Military sport

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HJ taking shooting lessons

Military sport or military training are other names for military sport and generic terms for various military-style exercises . They can include off-road and orientation marches , obstacle courses , target practice, hand-to-hand combat training , offensive and defensive tactics.

history

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Obstacle course - overcoming the "wall"
Girls in the GST training camp

Before the First World War , military gymnastics dominated over military sports . In the Weimar Republic , many paramilitary associations also had youth organizations that regularly took part in military sports exercises. From 1925 these were systematically promoted in national sports schools with funds from the Black Reichswehr . Student associations also devoted themselves to military sports. In the time of National Socialism , military sport was promoted by the state and, as " military training ", was an integral part of the roster of the Hitler Youth and university sport , which was now compulsory for students. Bernhard Zimmermann , who was directly subordinate to Carl Krümmel , became the coordinator for the military sports camps . A line of tradition leads via Zimmermann from military sports to the outward-bound movement, even if it does not pursue military sports goals.

The Federal Republic of Germany has been a member of the international military sports association CISM since 1959 and Austria since 1958 , which organizes competitions in the military pentathlon and maritime pentathlon .

In the GDR , military sport had the "task of increasing the people's willingness to defend" as part of military education .

Several right-wing extremist associations called themselves “ Wehrsportgruppe ” (WSG) , including the Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann group named after Karl-Heinz Hoffmann , which was founded in 1973 and banned in 1980.

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literature

  • Norbert Nail: Military sport. Thoughts on the occasion of the resuscitation of a speech corpse. In: mother tongue. Volume 84, 1974, pp. 427-429.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnd Krüger , Frank von Lojewski: Selected aspects of military sports in Lower Saxony in the Weimar period. In: H. Langenfeld, S. Nielsen (Ed.): Contributions to the history of sports in Lower Saxony. Part 2: Weimar Republic. (⇐ NISH series of publications, Vol. 12). Nish, Hoya 1998, ISBN 3-932423-02-X , pp. 124-148.
  2. ^ Walter M. Brod: The military sporting activity of the active corps during the holidays. In: Corps Moenania (Würzburg). Corps report 25, 1932, p. 4 f.
  3. ↑ Die Zeit: The Lexicon in 20 volumes. Volume 19, Hamburg / Mannheim 2005, ISBN 3-411-17579-6 .