Detleff Neumann-Neurode

He was born on his family's estate in Groß Woitsdorf, Upper Silesia (then part of the German Empire), and died in Aumühle near Hamburg, Germany.

In 1922 Neumann-Neurode founded the "Institute for Physical Exercise in Earliest Childhood" ("Anstalt für Körperübungen im frühesten Kindesalter") and began to teach his method.

In 1938, Neumann-Neurode met Professor Dr. Schede, the Director of the Orthopedic University Clinic of Leipzig and chief physician of "Humanitas", a home for the disabled.

After a two-year training course at the state-accredited physiotherapy schools, an additional half-year special course in baby and infant gymnastics as per the Neumann-Neurode Method was now required of caregivers.

Professor Dr. C. Mau, M.D., Director of the Orthopedic University Clinic in Hamburg Eppendorf, noted at that time that the field of orthopedic medicine had a considerable interest in the fact that the concept of baby and infant gymnastics is tied to the name Neumann-Neurode and is widely practiced, and deserves to be considered a valuable measure of preventive medicine.

A Danish woman, Estrid Dane, was convinced by Neumann-Neurode's success with one of her own children, studied his techniques, and implemented them in Britain.

She opened a clinic for children of poor families in the East End of London, and kept it going through the years of the Blitz, insisting on crediting Neumann-Neurode despite pressure to avoid using the German name.

[4] In Johannesburg, South Africa a physiotherapist named Agnes Wenham who had studied under Neumann Neurode ran a very successful practice for many years using his methods.

Granddaughter Margrit von Kleist immigrated to Canada and opened a school "ALL CHILDREN'S PROGRESSIVE GYM" in Toronto, Ontario.