Düsseldorf gymnastics club from 1847

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The Düsseldorfer Turnverein von 1847 eV is a German gymnastics and sports club in Düsseldorf . Today it is based on Staufenplatz in the Grafenberg district . As a popular sports club, it is divided into twelve departments and has around 1,400 members.

history

The club, whose origin goes back to the gymnastics and national movement of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , is the oldest gymnastics club in town. On the initiative of the grammar school teacher Friedrich Kohlrausch , a gymnasium was opened in Düsseldorf on May 15, 1815. On April 1, 1847, a loose association of gymnastics friends formed the "gymnastics club for adults". Initially, the association, which was headed in 1848, 1850 and 1851 by the founding member, publicist and businessman Moritz Geisenheimer (1818–1878), had 40 members. On August 6, 1848, the gymnastics club took part in the festival of German unity in Düsseldorf, a "fanal" ofdemocratic movement in Germany . On June 20, 1849, the police dissolved the association after they searched the apartments of gymnasts, including Geisenheimer's apartment, and confiscated association files. Then artists performed the gymnastics club, which was founded in 1848 Künstlerverein paint box in what was the police reason to observe the artists association. On May 15, 1859 the association was re-established. On the so-called Golzheimer Insel , north of Düsseldorf's old town, he had a practice area where football was played as early as 1895 . On October 23, 1898 the club was one of the founders of the Rheinischer Spiel-Verband . With Georg Sich, the club produced a gymnast for the German national team. The youth gymnastics club became German champions in 1967. The women played in the second national basketball league.

literature

  • Wilhelm Herchenbach : Festival book for the jubilee of the 25th anniversary of the re-formation of the Düsseldorf gymnastics club (1847) on May 17 and 18, 1884 . Self-published, Düsseldorf 1885
  • August Beckel: History of the Düsseldorf gymnastics and sports club from 1847 . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1922
  • Düsseldorfer Turnverein von 1847 eV (Ed.), Siegfried Settgast (Editor): Festschrift. 125 years of the Düsseldorfer Turnverein von 1847 eV Buchdruckerei Rechtsverlag, Düsseldorf 1972
  • Bernd Bussang: The Düsseldorf gymnastics club from 1847 and its importance for gymnastics and sport in Düsseldorf . Düsseldorf 1986
  • Wolfgang Schubert: 150 years of the Düsseldorfer Turnverein from 1847 eV Düsseldorf 1997

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 170 balloons on their way to the Düsseldorf sky , article from July 14, 2017 in the portal nrz.de , accessed on July 15, 2017
  2. ↑ Robert Lehr : On new paths to new goals. Festschrift for Arthur Schloßmann's 60th birthday . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1927, p. 101
  3. ↑ Josef Ulfkotte: Friedrich Ludwig Jahn's gymnastics concept - model and source of inspiration for the region? The beginnings of school gymnastics in the Lower Saxony-Westphalian region . Dissertation University of Bremen, Dorsten 2002, p. 16 ( PDF )
  4. ↑ National-Zeitung der Deutschen, 29th edition of July 19, 1815, Col. 583/584 and footnote ( Google Books )
  5. ^ Karl Obermann, Helmut Bleiber, Rolf Weber, Walter Schmidt: Men of the Revolution of 1848 . Writings of the Central Institute for History, Volume 72, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1988, p. 103
  6. ^ Hugo Weidenhaupt : Brief history of the city of Düsseldorf . Triltsch Verlag, 9th edition, Düsseldorf 1983, p. 109
  7. ^ Hugo Weidenhaupt (ed.): Düsseldorf. From the beginning of the 20th century . Volume 3: The industrial and administrative city (20th century) . Schwann in Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989, p. 90
  8. ^ Statutes of the Düsseldorfer Turn-Verein, founded again on May 15, 1859 . Bitter, Düsseldorf 1882
  9. ↑ Hans Dieter Baroth , Astrid Brand: When football learned to walk. Goals, triumphs madnesses . Klartext Verlagsgesellschaft, Essen 1992, p. 78 f.