Swiss Gymnastics Federation

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Swiss Gymnastics Federation
STV logo
Founded 1832
Place of foundation Aarau
president Erwin Grossenbacher
societies 3,000
Members approx. 370,000
Homepage www.stv-fsg.ch

The Swiss Gymnastics Association (STV) is the umbrella organization of the cantonal / regional associations and gymnastics clubs . Its seat is in Aarau . He is also a member of the Swiss Olympic Association .

The Swiss Gymnastics Federation (STV), founded in 1985, has around 370,000 members and is not only the largest multi-sport association in Switzerland, but also the oldest. With its predecessor associations - the Federal Gymnastics Association ETV (founded in 1832) and the Swiss Women's Gymnastics Association (SFTV) (founded in 1908) - it can look back on a long tradition.

The STV has been committed to the health of the population for 180 years. The varied offer for all ages, the joy of movement and the fun of gymnastics, motivates and connects. The STV promotes competitive sports ( gymnastics , rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline ) as well as popular sports ( aerobics , gymnastics , Gymnastics , Athletics , National Gymnastics , Rhönrad , Fistball , Indiaca , netball , volleyball and gymnastics ).

The STV is divided into 30 member associations.

Surname

  • French: Fédération suisse de gymnastique (FSG)
  • Italian: Federazione svizzera di ginnastica (FSG)
  • Romansh: Federaziun svizra da gimnastica (FSG)
  • English: Swiss Gymnastics Federation (FSG)

history

ETV logo

The gymnastics , which originated in Prussia from national and ethnic motifs under Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , found its way to Switzerland at the beginning of the 19th century . In particular, students of the Zofingerverein practiced gymnastics in their associations. As a result of the gymnastics ban issued in the area of ​​the German federal government in 1820, a number of gymnasts emigrated to Switzerland, where they found a job at secondary schools (Chur, Lucerne, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Hofwil , Geneva) and thus spread the gymnastics system (see demagogue persecution ). Gradually, however, non-academic gymnastics clubs emerged, so that the annual gatherings of the "Zofingers" were no longer sufficient. In the course of the liberal July Revolution of 1830 in France, the gymnastics clubs existing in Switzerland merged to form the Federal Gymnastics Club (ETV) on the occasion of the first Federal Gymnastics Festival in 1832.

Although the purpose of the association was not yet specified in the first statutes, the gymnastics, singers and rifle clubs were places of political “mass movements”. The cadre of the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland was able to mobilize its liberal-minded base here, which advocated the establishment of the federal state. This was in complete contradiction to self-declared political neutrality. The unification of Catholic gymnasts outside the ETV in the Swiss Catholic Gymnastics Club (today Sports Union) in 1918 and the splitting off of the proletarian gymnasts from the bourgeois national ETV as well as their association in the Swiss Workers prove that this was not the case until the Second World War -Turn- und Sportverband (SATUS) in 1922. Even the purpose of the association in the statutes valid in 1907, with reference to the “national […] education of Swiss youth”, does not reveal a politically neutral stance from today's perspective.

The revolution that was successful in Switzerland in 1848 (see Sonderbund War , foundation of the Swiss federal state) not only prevailed the liberal basic values ​​(see European revolutions 1848/1849 ). The ETV advanced to a real “competence center” for the state through its gymnastics know-how in questions of physical education. In order to implement the compulsory gymnastics lessons for boys at elementary schools as preparation for the military in 1874, the Federal Council set up the Federal Gymnastics Commission (ETK), a personal advisory body in which mainly representatives of the gymnastics club (e.g. the Swiss gymnastics father Johann Niggeler ) and gymnastics teachers came into being Took a seat. In addition, there was not only close personal ties between the ETV and the Gymnastics Commission, but also between the ETV and the Swiss Gymnastics Teachers Association (STLV, today the Swiss Association for Sport in Schools ). As a result, the gymnasts saw themselves as an essential "pillar of the state".

The increasing popularity of the sporting competition idea at the beginning of the 20th century presented the ETV with major problems. On the one hand, it was contrary to the national ideology of gymnasts and, on the other hand, sport in particular was able to win over young people (see history of sport ). In 1920 the ETV canceled participation in the Olympic Games in protest of the Welschen gymnasts, but four years later it had to bow to the popularity verdict and send a team to Paris. For the same reasons, joining the International Gymnastics Federation ( Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique ) only took place after many years of rejection in 1921.

The competitive pressure of sport caused the ETV to expand its gymnastics program at the same time (athletics, small and large games such as " ball-over-the-string " and handball were introduced in the 1910s and 1920s), which is why it was introduced in the 1920s of the club came to an argument between the gymnast, who felt threatened by the changes, and the athletes. As a result of this dispute, two sub-associations were founded: the Federal Artistic Gymnastics Association and the Federal Athletics Association. In 1971, the Swiss Athletics Association merged with the Swiss Amateur Athletics Association in the Swiss Athletics Association, which emerged in 1958 from the splitting of the Swiss Football and Athletics Association into footballers, who were henceforth represented by the Swiss Football Association, and athletics, on. In addition, gymnastics had to open up to women, which is why the Swiss Women's Gymnastics Association was founded as a sub-association in 1908. This step is also to be assessed as a reaction to the emancipation of women, since the protegation of women’s gymnastics not only had to adapt the gymnastics program for physiological and therefore health reasons to the “deficient” female physique (see eugenics ), but especially to equality in gymnastics Could be stopped (there was an official ban on gymnasts until the 1970s).

The popularity of sport in the first half of the 20th century led to the founding of a number of sports clubs, the expansion of the Federal Gymnastics Commission to become a gymnastics and sports commission and the inclusion of sports games (especially football) in the school curriculum. With this development, the ETV lost its former "monopoly in education through physical exercise". Due to the increasing militarization in the 1930s and in the first half of the 1940s, the ETV was able to expand its position in society again in the short term, but this did not change the long-term development (there was hope that it would become compulsory military pre-instruction would have come, which would then have carried out the ETV in particular - in 1942 this idea was rejected by the Swiss people in a referendum vote ).

After the Second World War, gymnastics was "sold". Gymnastics, or apparatus gymnastics, was increasingly viewed as one sport among many. This development also offered new opportunities that the club knew how to use. By relieving tension in sports, he was able to relax and turn to top-class and popular sports. This was necessary because of the social changes in the post-war era. Because the “consumer society” led to the commercialization and professionalization of sport, as well as to the emergence of more and more leisure activities, against which the ETV had to assert itself. It was precisely this competition in the leisure market that made Turner innovative. Today aerobics and health sports are just as much a part of the "gymnastics program" as apparatus gymnastics and athletics. In the course of this development it seems to be only logical that in 1985 the ETV and the women's gymnastics association merged to form the Swiss Gymnastics Association (STV) and the gymnasts thereby rose to become equal partners. In the period after the Second World War, the gymnastics club, or the gymnastics association, was able to secure its permanent place in the Swiss sports landscape as a multi-sport mass sports organization and celebrated its 175th birthday in 2007.

National team 2019

Gymnastics

Men

Women

trampoline

  • Fanny Chilo
  • Simon Progin

Medal winner at Olympic Games, World and European Championships

Artistic gymnastics, men

Olympic games World championships European championships
Pablo Brägger (STV Oberbüren) 2017: 1st (horizontal bar)

2015: 3rd (floor)

Oliver Hegi (STV Lenzburg) 2018: 1st (horizontal bar)

2018: 3rd (bars)

2017: 2nd (horizontal bar)

Christian Baumann (STV Lenzburg) 2016: 3rd (horse)

2015: 2nd (bars)

Lucas Fischer (STV Lenzburg) 2013: 2nd (bars)
Christoph Schärer (TV Gäziwil) 2006: 3rd (horizontal bar)

2004: 3rd (horizontal bar)

Dieter Rehm (TV Saturdayern) 1999: 3rd (jump) 1998: 3 (jump)

1996: 2nd (jump)

Donghua Li (BTV Lucerne) 1996: 1st (pommel horse) 1996: 2nd (pommel horse)

1995: 1st (pommel horse)

1994: 3rd (pommel horse)

1996: 1st (horse)
Daniel Giubellini (TV Miles) 1990: 1st (bars)
René Plüss (TV Glarus Old Section) 1990: 2nd (horizontal bar)
Sepp Zellweger (St. Margrethen) 1983: 3rd (rings)
Roland Hürzeler (BTV Lucerne) 1971: 3rd (horizontal bar)
Ernst Fivian (BTV Lucerne) 1961: 3rd (jump)

1959: 1st (bottom)

1959: 3rd (jump)

Max Benker (Old Section Zurich) 1957: 3rd (all-around)

1957: 2nd (horse)

1957: 3rd (bars)

Jack Günthard (TV ZH Neumünster, STV Luzern, Männedorf) 1952: 1st (horizontal bar) 1957: 1st (parallel bars & bars)
Josef Stalder (BTV Lucerne) 1952: 3rd (Twelve Fight)

1952: 3rd (bars)

1952: 2nd (horizontal bar)

1948: 1st (horizontal bar)

1948: 3rd (bars)

1954: 2nd (parallel bars & pommel horse)

1950: 1st (free exercise, pommel horse & floor)

1950: 3rd (horizontal bar)

Walter Lehmann (Richterswil) 1948: 2nd (Twelve Fight)

1948: 2nd (horizontal bar)

1950: 1st (all around & rings)

1950: 3rd (jump, horizontal bar & pommel horse)

Karl Frei (TV Regensdorf) 1948: 1st (rings)
Marcel Adatte (Old Section Zurich) 1950: 2nd (all around & pommel horse)
Ernst Gebedinger (Winterthur-Hegi) 1950: 1st (floor & jump)
Hans Eugster (BTV Lucerne) 1952: 1st (bars)

1952: 3rd (rings)

1950: 1st (bars)

1950: 3rd (rings)

Christian Kipfer 1948: 3rd (bars)
Eugen Mack (Basel citizen) 1936: 2nd (Twelve Fight)

1936: 3rd (floor)

1936: 2nd (horse jump)

1936: 2nd (pommel horse)

1928: 1st (horse jump)

1928: 3rd (horizontal bar)

1938: 3rd (all-around)

1938: 1st (jump)

1938: 2nd (floor)

1934: 1st (all around, pommel horse, jump & parallel bars)

1934: 2nd (floor)

1934: 3rd (horizontal bar)

Michael Reusch (Bern resident) 1948: 2nd (rings)

1948: 1st (bars)

1936: 2nd (bars)

1938: 1st (parallel bars, horizontal bar & pommel horse)

1938: 3rd (rings)

Walter Beck 1938: 2nd (jump & horizontal bar)
Hans Nägeli 1938: 2nd (jump)
Leo Schürmann (TV Zurich Neumünster) 1938: 3rd (pommel horse)
Giorgio (Georges) Miez (Chiasso, TV Töss) 1936: 1st (bottom)

1932: 2nd (floor)

1928: 1st (10-fight)

1928: 2nd (pommel horse)

1928: 1st (horizontal bar)

1934: 1st (bottom)

1934: 2nd (horizontal bar)

Eduard Steinemann (Flawil) 1934: 2nd (pommel horse & jump)
Josef Walter (Old Section Zurich) 1936: 2nd (floor) 1934: 2nd (bars)
Albert Bachmann (BTV Lucerne) 1936: 3rd (pommel horse)
Walter Bach (Old Section Zurich) 1934: 3rd (bars)
Hermann Hänggi (Burgdorf citizen) 1928: 1st (pommel horse)

1928: 3rd (bars)

August Güttinger (Veltheim) 1924: 1st (bars)

1924: 3rd (rope hanging)

Jean Gutweniger (Arbon) 1924: 2nd (horizontal bar & pommel horse)
Josef Wilhelm (Chur citizen) 1924: 1st (pommel horse)
Antoine Rebetez (La Chaux-de-Fonds) 1924: 3rd (pommel horse)
Adolf Spinnler (Liestal) 1904: 3rd (6-fight)

1904: 1st (three-way fight)

Louis Zutter (Neuchâtel) 1896: 2nd (parallel bars & horse jump)

1896: 1st (pommel horse)

Team ratings

Olympic games World championships European championships
2016 3. (Christian Baumann, Pablo Brägger, Benjamin Gischard, Oliver Hegi, Eddy Yusof)
1954 3.
1952 2. (Josef Stalder, Hans Eugster, Jean Tschabold, Jack Günthard, Melchior Thalmann, Ernst Gebendinger, Hans Schwarzentruber, Ernst Fivian)
1950 1. (Josef Stalder, Walter Lehmann, Marcel Adatte, Ernst Gebedinger, Hans Eugster)
1948 2. (Walter Lehmann, Josef Stalder, Christian Kipfer, Emil Studer, Robert Lucy, Michael Reusch, Melchior Thalmann, Karl Frei)
1938 2. (Eugen Mack, Michael Reusch, Leo Schürmann, Walter Beck, Hans Nägeli)
1936 2. (Eugen Mack, Michael Reusch, Edi Steinemann, Walter Bach, Albert Bachmann, Georges Miez, Josef Walter, Walter Beck)
1934 1. (Eugen Mack, Giorgio Miez, Eduard Steinemann, Josef Walter, Walter Bach)
1928 1. (Georges Miez, Hermann Hänggi, Eugen Mack, Melchior Wezel, Edi Steinemann, August Güttinger, Hans Grieder, Otto Pfister)
1924 3. (August Güttinger, Jean Gutweniger, Hans Grieder, Georges Miez, Josef Wilhelm, Otto Pfister, Carl Widmer, Antoine Rebetez)

Artistic gymnastics, women

Olympic games World championships European championships
Giulia Steingruber (TZ Fürstenland, TV Gossau) 2016: 3rd (jump) 2017: 3rd (jump) 2016: 1st (jump & ground)

2015: 1st (all-around)

2015: 2nd (jump)

2015: 3rd (floor)

2014: 1st (jump)

2014: 3rd (floor)

2013: 1st (jump)

2012: 3rd (jump)

Ariella Kaeslin (BTV Luzern) 2009: 2nd (jump) 2011: 3rd (jump)

2009: 3rd (all-around)

2009: 1st (jump)

trampoline

Olympic games World championships European championships
2014 3. Nicolas Schori / Simon Progin (men, dubbing)
2007 3. Michel Boillet / Ludovic Martin (men, dubbing)
2005 2. Michel Boillet / Ludovic Martin (men, dubbing)
1992 1. Ruth Keller, TV Mollis (women, singles)
1986 2. Ruth Schumann-Keller, TV Mollis (women, singles)
1984 2. Ruth Schumann-Keller, TV Mollis (women, singles)
1982 1. Ruth Keller, TV Mollis (women, singles)

3. Jörg Roth / Bernhard Stadelmann (men, dubbing)

1981 2. Ruth Keller, TV Mollis (women, singles)
1980 1. Ruth Keller, TV Mollis (women, singles)
1979 1. Ruth Keller, TV Mollis (women, singles)
1978 2. Gerhard Gass / Jörg Roth (men, dubbing)

3. Ruth Keller / Edith Zaugg (women, dubbing)

1976 3. Ruth Keller (women, singles)
1973 2. Ruth Keller, TV Mollis (women, singles)
1971 2. Urs Bächler / Roland Otzenberger (men, dubbing)
1970 3. Kurt Höhener / Victor Pircher (men, dubbing)
1969 2. Kurt Höhener, Basel (men, singles)

2. Kurt Höhener / Victor Pircher (men, dubbing)

1967 2. Kurt Höhener / Rolf Maurer (men, dubbing)

Zurlinden Villa

The Zurlinden Villa - STV office in Aarau

The office of the Swiss Gymnastics Federation in the Villa Zurlinden in Aarau is the administrative and organizational hub of the association. Around 40 employees (including three apprentices) work at the STV office.

The late classicist “Villa in front of the city”, built in the mid-19th century, is located at Bahnhofstrasse 38 (formerly Landstrasse) in Aarau. Behind the simple gray facade of the former villa of the cement baron Friedrich Rudolf Zurlinden (1851–1932) hides lordly splendor: richly carved wall panels and stairs and large-scale stained glass.

The middle section of today's “Turnerheim” was built between 1850 and 1860. The interior was built in around the turn of the century. After Zurlinden moved away from Aarau, the house was bequeathed to the city of Aarau. However, the foundation was linked to the condition that the Federal Gymnastics Association (since 1985 the Swiss Gymnastics Federation) be granted a lifelong right of use. After the house was donated to the Federal Gymnastics Club in 1928, it was symmetrically expanded with side extensions. In 1963 the house was listed as a historical monument.

The Swiss Gymnastics Federation has resided in the former Zurlinden villa since 1930. Around 500 meetings are held annually in the three conference rooms. Between summer 2016 and summer 2017 the villa was completely renovated.

Events of the Swiss Gymnastics Federation

Federal Gymnastics Festival (ETF)

The Federal Gymnastics Festival is the largest multi-sport sports event in Switzerland and takes place every six years. The first Federal Gymnastics Festival took place in Aarau in 1832.

Swiss Cup Zurich

The Swiss Cup Zurich is a pair competition in artistic gymnastics. The Swiss Cup Zurich took place for the first time in 1982. Eight couples competed at the premiere. In the early years, the competition was a “must” for the gymnastics specialists. The Swiss Cup Zurich has now become a fixed date for many sports fans and has also established itself as a top event in gymnastics known worldwide. The team competition in the elimination system is not only an attractive and easy-to-understand form of competition for the “gymnastics professional”, but also for the layperson. After the competition took place in the Saalsporthalle in Zurich for the first few years , the competition moved to the Hallenstadion in 2006 . Since then, the competition has taken place annually in one of the largest multi-purpose halls in Europe.

Gymotion

The Gymotion is a gymnastics show in which the best gymnastics clubs in the country present themselves to a large audience. The performances of the respective clubs are accompanied by live music. The Gymotion is a symbiosis of the highest level of gymnastics and great live music. With a lot of glamor and entertainment, around 400 gymnasts from all over Switzerland prove that club gymnastics is anything but boring and dusty. The show takes place in the Hallenstadion in Zurich.

literature

  • Bohus, Julius, Sports History. Society and sport from Mycenae to today, Munich 1986.
  • Eichenberger, Lutz, The Federal Sports Commission 1874-1997. A contribution to federal sports policy, Thun 1998.
  • Eidgenössischer Turnverein (Ed.), Eidgenössischer Turnverein 1832-1932. Anniversary publication published on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. A review of the years 1907–1932, Zurich 1933.
  • Eidgenössischer Turnverein (ed.), Commemorative publication for the 75th anniversary of the Eidgenössischer Turnverein 1832-1907, Zurich 1907.
  • Herzog, Eva, Frisch, frank, happy, woman. Women's gymnastics in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. A contribution to the social history of popular sport, Liestal 1995.
  • Hotz, Arturo (ed.), 125 years in the service of school gymnastics 1858–1983, Stäfa 1983.
  • Hartmut Kaelble , Social History of Europe. 1945 to the present, Munich 2007.
  • Kern, Stefan, gymnastics for the fatherland and health. The Federal Gymnastics Association and its views on school gymnastics, voluntary preliminary lessons and club gymnastics 1900-1930, Norderstedt 2009. ISBN 978-3-640-46240-7
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  • Krebs, Andreas, How sport got into the Swiss Federal Gymnastics Club. Athletics as a bridge between gymnastics and sport 1920–1936. Unpublished diploma thesis on obtaining the Federal Gymnastics and Sports Teacher's Diploma II at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich 2003.
  • Lamprecht, Markus, Sport between culture, cult and commerce, Zurich 2002.
  • Leimgruber, Walter , “Fresh, pious, happy, free: The Federal Gymnastics Festivals in the 20th Century”, in: Schader, Basil / Leimgruber, Walter (ed.), Festgenossen. On the nature and function of federal association festivals, Basel 1993, pp. 11-104.

Web links

Commons : Swiss Championship Artistic Gymnastics Juniors 2019  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gruner, Erich , The parties in Switzerland , Bern (2) 1977, p. 81 f.
  2. ^ Festschrift for the 75th anniversary, 1907, p. 2, appendix.
  3. ↑ Hans-Dieter Gerber: Niggeler, Johannes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 16, 2008 , accessed June 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Kern, Stefan, gymnastics for the fatherland and health. The Federal Gymnastics Association and its views on school gymnastics, voluntary preliminary lessons and gymnastics in clubs 1900-1930 , Norderstedt 2009. ISBN 978-3-640-46240-7 , p. 32.
  5. ↑ Leimgruber, Walter , "Fresh, pious, cheerful, free: The Federal Gymnastics Festivals in the 20th Century" , in: Schader, Basil / Leimgruber, Walter (ed.), Festgenossen. On the nature and function of federal association festivals, Basel 1993, p. 100.
  6. ↑ Kern, Stefan, gymnastics for the fatherland and health. The Federal Gymnastics Club and its views on school gymnastics, voluntary preliminary lessons and gymnastics in clubs 1900-1930 , Norderstedt 2009. ISBN 978-3-640-46240-7 , p. 46.