Competitive sport decision

The competitive sport resolution ( "baseline of the development of competitive sport in the GDR until 1980" ) is a resolution of the SED - Politburo of April 8, 1969 to promote certain Olympic sports more strongly. The aim of the decision was to do more successfully than the FRG at the Olympic Games, especially the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich . The level of economic expenditure per medal became the yardstick for evaluating the sports.

The target for 1972 was achieved: in the medal table of Munich , the GDR took third place with 20 gold medals, and the FRG took fourth place with 13.

Were classified as eligible for funding

the Olympic summer sports:
boxing , fencing , football , weight lifting , handball (men), judo , canoe racing , athletics , equestrian ( dressage and Military ), cycling , wrestling , rowing , shooting , swimming , water jumping , sailing , gymnastics and volleyball .
Olympic winter sports:
biathlon , figure skating , speed skating , sledging and Nordic skiing .

All other sports had to accept a reduction or even a discontinuation of funding, which also affected Olympic sports:

Basketball , ice hockey , hockey , modern pentathlon , water polo and alpine skiing .

The non-Olympic sports were generally removed from funding and no longer had a basis for adequate competitive sports. This concerned z. B .:

Tennis , table tennis , chess , motorsport

These sports were spun off from the specially funded sports clubs and the children's and youth sports schools, international sports traffic was restricted, and the financial resources and personnel were diverted in favor of the sponsored sports.

Individual evidence

^ The influence of the DTSB competitive sports decision of 1996 on the spectrum of sports on GDR television. (PDF; 545 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 4, 2004 ; Retrieved December 22, 2012 . 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. , Pp. 17 + 18 @1@ 2

↑ Quotation: ... takes place mainly within the GDR - Olympic Games, World or European Championships, competitions in western countries are taboo for Sport II athletes. according to Friedrich-Karl Brauns in: Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , page 109

Web links

Anja Grießer: The influence of the DTSB performance decision of 1969 on the spectrum of sports on GDR television , Master's thesis 2002 ( PDF )
The competitive sports decision of the DTSB of April 8, 1969, presentation at the University of Leipzig on November 18, 2002 ( MS Word ; 34 kB)

[intern1-1] The influence of the DTSB competitive sports decision of 1996 on the spectrum of sports on GDR television. (PDF; 545 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 4, 2004 ; Retrieved December 22, 2012 . 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. , Pp. 17 + 18 @1@ 2

[intern-2] Quotation: ... takes place mainly within the GDR - Olympic Games, World or European Championships, competitions in western countries are taboo for Sport II athletes. according to Friedrich-Karl Brauns in: Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , page 109