German Athletes Association
The German Athletes Association (also German Athletes Association (DAB) ) was a sports association for heavy athletics in the German Sports Association in the legal form of a registered association (eV). In 1972 it split into individual professional associations.
history
The German Athletes' Association (DAV) was founded on June 9, 1891 in Duisburg . Competing associations were the Arbeiter-Athletenbund Deutschland, founded in 1906 and anchored in the labor movement , and the German Athletes Union, founded in 1909 as a further association . As of May 1933, these associations were incorporated as the German Heavy Athletics Association in the specialist office 4 of the German Reichsbund for physical exercises and from 1938 in the specialist office 6 in the (National Socialist) Reichsbund für physical exercises (NSRL).
After the Second World War, the German Athletes' Association (DAB) was (re) founded in West Germany on October 23, 1949 . He was initially in charge of the sports wrestling , weightlifting , tug of war , round weight juggle Judo / Jujitsu and lawn and art powerful sport .
In November 1950, the DAB and the heavy athletics department of the German Sports Committee (DS) founded the German Athletes Union (DAU), which was to organize all-German championships for heavy athletics and the participation of German teams in international competitions. According to the agreements in the DAU, weightlifters, wrestlers and judoka from the GDR also took part in the German championships organized by the DAB until 1955.
In 1953 the German Judo Association (DJB) was founded as an independent association, so that from December 1954 the DAB handed over responsibility for the sport of judo to the DJB. Due to the West German claim to sole representation , the equal cooperation of the sports associations in the DAU was ended from 1955.
As part of the German Gymnastics and Sports Federation , four sports associations were founded in the GDR from the sections of heavy athletics in the DS by 1958: German Boxing Association (DBV), German Weightlifting Association (DGV), German Judo Association (DJV) and German Wrestling Association (DRV).
In 1969, the DAB decided to form the four professional associations ( Federal Association of German Weightlifters , German Wrestling Association , German Artistic Sports Association and German Lawn Power Sports and Tug of War Association ) with the greatest possible autonomy within the DAB. The final dissolution of the German Athletes' Association took place at the extraordinary Bundestag on June 25, 1972.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Some of the regional associations were founded later, cf. Bernd Wedemeyer , Claus Grote, Otto Schumann (eds.): Festschrift on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Hessian Athletes' Association 1899-1999. Egelsbach: Hofmann, 1999
- ^ 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 0-87322-874-X