Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund

German Gymnastics and Sports Federation
DTSB
Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund
FormationApril 1957
Dissolved1990-91 (individual organizations within the DTSB continue to exist)
HeadquartersEast Berlin
Location
Membership3.700.000 (1989)

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.

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