Children's and youth spartakiad

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Opening of the GDR's 10th Children's and Youth Party on July 22, 1985

The child and youth spartakiads were regular sports competitions in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the other countries of the Eastern Bloc . They were intended to encourage children and adolescents to participate in regular physical activity, but they also served to identify potential competitive athletes at an early stage .

The Spartakiaden were, together with the district, district and GDR championships as well as the pioneer cup , the most important sporting competitions for children and youth in the GDR. There were preliminary competitions, district Spartakiads, district Spartakiads every two years and the central Spartakiad competitions.

development

7th Children's and Youth Spartakiade
postage stamp issued by the GDR Deutsche Post, ( 1979 )
Medal of the Rostock District Partakiade in 1972
Bronze medal Kreisspartakiade 1987 (winter sports)
Gold medal Kreisspartakiade 1988

The experiences made with the Pioneerspartakiads initially conceived for children led to the idea in 1964 of developing a sporting event and form of competition that would appeal to as many children and young people in the GDR as possible in all major sports. They wanted to combine characteristics of popular sport and competitive sport . It was also part of the youth work. The concept was developed and financed by the SED sports leadership and implemented by the mass organizations of sport ( DTSB , GST ) and youth ( FDJ , pioneer organization ). In the counties, districts and larger cities of the GDR, Spartakiade committees were formed, consisting of the aforementioned agencies and representatives of the SED and the local state leadership.

With the end of the GDR and the restructuring of the GDR sports system , the organizational structures of the Spartakiads also collapsed. In the East German federal states, children's and youth sports games are now being carried out, which refer to the tradition of the children's and youth spartakiad. Occasionally, competitions were held under the name of children and youth spartakiad.

Central children's and youth spartakiads of summer sports from 1966 to 1989

  • 1966 (July 24th to 31st): I. Children's and Youth Spartakiad in Berlin
  • 1968 (July 23rd to 28th): II. Children and Youth Spartakiad in Berlin
  • 1970 (July 20-26): III. Children's and youth spartakiad in Berlin
  • 1972 (July 24th to 30th): IV. Children's and Youth Spartakiad in Berlin
  • 1975 (July 21st to 27th): V. Children's and Youth Spartakiad in Berlin
  • 1977 (July 25 to 31): VI. Children's and Youth Spartakiade in Leipzig (together with the VI Gymnastics and Sports Festival)
  • 1979 (July 23rd to 30th): VII. Children and Youth Spartakiad in Berlin
  • 1981 (July 20-26): VIII. Children's and Youth Spartakiad in Berlin
  • 1983 (July 25th to 31st): IX. Children's and Youth Spartakiade in Leipzig (together with the VII Gymnastics and Sports Festival)
  • 1985 (July 22nd to 28th): Xth Children's and Youth Spartakiad in Berlin
  • 1987 (July 27 to August 2): XI. Children's and youth spartakiade in Leipzig (together with the 8th Gymnastics and Sports Festival)
  • 1989 (July 24-30): XII. Children's and youth spartakiad in Berlin

doping

In 1975, as an unofficial employee , Bernd Pansold reported in his reports on the widespread distribution of anabolic steroids to participants in the Central Children's and Youth Spartakiade as part of the state-prescribed forced doping in GDR competitive sports by GDR doctors and sports officials .

term

According to the German Universal Dictionary (Dudenverlag 1996), the name is derived from the Olympics and Spartakist or Spartakus . The members of the Spartakusbund (1916-1919), which in turn had named itself after Spartacus , the leader of the third uprising against the slave-holding society, were called Spartacists .

Spartakiads were also sometimes called sporting events and competitions for workers, children and young people in non-socialist states since 1917. In the USSR and other socialist states and their successor states after 1990 the sport competitions are still called that.

See also

literature

  • Resolution of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED: Carrying out children's and youth spartakiads in the Olympic sports in 1965 and 1966. SAPMO-BArch, DY 30 / J IV 2/3, p. 2).

Web links

Commons : Children's and Youth Partakiad  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Potsdamer Sport-Union: Children's and Youth Sports Games ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.potsdamer-sport-union.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 20, 2012
  2. ↑ Nordkurier: Flood of medals in Spartakiad fights ( memento from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , June 4, 2012
  3. ^ SV Groitzsch: Fistball , accessed on September 20, 2012
  4. ↑ From the Stasi files of sports medicine doctor Bernd Pansold "On 'brain hormones' and 'criminal offenses'" , Berliner Zeitung , April 16, 1998