What is Ludwig Guttmann?
[[Image:Ludwig Guttmann2.jpg|thumb|Ludwig Guttmann]] '''Sir Ludwig Guttmann''' [[CBE]] [[The Royal Society|FRS]] (3 July 1899 – 18 March 1980) was a [[Germany|German]] [[neurologist]] who started the [[Stoke Mandeville Games]]. That was a sporting event for people with [[Disability|disabilities]]. It developed into the [[Paralympic Games]]. He was a [[Jewish]] doctor who fled Nazi Germany just before the start of the Second World War., Guttmann was one of the first people who organized physical activities for people with disabilities. 1933, Guttmann was working in Breslau (now [[Wrocław]], Poland) as a [[Neurosurgery|neurosurgeon]] and lecturing at the [[University of Wrocław|University of Breslau]]. in 1933 under the [[Nuremberg Laws]] he was stopped. He was sent to work at the [[Breslau Jewish Hospital]], where he became medical director in 1937.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Silver |first=JR |date=8 February 2005 |title=History of the treatment of spinal injuries|url= |journal=Postgraduate Medical Journal |volume=81 |issue=952 |pages=108–114 |doi=10.1136/pgmj.2004.019992 |pmid=15701743 |pmc=1743190}}</ref> In early 1939, Guttmann and his family left Germany because of the [[Nazism|Nazi]] persecution of the Jews. He was sent to [[Portugal]] to treat a friend of the Portuguese dictator [[António de Oliveira Salazar]]. The [[Council for Assisting Refugee Academics]] helped him to move to [[Oxford]] in March 1939. He did research at the Nuffield Department of Neurosurgery in the [[Radcliffe Infirmary]]. In September 1943, the [[Government of the United Kingdom|British government]] asked Guttmann to establish the National Spinal Injuries Centre at [[Stoke Mandeville Hospital]]. The [[Royal Air Force]] was worried about the treatment and rehabilitation of [[Pilot|pilots]] with spine injuries. It was the first specialist unit for treating [[Spine|spinal]] injuries in the United Kingdom. Guttman was the director until 1966. He organised the first [[Stoke Mandeville Games]] for disabled war [[veteran]]<nowi