Jüdische Sportler:innen im Nationalsozialismus

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Lecture and discussion

Until 1933, Jewish players were also among the top performers in their club teams in Hamburg soccer. Just a few weeks and months after the National Socialist takeover on January 30, 1933, Hamburg's gymnastics and sports clubs also began to exclude their Jewish members in anticipatory obedience. The only option left to Jewish sportsmen and women was to organize themselves in their own clubs and establish internal local-regional sports clubs.

A number of new clubs were founded, which helped Jewish sport to gain unwanted visibility. In his lecture, Prof. Lorenz Peiffer (University of Hanover) will take us on a short journey of Jewish sport in Hamburg, which came to an abrupt end after the Reichspogromnacht in 1938. After that, there were no more Jewish club sports in Hamburg.

After the lecture, Dr. René Wiese (Zentrum deutsche Sportgeschichte) will discuss the persecution, repression and freedom of Jewish sports life during the Nazi dictatorship with Lorenz Peiffer and Dr. Berno Bahro (University of Potsdam).