"Der Neuaufbau des Sports nach 1945" Kurzvorträge und Diskussion

In the organizer's words:

After the end of the war in 1945, all National Socialist organizations were banned by the Allies. These included all sports clubs that were organized in the National Socialist Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (NSRL) and were also a powerful tool for spreading Nazi ideology.

However, by the end of 1945 it was already apparent that the development of sport in the four occupation zones was taking very different courses. The opposing global political concepts of the two main powers, the USSR and the USA, had an impact on the German policy of the individual occupying powers and on the rebuilding of German sport. While socialist development was rigorously promoted in the Soviet-occupied zone, the bourgeois sports clubs and associations in the three western zones gradually returned to their former form.

The event "The reconstruction of sport after 1945" will explore the traces of this divergent development in divided Germany.

Prof. em. Lorenz Peiffer (University of Hanover) and Dr. Berno Bahro (University of Potsdam) will speak about the different developments in sport after 1945 in the individual occupation zones and in divided Germany.

In the subsequent panel discussion, the experts will discuss structures, transformation processes and biographies in divided German sport with Dr. René Wiese (Zentrum deutsche Sportgeschichte, moderator).

Registration is not required. Free admission.

Curator: Dr. René Wiese (Zentrum Deutsche Sportgeschichte, Berlin)

Responsible: Dr. Sabine Bamberger-Stemmann