Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund | |
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| Formation | April 1957 |
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| Dissolved | 1990-91 (individual organizations within the DTSB continue to exist) |
| Headquarters | East Berlin |
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Membership (1989) | 3.700.000 |
The Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB; German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) was a mass organization of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 until shortly after German reunification. Membership in the organization included nearly four million people, which accounted for almost 20% of the population of the GDR.[1]
- ^ Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB). In: Andreas Herbst; Winfried Ranke; Jürgen Winkler: So funktionierte die DDR. Lexikon der Organisationen und Institutionen. Bd. 1. (Rororo 6348), Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16348-9, S. 234–243 (239–243)