Berlin Gymnastics and Recreational Sports Association

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Berlin Gymnastics and Recreational Sports Association
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Logo of the Berlin Gymnastics and Recreational Sports Association
Founded 1950
Place of foundation Berlin
President Sophie Lehsnau
societies about 340
Members approx.102,000 (January 2020)
Association headquarters Berlin
Official languages) German
Homepage www.btfb.de

The Berlin Gymnastics and Recreational Sports Association ( BTFB ) is - after the Berlin Football Association  - the second largest sports association in Berlin . It was founded in 1950 as the Berliner Turnerbund and has had its current name since 2009. It currently has 340 member clubs with more than 102,000 members.

history

From 1948 sports clubs were re-approved by the Allied control authorities after the Second World War . The first 25 gymnastics clubs, under the leadership of Heinz Andrae, who later became the founding chairman of the Berlin Gymnastics Association, prepared the creation of a professional sports association, which was to be linked to Jahn's values ​​of traditional gymnastics, but also to be open to all other forms of popular sport. In addition to this purely sporting objective, one of the main concerns from the outset was to bring together the former workers' sports clubs as well as civic, denominational and academic clubs and the newly created clubs of the displaced persons under one roof and thus to overcome party-political and ideological boundaries. On January 8, 1950, 27 gymnastics clubs with a total of 12,500 members (60% of them children and young people) founded the Berlin Gymnastics Association (BTB) in the red veranda of the zoo terraces.

In the divided city of Berlin, different structures developed during the time of the German division, despite a sporting identity. In the western part - i.e. in the area of ​​responsibility of the Berliner Turnerbund - the development of popular sport and educational work played a central role. The development of the BTB in this stage was significantly shaped by the more than 20-year presidency of Günter Hein (1966–1987). At the gymnastics festivals in 1968 and especially in 1987, the association made a major contribution with its volunteer helpers and its logistics to make these gymnastics festivals outstanding gymnastics and sporting events (more than 100,000 gymnasts took part in 1987). The promotion of talent and top-class sport made slow progress due to financial constraints in the BTB. Regional trainers for the development of young talents were hired from 1969 and it was not until 1973 that the BTB gymnastics center in Berlin-Schöneberg was inaugurated as a central funding facility. Under these circumstances, the qualification of a Berliner - Brigitta Lehmann-Sandow - in 1984 for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles (4th place with the team) is an amazing result.

On November 23, 1990 the district technical committee Turnen Berlin - the East Berlin counterpart to the BTB - dissolved and 41 gymnastics clubs in the eastern part of the city joined the Berlin Gymnastics Association. Immediately after German reunification , the BTB had to solve two massive problems. On the one hand, the oversized competitive sports structures in the eastern part of Berlin had to be converted into an affordable new talent development model. In addition, it was necessary to cope with a financial imbalance of the association, which had arisen due to miscalculations at a state children's and youth gymnastics festival. In this situation, the then LSB President Peter Hanisch agreed to take over the management of the association. Together with the new managing director Jens-Uwe Kunze, who was appointed in 1991, we managed to overcome both problems. The budget was restructured in the following years with restrictive austerity measures and in 1996 - albeit partly as a "takeover result" of the GDR talent scouting - an outstanding sporting result was achieved in Atlanta with Andreas Wecker's Olympic victory on the horizontal bar. Since 1992 the BTFB has been developing steadily in terms of membership numbers, three state performance centers for gymnasts and sports gymnasts were established in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen and Friedrichshain . TurnTalentSchulen (TTS) were founded in 2005, of which there are now three for apparatus gymnastics and two for rhythmic gymnastics.

There is a special connection between the BTFB and the Märkischer Turnerbund (MTB). In 1996 a contractual agreement was signed between the two associations that regulates close cooperation.

After Peter Hanisch, the former sports state secretary in Berlin, Frank Ebel, became the new president in 2005 . Since then, various Berlin-wide campaigns (family sports fairs, Fittest elementary school class, children's gymnastics Sundays) have raised the awareness of the Berlin population for sports in the club and won new members for the Berlin gymnastics clubs.

On Turntag 2009, the Berlin Gymnastics Association was renamed the Berlin Gymnastics and Recreational Sports Association . In a BTFB gymnastics gala on November 20, 2011, the 200-year history of gymnastics was looked back and the broad spectrum of this sport was demonstrated by 1,500 participants.

Sophie Lehsnau has been President of the Berlin Gymnastics and Recreational Sports Association since 2015.

There was a change in management at the end of 2018. Claudio Preil has been the managing director since January 2019. In 2019, the association managed to break the 100,000 member mark for the first time.

Events

The BTFB organizes and conducts major sporting events (gymnastics festivals, world and European championships) either as an independent organizer (family sports fairs, congresses, Berlin Masters) or as a supporter with full-time and voluntary staff. The major sporting events, which the BTFB prefers to organize every year in the Max-Schmeling-Halle in Prenzlauer Berg, either itself or with the logistical support, are attended by tens of thousands of Berliners. The highlights included:

  • 1968 German Gymnastics Festival
  • 1975 World Gymnaestrada
  • 1987 German Gymnastics Festival
  • 1995 World Gymnaestrada
  • 1997 World Championships in Rhythmic Gymnastics
  • 2005 International German Gymnastics Festival
  • 2007 1st Berlin family sports fair
  • 2008 2nd Berlin family sports fair
  • 2010 3rd Berlin family sports fair
  • 2011 European Gymnastics Championships
  • 2017 International German Gymnastics Festival
  • 2001–2017 World Cup / Grand Prix tournaments in rhythmic gymnastics (Berlin Masters)
  • Annual fireworks of gymnastics , a gymnastics gala with top international performers from the fields of gymnastics, acrobatics and shows
  • Annual gymnastics, fitness and children's gymnastics congresses (The Gymwelt congress, which has been taking place in the Federal Performance Center Kienbaum since 1993, is one of the largest sports congresses in the new federal states with regular 450–500 participants.)

magazine

The official association magazine is the gymnastics magazine for Berlin and Brandenburg ( ZDB -ID 1435587-5 ), which has been published every two months since 1998. The predecessor title was the biweekly Berliner Turnzeitung , founded in 1951 , which appeared until 1998.

literature

  • Festschrift of the Berliner Turnerbund for the 50th anniversary , with contributions by Manfred Nippe, Peter Hanisch, Gerd Steins, Irmgard Boywitt and others. a., Berlin 2000
  • TurnMagazin Berlin-Brandenburg . Jan / Feb 2011 with a supplement by Gerd Steins

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZDB -ID 600659-0