Workers' swimming association

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The Workers' Swimming Association was founded in Berlin in 1890. In 1913 it was renamed the Workers' Water Sports Association because other water sports enthusiasts were now also included. The swimmers of the association participated very successfully in the Workers' Olympics .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 978-0-87322-874-9
  2. ↑ Beckmanns Sportlexikon. AZ. Vienna: Otto Beckmann. 1933, column 165.