Vienna Deaf Sports Club 1901
The Viennese Deaf Sports Club 1901 including the associated cultural association is the oldest deaf sports association in Austria .
history
In 1898 the Viennese deaf-mute gymnastics club and the Fulgur cycling club were founded. Training hours took place in the 9th district . In 1899 a football department was founded, which trained alternately on the Schmelz and on the parade ground of the Kaiser-Franz-Josef barracks. In 1901, under the leadership of Rudolf Glaser, it merged to form the Viennese deaf-mute football and gymnastics club. During the First World War , most of the association's activities came to a standstill. In 1930 members of the association took part in the national department for the Deaf Olympiad in Nuremberg. In 1931 the club joined the Austrian Deaf Sports Association. With the annexation of Austria the association was dissolved, the activities were continued by NS organizations. After 1945, the reorganization began in a club in the Arbeitergasse. In 1946 the table tennis section was founded.
In 1948 the founder Rudolf Glaser died. Heinrich Prochazka praised his services in the Austrian deaf newspaper with the words:
“The formed sports movement of the deaf youth in Austria emerged from the Vienna Deaf Sports Club, and it will continue to expand. Right now, when deaf sport in Austria is reaching a climax with the 1st International Deaf Winter Games in Seefeld, Rudolf Glaser had to part with the earth. He was no longer allowed to experience the great event. We all, not only the old sports veterans and the sports youth, but also the other deaf and mute people in Austria, are indebted to him; because through sport the general public knows that the deaf are united in a community and have their own cultural life there. "
In 1949 the bowling section was founded. The 50th anniversary celebration in 1951 was celebrated in the Münchner Hof restaurant on Mariahilfer Strasse. In 1974, functionary Franz Neuweg was awarded the City of Vienna's Silver Badge of Merit. In 1978 the association became part of the Working Group for Sport and Physical Culture in Austria (ASKÖ). In 1981 Federal President Kurt Waldheim opened the House of the Deaf in the 10th district, which is a fixed point of the deaf culture in Vienna. Organized deaf sports leagues were established after 1990. In these teams of the Vienna Deaf Sports Club in 1901 won numerous titles.