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- Sir Ludwig Guttmann CBE FRS (3 July 1899 – 18 March 1980) was a German-British neurologist who established the Stoke Mandeville Games, the sporting event for people with disabilities (PWD) that evolved in England into the Paralympic Games.
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Sir Ludwig Guttmann CBE FRS [1] (3 July 1899 – 18 March 1980) was a German-British [2] neurologist who established the Stoke Mandeville Games, the sporting event for people with disabilities (PWD) that evolved in England into the Paralympic Games.
- He Was One of Four Children
- He Was A Doctor
- He Defied The Gestapo
- He and His Family Fled The Nazis
- He Became Director of The National Spinal Injuries Centre
- He Pioneered Treatment For Those with Spinal Cord Injuries
- He Created The Stoke Mandeville Games
- The First Paralympic Games Were Held in 1960
- He Was Knighted
- His Legacy Is Immense
Guttmann was the eldest of four children born in Upper Silesia, in the former German Empire (now Toszek in southern Poland). His father was a distiller, and the family were raised in the Jewish faith. When Guttmann was three, the family moved to the Silesian city of Königshütte (today Chorzów, Poland)
After he was rejected from military service on medical grounds, Guttmann began studying medicine at the University of Breslau in 1918. He continued his studies and received his Doctorate in Medicine in 1924. He studied under leading neurologist Professor Otfrid Foerster from 1924 to 1928, before spending a year starting a neurosurgical unit in Hamb...
After the violent attacks on Jewish people during Kristallnacht on 9 November 1938, Guttmann ordered his hospital staff to admit all patients without question. The following day, he justified his decision on a case-by-case basis to the visiting Gestapo; out of 64 admissions, 60 were saved from arrest and deportation to concentration campsas a resul...
An opportunity to escape Germany arose when the Nazis allowed Guttmann to use his passport to travel to Portugal to treat a friend of the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar. He was scheduled to return to Germany via London; however, the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics, an organisation founded in 1933 to assist academics fleeing...
In 1943, he accepted a Directorship of the new National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville on the condition that he be allowed to treat his patients however he chose. The unit had 24 beds, one patient and few resources. Within 6 months of the centre’s opening in 1944, Guttmann had nearly 50 patients. The centre had been created on the initi...
Guttmann emphasised that patients should maintain hope of progress and returning to their previous life as much as possible. Social rehabilitation, woodwork and clock making workshops and sporting activities were introduced on the wards, the latter which had the biggest impact. The first sport was wheelchair polo, which was soon replaced by wheelch...
Guttmann organised the first Stoke Mandeville Games for disabled war veterans. The games were held on 29 July 1948, the same day as the opening of the London Olympics, and consisted of participants with spinal cord injuries competing in wheelchairs. To encourage his patients to take part in national events, Guttmann used the term ‘Paraplegic Games’...
The International Stoke Mandeville Games were held alongside the 1960 Summer Olympicsin Rome. Known at the time as the 9th Annual International Stoke Mandeville Games, they were organised with the support of the World Federation of Ex-servicemen, and are now recognised as having been the first Paralympic Games.
Guttmann was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1950, and in 1966 he was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966.
Guttmann died in March 1980 at the age of 80 after suffering a heart attack. However, his legacy is very much alive. The London 2012 Paralympic Games were organised in tandem with the Olympic Games, and were the closest that Guttmann’s vision of having the events combined has had to being truly realised. Today, countless medical wards, monuments an...
Professor Sir Ludwig 'Poppa' Guttmann CBE FRS is known as the father of the Paralympic movement; he was the medical pioneer who proved that disabled sport could be as competitive and exciting as non-disabled sport.
In the summer of 1948, neurologist Ludwig Guttmann set up a sporting competition between patients. It was the birth of the Paralympic Games.
Ludwig Guttmann (born July 3, 1899, Tost, Germany [now Toszek, Poland]—died March 18, 1980, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England) was a German-born English neurosurgeon who was the founder of the Paralympic Games. Career in Germany and escape to England.
May 26, 2024 · Ludwig Guttmann, a pioneering neurologist who revolutionized the treatment of spinal cord injuries and founded the Paralympic Games, is a true icon of medical history.
Ludwig Guttmann was a man of dedication of purpose, a tireless searcher after truth, and intolerant of carelessness, inefficiency, or low standards. He was a fighter in any cause in which he believed, and he did not usually lose a fight.
