03. April 2023  
Frankfurt/M., GER  
Artistic Gymnastics

175 YEARS: DEUTSCHER TURNER-BUND (DTB)

On August 3, 1848, the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) was founded in Hanau on the initiative of  August SCHAERTTNER, also the first chairman of DTB. On the occasion of the 175th DTB Foundation Day, a festive event took place the day before in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt / Main in front of approx. 450 invited guests. In her speech, the German Minister of the Interior Nancy FAESER pointed out the high social importance of the second largest German sports association, in which almost 40% of its members are children and young people, and in whose 22 sports and disciplines of popular and competitive sports the enormous diversity and importance for health and personality development of a modern society is expressed.

On the final day of the 2nd Junior World Championships in Antalya / TUR, which were successfully concluded also for Germany with two vice world championship titles by Timo Eder and Helen Kevric, the German Minister of the Interior also referred to the development of junior and elite sports supported by the state with its special importance of the role model effect, and "... that it is worth making every effort to be among the world's best", said Faeser.

Symbolically, the DTB Vice President Prof. Dr. Annette Hofmann also presented the FLATOW medal of the DTB  (- in memory of the Jewish German gymnasts Felix and Gustav Flatow, killed by the Nazis) to the members of the bronze DTB European Championships women's squad of the previous year's European Championships in Munich, which was accepted on behalf of Elisabeth SEITZ, Emma MALEWSKI and Sarah VOSS.

In front of the president of the World Gymnastics Federation (FIG), Morinari WATANABE, who came especially from Japan - via the station of the JWCh in Antalya - for this historic occasion of the world's largest national gymnastics federation, it was made clear which view also the world has on this unique national federation:
"Gymnastics originates from Germany and I would like to congratulate the DTB on its anniversary. Gymnastics is a sport that everyone does once in their lifetime. Friedrich Ludwig JAHN founded this sport, and the German Gymnastics Federation can be proud of that," the FIG President said yesterday.
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* Read also the article ►►  DTB-ANNIVERSARY,
kindly provided by the professional German GYMmagazine "LEON*". 
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