German gymnastics newspaper
The Deutsche Turnzeitung was a sports magazine that first appeared in Leipzig in 1856 .
Beginnings
The magazine was founded as the press organ of the German Gymnastics Federation and initially published by the publisher Ernst Keil . In 1858 Ferdinand Goetz took over the editing of the newspaper. The DTZ was also the organ of the German Turnerschaft . It was the first major paper in Germany that dealt with questions of gymnastics. The DTZ reported extensively on regional, national and international gymnastics competitions, in particular in the 1930s there was extensive photo coverage.
time of the nationalsocialism
During the Nazi era, the weekly was published by Limpert and later by Deutscher Verlag Berlin. The main editors were Werner Gärtner, Willi Buch and Walter Hulek, who wanted to make the magazine "political" with a clear commitment to National Socialism. The initial circulation of 120,000 had dropped to 20,000 by 1938. Gärtner's successor as chief editor was Willi Buch, a fanatical anti-Semite and supporter of the German Gymnastics Federation.
With the self-dissolution of the German Gymnastics Association in 1936, the magazine became the Reichsfachblatt of the Fachamt 1 and was now published in 7 "landscape editions". After the union with "NS-Sport" the gymnastics newspaper was printed as supplement A, the women's gymnastics newspaper as supplement B.
Shortly before the end of the Second World War (with issue 89/1944) its publication was discontinued.
literature
- Hajo Bernett, The Path of Sports into the National Socialist Dictatorship. The creation of the German (National Socialist) Reichsbund for physical exercises, Schorndorf 1983.