Vztah Dělnických tělocvičných jednot ke sportu

• Authors: Richard Moravec

Title variants

EN

The Workers’ Gymnastic Union’s relationship with sport

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Workers’ Gymnastic Union’s (WGU) were not interested only in physical exercise, as we can say, but they emphasised also cultural and educational activities. They organized trips, theatre performances, and lectures. These spheres made a general image of work in WGU, where the sport activities were joined to the line with physical exercise – the first debates about sport disciplines took place before the World War I. The breaking of taboo gained by Czechoslovakia establishing – a sport was increasingly popular and this was reflected in WGU. In the next years, still more sports unions were established and their organizations were not destroyed even by occupation. The biggest boom of sport in WGU was during the World War II. The study discusses debates on misleading individual sports within the WGU, including those inappropriate ones from the point of view of federal officials and contrary to the spirit of collective cohesion. On the example of German workers’ physical education will be showed a sport activity in gymnastic unions in the Czech lands, respectively in the Czechoslovakia.

Keywords

EN

Czech lands; Czechoslovakia; Workers’ Gymnastic Union; sports history; physical education; Arbeiter Turn- und Sportverband; gymnastical movement

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 271-305
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Richard Moravec

• Moderní dějiny, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic