Gymnastics and sports festival of the GDR

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Gymnastics and sports festival in 1977
GDR postage stamp from 1969 for the 5th gymnastics and sports festival

The GDR gymnastics and sports festival took place a total of eight times in Leipzig from 1954 to 1987 . Until 1963 as the "German Gymnastics and Sports Festival", it was part of the tradition of the 15 German Gymnastics Festivals held until 1933 and the two German Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Festivals .

The first German gymnastics and sports festival took place on the festival meadow next to the planned central stadium , in the Stadium of Peace and in the Bruno Plache Stadium . The 2nd DTSF moved into the new central stadium, which opened in 1956. As at all the following festivals, the main events took place here: a sports show organized as a sporting propaganda event , often an international football match, an international athletics event and a splendid closing event.

Since 1977 the children's and youth partakiades have been held in almost all district and district towns of the GDR at the same time , the Leipzig Spartakiade was always central.

  • 1954 (August 18-22): 1st German Gymnastics and Sports Festival
  • 1956 (August 2-5): II. German Gymnastics and Sports Festival
  • 1959 (August 13-16): III. German gymnastics and sports festival
  • 1963 (August 1–4): IV. German Gymnastics and Sports Festival
  • 1969 (July 24-27): 5th Gymnastics and Sports Festival of the GDR
  • 1977 (July 25-31): VI. Gymnastics and sports festival of the GDR and VI. Children's and youth spartakiad
  • 1983 (July 25–31): VII. Gymnastics and Sports Festival of the GDR and IX. Children's and youth spartakiad
  • 1987 (July 27 – August 2): VIII. Gymnastics and Sports Festival of the GDR and XI. Children's and youth spartakiad

Since 1990 there are again all-German gymnastics festivals , Leipzig was the host city in 2002.

literature

  • Oliver Ohmann: gymnastics father Jahn and the German gymnastics festivals. Sutton, Erfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-86680-264-3
  • Herbert Neumann (Hrsg.): German gymnastics festivals. Reflection of the German gymnastics movement. Limpert, Bad Homburg 1985, ISBN 3-7853-1444-2
  • D. Kreßner: Central Stadium Leipzig 1956-1996. Timeline. Leipzig 1996

Web links

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