, the less can be a mixing of the races take place, because blood is excluded due to the large differences in a firm connection.
...
Because the blood of the inferior race in its simpler composition and other various components of the finer and nobler qualities of suppressed blood and overgrown. For the blood of the dark-bred (especially blacks and Jews) contains coarser and heavier components.
Mix different kind breeds consequently leads to the disintegration and demise of the breeds, especially the higher assessed. "(Quote - end)
Source: "Rise and nudity" - 1920 - Page 118

Richard was the first storm of the World War responsible impeller, the (quote) "destructive and subversive forces" (quote - end) of world Jewry. And he predicted the moral and cultural decline of the German-Germanic race, which is if not counteracted. With his abstruse theory of "blood difference," he distracted by the externals and tried one (racial) purity by - insane - to promote health issues.

1923 Richard took a charter change in the storm of 1911 he founded "Loge of the rising life" (later: "Trust covenant for rising life") by, taking up the notion of "racial hygiene". In this context, he urged its members not only to comply "race laws", but also a clear commitment to a political party. Many members disagreed with this reorientation thunderstorm and left the "Trust covenant."

1953 Richard became an honorary member storm the German Association for Free Body Culture (DFK) eV

1956 called on the tempest-INF Congress in Hanover an "honorarium" for his services to nudism. Adolf Koch joined the counter and said to him: "Have you forgotten how you've publicly called on the last Verbandstag of RFK in 1933:" Adolf Koch, when you throw out the Jews ""
Source: Book "free body culture in Germany" - 1999 - Page 17


Publications:

"Once people become naked" - 1903
"The nudity" - 1905
"Naked" - 1908/1909
"Culture and nudity - a claim" - 1911
"Nudity and culture - new demands" - 1912
"Nudity and advancement, targets for renewal ..." - 1919
"Nudity and Morality, paths to salvation ..." - 1925
and other publications in journals


Sources:
- "The Sun Man" - 11/1949
- "Rise and nudity" - 1920
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