!!!Deutscher Turnerbund

Deutscher Turnerbund (German Gymnastics Association), founded in 1889, 
when the previously existing (since 1861) gymnastics clubs were united 
into one organisation with German-Nationalist objectives and 
anti-Semitic orientation. Associated clubs (1918: 800) built gym halls 
in several towns. It was incorporated in the "Deutscher Reichsbund 
fuer Leibesuebungen" ("German National Association for Physical 
Exercise") in 1938 and dissolved in 1945. Its properties were taken 
over by the "Allgemeine Turnvereine" ("General Gymnastics 
Associations"), established in 1947, which merged to form the 
"Allgemeiner Sportverband" (General Sports Association).

!Literature
R. Schmidl, Der Deutsche Turnerbund (1919) und seine 
politische Relevanz in der 1. Republik Oesterreich, doctoral 
thesis, Vienna 1979.


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