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Richard Schirrmann (May 15, 1874 – December 14, 1961) was a German teacher and founder of the first youth hostel. Born in Grunenfeld (today Gronówko), Province of Prussia as the son of a teacher, Schirrmann studied to become a teacher himself. In 1895, he received his qualification, and was sent to Altena, Westphalia in 1903. In 1907, he first published his idea of an inexpensive accommodation for young people, after he noticed the lack of such places on a school trip when he had to spend the night in barns or village school buildings. Schirrmann received considerable support and donations, and in 1912 he opened the first youth hostel in the recently reconstructed Altena castle. Schirrmann described a Western Front Christmas Truce in December 1915:
Schirrmann served in a regiment holding a position on the Bernhardstein, one of the mountains of the Vosges - separated from the French troops by a narrow no-man’s-land, which his account describes as "strewn with shattered trees, the ground ploughed up by shellfire, a wilderness of earth, tree-roots and tattered uniforms". Military discipline was soon restored, but Schirrmann pondered over the incident, wondering whether "thoughtful young people of all countries could be provided with suitable meeting places where they could get to know each other". ==The German Youth Hostel Association== (詳細はHostelling International), before the Nazi government forced him to resign. After World War II, he worked on the rebuilding of the German association, for which he received the ''Bundesverdienstkreuz'' in 1952. Schirrmann died in Grävenwiesbach (Taunus) in 1961. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Schirrmann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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