State Sports Federation Berlin

State Sports Federation Berlin
Founded	October 29, 1949
Place of foundation	Berlin
president	Thomas Härtel
societies	2,500
Members	672,000
Association headquarters	Berlin
Homepage	lsb-berlin.net

The Landessportbund Berlin (LSB) is the free and independent amalgamation of the professional associations of amateur sports, the district sports working groups and other sports institutions in Berlin, founded on October 29, 1949 . With around 672,000 members, the LSB is the largest non-profit organization in the state of Berlin. The Landessportbund Berlin is also one of 16 regional associations in the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) .

The Landessportbund Berlin is a partner of the audience award "CHAMPIONS - Berlin's Sportsman of the Year", which has been awarded since 1979 (since 1986 in the four categories: athlete, athlete, team and trainer / manager of the year).

organization

structure

In the LSB there are 80 sports associations , eleven of which are local sports working groups, with around 2,500 clubs in which around 672,000 members are registered. In Berlin, around 60,000 voluntary helpers support the state sports association and help to organize healthy leisure activities for children, young people and adults. They take on tasks in educational support, do helper services and organizational work or make themselves available for management positions in sports organizations.

Thomas Härtel has been President of the LSB since November 23, 2018 .

tasks

The LSB acts as the umbrella organization for sports in Berlin and coordinates all activities in leisure, mass and competitive sports in close connection with sports at schools and universities as well as sports science . According to the law on the promotion of sport in the state of Berlin (Sportförderungsgesetz - SportFG) of January 6, 1989, last amended by the law of May 25, 2006, not only the state sports federation, but all non-profit sports clubs are funded.

The other tasks of the LSB include:

• the promotion of sports facility construction (renovations and repairs, new buildings);
• the training and further education of trainers, youth leaders, sports teachers, etc. (LSB sports school);
• youth work and youth care;
• public relations (advertising, editing and publishing the monthly “Sport in Berlin”);
• administration in the area of ​​finance and organization (grants, legal issues, insurance issues, etc.);
• the support of social and cultural institutions and projects in the field of sport;
• representing the interests of sport in relation to the local administration, the House of Representatives, the Senate and the public;
• arranging insurance cover for those who do sports.

Mission statement

The self-image and the basic principles of the Landessportbund Berlin result from five and six core criteria.

Initiative and self-organization

The LSB sees itself as a representative of the interests of the sports organizations and is anxious to dynamically adapt the organizational structures within the association to the changing tasks. Respect, tolerance, fairness and solidarity shape the actions and the promotion of initiative of all employees.

Since the basis of sport in Berlin is club work, the independent action of the sports organizations is seen as an essential prerequisite. However, the Landessportbund Berlin pursues the goal of strengthening the public presence of clubs and associations based on the principle of “helping people to help themselves”, for example through advice and similar action measures.

Integration and personality development

In a network with other social groups, the LSB makes its contribution to social equilibrium in Berlin and works integratively by supporting measures to integrate socially disadvantaged, people of non-German origin and older people into the social fabric of the city through club sports.

Sport promotes personality development and personality development (borderline experiences, self-reflection processes). With the help of the Berlin clubs, the LSB would like to use the large area of ​​sport to promote the development of one's own personality.

Individuality and community

In addition to physical exercise, sport in organized clubs offers a social space that on the one hand offers the opportunity to have collective experiences and on the other hand recognizes the individuality of the individual.

history

Early post-war period

The city of Berlin was completely destroyed by the Second World War, there was no functioning infrastructure or administration and a total of two thirds of the sports facilities in Berlin were smashed. As early as June 7, 1945, the “Sports Office of the City of Berlin” was founded and shortly afterwards the “Central Sports Committee” was constituted. Several district sports offices and especially municipal sports groups were set up on the basis of the provisions of the Allied Control Council Directive No. 23, which registered 15,000 athletes in a few weeks. In the course of the reorganization, the Sports Department issued the first guidelines for the reconstruction of the sports movement in Berlin , in order to set the course for a community-based sport. Although ball sports began to play regularly at the end of 1945, the approval of sports clubs was still refused by the Allies, who supported the previously existing municipal sports groups.

This ban was to remain in place until 1949, but on October 1, 1948, the German Sports Committee (DS) was founded in the Soviet zone of occupation and shortly afterwards a sports umbrella organization was licensed in the economically and politically constricted western part of Berlin, so that East Berliners too Sports committee tried to establish its own association in January 1949. In March of the same year, the municipal administration decided to abolish the municipal administration of sport (municipal sport) for the Soviet sector, and so the first sport and company sport communities were formed, which in future formed the basic structure of GDR sport. A meeting of more than 1,000 club representatives of West Berlin sports on March 30, 1949 should lead to a fundamental change in the sports administration in Berlin. The result of the meeting was, on the one hand, the decision to end municipal sports and support free and democratic club sport, as well as the decision to found a comprehensive association for all clubs and associations.

1949 to 1989

On October 29, 1949, the Sports Association of Greater Berlin was officially founded and, in the course of this, the main task of the Sports Association was to promote the broadest possible coverage of young people through sport, focusing on the educational values ​​(i.e. not performance-oriented) of sport as a whole . Gerhard Schlegel was elected 1st chairman of the association by 173 representatives of the association who are entitled to vote.

Later, the German Sports Committee decided to reorganize sport in the GDR through the formation of unionized sports associations. Recurring struggles for competence between the main office for physical exercises of the magistrate and the sports association caused the town councilor May, responsible for sports, to end this power struggle in January 1950 in favor of organized sport and thus strengthen the umbrella association. In the summer of 1951, after disputes and several extraordinary general assemblies, the Berlin Sports Association was converted from an "Association of Clubs" to an "Association of Associations" and due to the new statutes, there were considerable changes in the board at the following general meeting. a. Werner Ruhemann was elected the new 1st chairman with a majority of one vote.

Source: LSB Berlin Statistics 2013

In the following years, the separation of sport, influenced by the separation of the FRG and the GDR between West and East, persisted. In the meantime, on September 21, 1952, German-German sporting relations were broken off, but they were resumed soon afterwards. At the beginning of July 1953 the 1st chairman Ruhemann died, so that the following September there was a new election of the board, in which Christian Pfeil was elected as the new chairman of the association.

Later there were controversial discussions about the political neutrality of sport, which were not only triggered by the Cold War between East and West at the level of the German Sports Confederation, but also in the branches of the sports youth about the military contribution to the development of the Bundeswehr. As a sign of the existing German-German sports traffic, a joint German team started for the first time at the Winter Games in Cortina (1956) and at the Summer Games in Melbourne (1956) . In the same year, Gerhard Schlegel was re-elected as President of the State Sports Association, who thus took up his second term. However, when the Wall was built on August 13, 1961, the last East-West sports contacts were interrupted and "frozen" by the German Sports Association. Both in the FRG and in the GDR , the development and expansion of sport continued.

At the end of 1965, the German Sports Association resumed all German sports traffic.

On 22 June 1967, the LSB got its still existing name, which was Sportverband Berlin renamed to the Sports Federation of Berlin . At the end of the 1960s it was found in the clubs and associations that the promotion of popular sport started only slowly, so that in the following years there were more popular sports activities of the German Sports Association . The German Gymnastics Festival took place from May 22nd to June 3rd, 1968 and became the largest sports event in Berlin since the end of the war. After differences of opinion about the funding of the increasingly established state performance centers, Gerhard Schlegel resigned, whose office was initially temporarily taken over by Werner Hannemann until Hans Gleisberg was appointed. In October 1975 a new organizational plan came into force in the LSB, through which the three departments Sport and Education , Finance and Administration and Sport Youth were established. Two years later, on April 22, 1977, there was another change in the presidium of the LSB, so that Horst Korber was elected as the new president. In the following years there were more and more support concepts for competitive sports, which drove the state sports association to intensify work in the state performance centers and with the youngsters. In October 1981 Reinhard Krieg took over from the late Horst Korber.

At the beginning of the 1980s, the LSB was characterized by the increasing support from foreigners. Together with the Sportjugend Berlin , attempts were made to use sport to integrate foreign citizens (for example, a sports advice center for foreigners was opened in August 1983). The promotion of competitive sports was also pushed forward, so that the Olympic base , after Manfred von Richthofen was elected the new President of the State Sports Federation on June 5, 1985, started its activities in June 1987.

Since the reunification

In the years shortly before and after reunification, there was the largest increase in registered members in the Berlin State Sports Association so far, with around 150,000 new members joining Berlin's sports clubs between 1983 and 1993.

The 10 largest associations in LSB Berlin (2013)
sport				Members
Soccer			134,641
do gymnastics			88.395
Student sports			59,665
tennis			31,948
swim			26,102
Disabled sports			24,242
Company sports			20,843
sailing			14,362
Mountain hiking / mountaineering			13,704
Handball			12,060
Source: LSB Berlin

There were no difficulties because of the reunification of Berlin sport. The members of the Gymnastics and Sports Federation East Berlin joined the LSB Berlin and the Presidium was expanded by three East Berlin members (to 12 members). From the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 to the end of 1989, there were a total of 200 east-west sports encounters in Germany, in particular between sports clubs from the west and east of Berlin. With the decision to dissolve the DTSB of the GDR on December 5, 1990, the history of GDR sport ended and shortly afterwards, in November, the two National Olympic Committees were united .

In the 1990s there were increasing demands and later for the promotion of the renovation of sports facilities and, moreover, the desire to promote grassroots sport grew, as until now the main focus was on competitive sport (among other things, the city's Olympic application had high priority) . Shortly before the turn of the millennium, the first national conference for mass sport took place on September 5, 1998 , at which the promotion of children's and youth sport was set as the top priority for the future. In 2000 the honorary president of the State Sports Association of Berlin changed again. Peter Hanisch was elected as the new chairman of the LSB. The total number of the Presidium was reduced by one member in 2006 to the current number of eleven members. Hanisch was to hold the office until 2009 and, for example, brought the International German Gymnastics Festival to Berlin during his tenure . For reasons of age, he decided not to run again in 2009 and gave up the office of 1st Chairman on June 5, 2009 to Klaus Böger.

The steady increase in membership that has existed since the LSB was founded continues to this day, so that the Landessportbund Berlin currently has the highest number of around 630,000 members. Within the state sports federation, the football and gymnastics association have been at the forefront of the organizations with the largest number of members for decades.

Sports youth Berlin

The Sports Youth Berlin is the youth organization of the Berlin Sport Federation and represents the democratic umbrella organization for children and youth sport. As a recognized free youth welfare, it is responsible for the task of sports youth interests for about 220,000 children and young people in almost 2000 Berlin sports clubs.

In addition to representing interests, the Sportjugend Berlin functions as a sponsor of sporting facilities and projects for youth social work, leisure education and extracurricular youth education. In doing so, young people in sports commit themselves to the democratic principles (e.g. right of co-determination) of young people as well as the statutory right to independence within the State Sports Association of Berlin.

Sports facilities

Olympic base

→ Main article : Olympic base Berlin

The Olympic Training Center (OSP) Berlin was founded in 1987 as an element of the overall national concept of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (then “German Sports Confederation”). Under the umbrella of its own sponsoring association (since 1997), the OSP is the hub of competitive sports in Berlin and the surrounding area.

The OSP controls - in coordination with the LSB and other partners - the development of athletes in Berlin's main sports from the youngest to the top in the region and offers all national team athletes in the federal capital a holistic range of sports medicine, physiotherapy, training science, sports psychology and social support. The work of the Olympic base is financed mainly from federal funds and a substantial contribution from the State of Berlin.

The OSP also takes on important infrastructural tasks for the region in addition to its original support tasks:

• Support in the more efficient interlinking of competitive sports training and school education;
• Regulation of cooperation with universities, colleges, training institutions for an optimal combination of competitive sport with vocational training;
• Improvement of the living and living conditions of the athletes (e.g. sport-appropriate diet);
• Coordination of the co-financing of operating and maintenance costs by the federal government;
• Provision of training times in sports facilities, construction and renovation work.

The locations of the Berlin Olympic Training Center are:

• Sportforum Berlin, OSP headquarters,
• Europa Sportpark sports complex, OSP branch (including functional building with training facilities for weightlifting and boxing, velodrome, swimming and jumping hall, sports hall complex),
• Grünau complex, OSP branch (water sports center: rowing, canoe racing),
• Horst Korber sports center.

Gerhard Schlegel Sports School

The Gerhard Schlegel Sports School of the LSB Berlin in Berlin-Schöneberg is the central training and further education institution for all sports associations and sports clubs as well as the seat of numerous organizations (including the day-care center sponsoring society “Children in Motion”) in Berlin. It was named after Gerhard Schlegel, who held the office of president from 1949 to 1951 and a second time from 1965 to 1972 when the LSB Berlin was founded.

The sports school offers basic training for trainers, trainers and club managers, and the boards of clubs and associations are given the opportunity to acquire licenses. The main areas of responsibility of the sports school are the qualification of trainers in health sports as well as the professional qualification of gymnastics teachers. For the first time since August 2013, educators with a sports pedagogical profile are also being trained. In addition to the full-time employees, lecturers from schools and universities, clubs and associations as well as from business and administration work in the sports school.

The Gerhard Schlegel Sports School (with its sports hall) was energetically renovated in 2006 as part of the Berlin Environment Relief Program of the State Administration for Health, Environment and Consumer Debt with funds from the European Union (ERDF - European Regional Development Fund) and the State of Berlin.

Horst Korber sports center

The "Horst Korber Sports Center" is a sports facility of the Berlin State Sports Association, which was built from 1987 to 1990. The sports center was named after Horst Korber , the former President of the Berlin State Sports Association and Senator for Family, Youth and Sport. It serves as a state performance center for athletics , handball , hockey and volleyball and also includes a large sports hall (88 m long, 48 m wide and 14 m high) with 3,450 seats. There is also a weight room, sauna, and physiotherapy and seminar rooms that can be used by athletes and coaches.

Member organizations

The following 79 associations and district sports federations are members of the Berlin State Sports Association:

No.	Surname	No.	Surname	No.	Surname
1	Aikido Association Berlin-Brandenburg	28	Berlin Sports Medical Association	55	Forum for Sports History Association for the Sports Museum Berlin
2	American Football and Cheerleading Association Berlin / Brandenburg	29	Berlin Taekwondo Association	56	Deaf Sports Association Berlin-Brandenburg
3	Working group Friedrichshainer-Kreuzberger sports clubs	30th	Berlin table tennis association	57	Golf Association Berlin-Brandenburg
4th	Badminton Association Berlin-Brandenburg	31	Berlin Triathlon Union	58	Handball Association Berlin
5	Bahnengolf-Verband Berlin-Brandenburg	32	Berlin Gymnastics and Recreational Sports Association	59	Inline and roller sports association Berlin
6th	Baseball and Softball Association Berlin / Brandenburg	33	Berlin Association for Modern Pentathlon	60	Judo Association Berlin
7th	Disabled Sports Association Berlin	34	Berlin hiking association	61	Association for Budo practices
8th	Berlin-Brandenburg Kick Boxing Union	35	Company sports association Berlin	62	State Canoe Association Berlin
9	Berlin-Brandenburg Water Ski Association	36	District Sports Association Berlin - Mitte	63	Landesfachverband Berlin for skittles and bowling
10	Berlin Basketball Association	37	District Sports Association Berlin-Pankow	64	State Association for Motorsport Berlin
11	Berlin Boxing Association	38	District Sports Association Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf	65	State Rowing Association Berlin
12	Berlin casting sport and fishing association	39	District Sports Association Lichtenberg	66	State Dance Sports Association Berlin
13	Berlin Ice Sports Association	40	District sports association Marzahn-Hellersdorf	67	State diving sports association Berlin
14th	Berlin Fencing Association	41	District sports association Reinickendorf	68	Berlin regional association of the German Alpine Club
15th	Berlin Football Association	42	District Sports Association Spandau	69	State Association of Naturism Berlin-Brandenburg
16	Berlin Society for Prevention and Rehabilitation	43	District sports association Steglitz-Zehlendorf	70	Regional Equestrian Association Berlin-Brandenburg
17th	Berlin weightlifting and strength sports association	44	District sports association Tempelhof-Schöneberg	71	Motor Yacht Association Berlin
18th	Berlin Hockey Association	45	District Sports Association Treptow-Köpenick	72	Shooting Association Berlin-Brandenburg
19th	Berlin Ju-Jutsu Association	46	Billiard Association Berlin 49/76	73	Ski Association Berlin
20th	Berlin Karate Association	47	Darts Association Berlin-Brandenburg	74	Special Olympics Germany in Berlin
21st	Berlin Athletics Association	48	German youth force regional community Berlin	75	Tennis Association Berlin-Brandenburg
22nd	Berlin Cycling Association	49	German Life Saving Society, LV Berlin	76	Sponsoring association of the Berlin Olympic Training Center
23	Berlin Wrestling Association	50	German Olympic Society (DOG) Regional Association Berlin	77	Association of Sports Journalists Berlin-Brandenburg
24	Berlin Rugby Association	51	German Aero Club, Berlin Aviation Association	78	Association for sport and youth social work
25th	Berlin Chess Association	52	German Sports Teachers Association, LV Berlin	79	Volleyball Association Berlin
26th	Berlin Swimming Association	53	Protestant sports work Berlin - Brandenburg
27	Berlin Sailing Association	54	Floorball Association Berlin-Brandenburg

literature

• Ernst Podeswa, Günter Weise: Sports metropolis Berlin. Berlin Sports Museum Berlin. Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-9806981-0-6 .

Web links

• Olympic Training Center Berlin on osp-berlin.de
• Landessportbund Berlin on lsb-berlin.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Landessportbund Berlin. Retrieved December 4, 2013 . 
2. ↑ School and competitive sports center Berlin. Retrieved December 4, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Champions - Berlin's athlete of the year. Retrieved December 5, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Tasks and goals. Retrieved December 17, 2013 .  
5. ^ Mission statement of the LSB. Retrieved December 17, 2013 .  
6. ^ Way Podeswa: Sports metropolis Berlin. 1999, pp. 111-113.
7. ^ Way Podeswa: Sports metropolis Berlin. 1999, pp. 114-117.
8. ^ Membership development in the LSB Berlin (1953–2013) ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on lsb-berlin.net (PDF) 
9. ^ Arnd Krüger : Sport and Politics. From gymnastics father Jahn to state amateur. Torch bearer, Hanover 1975 ISBN 3-7716-2087-2 .
10. ^ Way Podeswa: Sports metropolis Berlin. 1999, pp. 121-124.
11. ^ Way Podeswa: Sports metropolis Berlin. 1999, pp. 131-136.
12. ^ Way Podeswa: Sports metropolis Berlin. 1999, pp. 138-140.
13. ^ Way Podeswa: Sports metropolis Berlin. 1999, p. 144.
14. ↑ In the further course I refer, if not stated otherwise, to: Weise Podeswa: Sportmetropole Berlin. 1999, p. 145 ff.
15. ↑ The 10 largest associations in the LSB Berlin (2013) ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. on lsb-berlin.net (PDF) 
16. ↑ In the further course I refer to: Sportjugend Berlin, unless otherwise noted . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 4, 2013 ; Retrieved December 5, 2013 . Info: The 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.  
17. ↑ In the further course I refer to: Olympiastützpunkt Berlin unless otherwise noted . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 19, 2014 ; Retrieved December 5, 2013 . Info: The 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.  
18. ↑ Sports school has a name. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 4, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
19. ↑ In the further course I refer to, unless otherwise stated: New name for LSB sports school. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 7, 2014 ; Retrieved December 4, 2013 . Info: The 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.  
20. ↑ Horst Korber Sports Center. Retrieved December 4, 2013 . 
21. ^ Member organizations of the LSB Berlin. Retrieved December 4, 2013 .