Upper Palatinate Schützenbund

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Oberpfälzer Schützenbund eV
Logo OSB
Coat of arms of the Upper Palatinate Schützenbund
Founded May 30, 1889 / June 25, 1950
Place of foundation Schwandorf
president Franz Brunner
Association headquarters Pfreimd
Homepage https://www.osb-ev.de

The Oberpfälzer Schützenbund e. V. (OSB) is an umbrella organization for sport shooting in the Upper Palatinate. It was founded on May 30, 1889 in Schwandorf and re-established on June 25, 1950 in Schwandorf. It has 29,698 members in 14 shooting clubs and 278 clubs (as of 2018).

organization

As a state umbrella organization, the Upper Palatinate Schützenbund is an independent professional association and a member of the German Schützenbund (DSB) but not a member of the Bavarian State Sports Association (BLSV). The Schützengaue of the OSB and the individual shooting clubs are autonomous with regard to their self-administration. However, you must implement the rules made for the DSB within the framework of the recognition procedure according to § 15 WaffG. The OSB is a specialized disciplines in addition shooting with his Ordonnanzgewehr , Lever Action rifle , small-bore semi-automatic fire nozzles , Zimmerstutzen traditional and large-caliber added -Kombinationswettbewerb in the competition program.

The association area of ​​the OSB includes the middle Upper Palatinate and parts of Middle and Upper Franconia.

The districts: Amberg-Sulzbach, Schwandorf, Cham, Regensburg, Neustadt-WN, Tirschenreuth, Bayreuth, Nürnberg-Land and Neumarkt.
The independent cities: Nuremberg and Amberg.

The OSB is divided into 14 Schützengaue and 278 clubs:

Schützengau societies Members
On the mountain 30th 3.823
Armesberg 11 1,459
Bruck 16 1,605
Burglengenfeld 22nd 1,725
Cham 30th 3,188
Furth in the forest 42 3,750
Nabburg 21st 2,737
Neunburg 11 865
Oberviechtach 11 1,123
Roding 15th 1,862
Schwandorf 16 1,790
Stone forest 7th 966
Sulzbach-Rosenberg 33 3,522
Waldmünchen 13 1,283

As of March 1, 2018

history

Since the end of the Middle Ages, there were fire rifle clubs in the Upper Palatinate, which emerged from the defense obligation of the citizens in the cities, and which fired exclusively with large-caliber weapons. These clubs merged on May 30, 1889 in Schwandorf to form the "Oberpfälzer Provinzial-Schützenverband", which in 1909 was renamed the "Oberpfälzer Schützenbund".

Since the considerably cheaper Zimmerstutzen was developed in the middle of the 19th century, many more interested people were given the opportunity to practice shooting, and that is why numerous Zimmerstutzen clubs were set up in addition to the few fire rifle clubs. The Zimmerstutzenvereine, also in Schwandorf, merged on October 30, 1898 to form the "Oberpfälzer Zimmerstutzenverband".

These two rifle associations existed side by side. The large caliber shooters of the "Oberpfälzer Schützenbund" orientated themselves more towards the rifle associations of the German Reich and belonged to the "Deutsche Schützenbund" founded in Gotha in 1861, while the "Oberpfälzer Zimmerstutzenverband" increasingly turned to the small-caliber shooting and was more oriented towards the Zimmerstutzschützen of the southern German area . The Zimmerstutzenschützen took on the name "Oberpfälzer Schützenverband" in 1931.

In the 3rd Reich, the umbrella organizations and all rifle clubs were dissolved in the Upper Palatinate as well in 1933 as part of the harmonization. Shooting continued, but within state-controlled structures and with the aim of pre-military training.

When after the Second World War it was possible to gradually start rebuilding sports clubs and later even shooting sports clubs and the desire for sporting competitions grew beyond the club level, the Schwandorf "carpenter" Josef Kellner from the Tell-Schützen and the Amberger Karl Leberecht, created it. to move many Upper Palatinate shooting clubs to re-establish an Upper Palatinate association. And they also managed, as in the German Shooting Band, that the shooters of all shooting sports united on June 25, 1950 in Schwandorf to form the "Oberpfälzer Schützenbund". The "Oberpfälzer Schützenbund" is the first re-established regional association in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Since Heinrich Brotzler from the Munich Main Rifle Society, who was very deserving as the driving force behind the German shooting scene, found it very difficult to unite the other Bavarian shooters, the BSSB was later created and later joined the DSB. As a result, there are two independent shooting associations in Bavaria. But it also means that Bavaria is represented in the DSB with two associations and therefore has special weight.

Performance center Pfreimd

In 1978, the then President of the OSB, Willi Sieber, and state sports director Georg Kraus made it clear that the OSB needed a performance center to improve its performance and to properly conduct championships and competitions as well as shooting and trainer courses.

Immediately afterwards, an agreement was reached with the city of Pfreimd on a plot of land and the core of the plant was built in a first construction phase (1982–1985) at a total cost of 2.3 million DM. In 1991, in the second construction phase, the outdoor facilities for the 50 m KK disciplines and the training rooms were added. The cost was almost DM 1.5 million.

In 1991 the OSB office was relocated from the previously rented rooms in Schwandorf to the high-performance center in Pfreimd.

Since in 1999 the air pressure levels, which were still equipped with manual pull systems, were in need of repair and no longer up-to-date, the Presidium decided to convert all systems of the high-performance center to state-of-the-art electronic shot value recording at a cost of around DM 500,000.

Since 2000 there have been 44 systems for air rifles (10 m electronic), 10 systems for small bore rifles (50 m electronic), 12 systems for league competitions (10 m electronic), 12 systems for room nozzles (15 m electronic), 6 standard systems in the shooting hall for arched hall (10 m / 18 m / 30 m) and in the outdoor areas 27 systems for small-scale disciplines (50 m electronic).

The systems are fully accepted by the shooters and can also be used by every member of the OSB. The Pfreimd performance center has an excellent reputation as a competition venue in the DSB's shooting sport.

In order to enable the OSB to hold competitions in all disciplines, the largest shooting association in the OSB, the "Königlich Privierte Feuerschützengesellschaft 1434 Amberg", provides its 30 pistol stands (25 m) and their 50 and 100 m stands.

Since the center of excellence is also a shooting school and the OSB has been authorized to train shooting controllers and technical instructors since 1989, more than 500 technical instructors have now been trained in all specialist areas. For years, OSB members have also been working as referees in the national and international arena right up to European championships, world championships and Olympics.

tasks

The purpose of the OSB, as a regional association, is to unite the Upper Palatinate shooting associations while maintaining their independence and thereby promoting, representing and safeguarding common interests.

The OSB performs the following tasks in particular:

  • Care and promotion of shooting sports
  • Promotion of youth and young talent
  • Organization of shooting sports events and competitions
  • Training
  • Preservation of functional Schützengaue
  • Administration, maintenance and expansion of the Pfreimd performance center
  • Publication of the association magazine "Oberpfälzer Schützenzeitung" and maintenance of the website

Significant members of the OSB

Anton Kuchenreuter († April 11, 2009)

  • President of the OSB (1984–1993)
  • Honorary President (1993–2009)
  • Owner of the company that has been known throughout Europe for centuries for its handguns made with exceptional craftsmanship

Hans Kowar († October 20, 2003)

  • Member of the full board of the DSB (1957–1979)
  • DSB national sports director (1967–1979)
  • Honorary member of the DSB
  • 32 years chairman of the judges' commission of the ISSF. In this capacity he took part in eight Olympic Games.

Max Mückl

  • National Sports Director of the DSB
  • Chairman of the Technical Committee of the International Shooting Federation (ISSF)
  • OSB honorary member
  • DSB honorary member

Web links

Commons : Oberpfälzer Schützenbund  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the office of the Upper Palatinate Schützenbund, Pfreimd - Members' Report March 2018
  2. ↑ Hanns Peter Oechsner, The History of the OSB (2012)