Spruce Berlin
The workers' gymnastics and sports club Fichte Berlin was the largest and most competitive sports club of the combat community for red sports unit . The gymnastics club, founded in 1890, grew to 8,000 members in 48 departments. In 1919, his handball department was the first handball club in Germany to launch championship operations. Spruce clubs existed throughout Germany . The parent club included Fichte Eisenhüttel Hamburg , Fichte Bielefeld , Fichte Hagen , Fichte Halle , Fichte Leipzig and Fichte North Berlin . The association was banned as a communist organization by the Reichstag Fire Ordinance in 1933 and forcibly closed on May 2, 1933.
literature
- Herbert Dierker: "Biggest Red Sports Club in the World". The Berlin workers' sports club Fichte in the Weimar Republic. In: Hans Joachim Teichler , Gerhard Hauk: Illustrated history of workers' sport. JHW Dietz, Berlin / Bonn 1987, pp. 93-104.
- Lothar Skorning , Herbert Dierker: "Everything that wears a human face is the same." On the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Fichte Berlin gymnastics club. In: Social and Contemporary History of Sports, Issue 2, 1990, pages 7–41
- Walter Giese, Herbert Dierker, Gerd Steins: “Fresh up! Brothers, hear the ringing! ” On the everyday history of the Berlin workers' sports club Fichte; Memories of the former spruce athlete Walter Giese. In: Materials on the history of sports in Lower Saxony. Volume 3, Duderstadt: Mecke 1991, ISBN 3923453159 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .