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Wilhelm ("Willi") Jahn (born 27 February 1889, date of death 1973) was a German track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
In 1912 he was eliminated in the first round of the 800 metres competition. Willi Jahn was a leader in the German Youth Movement (Wandervogel). As such he co-lead the IWV (Jungwandervogel) for many with Willie Jansen, participating at the famous 1913 Hohen Meissner meeting. As the Wandervogel movement was concerned with health and life reform for the German Youth, track and field became a central element of life in the organization, which lead to Willi's ultimate appearance at the 1912 Olympics.
Besides track and field, Willi was very engaged in kayaking trips (Wanderpaddeln), another facet of the outdoors activities of the Wandervogel. A crucial element of the Wandervogel movement that shaped Willi's life was the rediscovery of German folk song. Willi was an accomplished guitar and lute player, as well as a composer of songs in the german folkloristic style. His most well know song "Laue Luft kommt blau geflossen" was set to the words by German poet Eichendorff. Other songs include "Wir wollen zu Land ausfahren" und "Aus feuchtem Grunde". A number of books that compile his compositions have been published.
Plans to run the family publishing business in Berlin were thwarted by WWII, which destroyed the art publishing business and the community newspaper. Willi served in Denmark and contracted tuberculosis in a British POW camp after the war. He never fully recovered from this condition and succumbed to it ultimately in 1973, in a home in Hannover-Kleefeld, which he had attained with the help of Wandervogel friends, amonst them Hjalmar Kutzleb and Prof. Hübotter.
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