Army Sports School Wünsdorf

The Army Sports School Wünsdorf was a sports school for the German Army.

history

The school was initially set up as a military gymnastics facility near Wünsdorf between 1914 and 1916 . The facility was also titled as a physical exercise course . In 1924 the school was converted into an army sports school. At the same time the marine sports school in Flensburg - Mürwik was apparently set up. The activities of the two schools expanded with a view to the first participation of a German team in the 1928 Summer Olympics since the First World War . - It is possible that the Wünsdorfer school did not get its new name “Army Sports School” until November 1st, 1934. - The activities of the two schools intensified with regard to the 1936 Summer Olympics and an Air Force Sports School was set up in Berlin-Spandau . The military sports school in Wünsdorf served in the years up to 1936 to prepare the German Olympic participants. In the spring of 1935, the gymnasts of the Reichsheeres were prepared for the gymnastics competition between the Reichsheer and the German Gymnastics Association held in the Berlin Sports Palace at the Army Sports School .

After the Second World War , the Soviet Army used parts of the site as the officers' house. In 1976 a 36 × 12 meter work of art was created on a semicircular wall as a gift from the GDR to the Soviet military, which depicted the battle for the Reichstag in 1945. The wall painting went seamlessly into the objects in front of it. In 1994 the Soviet Army withdrew from the site and also transferred the work of art to Russia.

people

• Hugo Murero , basketball coach and sports journalist
• Alfred Schwarzmann , Olympic gymnastics champion
• Christian Strauch , gymnastics coach

literature

• Gerhard Kaiser: From the restricted area to the forest town - the history of the secret command centers in Wünsdorf and the surrounding area, Berlin 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Athletics, Emotion, Technology, The Bundeswehr Sports School, Sport Has Tradition (PDF), page 14; Retrieved on: August 9, 2015
2. ↑ Athletics, Emotion, Technology, The Bundeswehr Sports School, Sport Has Tradition (PDF), page 14; Retrieved on: August 9, 2015

Web links

• Literature in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heeressportschule Wünsdorf in: Hamburger Nachrichten of August 13, 1935.
• Article in the mirror from 1948

Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 50.7 ″  N , 13 ° 29 ′ 5 ″  E