ASK forward Frankfurt
The Army Sports Club Forward Frankfurt (Oder) was an army sports club and performance center in the Army Sports Association Forward (ASV) of the National People's Army (NVA). It was one of the largest sports clubs in the GDR .
history
After the successful performance of the GDR at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico , in which the GDR took part for the first time on an equal footing after the end of the all-German team , the party and state leadership planned to further concentrate their strengths and resources in competitive sport. In the course of this, the Presidium of the German Gymnastics and Sports Federation (DTSB) passed a resolution on April 22, 1969 on the further development of competitive sports up to the 20th Olympic Games in 1972 . Among other things, it says: "The ASK Vorwärts Berlin stationed on the territory of the Frankfurt (Oder) district is to be gradually relocated to the district capital under the name ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder). The sports club SC Frankfurt (Oder) is to be dissolved." P. 64
From the sections of ASK Vorwärts Berlin located in Strausberg in the district of Frankfurt (today Land Brandenburg ), handball players first came to Frankfurt (Oder) in 1969 , boxers and judoka followed in 1973. After the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , weightlifting and cycling came from ASK Vorwärts Leipzig (Road and rail) and sport shooting as well as the sport of wrestling from ASK Vorwärts Rostock . In September 1972, the women's handball division was formed from the bulk of the Spartakiade girls A team. The gymnastics (female) team that was also established was transferred to other performance centers in the GDR until 1988.
In June 1972 the foundation stone was laid for the sports center in Frankfurt (Oder) with ASK Vorwärts as host. He also owned the shooting range on the A 12 motorway and, since 1976, the cycling training track in Groß Lindow . In 1988 the " Oderlandhalle " for track cyclists was added, just in time for the final phase of preparation for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul .
The establishment of the Children's and Youth Sports School (KJS) on September 1, 1954, was important for promoting young talent . Initially housed in existing schools, it received its first building in 1956 (later Otto-Brenner-Gymnasium in Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße). The gym, sports field and boarding school were only added over the next few years. In 1961 the new building in the north part of the city on today's Kieler Strasse was occupied, and training halls, swimming pools, cafeteria and sauna were built there by 1969. In 1964 the new boarding school with 204 places was moved into, which was later expanded to include more houses and rentals. The sporting orientation of the KJS largely corresponded to the structure of the ASK. After 1968 KJS sports included boxing, handball, judo, weightlifting, soccer, handball, cycling, gymnastics, wrestling and shooting. In addition to many outstanding medal winners at the Olympics, World and European Championships, nine ASK Olympic champions emerged from the KJS: Klaus Köste (gymnastics 1972 Munich), Udo Beyer (shot put 1976 Montreal), Rudi Fink (boxing 1980 Moscow), Hans-Georg Beyer ( Handball 1980 Moscow), Henry Maske (boxing 1988 Seoul), Ronny Weller (weightlifting 1992 Barcelona), Torsten May (boxing 1992 Barcelona), Maik Bullmann (wrestling 1992 Barcelona) and Manfred Kurzer (shooting 2004 Athens).
Management of the club
- 1969–1972: Hermann Sens
- 1973–1982: Werner Kröning
- 1982–1990: Kurt Stemplinger
- 1990: Helmut Schwarzbach
Sporting successes 1969–1990
competitive sport
The ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder) was founded and worked primarily for the promotion of competitive sports in the GDR. The sporting successes in particular brought the GDR, which was in need of recognition, a lot of international recognition. Despite this political background, teachers, trainers, trainers, doctors, support staff and functionaries did excellent work in terms of sport and expertise in and around the ASK. They formed the basis for the success of the athletes who, as young people, took on a lot of personal hardship. Statistically, the following were recorded:
- Olympic Games : 6 × gold, 2 × silver, 5 × bronze
- World Championships : 15 × gold, 19 × silver, 36 × bronze
- European Championships : 12 × gold, 24 × silver, 34 × bronze
- Victories in the International Peace Tour
- many titles and placements in the championships of the army sports federations of the Warsaw Pact states (SKDA championship), junior championships , youth competitions and children's and youth spartakiads .
Youth and popular sports
The ASK was predestined and, in its role as a role model, it was also required to support youth and popular sport. The coaches, athletes and officials, like many other athletes from other clubs in the city, were happy to comply with this request, as they all had a certain sporting spirit and the conviction that sport builds health and promotes team spirit and self-confidence, which they in particular Could convey to children and young people using their own example. In the long term, motivating people to do sports is crucial. Top athletes took part in addition to the children, young people and citizens z. B. participated in or promoted the following events:
- Run of friendship (1981 approx. 4,150 participants, including Christoph Höhne , Udo Beyer , Mathias Jacob , Mathias Jung and many others) p. 38
- District sports festivals of the working people
- Gymnastics and sports festivals
- Sports relay (popular sports movements that were propagandistically dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the GDR or e.g. the 11th SED party congress )
- Children's and youth spartakiads from school and city to district and GDR level
As later ASK top athletes, u. a. 1973 Udo Beyer 17-year-old (A-youth) gold in the shot put with 21.03 m (GDR record) or 1977 Henry Maske gold in boxing from the Spartakiad movement.
Development after 1990
With the political change in November 1989 and the reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990, the fate of the NVA and thus also of their sports clubs was sealed. Many athletes developed under the umbrella of the Frankfurter Sportunion (FSU), in which the seven sports teams of the ASK merged on December 7, 1990 (handball joined later).
Splitting of the ASK
- Boxing - Märkischer Box-Verein (MBV)
- Weightlifting - Athletics and Fitness Club 90 (AFC 90)
- Handball - Ball and Recreational Sports Club (BFV)
- Judo - Judo Club 90 (JC 90)
- Sport Shooting - Schützengilde 1406
- Wrestling - Wrestling and Sports Club Hansa 90 (RSV)
- Cycling - Cycling Club 90 (RC 90)
In 2004, 15 clubs with 3,015 members belonged to the FSU.
Around 80 athletes were taken on by the Bundeswehr in their sports promotion group p. 69 .
Even after 1990, former ASK athletes were able to build on their international successes. B. Maik Bullmann (wrestling), Torsten May (boxing) and Ronny Weller (weightlifting) achieved Olympic gold medals in Barcelona in 1992 ; Manfred Kurzer and Uwe Potteck (shooting), Karen Heinrich (women's national handball team) and Henry Maske (boxing) also returned home as world champions between 1990 and 1993 . Some of the athletes continued their careers as professional athletes . Boxers were known from trainer Manfred Wolke , for example. B. Henry Maske, Axel Schulz , Torsten and Rüdiger May .
The German Sports Association (DSB) awarded Frankfurt (Oder) the contract as the Olympic base (OSP), which was later merged with Cottbus to form the OSP Cottbus-Frankfurt (Oder).
The children's and youth sports school (KJS) was dissolved in 1991 and continued as a sports-oriented comprehensive school with upper secondary level, also for non-athletes. However, it should soon be reserved primarily for competitive sports-oriented students. In 1998 the DSB awarded her the honorary title of “Elite School of Sports”. In the same year it was officially named "Sportschule Frankfurt (Oder)".
The sports facilities in the sports center, sports school and boarding school have been gradually modernized and partially expanded. The large "Brandenburg Hall" was built in 1997 on the area of the sports center.
It is interesting that the athletic and fitness club 90 (AFC 90, weightlifting and fitness) of the successor clubs of the ASK Vorwärts was reorganized in 2006 as an athletic sports club ( ASK Frankfurt , weightlifting).