Combat group for red sports unit
The fighting community for Red Sports unit (short Rotsport ) was one of the Communist Party of related workers sports association in the final phase of the Weimar Republic .
The Kampfgemeinschaft (KG) came into being in 1930 through the exclusion and separation of communist forces from the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association (ATSB) and other sports groups. For example, there was also a Naturefriends opposition in the KG, in which some of the excluded Naturefriends had formed. As early as 1922, a "Reichsfraktionleitung", which followed the directives of the KPD, carried out intensive communist opposition work within the ATSB. In 1931 the KG had over 100,000 members. It was the strongest national association of the Red Sports International outside the Soviet Union. KG, ATSB and other workers' sports organizations were banned by the National Socialists in 1933.
Rotsport hosted two German soccer championships. The first championship won in 1931 by Dresdner SV 1910 3-2 on the NNW-Platz in Berlin against Sparta 1911 Berlin . Dresden started with the following line-up: Wehmann - Hanisch, Niese - Kunath, Lindner, Bergmann - Achtzig, Petruschke, Müller, Schmolka, Fabel. The following year the Free Gymnastics Association Jeßnitz won the final against BV Gelsenkirchen 8-0 in Bitterfeld . Jeßnitz played with the following team: Thran, Schüler, Olberg, Jobs, Seidlitz, Kersten, Brünning, Stephan, Finke, Riehl, Denzin. In addition, a selection of players from the KG traveled to the Soviet Union three times and played a total of 44 games there (20 wins, 10 draws, 14 defeats): Fall 1930 - 14 games (7, 3, 4), July / August 1931 - 11 games (4 , 2, 5) and autumn 1932 - 19 games (9, 5, 5).
literature
- André Gounot: The Red Sports International, 1921-1937. Communist mass politics in European workers' sport , LIT, Münster 2002.
- Oliver Kersten: The Friends of Nature movement in the Berlin-Brandenburg region 1908–1989 / 90. Continuities and breaks . (At the same time dissertation FU Berlin 2004). Berlin 2007, esp. Pp. 71 f., 89-94, 140-142, 271 f. ISBN 978-3-925311-31-4 .
- Karl-Heinz Heimann (ed.): Kicker special issue November 1999: 100 years of German football . Olympia-Verlag, Nuremberg 1999, p. 190.
- Arnd Krüger & James Riordan (Eds.) (1996). The Story of Worker Sport. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. ISBN 978-0873228749 .
- Christian Wolter : Lawn of passion. The football fields of Berlin. History and stories. Edition Else, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-036563-8 , p. 260 (statistical part).
Web links
- André Gounot: the Red Sports International 1921–1937. https://books.google.de/books?id=el4hHNid_pAC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=rote+sportinternationale&source=bl&ots=kaALw78g5V&sig=TIkLanq-OIQUT29-xISWUS_4rMU&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitv4Hepu3cAhXRccAKHbPRA9MQ6AEwAXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=rote%20sportinternationale&f=false
- Torsten Kupfer: Workers' athletes against fascism. The fighting community for red sports unit in Leipzig 1933 to 1935. (Diploma thesis)
- Ernst Thälmann : For red sports unit! Welcome address at the mass rally of revolutionary workers' athletes. ( Memento of May 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Erfurt, June 8, 1930
- Red sport in Switzerland: Call for the 1st Landesspartakiade in Zurich in 1933. Commentary on red sport in Switzerland and 4-page document from the Combat Association for Red Sport Unit Switzerland
- Workers' football in Berlin and Brandenburg 1910–1933. 1st edition. Arete Verlag, Hildesheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-942468-49-7 (with contributions by Rolf Frommhagen, Werner Skrentny and others).
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