Workers 'Athletes' Association of Germany
The Arbeiter-Athletenbund Deutschlands was formed in Berlin in 1906 through the merger of various workers' athletes' clubs and the athletics departments of workers' gymnastics clubs . The association initially spread mainly to Central Germany (seat since 1910 in Magdeburg ). In 1908 the Association of Bavarian Workers ' Athletes joined and in 1910 the Free Athletes' Association of Germany, which was founded in 1903 . After the First World War , the federal government was divided into 21 districts. In 1931 the association consisted of athletes from 1,206 clubs (including around 400 that were run by the Workers 'Gymnastics Association) with 63,316 members (including around 3,000 from the Workers' Gymnastics Association). In the 1920s, its membership included around 5,000 female athletes.
The association organized German championships in weightlifting , wrestling , boxing , jiu-jitsu , athletics and artistry . The association had its own federal school, around 160 sports fields and 15 gyms of its own. The association published the magazine Athletik every month.
In the course of conformity in 1933, the association was dissolved by the Reich government and the association's assets were confiscated and made available to local associations of the German Reich Federation for physical exercises .
literature
- Hans Joachim Teichler , Gerhard Hauk (Hrsg.): Illustrated history of workers' sport. Dietz, Berlin, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0127-9 .
- Arnd Krüger : The German way of worker sports, in: Arnd Krüger, James Riordan (Ed.): The Story of Worker Sport. Champaign, Ill .: Human Kinetics 1996, 1-25. ISBN 0-87322-874-X .
- Beckmann's sports dictionary. A – Z. Vienna: Otto Beckmann. 1933.
- Carl Diem (Ed.): Yearbook of physical exercises 1931. Yearbook for popular and youth games. Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1931.