Swiss Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association

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Swiss Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association
SATUS Switzerland
SATUS logo
Founded 1874
president Christian Vifian
societies 250
Members 25,000
Homepage www.satus.ch

The Swiss Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association (SATUS) is a popular sports association that emerged from the Swiss labor movement.

history

Grütliturnen

The origins of Swiss workers' sport can be traced back to the Grütliverein , which was founded in 1838 as the first political organization for the workers, aimed to transform society in an evolutionary way and, in addition to promoting social progress, also wanted to promote patriotic and democratic consciousness among workers. A central concern of the Grütliverein, which initially mainly consisted of small craftspeople, was education. As early as the 1860s, numerous sections of the Grütliverein led so-called "gymnastics classes", from which actual gymnastics sections soon emerged. The first workers gymnastics club was founded in Lausanne in 1866.

On September 6, 1874, a central association of the Grütliturn clubs was founded. Its purpose article was little class warfare, the aim of the association was "to care for the maintenance and dissemination of the noble gymnastics among the working class in order to give the Grütliverein a new support and the fatherland more and more capable forces". In 1875 the association had 10 sections with 200 members, in 1882 it had 15 sections with 430 members. A large number of the Grütliturn clubs were also affiliated with the Swiss Federal Gymnastics Association (ETV).

After the turn of the century, there was a break with the bourgeois gymnasts, who had repeatedly sided with the strike opponents in labor disputes. From 1911, most of the Grütliturn sections resigned from the cantonal gymnastics clubs and thus from the ETV. In 1914, the delegates' assembly and, in a ballot, the members decided to generally leave the cantonal gymnastics clubs. In May 1917, the Grütliturner passed new statutes at an extraordinary meeting of delegates and constituted themselves as the "Swiss Workers' Gymnastics Association". At the same time, a "workers' sports association" was formed.

Growth and crises in the interwar period

In 1922/23 the gymnastics association and sports association merged to form the Swiss Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association (SATUS). Its purpose article differed significantly from that of the former Grütliturner, as it provided "with the help of the proletarian parties to educate its members spiritually and to get into close contact with working class gymnastics and sports associations in other countries". Accordingly, SATUS became a member of the Socialist Workers' Sports International .

The number of members increased rapidly in the 1920s, from 4,531 in 1917 to 11,004 in 1920 and 16,654 in 1925 to 25,122 in 1930. Then the membership stagnated until 1945 at around 24,000 .

Since the early twenties there have been independent SATUS championships in various disciplines, in which the idea of ​​competition, viewed as capitalist and militaristic, was to be curbed by the orientation towards socialist ideals. Through the physical training, broad sections of the population should be prepared for life in a future socialist society. Gender equality in gymnastics and sport was also an important concern of the SATUS. SATUS had a strong presence on the international stage, for example by participating in the Workers ' Olympics in 1925, 1931 and 1937, the European Workers' Football Championship in 1932/34 and the 1937 People's Olympics .

In the disputes between Social Democrats and Communists, the SATUS initially remained officially neutral, although there was cooperation with the Social Democratic Party from the start . In 1929 the SATUS gave up its neutrality between the rival workers' parties and officially declared its support for social democracy. In the course of the following confrontations, among others, all western Swiss and - with one exception - Baselers as well as a large part of the eastern Swiss football clubs, a total of 29 sections, were excluded from the association. The violated sections then founded a "Combat for Red Sports Unit", based on the German model, which worked closely with the small Swiss Communist Party and whose football teams held their own championship as the "Swiss Workers' Football Association". The “Fédération Romande des Sports Ouvriers” was founded in western Switzerland. In 1931, together with various other workers 'culture and leisure organizations, SATUS founded the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Schweizerischer Arbeiter-Sport- und-Kulturorganisations (ASASK)”, which saw itself as the third pillar of the social democratic workers' movement alongside the party and trade unions .

After a smear campaign by the Swiss Patriotic Association, the federal councils withdrew the federal subsidies from SATUS in 1933. The crisis situation led to a concentration of forces: in 1935 the "Fédération Romande des Sports Ouvriers" rejoined the SATUS, and in the following year the red sports clubs also returned to the SATUS. Also in 1936, SATUS committed itself to national military defense and was then re-accepted into the group of organizations entitled to subsidies. In 1939 the SATUS was accepted into the Swiss National Association for Physical Exercise (SLL).

The upswing and creeping decline of the post-war period

In 1946, the first post-war gymnastics festival of the SATUS was held in Basel. In the first five years after the war, the membership grew rapidly from around 24,000 to over 35,000. In 1948 a SATUS national soccer league was founded, which only existed until the 1956/57 season. Still based on the principle of promoting the ideas of workers' sport, the ideological goals gradually lost their importance due to social and societal change. The SATUS has become a recognized partner in Swiss sports. From 1959, it was possible to take part in performance-oriented competitions such as world and European championships as well as the Olympic Games . Cooperation agreements have been made with various national sports associations. In 1994 the SATUS gave up its political ties and defined itself as an independent mass sports association.

Todays situation

Today, the association is a politically, economically and denominationally independent sports association that provides all members with an active range of leisure activities in popular sports, regardless of their social situation and political attitude. The association consists of 250 associations with around 25,000 members. In addition to traditional gymnastics, new offers have been created especially for young people (floorball, rope skipping) in recent years. Swissfit, a new sports organization for lifetime sports, wellness and health, emerged in 2005 from closer cooperation with other sports associations.

Gymnastics festivals

No. date place poster
01 July 10-12, 1920 Lucerne link
02 August 4-6, 1923 Zurich DE & FR
03 August 7-9, 1926 Bern link
04th June 27-29, 1930 Aarau link
05 July 20-22, 1934 Lucerne link
06th August 6-7, 1938 Biel link
07th July 19-21, 1946 Basel link
08th July 1-3, 1950 Lausanne DE & FR
09 July 10-11, 1954 Winterthur link
10 July 5-6, 1958 Bern DE & FR
11 June 16-17, 1962 Lucerne link
12 June 25-26, 1966 Zurich link
13 June 19-21, 1970 Schaffhausen Link 1 & 2
14th June 22-23, 1974 Bern link
15th June 23-24, 1979 Zurich link
16 June 25-26, 1983 Basel link
17th June 14, 1987 Wil SG
18th June 11-13, 1993 train
19th June 25-27, 1999 Bern
20th June 17-19, 2005 Olten
June 15-17, 2007 Rothrist
June 19-21, 2009 Oberentfelden
June 18-20, 2010 Schaffhausen logo Memento
June 24-26, 2011 Kriens link
June 22-24, 2012 Gümlingen
June 20-22, 2014 Gränichen / Suhr AG link Meneto
June 19-21, 2015 Freiburg
38 June 23-25, 2017 Koeniz link Memento

List of the first 20 festivals:

Regional

region No. date place poster
Kanton Aargau ? June 24-25, possibly July 1-2, 1933 Lenzburg link
Kanton Aargau ? 1935 Wettingen
Kanton Aargau ? 1939 Brugg
Kanton Aargau ? 1944 Möriken
Kanton Aargau ? 1947 Unterulm
Kanton Aargau ? 1949 Brugg
Kanton Aargau ? 1951 Oberentfelden
Kanton Aargau ? 1953 Niederlenz
Kanton Aargau ? 1955 Castle
Kanton Aargau ? 1957 Oftringen
Kanton Aargau ? 1959 Möriken
Kanton Aargau ? 1961 Gontenschwil
Kanton Aargau ? 1963 Niederlenz
Kanton Aargau ? 1965 Rothrist
Kanton Aargau ? 1967 Oftringen
Kanton Aargau ? 1969 Möriken
Kanton Aargau ? 1985 Lenzburg
Kanton Aargau ? 1991 Oftringen
Kanton Aargau ? 1996 Rothrist
Kanton Aargau ? 1997 Brugg
Kanton Aargau ? 2001 Aarburg
Kanton Aargau ? June 21-22, 2003 Oftringen
Canton of Basel ? 1942 Basel
Canton Bern 09 June 22-23, 1968 Biel link
Canton Bern ? 1972 Burgdorf
Canton Bern 12 June 20-21, 1981 Bümpliz link
Canton Bern ? 1985 Langenthal
Canton Bern ? 1989 Gümligen
Canton Bern ? June 21-23, 2002 Steffisburg
Canton Bern ? June 9-11, 2008 Interlaken
Canton Bern ? June 20-22, 2008 Langenthal
Eastern Switzerland 12 July 12-13, 1952 Schaffhausen link
Eastern Switzerland 13 July 14-15, 1956 Neuhausen am Rheinfall link
Eastern Switzerland 14th July 2-3, 1960 Dietikon link
Eastern Switzerland ? 1990 Winterthur
Canton Zurich 02 June 13, 20, 1937 Wetzikon link
With sktsv 15th September 1-3, 1978 Glis link
1985 Neuhausen am Rheinfall
June 19-20, 2004 Herisau

List of the SATUS Rothrist:

literature

  • Walter Aeschimann: On the history of the Swiss Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association in the 1920s. Licentiate thesis . University of Zurich, 1987.
  • Robert Bolz: 70 years of the Swiss workers gymnastics and sports movement. Zurich 1944.
  • Bernd Dannenmaier: The history of the Swiss Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association (SATUS) from its foundation in 1874 to its 100th anniversary in 1974. Diploma thesis . Sports University Cologne, 1974.
  • Kurt Düby: The development of the gymnastics and sports movement in Switzerland. In: Red Review. 7, 1927, pp. 90-96.
  • Dominique Marcel Fankhauser: The workers sports movement in Switzerland 1874-1947: Contributions to the social question in sport. LIT, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-80061-9 .
  • A brief history of the Swiss workers' sport and culture movement. 1972.
  • Christian Koller : Sport, party politics and national defense: the disputes about subsidizing Swiss workers' sport in the interwar period. In: SportZeiten - Sport in history, culture and society. 3/2, 2003, pp. 31-71.
  • Christian Koller: "Sport as an end in itself is one of the saddest chapters in bourgeois sport history" - changes and constants in the self-image of Swiss workers' sport (1922–1940). In: Hans-Jörg Gilomen , Beatrice Schumacher , Laurent Tissot (eds.): Leisure and pleasure from the 14th to the 20th century - Temps libre et loisirs du 14e au 20e siècle. Chronos, Zurich 2005, pp. 287-301.
  • Christian Koller: A national team that didn't want to be - the national selection of workers' footballers. In: Beat Jung (Ed.): The Nati: The History of the Swiss National Football Team. Werkstatt-Verlag, Göttingen 2006, pp. 324-332.
  • Christian Koller: Kicking under hammer and sickle - the forgotten history of the Swiss Workers' Football Association (1930–1936). In: Dittmar Dahlmann, Anke Hilbrenner, Britta Lenz (eds.): The ball is round everywhere - The second half: On the history and present of football in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Klartext, Essen 2008, pp. 241–267.
  • Christian Koller: Swiss Workers' Movement Sport: Sources and Research . In: Busset, Thomas, Michael Jucker and Christian Koller (eds.): Sports history in Switzerland: Status and perspectives - Histoire du sport en Suisse: Etat des lieux et perspectives (= Réflexions sportives , Vol. 10). Neuchâtel: Editions CIES 2019. pp. 35–54.
  • Arnd Krüger , James Riordan (Ed.): The Story of Worker Sport. Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL 1996, ISBN 0-87322-874-X .
  • Marco Marcacci: Il était une fois le sport ouvrier: L'évolution du SATUS depuis la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. In: Cahiers d'histoire du mouvement ouvrier. 18, 2002, pp. 11-21.
  • Halevi Olin (Ed.): Sport, Peace and Development. International Worker Sport. 1913-2013. CSIT, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503593-1-2 .
  • Karl Schwaar: Isolation and Integration: Workers Culture Movement and Workers Movement Culture in Switzerland 1920–1960. Basel / Frankfurt am Main 1993.
  • Swiss Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association 1874–1964. circa 1964.
  • Fabia Wey: The Grütliturnverein as a political institution: The transformation of the association in relation to the Federal Gymnastics Club and the Swiss Grütliverein. Seminar paper . University of Zurich, 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SATUS Switzerland: Statutes (PDF)
  2. ↑ Switzerland. Workers gymnastics & sports festival Zurich. In: Poster Gallery. Guido Tön AG , accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Swiss Workers 'Gymnastics and Sports Association (ed.): Festival report and statistical tables on the 3rd Swiss Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Festival. in Bern, August 7th to 9th. 1926 . Union printing house, Bern 1927, NB : sz000815513 .
  4. ^ Aarau Swiss Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Festival. In: Poster Auctioneer. Guido Tön AG , accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ H. Tschirren: SATUS, 6th Swiss Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Festival, Biel, 6th and 7th. August 7, 1938. Swiss poster collection , 1938, accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ 7. Switzerland. Workers' gymnastics and sports festival Basel. In: Poster Gallery. Guido Tön AG , accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Status Switzerland. Workers gymnastics and sports festival in Lausanne. In: Poster Gallery. Guido Tön AG , accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  8. ↑ P. Monnerat: 8me Fête fédérale de gymnastique et de sport, SATUS, Lausanne, 1, 2, 3 juillet 1950. Swiss poster collection , 1950, accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  9. ↑ 9th Swiss Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Festival in Winterthur. In: Poster Gallery. Guido Tön AG , accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Workers' gymnastics and sports festival. In: Poster Gallery. Guido Tön AG , accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Satus Festival Lucerne Switzerland. Workers' gymnastics and sports days. In: Poster Gallery. Guido Tön AG , accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Satus Festival Zurich. In: Poster Auctioneer. Guido Tön AG , accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Sericora: Satus, Verbandsfest, 22.-23. June 1974, Bern. Swiss poster collection , 1974, accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Willi purchase iron: 15 Satus Association Festival, Zurich, Letzigrund Stadium, 23-24th June 1979. Swiss poster collection , 1979, accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  15. ↑ a b Doris Furrer: Langenthal Sports Festival June 20-22, 2008. In: http://www.satus-oberentfelden.ch/ . Sports club SATUS Oberentfelden , 2008, accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Swiss Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association. In: Finding aids. Swiss Social Archives , accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  17. ↑ H. Rippstein: Aarg. Worker Turn u. Sports day in Lenzburg, Schützenmatte fairground, 24.-25. June, possibly 1-2. July 1933. Swiss poster collection , 1933, accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  18. ↑ 9th Cantonal-Bernisches Satus-Turnfest, Biel, 22.-23. June 1968. Swiss poster collection , 1968, accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Heinz Rupp: 12th Kantonales Satus Turnfest, Bümpliz, June 20, 21, 1981. Swiss poster collection , 1981, accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Eastern Swiss workers gymnastics and sports festival Schaffhausen. In: Poster Auctioneer. Guido Tön AG , accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  21. ^ Eastern Swiss workers gymnastics and sports festival Neuhausen am Rheinfall. In: Poster Auctioneer. Guido Tön AG , accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Eastern Switzerland. Workers' gymnastics and sports festival in Dietikon. In: Poster Gallery. Guido Tön AG , accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  23. ^ II. Zurich Cantonal Workers' Gymnastics & Sports Festival, Wetzikon. In: Poster Gallery. Guido Tön AG , accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  24. ↑ 1-3. Sept., 1978, Switzerland., Nationalturntage, Glis sktsv-Satus ... Swiss poster collection , 1978, accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  25. ↑ 5 TURNFESTE 1928-2003. (PDF; 221 KB) In: Vereingeschichte 1928 2003. SATUS Rothrist , October 8, 2005, pp. 28 & 29 , accessed on July 5, 2020 .