Makkabi Germany

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Makkabi Germany
Makkabi Germany Logo.svg
Founded 1898 / May 23, 1965
Place of foundation Berlin / Düsseldorf
president Alon Meyer
societies 37
Members 5,037
Association headquarters Frankfurt (Main)
Homepage www.makkabi.de

Makkabi Germany is the Jewish gymnastics and sports association in Germany .

history

Entrance to the TUS Makkabi clubhouse in Berlin-Westend (2010)

Makkabi Germany was founded in 1903 by German-Jewish sports clubs as an umbrella organization . He was a founding member of the Makkabi World Union , which was founded in 1921 as the World Sports Association of Jewish Athletes. After the takeover of the Nazis Makkabi Germany and its member companies were excluded from the German sports and could only compete with each other.

On November 9, 1938, the night of the Reichspogrom , the office of the President of the German Makkabi Association, Hans Friedenthal, was destroyed. The Jewish population was banned from any club sport, Makkabi Germany was dissolved.

Shortly after the Second World War , Jewish sports groups formed again in the so-called Displaced Persons Camps , and they even set up their own league system. Outside of these camps, Jewish sports clubs were set up again in Cologne (SC Maccabi) and Berlin (Hakoah), which in 1950 even sent a delegation to the 3rd Maccabiade . Shortly afterwards, however, these two clubs dissolved or became general sports clubs. Max Loewy, who had already been an important functionary in Jewish sport in the interwar period, established SC Maccabi Düsseldorf in 1961. He was also the driving force behind the re-establishment of Makkabi Germany as the national umbrella organization on May 23, 1965 in Düsseldorf. Willi Daume (President of the German Sports Confederation and the National Olympic Committee for Germany ), Heinz Galinski , the long-time chairman of Berlin's Jewish community, and other important officials attended this important event . Werner Nachmann was elected President of Makkabi Germany and received a. a. Support from his deputy Walter Feuchtwanger. Makkabi was accepted into the German Sports Federation as a member with special tasks (such as the Catholic DJK or other cross-local and cross-professional umbrella organizations). In 1969, for the first time since 1932, a German team with the national colors took part in the Maccabiade, the world festival of Jewish athletes in Israel .

The largest local club is Makkabi Frankfurt. With almost 1200 members and 28 departments, it makes up a good quarter of the total members of Maccabi in Germany. The basketball seniors are currently playing in the Regionalliga Südwest . Probably the best-known clubs in Makkabi Germany are TuS Makkabi Berlin , whose chess players have won numerous championships on the German level and whose soccer team plays in the Berlin League, and Makkabi Düsseldorf , who represent basketball in the 1st Regional League (3rd league) were.

structure

Today there are 38 local Makkabi associations all over Germany - except in Saarland and Thuringia . The clubs have around 4400 members in various sports. Makkabi Frankfurt is the largest local association with almost 1200 members. The Berlin Maccabi Association has around 500 members, the TSV Maccabi Munich around 900. Many of the associations participate in the competitions of the respective professional associations in their sports.

International success

At the European Maccabi Games in Antwerp in 2003 , the German team took third place in the medal table with six gold, seven silver and eight bronze medals. At the previous games in Stirling ( Scotland ), the German team even took first place in the national ranking with twelve gold, three silver and seven bronze medals.

The XVII. Maccabiade took place from July 10th to July 21st, 2005. Makkabi Germany won two gold, five silver and two bronze medals. As always, the venue was Israel.

At the 12th European Maccabi Games, which took place in Rome in 2007, Germany took 6th place in the medal table with five gold, six silver and 18 bronze medals.

literature

  • Franz-Josef Brüggemeier : Jews in German football. In: Information on Political Education No. 290, I / 2006, 23–26 (readable online at: www.bpb.de).
  • Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling (ed.): Star of David and leather ball. The history of the Jews in German and international football. Goettingen 2003.
  • Nils Havemann : Football under the swastika. In: From Politics and Contemporary History (APuZ). ISSN  0479-611X , No. 19/2006, May 8, 2006, pp. 33–38, here p. 37 The exclusion of Jewish athletes (also readable online [1] ) cf. the book of the same title by the same author, see Deutscher Fußball-Bund , Literatur.
  • Arnd Krüger : "When the Olympics are over, we will beat the Jews to a pulp". The relationship of the Jews to the Olympic Games of 1936. In: Menora 5th year book for German-Jewish history 1994. Piper, Munich, 331 - 348.
  • Robin Streppelhoff: Successful bridging. Sport in German-Israeli relations (= Studies on Sport History , Vol. 10). Academia, Sankt Augustin 2012, ISBN 3-896-65579-5 .
  • Robin Streppelhoff (2015). “Makkabi Chai” - the Jewish sport in Germany after 1945, in: DOSB-Presse on May 26, 2015, pp. 14-15. online at: German Roadraces
  • Henry Wahlig : Offside sports. The history of the Jewish sports movement in National Socialist Germany , Hildesheim 2015.

Exhibitions

  • Kick it like Kissinger . A soccer alphabet. The contribution of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and the Jewish Museum Franconia to the 2006 World Cup Until 3 September 2006 in Frankfurt am Main (Museum Judengasse) and in Fürth (Jewish Museum Franconia)
  • Kickers, fighters and legends. Jews in German football Until December 15, 2006, Berlin: Centrum Judaicum (Oranienburger Str. 28–30)

In the film accompanying the exhibition, FC Makkabi Berlin was accompanied for several months. Maccabi story on the net

  • Faster, higher, further ... On the history of the Makkabi sports movement 1898 - 1938. Cabinet exhibition in the Learning Center of the Libeskind building, Lindenstr. 9-14, Berlin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Makkabi associations throughout Germany. Makkabi Germany, accessed June 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Survey 2019. (PDF) German Olympic Sports Confederation, accessed on June 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Tremendous farce . In: Der Spiegel No. 46/1978.
  4. ↑ Arnd Krüger (1999). "Once the Olympics are through, well beat up the Jew." German Jewish Sport 1898-1938 and the Anti-Semitic Discourse, in: Journal of Sport History , 1999 Vol. 26 No. 2 p. 353-375. www.library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1999/JSH2602/jsh2602g.pdf
  5. ^ Robin Streppelhoff: Successful bridging. Sport in German-Israeli relations. Academia, St. Augustin 2012 (series: Studies on Sport History , Volume 10), pp. 60–85.
  6. ↑ Robin Streppelhoff (2015). “Makkabi Chai” - the Jewish sport in Germany after 1945, in: DOSB-Presse on May 26, 2015, pp. 14-15.
  7. ^ Makkabi Germany eV: (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 21, 2015 ; accessed on March 5, 2015 .
  8. ^ Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main ( Memento from July 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Maccabi Story
  10. ^ Jewish Museum Berlin