ATB - Association for Sport, Transport and Leisure

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The ATB - Association for Sport, Transport and Leisure Time is a Swiss sports association for the sports of unicycling (indoor, outdoor, hockey and basketball ), artificial cycling and cycling . The ATB is affiliated with the Swiss Olympic Association . The seat of the association is in Bern .

history

The association was founded in 1916 when the Swiss sections of the German Workers and Cyclists Association “Solidarity” merged to form the Workers and Cyclists Association of Switzerland “Solidarity” . With the motorization one opened up to motor vehicle drivers and adopted the name Arbeiter-Touring Bund der Schweiz “Solidarity” (ATB). In the 1930s, the association had 30,000 members who, until 1962 , had to belong to either a left-wing party or a union of the Swiss Confederation of Trade Unions .

The sporting focus of the association was on indoor sports (bike ball, artificial cycling) and on the organization of touring trips . Participation in individual competitions that were perceived as bourgeois was undesirable; until 1962, participation in a bike race was a mandatory reason for exclusion. Politically, the association represented cyclists' interests vis-à-vis the authorities.

In 1995 the ATB was transformed into a modern sports association.

activity

In his core sports he organizes the Swiss cycling championships and competitions in artificial cycling in cooperation with the SESV unicycle competitions and in cooperation with Swiss Cycling .

organization

The association still has 81 sections (although there used to be more), which are organized in 4 regional associations. The association has a total of around 4500 members.

The body of the ATB is called ATB-INFO and appears quarterly.

The example of Winterthur shows that workers' sport and thus also the ATB were much more important in the past: there used to be 7 sections of the ATB in Winterthur, after the merger of the ATB Winterthur into the Radballclub Winterthur , only one section remains with the ATB Wülflingen in urban area.

literature

  • Dominique Marcel Fankhauser: The workers sports movement in Switzerland 1874-1947: Contributions to the social question in sport . Vienna etc. 2010.
  • Ernst Iseli: The ATB in the making . Bern: Union printing house 1943.
  • A brief history of the Swiss workers' sports and cultural movement , o.O. 1972.
  • Stefan Länzlinger: “Courageously without rest to our goals” - The working-class cyclists of Switzerland and their flags, in: Vexilla Helvetica 23 (2008/09). Pp. 86-106.
  • Stefan Länzlinger / Emil Dreyer: Catalog: Die Arbeiterradfahrer-Standarten des Sozialarchiv Zürich, in: Vexilla Helvetica 23 (2008/09). Pp. 107-181.
  • Thomas Zürcher: “As a bearer of a decent attitude and advocate of such a driving style”, Swiss workers and their relationship to motor vehicles in the discourse of “worker touring” . Licentiate thesis. Basel 1997.
  • Peter Berger: 100 years of ATB , anniversary publication for the association's anniversary, Bern, ATB Switzerland 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.atb.ch/de/