KTV Aarau
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Cantonal School Gymnastics Association Aarau (KTV Aarau) |
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| coat of arms | Circle | |||||
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| Founding: | 1830 | |||||
| Place of foundation: | Aarau | |||||
| Cartel / District / AG: | Cartel of Swiss cantonal school and gymnastics clubs | |||||
| Color status : | colored | |||||
| Colours: | red-white-black (percussion: gold) | |||||
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| Type of Confederation: | Men's association | |||||
| Position to the scale : | not striking | |||||
| Motto: | mens sana in corpore sano | |||||
| Total members: | about 400 | |||||
| Active: | 21 (2017) | |||||
| Website: | www.ktv-aarau.ch | |||||
The Aarau Cantonal School Gymnastics Association (KTV Aarau) is the oldest Swiss secondary school association . It has existed at the Aarau Old Cantonal School since 1830 .
history
Doing sport as a hobby has always been a privilege reserved for the upper class. After the fall of Napoleon, this privilege fell to the liberal forces in Germany who used gymnastics as a means of political propaganda. This movement spilled over to Switzerland, where the Zofingia student association was founded.
But gymnastics associations also developed at secondary schools, including in Aarau, where the idea of gymnastics fell on particularly fertile ground. As early as 1824, a group of gymnastics enthusiasts were found who gave the school a gymnastics book. But in the following years conservative forces that were critical of gymnastics gained influence. However, the KTV Aarau was sufficiently stable that it was even able to organize the first Federal Gymnastics Festival in 1832. The KTV initially acted as a pure gymnastics club. In the years between 1840 and 1860 it slowly developed into a couleurs student gymnastics club with manners and customs of the beer comment, which one learned from university students at gymnastics festivals.
In 1896 the old gentlemen's association of KTV Aarau was founded. The association aims to maintain friendship and sociability among its members as well as between them and the members of the Aktivitas of the KTV. He promotes and supports the interests of Aktivitas des KTV and maintains good contact with the old canton school in Aarau. For many years field handball was an important and binding activity among the "old men". In its heyday in the middle of the last century, the handball team of the KTV represented a size to be taken seriously in top Swiss sport.
In the changeable years that followed, the KTV grew steadily and, after a forced dissolution by the teaching staff and the subsequent re-establishment, reached its peak around the turn of the century. During the First and Second World War one intensified its activities and the numerous social commitments. After the Second World War one experienced long, changeful years with constant ups and downs.
KTV Aarau is currently experiencing a high again, which is not only due to extremely committed alumni, but also to another great and lively Aktivitas.
organization
The KTV Aarau is one of five middle school connections at the Alte Kantonsschule Aarau, it is also a member of the KTV cartel, which consists of the KTV Aarau and two other middle school connections from Eastern Switzerland.
Known members
- Hansrudolf Hoffmann (Swiss diplomat)
- Walter Steinmann (former director of the Federal Office of Energy)
- Hans Fahrländer (former editor-in-chief Aargauer Zeitung)
