TuS Makkabi Berlin

TuS Maccabi Berlin is a German - Jewish sports club. He is a member of the umbrella organization Maccabi Germany.

History

The roots of Maccabee go to the | back founded in 1898, club Bar Kochba Berlin. This counted to 1930 more than 40,000 members from 24 different countries. During the Nazi regime, it was the club, like all Jewish sports organization in what was then Germany, forbidden to take part in official competitions, so Jewish clubs competed against one another only. They were also forbidden Later.

On November 26, 1970, the club was founded as TuS Maccabi Berlin again, and thus the tradition of Jewish sports clubs, including for example, the SC Hakoah Berlin counted revived. Maccabi Berlin is the successor to these clubs.

Today Maccabi Berlin is one of 500 members and aims to Jews and non - Jews to move or bring together for dialogue. The club is open to all denominations. Among the operated sports include basketball, football, gymnastics, judo, swimming, Taekwando, tennis, table tennis, gymnastics and volleyball.

Football

Sporty acted the football department of Maccabi between 1982 and 1986 for four seasons in the then third-tier Oberliga Berlin. In 1987 she joined the FV Wannsee, has since 1997 but again your own team. In the 2011/12 season promotion to the sechstklassige Berlin- League.

The " Sports Facilities on Eichkamp " on which Maccabi Berlin plays its home games were renamed in honor of the Jewish German football national player Julius Hirsch, who was murdered in 1943 in the concentration camp Auschwitz -Birkenau in 2006 in " Julius -Hirsch sports fields in Eichkamp ". Also in 2006, directed the TuS Maccabi Berlin together with the European Maccabi Confederation and Maccabi Germany the annual Maccabi Football Trophy, the European football championship for the Maccabi teams from.

Famous athletes

• Goran Markov (football, 1999-2002)
• Ignjac Kresic (football, coach of the second team, 2012 - )