Sports

The Zionist-oriented Jewish sports club Hagibor was founded in 1914. From 1919, the club had the opportunity to train at the Sparta Prague sports ground in Letná. It lost this opportunity in 1926. Therefore, in 1927, the club built its own sports complex for athletics and football on the grounds of the Israelite Hospital and Nursing Home. The Hagibor sports club was dissolved by the Protectorate administration in 1939

After the club was dissolved, an internment and labor camp was set up on the sports complex.

The sports organization Makabi Prague, founded in 1906, had a Zionist orientation. The gymnastics and sports movement supported the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine and wanted to prepare its members ideologically and physically for the national rebirth.Until 1942, its headquarters were in Křižovnická 1048/3, where young people of Jewish faith met and prepared for emigration to Palestine. In addition to ideological lessons, Hebrew was also taught.

The members took part in sports in various gyms and sports halls in the center of Prague. In 1942, Makabi Prague was banned.

Alfred Joseph Meyers (1895-1956) was a Frankfurt industrialist and president of FSV Frankfurt from 1929 to 1933. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1895 into a German-Jewish family. In 1916, he married Alicia "Liesel" Gertrude Dahlsheimer from Frankfurt. Their children Norbert and Edwin were born in 1922 and 1927 respectively. They attended the Philanthropin. The family lived in the Westend and attended the liberal Westend Synagogue there. Alfred Meyers founded "Enameline Werke" in Höchst am Main in 1917 together with his brother William.

The sports field was owned by the widow Hannchen Rahn, née Goldmann, until "Aryanization". The sports field included a cinder track and a gymnasium. The sports field was used by the JTUS Nürnberg as well as the Jüdischer Turn- und Sportverein (JTUS) 1934 Fürth. It was used for local, regional, Bavarian and national sporting events organized by Jewish clubs.

On 01.10.1898 the Jew Harry Hahn founded the Berlin Rowing Club "Triton" e.V. He became 1st chairman, while Herbert Gedalius acted as secretary and Siegfried Glasfeld as 1st treasurer. It was obvious to all that it was a Jewish club, since in the middle of the flag a Star of David was placed.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding ( Stiftungsfest ), the founding members of the Oberdorf gymnastics club named on the plaque were appointed honorary members. Of the 12 founding members mentioned, 6 were members of the Israelite community of Oberdorf - Leopold Neumetzger, Bernhard Rießer, Heinrich Rosenberger, Wolf Fröhlich, Isak Sänger and David Weil. Also the creator of the anniversary card, of whose signature unfortunately only the surname Heimann is recognizably readable, was a community member of the Israelite community of Oberdorf.

On 22.10.1898 the philosophy student and later rabbi Wilhelm Lewy founds the Jewish gymnastics club Bar Kochba Berlin with 47 other followers. It is the first Jewish sports club on German soil after the Jewish Gymnastics Club of Constantinople (1895) and the Zionist Gymnastics Club of Plovdiv (1897). Previously, Max Nordau and Max Mandelstamm, among others, had advocated a Jewish gymnastics club at the 2nd Zionist Congress in 1898. The club was named after Simon Bar Kochba, the leader of the Jewish uprising against the Romans (132-135 CE).

Sports

• Basketball
• Bridge
• Football
• Futsal
• Kickboxing with elements of Krav Maga
• Chess
• Tai Chi
• Tennis (children)
• Table tennis