German Bridge Association
| German Bridge Association | |
|---|---|
| Founded | February 4, 1949 |
| Place of foundation | Cologne |
| president | Kai-Ulrich Benthack |
| societies | 500 |
| Members | 29000 |
| Association headquarters | Cologne |
| Homepage | www.bridge-verband.de |
The German Bridge Association (DBV) is the association of bridge players and bridge clubs in Germany . It was founded in 1932 under its first president, Hans von Brandenstein , and was re-established in 1949 after it was dissolved during National Socialism. It comprises 14 regional associations with around 29,000 members in around 500 clubs. The greatest density is in North Rhine-Westphalia and Bremen . With the creation of teaching material and the approach to the public, the DBV is on the way to make Bridge popular in Germany. He is a member of the European Bridge League (EBL) and the World Bridge Federation (WBF). Its official news paper is Bridge Magazine .
The purpose of the association is among other things:
- the promotion of bridge sports in Germany
- the representation of the interests of the German bridge sport at national and international level
- the organization of national and international competitions
- the organization and regulation of national and international sports
- the organization of teaching and tournament management
The organized bridge game (DBV; regional associations; clubs) includes
- Club practice tournaments
- League operations (team leagues) across several classes
- Pair, team and individual tournaments for different skill levels
- Championships
- National teams.
The women's national team in particular has been very successful internationally for years (multiple world and European champions).
So far, at the national level u. a. played out:
- 75 German pair championships
- 71 German team championships
- 58 German mixed pair championships
- 12 German mixed team championships
In addition to the organized game, bridge is also played in private and other game groups. Although Bridge is not as well known in Germany as it is in many other countries around the world, the estimates are around 500,000 active players in Germany.
In Germany, the period of the Bridge's boom fell under the rule of the National Socialists, who hindered the “un-German” game and the newly founded Bridge Association. In 1934 there were 43 groups (clubs) in the DBV, but these were decimated by the exclusion of Jewish members. From 1939 to 1949, after the death of Brandenstein in 1938, the traces of the German bridge events are lost in the turmoil of the Second World War, so that one must assume that no organized bridge existed in Germany during this period.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b What is the DBV? German Bridge Association, accessed February 25, 2018 .
- ↑ quoted from: http://www.bridge-verband.de/static/geschichte02 . As of December 13, 2007