State Sports Association of Bremen

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The Landessportbund Bremen ( LSB ), as the umbrella organization of 430 Bremen and Bremerhaven sports clubs and 50 sports associations, is the point of contact for sports in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . The LSB currently has around 160,000 members (as of 2009). The Landessportbund Bremen is one of the 16 Landessportbundes in the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB). Every year the LSB organizes the Sports Ball with the election for Bremen Sportsman of the Year .

tasks

The Landessportbund defines its task as follows: “In order to fulfill its socio-political responsibility and to meet the needs of those who do sports, the LSB takes care of the material and organizational framework, the qualification of its employees, and the development of special sports and exercise programs , the analysis of sports trends and cooperation with public and private institutions. At the same time, the LSB also wants to open ways for other institutions to participate in the large sports community in Bremen and Bremerhaven. "The offers in the LSB, in the associations and clubs are realized through the work of voluntary, full-time and freelance employees, the cooperation with service providers and investment companies, the cooperation with other groups and individuals and the cooperation with institutions of science and education as well as the economy.

Every year the LSB organizes the Sports Ball with the election for Bremen Sportsman of the Year .
The LSB's Bremer Sport Magazin appears monthly and is available on the Internet.

The Bremer sports TV can be found in the special channel 12 in Bremen's cable network and the Internet. He brings sports programs for popular sports in Bremen and Umzu. The voluntary work from the Bremen sports clubs includes moderation and technical implementation. The station is supported by the Landessportbund.

history

"Vorwärts" house , until 1973 the seat of the Vorwärts association

founding

From the middle of the 19th century, the oldest sports clubs were founded in Bremen. On the one hand, the workers' sports clubs were founded in Bremen, and on the other, the "bourgeois" gymnastics and later gymnastics and sports clubs. The workers 'sports clubs were represented in the German Workers' Gymnastics Federation (ATB, then ATSB) from 1893. This separation in sports remained for a long time. It was only overcome after 1946, after the Second World War , with the rebuilding of the sport, when all sports clubs came together in a Bremen sports association . The establishment of the LSB by the first 59 associations took place on July 6, 1946 in the premises of the association "Vorwärts" in the Vorwärts house on Sandstrasse. "The catchy slogan" Sport for everyone! " corresponds "- according to the LSB -" actually (still) to the sporting, and that always means also the social reality in the state of Bremen. "The voluntary association membership was emphasized again in October 1946 and the advocacy for uniformity as well as for political and economic independence.

The Vegesack sports district (from 1947 Kreissportbund Bremen-Nord) and the Kreissportbund Wesermünde (from 1947 Kreissportbund Bremerhaven - KSB) were also established in 1946, the Kreissportbund Bremen-Stadt only in 1965, since until then the LSB also took care of Bremen matters.

The founding fathers of the LSB were Oscar Drees (SPD), the first LSB chairman from 1946 to 1966 and his successor Fritz Piaskowski (SPD) and Max Jahn (SPD), who had been the first sports representative of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen since 1945 . These three men came from the workers' sports movement and had been persecuted during the Nazi era because of their political convictions .

From the end of 1945 to the first half of 1946, 14 “divisions” (later professional associations) had been formed for men's gymnastics, women's gymnastics, athletics, soccer, handball, summer games, tennis, table tennis, hockey and golf, swimming, water sports, boxing, heavy athletics and Cycling. In July 1946 there were 25,000 members and 59 associations in the LSB. It was and is by far the largest association in the state of Bremen. In 1946 Adolf Kerrl published the sports bulletin for the first time , the forerunner of today's Bremen sport .

In 1947, after the founding of the state of Bremen, the Verband Landessportbund Bremen (LSB) was called. In 1949 Adolf Alves became the first full-time managing director.

In 1966, after twenty years as the successor to Oscar Drees (SPD), the local politician Fritz Piaskowski (SPD) became chairman of the LSB.

Development until 1970

In 1946 the LSB Problems took out accident insurance for its members. In 1946/47 a sports medical service was established. Disputes over football pools and financial issues occupied the LSB very often and for a long time in the 1948/49. Even if many officials “basically” spoke out against the introduction of soccer betting, due to developments in other countries, the state of Bremen and the LSB had to follow the general trend towards the introduction of sports betting. In 1950, the LSB calculated its income from the total money to be around 370,000 marks.

LSB boss Drees became deputy chairman of the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB), which was founded in 1950, and in 1952, Werder Bremen chairman Alfred Ries was also to become deputy chairman of the DTB for the first time. In 1951, the LSB and the Bremen Football Association jointly founded the sports promotion committee. In 1951 the local branch of the German Olympic Society (DOG) was founded in Bremen. In 1952, the central Jahn celebration organized by the LSB to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of “gymnastics father” Friedrich Ludwig Jahn took place at the Domshof , at which Berlin Mayor Ernst Reuter spoke. There were problems in the relationship between the LSB and company sports .

The LSB had

  • 1950 approx. 63,000 members from 170 associations
  • 1954 approx. 80,000 members from 211 associations
  • 1961 approx. 91,000 members from 245 associations
  • 1966 approx. 103,000 members from 264 clubs.

In 1957 LSB and the Bremen Football Association moved into the new House of Sports at Kohlhökerstraße 28. In 1967, the LSB organized the Great Sports Show in the Bremen City Hall .

In the 1960s, the LSB demanded the expansion of the sports facilities in accordance with the "Golden Plan" of the German Olympic Society in 1960 . Bremen was able to fulfill the plan until 1968. In 1970 the state of Bremen had 206 playgrounds and sports fields, 148 gymnastics and gymnastics halls in the school area, six indoor pools, six teaching pools and 18 outdoor pools.

Since 1970 until today

The promotion of competitive sport was in a mess in the 1970s and was not very successful even after that. The newly founded University of Bremen with its sports degree program was also primarily devoted to popular sports. The Bremen sports school on the Krähenberg could only make a small contribution to the promotion of competitive sports.

In 1971 the new House of Sports at Eduard-Grunow-Strasse 30 was inaugurated. In 1972 a contract was signed with the administrative professional association (VBG) for the instructors in the LSB. In 1976, the planning of the technical training of organizational leaders began. The LSB-Bildungswerk as a continuing education provider was only officially recognized as an institution eligible for funding in 1981.

The existing German Sports Youth in the Bremen State Sports Association received more rights as the Bremen Sports Youth (BSJ) in 1972 through the confirmation of a new youth regulation .

The LSB defined its priorities in 1973/74 with the order of mass sport, competitive and competitive sport, high-performance and top-class sport, professional sport, school sport, recreational sport, company sport, sport in the university sector as a whole and sport badges.

1976 brought the most important parliamentary success for sport and the state sports association of Bremen with the passing of the Sports Promotion Act by the Bremen citizenship. The state advisory board for sport was thereby created. The Bremen Sports Manual was published for the first time in 1976 .

In 1978 the LSB had 160,585 members from 318 associations.

In 1978, as successor to Fritz Piaskowski (since then honorary president), the pedagogue and previous deputy Heinz-Helmut Claußen was elected President of the LSB.

As part of the twinning between Bremen and Gdansk , around ten sporting encounters have taken place annually in the two cities since 1978 under the umbrella of the LSB. Similar contacts, based on new town twinning with Riga and Bratislava , were added later, as well as the sports exchange with Brest , Dudley and Haifa .

Gisela Bentz, u. a. Federal youth warden (1958–1961), board member and vice-president of the LSB from 1984 to 1990, had made great contributions to popular sport and women's sport in Bremen.

From 1993 onwards, the LSB was able to anchor a program for popular sport as Sport Live in the open television channel in Bremen . This became the Bremer Sport-TV on special channel 12 in the Bremen cable network.

Budget problems in the state of Bremen and the necessary school closings combined with the elimination of gyms also led to problems with sports activities from the 1990s onwards. The Zentralbad Mitte was closed in 1987, and more baths were to follow. This put indoor and swimming sports at risk.

In 1998, after 27 years as a member of the LSB board, including 20 years as president, the pedagogue Heinz-Helmut Claußen (SPD) resigned. The social politician Ingelore Rosenkötter (SPD) was elected as her successor . After her appointment to the Senate in 2006 she had to give up the office of president. He was succeeded by the lawyer Peter Zenner and in 2013 by the vocational school teacher Dieter Stumpe.

Chairman (presidents)

See also

literature

  • Ralf Junkereit: 50 years of the Bremen State Sports Federation 1946 - 1996 . Ed .: Landessportbund, Bremen 1996.
  • Ralf Junkereit: Landessportbund (LSB) Bremen - Brief historical outline . In: Program for the summer semester 2008 of the University Sports Association, Bremen 2008.
  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
  • Karl Marten Barfuß, Hartmut Müller, Daniel Tilgner (eds.): History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1945 to 2005 . Volume 1: 1945-1969, pp. 207f, 498f. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-575-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landessportbund Bremen: We about us ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2008 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lsb-bremen.de
  2. ↑ Edith Laudowicz: Bentz, Gisela . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .