German Gymnastics Federation

German Gymnastics Federation
Founded	1848
Place of establishment	Hanau
president	Alfons Hölzl
societies	19,264
Members	5,047,184
Association headquarters	Frankfurt am Main
Homepage	www.dtb.de

Simple logo of the DTB ( Turnerkreuz )

The German Gymnastics Federation V. (DTB) is the umbrella organization of gymnastics associations and clubs.

history

Memorial plaque for the re-establishment in 1950 at the Tübingen town hall

The DTB emblem on a stamp from 1968 for the German Gymnastics Festival in Berlin

The DTB was founded in 1848 on the 1st German Gymnastics Day in Hanau . A first German gymnastics festival was held in Coburg in 1860 . In 1868 the DTB became part of the Deutsche Turnerschaft (DT) . Parallel to the DT, the social democratically oriented Workers 'Gymnastics Association (ATB) was founded in 1893, which has been called the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association (ATSB) since 1919 and was banned by the National Socialists in 1933. In 1933 the DT tried to introduce itself as a further pillar in the NSDAP alongside the SA , but this failed because the dominance of an association that was hostile to competitive sports at the time would have hindered the NSDAP's claim to dominate the best men through sports. In 1935 the self-dissolution of the DT took place in the course of the Gleichschaltung during the National Socialism . After the Second World War, the German Gymnastics Working Committee (DAT) was founded during the first unofficial German championship in artistic gymnastics in Northeim on September 13, 1947 , the pioneer of the DTB, which was re-established in Tübingen in 1950 . In 1952 it had 900,000 members in over 6,100 clubs. In 1953 there was the first German Gymnastics Festival in the Federal Republic, the venue was Hamburg .

In 2005 the first International German Gymnastics Festival (IDTF) took place in Berlin . The next followed in 2009 in Frankfurt am Main and the third was held in May 2013 in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region. In 2017 the International German Gymnastics Festival was held again in Berlin under the motto "How colorful is that".

Pauline Schäfer on the balance beam. On this device, she won the first gold medal at world championships for the German Gymnastics Federation in 2017.

The DTB already hosted the Trampoline World Championships in Hanover in 2003 (October 16-19) and in 2007 the EnBW Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart (September 1-9, 2007). In 2010, the DTB hosted the European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships (April 15th to 18th) in Bremen and a year later the European Gymnastics Championships (April 4th to 10th) in Berlin. The 2015 World Championships in Rhythmic Gymnastics in Stuttgart was the next big event that the DTB hosted. Pauline Schäfer won the first world championship title for the German Gymnastics Federation at the 2017 World Championships in Montréal . She is the second German gymnast after Dörte Thümmler who has achieved this success on the balance beam .

organization

The German Gymnastics Federation is organized as a registered association (eV). He is headed by a multi-member presidium, whose president has been Alfons Hölzl since 2016 . Its predecessor was Rainer Brechtken . The DTB office is located in Frankfurt am Main .

Regionally, it is divided into 22 member associations, 20 of which are regional gymnastics associations (there is more than one association in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria): Badischer Turner-Bund , Bayerischer Turnverband , Berlin Gymnastics and Recreational Sports Association , Bremer Turnverband, Hessischer Turnverband , Landesturnverband Sachsen-Anhalt, Märkischer Turnerbund Brandenburg, Niedersächsischer Turner-Bund, Pfälzer Turnerbund , Rheinhessischer Turnerbund, Rheinischer Turnerbund, Saarländischer Turnerbund, Saxon Turn-Verband, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Turnverband, Schwäbischer Turnerbund , Thuringian Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Gymnastics Association Middle Rhine, Association for Gymnastics and Leisure Time Organization Hamburg , Westphalian Gymnastics Association.

In addition, the Academic Gymnastics Federation (ATB) and the Bavarian Gymnastics Association are viewed as special members.

Regionally, it is divided into Turngaue, Turnkreise and Turnbezirke.

Internationally, the German Gymnastics Federation is a member of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) and, since March 1982, a founding member of the Union Européenne de Gymnastique (UEG).

Mission statement

In 2004, the German Gymnastics Day in Berlin adopted a model that outlines the core tasks of the association:

• Strengthening the basic sports of apparatus gymnastics and gymnastics
• Positioning of children's gymnastics as a brand of gymnastics movement
• Securing needs-based offers for young people in the sporting and non-sporting area.
• Securing market leadership in fitness and health sports through needs-based offers for young adults as well as for middle adulthood, especially for girls and women
• Promotion of top Olympic sport with the aim of international success
• Development of contemporary offers in his sports and specialist areas

Based on these statements, an attempt is made to operationalize the extensive work of the association and to achieve a stronger focus on the core tasks. One result of this operationalization are the brands Kinderturnen, Gymwelt and Turnen !.

DTB organizations

Association of German Gymnastics Festivals V.

One of the main tasks of the German Gymnastics Federation is the organization of gymnastics festivals. With up to 100,000 participants, the German Gymnastics Festival, which has had the addition of "International" since 2005, is the largest competitive and popular sports event in the world. To organize it, the German Gymnastics Federation founded the Verein Deutsche Turnfeste e. V., who takes on this task.

The last International German Gymnastics Festival was in Berlin from June 3 to 10, 2017.

The next International German Gymnastics Festival will take place in Leipzig in 2021.

German gymnastics youth

The Deutsche Turnerjugend (DTJ) is the youth organization of the German Gymnastics Federation and with over 2 million members one of the largest children's and youth organizations in Germany.

The focus of the work of the German Gymnastics Youth is:

• the content-related conceptual work in children's gymnastics, youth gymnastics and general youth work as well as conveying the latest impulses in leisure and health sports through numerous further training offers for multipliers
• the youth-oriented and trend-oriented competition design, z. B. in the show competition Tuju-Stars, gymnastics youth group championship and competition (TGM / TGW)
• Participation in the German Gymnastics Festival, the EUROGYM and the World Gymnaestrada as well as the organization of gymnastics youth group meetings, federal youth meetings, international youth camps and other leisure activities with attractive offers for young people and young adults that emphasize the group experience and community feeling
• dealing with current sport, youth and socio-political issues and representing the interests of your children and young people in the committees of the German Gymnastics Federation and in the German Youth Sports Association

DTB companies

DTB Service GmbH

In addition to the marketing and sales of all DTB activities and services, the employees oversee various DTB events such as conventions & congresses and championships. In addition, those responsible are promoting brand building within the DTB brands Kinderturnen, TURNEN! and GYMWELT, design the range of the DTB shop and are responsible for marketing the Gymcard.

Gymcard GmbH

The Gymcard with the additional function of a German sports card is a membership card issued by the German Gymnastics Federation for voluntary employees in clubs and regional gymnastics associations, as well as a membership card for members of gymnastics clubs, departments and groups.

The Gymcard currently provides around 300,000 Gymcard holders with around 800 special conditions for selected products and services from national partners. Regional partners expand the range with offers in the personal environment, especially in the leisure area.

DTB Shop GmbH

The DTB Shop (www.dtb-shop.de) has existed for more than 20 years. The range of offers for clubs, trainers and sports enthusiasts ranges from CDs and DVDs to literature to training clothing and small appliances. All products offered are tested for content, quality and possible uses by DTB speakers or the specialist departments before they are included in the range.

seal of quality

The quality seal Pluspunkt Gesundheit.DTB is an award of the DTB, which was launched in 1994 to honor high-quality health sports offers. Certain requirements must be met.

Controversy

Chemnitz gymnastics affair

In November 2020, several active and former competitive athletes and trainers, including Pauline Schäfer and Lisa Hill , spoke publicly about their multi-year training at the federal base of the German Gymnastics Federation in Chemnitz , about the derogatory, inhuman and reckless treatment or psychological violence and abuse of power on the part should have been shaped by a trainer. In addition, underage athletes have received prescription drugs without parental consent and permission to continue training despite the pain. These were often not taken seriously by the trainer. The management of the Olympiastützpunkt Chemnitz contradicted parts of the report, while the federal base manager initially did not comment. With Sophie Scheder , an athlete did not agree to the allegations. The accused trainer rejected the allegations as "unfounded". The German Gymnastics Federation announced an independent investigation, which was commissioned from a law firm. After the report was published, other athletes made similar reports in which they also stated that they had suffered from the trainer and sometimes developed psychological disorders in the form of self-harming behavior and eating disorders . A little later, two other former athletes at the Chemnitz base reported, at the instigation of the (criticized) trainer and a doctor, that they had received injections as part of neural therapy when they were underage without their parents knowing about or approving this treatment. In contrast, parents of gymnasts training in Chemnitz, together with the coaching team of TuS 1861 Chemnitz-Altendorf , which trains the Chemnitz athletes together with the criticized trainer, published a statement in which they expressed their "complete confidence" in the trainer.

In January 2021, the DTB published the results of the investigation by the law firm involved. In it, they stated that they had analyzed the statements made by those involved for their truthfulness, had "compared the evidence ... with the information provided by the respondent" and "assessed the consistency between the information provided by different respondents". In 17 cases the law firm sees “there are actual indications for the use of psychological violence by the trainer”. Furthermore, the law firm considers the allegations of increased administration of painkillers and the one-time administration of the opioid tilidine as well as the allegations of exercising despite pain and crying to be given. In the course of the investigation, the law firm was unable to determine whether the development of the reported mental disorders was due to the trainer. After the investigation, the DTB sees serious breaches of duty at the federal base in Chemnitz confirmed and sees itself and the care and training of children and adolescents in young athletes being put to the test. The DTB demanded personnel consequences, suggested cross-sport structural changes and demanded sport-political measures for gymnastics in Germany and internationally.

At TuS 1861 Chemnitz-Altendorf, the investigation carried out and the behavior of the German Gymnastics Federation caused criticism. The president of the association described the investigation as "doubtful" and announced that the Chemnitz association would not recognize the results of the investigation. He also rejected the personnel consequences demanded by the DTB. He also criticized the DTB for the fact that there was no concept of how the suspension of the controversial trainer should be intercepted. Again parents of gymnasts training in Chemnitz spoke up and also questioned the investigation. They questioned whether 32 interviews carried out, which lasted an average of 3.5 hours and left 800 pages of minutes, the firm's investigation was sufficiently well founded. They again expressed their confidence in the trainer and demanded that the trainer's suspension be lifted.

Web links

Commons : Deutscher Turner-Bund  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the German Gymnastics Federation
• Official website of the German Gymnastics Youth

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Inventory survey 2020. (PDF) German Olympic Sports Confederation, accessed on January 19, 2021 . 
2. ↑ Harald Braun: The founding of the German Gymnastics Federation in Hanau. In: City time. History magazine on the occasion of the 150 years revolution and gymnastics movement in Hanau 1848–1998. Hanau 1998, pp. 113-116.
3. ↑ Arnd Krüger : "Today Germany belongs to us and tomorrow ..."? The struggle for the sense of conformity in sport in the first half of 1933. In: Wolfgang Buss , Arnd Krüger (Hrsg.): Sportgeschichte. Maintaining tradition and changing values. Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Henze. (= Series of publications by the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History. Volume 2). Mecke, Duderstadt 1985, ISBN 3-923453-03-5 , pp. 175-196.
4. ^ Dietmar Reppin: Northeim 1947 as the cradle of the German Gymnastics Federation. In: Northeim in the 20th century.
5. ^ Website Pluspunkt Gesundheit.DTB .
6. ↑ Antje Windmann: Gymnastics: Top gymnasts raise serious allegations against trainer Gabriele Frehse. Der Spiegel , November 27, 2020, accessed on November 29, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Sophie Scheder cannot understand allegations against the gymnastics trainer. MDR , November 28, 2020, accessed November 30, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Gymnastics: Top gymnasts raise serious allegations against Gabriele Frehse. MDR , November 27, 2020, accessed November 30, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Gabriele Frehse: "I have never crossed borders!" MDR , December 3, 2020, accessed December 4, 2020 . 
10. ↑ To the current coverage of the Spiegel. In: dtb.de. November 27, 2020, accessed November 29, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Turner Bund President on allegations against the trainer - "It may be that we were not sensitive enough". Deutschlandfunk , November 29, 2020, accessed on November 30, 2020 (German). 
12. ↑ Antje Windmann: New allegations of abuse in gymnastics: "I slept in cling film at night". Der Spiegel , December 3, 2020, accessed on December 3, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Antje Windmann: Allegations of abuse in gymnastics: 40 stitches in the neck. Der Spiegel , December 23, 2020, accessed on December 27, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Gymnastics: "Complete confidence" - parents and coaching team support Frehse. MDR , December 7, 2020, accessed January 28, 2021 . 
15. ^ Statement of the DTB Presidium on the independent investigation. Retrieved January 28, 2021 . 
16. ↑ The DTB and its fight against "psychological cruelty". gymmedia.de, January 24, 2020, accessed on January 29, 2021 . 
17. ^ Sophie Scheder: Gymnastics without a trainer. MDR Sachsenspiegel , January 26, 2021, accessed on January 29, 2021 . 
18. ↑ Parents of the gymnasts criticize DTB processing in the "Frehse case". MDR , January 27, 2021, accessed January 29, 2021 .