Ludwig Guttmann

✶July 3, 1899

†March 18, 1980

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About their life

Sir Ludwig Guttmann 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. A Jewish doctor who fled Nazi Germany just before the start of the Second World War, Guttmann was a founding father of organized physical activities for people with disabilities.

German-British neurologist who created the Paralympic Games (1899-1980)

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