Germany team

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Deutschlandriege was the name for the German national gymnastics team until the 1950s.

Innozenz Stangl on a 1971 postage stamp
Alfred Schwarzmann at the 1936 Olympic Games
Three members of the German team in 1951, from left: Rudi Gauch , Alfred Schwarzmann and Jakob Kiefer
Alfred Muller

history

The three-city gymnastics Berlin-Hamburg-Leipzig is regarded as the cradle of the German team .

She did gymnastics at international competitions such as the Olympic Games and World Gymnastics Championships and in the numerous international competitions that were held up until the 1950s.

In June 1926, following an invitation from the North American Gymnastics Federation , the team went on a six-week trip to the United States to attend the National TurnFest Louisville , Kentucky . In a selection gymnastics, the gymnastics committee chose Wilhelm Sinnwell (MTV Cuxhaven ), Georg Pfeiffer ( Eintracht Frankfurt ), Karl Wölfinger (TV Fürstenhausen ), Conrad in addition to the gymnastics performance and the effective advertising effect of personality and body figure Kaufmann (TV Netzschkau ), Erich Huck ( HT from 1816 ), Rudolph Nord (Turnerbund Göppingen ), Bruno Sachs ( TV 1861 Forst ), Joseph Weingärtner (MTV Pirmasens ) and Bruno Kirchgatter (VTG, Berlin). Pfau (TV Nürnberg ), Schmidt ( Leipziger Turnerschaft) and Rogel ( TG Esslingen ) were chosen as substitute gymnasts . Most of the crew left Bremen on May 30, 1926 with the Columbus . The trip to America was led by Oskar Berger , the chairman of the German Gymnastics Association, and the squad was welcomed in New York by the Lord Mayor. This German group was also named after the destination country of the trip Amerikariege or Amerika-Riege.

In autumn 1934 the best 24 gymnasts went to the Saar area.

In 1936 the German team became Olympic champions in the all-round team.

In 1938 the team went to Austria with 36 top gymnasts.

The first foreign trip of the German gymnasts after the Second World War led to Sweden in 1950 with the following: Olympic champion Alfred Schwarzmann (Goslar), the brothers Erich and Theo Wied (Stuttgart), Innozenz Stangl (Munich), Helmut Bantz (Wuppertal), Adalbert Dickhut ( Dortmund), Hardy Frenger (Wuppertal), Willi Stadel (Konstanz), Jakob Kiefer and Heinz Schnepf (both Bad Kreuznach).

Major competitions

Members (selection)

Literature (selection)

  • Hans Reip: Diplomats in White - The South American trip of the German Olympic athletes , Frankfurt am Main 1953.
  • Josef Göhler: Alfred Schwarzmann and the "Deutschlandriege" , in: Deutscher Sport-Bund (Ed.): The founding years of the German Sportbund, Schorndorf 1990, pp. 173–175.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Hamburg there is only one good Turner article in the Hamburger Abendblatt of August 11, 1978
  2. ↑ a b Selected gymnastics , 3rd supplement to the Vossische Zeitung of April 27, 1926.
  3. ^ The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 21, 1926, 11.
  4. ↑ a b Postcard of the America team of the German gymnastics club in 1926 , object database of the City History Museum Leipzig ; Photo: Rudolf Thode.
  5. ↑ Bremen – New York passenger list of May 30, 1926 , State Archives Bremen
  6. ↑ [1]
  7. ↑ Deutschlandriege in the Saar area in: Badische Presse of December 3, 1934.
  8. ↑ Deutschlandriege 1938 in Austria in: Berno Bahro: Der SS-Sport: Organization - Function - Significance, Paderborn 2013.
  9. ↑ The Turner national team goes to Sweden at the end of March - A good mix in: Hamburger Abendblatt from February 22, 1950.