Serbski Sokoł
The Serbski Sokoł ( German: Sorbian Falcon ) association is the umbrella organization of Sorbian sports clubs that feel connected to the goals of the Slav Sokol movement . The focus is on promoting popular sport . In addition to the cooperative members, the association also has numerous individuals. The Sorbian Sports Confederation, founded in 1993, ties in with the traditions of the Serbski Sokoł, which existed during the Weimar Republic .
Today the association organizes sports festivals and tournaments in various team sports and organizes participation in international Sokol meetings. A magazine, the Sokołske listy , is published.
history
The first Sorbian Sokoł unit (Sorb. Jednota ) was founded in Bautzen in 1920 . The model was the Czechoslovak Sokol movement. The first meeting of the Serbski Sokoł association took place in Panschwitz-Kuckau in 1924. Until 1931, more units were added almost every year in other places in the Sorbian settlement area. The first chairman of the Lausitzer Sokoł was the publicist Jan Skala . The aim of the association was to win Sorbian children, adolescents and adults to participate in sport and also to contribute to strengthening national awareness. As early as the 1920s, Sorbian athletes took part in all-Slav Sokol meetings in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia .
Parts of the Catholic clergy had reservations about the Serbski Sokoł, above all because Sorbs of both denominations came into intensive contact during sport and because the Czechoslovak Brotherhood was viewed as hostile to the church. Therefore, in 1930 the Serbski Sokoł was divided into two Sokoł associations separated by denomination.
In 1933 the Serbski Sokoł dissolved; a ban by the National Socialist government had already been prepared. The revival of the national sports association after the Second World War did not succeed. Even the GDR government did not allow a new establishment after 1949.
After the re-establishment in 1993, 100 Sorbian athletes took part in the 12th Allsokol meeting in Prague in 1994 . In 1996 the Serbski Sokoł joined the umbrella organization of Sorbian associations Domowina . It is based in the Sorbs' house on Postplatz in Bautzen.
literature
- Alfons Wićaz: On the history of the Sorbian Sokol movement (1920-1933) . In: Diethelm Blecking , Research Center East Central Europe (Ed.): The Slavic Sokol Movement: Contributions to the history of sport and nationalism in Eastern Europe . Dortmund 1991, ISBN 978-3-923293-32-2 , pp. 182-197 .
- Alfons Wićaz: Serbski Sokoł . Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšin 1990, ISBN 3-7420-0535-9 .
- Josef Páta : Sokołstwo a Słowjanstwo . [The Sokoł Movement and Slavism]. Budyšin 1924.