Sports

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