Sudeten German Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association

The Sudeten German Workers 'Gymnastics and Sports Association (ATUS) was a German workers' sports association in Czechoslovakia .

In 1909, an independent Austrian Workers' Gymnastics Association was founded in Prague with a focus on German Bohemia . In March 1919 the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association emerged in Czechoslovakia . In 1924 in Karlovy Vary , 1930 in Ústí nad Labem and 1936 in Chomutov , the ATUS each organized a large national gymnastics festival.

After the end of the workers' sports movement in the German Reich when the National Socialists seized power , the Sudeten German ATUS gained greater importance in the socialist sports international.

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• Arnd Krüger & James Riordan (Eds.) (1996). The Story of Worker Sport. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. ISBN 978-0873228749
• Andreas Luh: The German Gymnastics Federation in the First Czechoslovak Republic . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-58135-X , p. 101 ff .