Workers 'cycling and drivers' association

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The Workers ' Bike and Motorists' Association ( ARuK ) of Czechoslovakia was founded on December 5th and 6th, 1919 on the founding association day in Bodenbach (district of Děčín , German: Tetschen, later: Tetschen-Bodenbach). The ARuK is one of the organizations of the Sudeten German social democracy.

The establishment of an own bicycle store from 1920 to 1922 in Karbitz and the establishment of the bicycle store cooperative All frei in 1922 are reported. A motorist section was founded in 1929 in Aussig . The first ARuK federal festival took place in 1935. The number of members grew from 940 in 1919 to 20,064 (1929) and fell from 1930 to 11,000 as a result of clashes between communists and social democrats until 1936. In 1937, the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association and the Workers' Bike and Driver Association merged into the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Union .

literature

  • Thomas Oellermann: More than just a party. German Social Democracy in the Czechoslovak Republic 1918–1938 , Dissertation , Düsseldorf, 2013.
  • Association of Workers and Cyclists in the ČSR: Yearbook 1925 and 1927 (digitized in the library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation).
  • Workers' Cyclists and Drivers Association of ČSR: guidelines and evaluation provisions for the technical committees in the Workers' Cyclists and Motorists' Association of the Czech Republic. and the implementation of all competitions in cycling and motorcycling: based on the "International Valuation Regulations for Cycling and Motorcycling" and the resolutions of the Federal Technical Committee , Teplitz-Schönau 1934, digitized in the library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Oellermann: More than just a party. The German Social Democracy in the Czechoslovak Republic 1918-1938 , pp. 344 f., Diss. , Düsseldorf, 2013.
  2. ↑ ebay: Deutscher ARBEITER RAD- und KRAFTFAHRER BUND in the CSR button BADGE ARuK pin , accessed: November 6, 2017.
  3. ↑ Thomas Oellermann: More than just a party. The German Social Democracy in the Czechoslovak Republic 1918-1938 , pp. 344 f., Diss. , Düsseldorf, 2013.