Central Committee for the Promotion of Youth and Popular Games

The Central Committee for the Promotion of Youth and folk games was during the game movement , was established on May 21, 1891 merger of the of physical exercises (especially game ) interested persons especially Prussia , but (almost) all the organizations of gymnastics and sports advocated . The board of directors included u. a. Emil von Schenckendorff , Ferdinand August Schmidt , Gustav Konrad Heinrich von Goßler , Carl Philipp Euler , Ernst Kohlrausch . The ZA published the yearbooks for popular and youth games , through which the goals of the association were propagated. The following were proclaimed as common goals:

Dissemination / propagation of the popular games
Creation of public play / sports fields
Provision of the school playgrounds for the game clubs in the afternoon
Implementation of play festivals as part of folk festivals
Close cooperation with the German Gymnastics Association
Emphasis on physical exercise, especially between the end of school and joining the army
Implementation of game afternoons in the advanced training schools
Game events for the warrior and other veteran clubs
Expansion of the games to other clubs (academic gymnastics clubs, commercial clubs, journeyman's clubs, etc.)

From 1894 the ZA also propagated games for girls and women.

literature

Carl Euler : The game movement , in: Carl Euler (Hrsg.): Enzyklopädisches Handbuch des entire gymnastics and related areas . Vienna: Pichler 1895. Vol. 2, pp. 662-672.
Eerke U. Hamer : The beginnings of the “game movement” in Germany . London: Arena Publ. (= Contributions and sources on sport and society, Vol. 3). 1989. ISBN 0-902175-48-3
Arnd Krüger : Sport and politics: from gymnastics father Jahn to state amateur . Hanover: torchbearers. 1975. ISBN 3-7716-2087-2