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Appeal by the Provisional Board of the Sports Club “Schild” Organized by the German-Jewish War Veterans’ Association’s Hamburg Chapter, June 1933
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Provisorischer Vorstand der Sportgruppe "Schild"
Institute for the History of the German Jews
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This source is a letter published by the sports club “Schild” run
by the Hamburg chapter of the German-Jewish War Veterans’
Association Vaterländischer Bund jüdischer Frontsoldaten e. V.. It
appeals to all male and female Jewish athletes to join the newly
founded sports club “Schild.” Although sports clubs named
“Schild” and linked to the Reich Association of Jewish War
Veterans Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten (RjF), the umbrella
organization of the German-Jewish War Veterans’ Association
Vaterländischer Bund, had been founded as early as 1925, there was
no local chapter in Hamburg. Following the introduction of the
“Aryan articles” Arierparagrafen and the resulting exclusion of
Jewish athletes from sports clubs previously open to anyone, the
Hamburg chapter of the Bund considered it imperative in June 1933 to
establish a sports club. The letter was signed by the club’s
provisional board consisting of ten persons. Among them was at least
one prominent athlete, boxer Felix Friedemann. The original of the
letter is kept at the State Archive Hamburg StaHH 522-1_1083 05.
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