Oberwesel resolutions
With the Oberwesel resolutions of September 21, 1952, the German Sports Confederation broke off German-German sports traffic and thus all German sports events.
The trigger for this was the rumor that all West Berlin athletes traveling to the East Zone should fill out a questionnaire to provide information about whether the addresses of athletes who had fled from the East were known, as well as about their own wages and employers. Based on the incident reported, the DSB decided at a meeting in Oberwesel on September 21, 1952 to break off German-German sports traffic.
The allegation later turned out to be untrue: A member of the West Berlin soccer club Südwest had been questioned about refugees by the people's police when he picked up his pass and had reported this incident to West Berlin soccer president Paus Rusch. Rusch forwarded the incident to the West Berlin Sports Association, which then reported this to the DSB. In the course of the courts, however, a survey had become a general survey of all athletes. After negotiations in Berlin in December 1952, the resolutions were overturned and the DSB and the German Sports Committee agreed on intensive cooperation.
literature
- Jutta Braun, Hans Joachim Teichler (Hrsg.): Sports city Berlin in the Cold War: Prestige fights and system competition . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin, p. 90f ( online at Google Books )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b East-West Contract: A bad defeat , Der Spiegel , 52/1952, accessed on 21 November 2018