Trip to Austria by the German warriors in 1938
The Austrian trip of the German warriors in 1938 was a propaganda event of the German gymnastics association . It took place at the end of March / beginning of April 1938 in the context of the annexation of Austria to the German Reich.
history
The national team with the 36 best apparatus gymnasts was divided into two groups of equal sporting value (Rank A under Martin Schneider , and Rank B under Hermann Ohnesorge ).
Rank A
- Walter Steffens - Lüdenscheid
- Reinhold Stutte - Eichen, Krs. Siegen
- Heinz Sandrock - Langenfeld / Rhineland
- Georg Sich - Düsseldorf
- Fritz Frisch - Eichen, Krs. Siegen
- Alexander Kribic - Harburg-Wilhelmsburg
- Willi Stadel - Berlin
- Alfred Müller - Leuna
- Arthur Kleine - Bad Durrenberg
- Kurt Haustein - Leipzig
- Kurt Neubert - Thalheim
- Fritz Limburg - Ruhla
- Kurt Domke - Kassel
- Kurt Rödel - Greiz
- Franz Beyer - Kassel
- Karl Stadel - Wünsdorf
- Fritz Rabenstein - Wünsdorf
Row B
- Franz Beckert - Neustadt in the Black Forest
- Hans Pludra - Villingen
- Gustav Schmelcher - Munich
- Max Walter - Sulzbach
- Eugen Göggel - Stuttgart
- Richard Reuther - Oppau
- Leo Isele - Darmstadt
- Rudolf Lüttinger - Ludwigshafen am Rhein
- Matthias Volz - Schwabach
- Ernst Roser - Loerrach
- Karl Weischedel - Stuttgart
- Franz Kindermann - Munich
- Martin Geistbeck - Munich
- Josef Renner - Geislingen
- Konrad Frey - Bad Kreuznach
- Emil Hlinetzky - Frankfurt am Main
- Philipp Delle - Mainz / Kastel
- Innozenz Stangl - Munich
Course of the trip
Gymnastics performances of one of the two groups took place in Vienna's Great Concert Hall and in the Musikvereinssaal, in Leoben, Graz, Klagenfurt, Villach, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Linz, Wels and Bludenz. The Reich Sports Leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten gave speeches aimed at Austrian athletes. In newspaper reports it was said that the German athletes "help to make April 10th (meant: the referendum on the connection of Austria ) a complete success."
Web links
- Mentioned in: Berno Bahro: Der SS-Sport - Organization - Function - Meaning , Paderborn 2013.
- Badische Presse of March 29, 1938
- Badische Presse from April 1, 1938
- Freiburg newspaper of April 4, 1938
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsche Turnzeitung (Volume 83 / Volume 13) of March 29, 1938.
- ^ The advertising trip of the German gymnasts. in: Deutscher Telegraf , March 28, 1938, p. 8. Cf. B. also Hamburger Nachrichten of March 29, 1938. Online
- ↑ Das Kleine Volksblatt , March 27, 1938, p. 22.