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Sports in the Human Economy: “Leibesübungen,” Medicine, Psychology, and Performance Enhancement during the Weimar Republic

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Michael Hau
Michael Hau
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In 1926, the President of the German Reich Committee for Physical Exercise (Deutscher Reichsausschuss für Leibesübungen, or DRAL) Theodor Lewald discussed the significance of sports for the German economy and national health in a presentation to the Berlin Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Lewald deplored the physical state of the German population as a consequence of the lost war. Two million of the physically and mentally strongest German men had been killed, while millions of German men, women, and children were permanently physically weakened as a result of starvation during the war and the allied hunger blockade after the armistice. To make matters worse, the hygienic benefits of military service that had guaranteed the physical strength and fitness of male youth had been lost. Prior to the war about 500,000 men had served in the German army or navy where they had learned regimens of cleanliness, order, and discipline. According to Lewald, by limiting the size of the German army to 100,000 men, the victorious allies had not only weakened Germany militarily, but they had also tried to paralyze Germany economically by permanently weakening the “strength of the German people” (deutsche Volkskraft).1

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Central European History , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , September 2008 , pp. 381 - 412
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81 Ibid., 131f and 44f.

82 Letter Schulte to Diem, March 4, 1931, in CULDA, Sachakten, Nr. 28. In this letter, Schulte also refers to personal tensions with other staff members at the DHfL that made him leave.

83 Carl Diem, Aufzeichnungen für den Besuch von Ministerialdirektor Richter in der DHfL am 13. Januar 1930, in CULDA, Sachakten Nr. 191, 6f.

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