German Youth Power Sports Association ( German : Deutsche Jugendkraft Sportverband , DJK ) is a Catholic -sponsored sports association in Germany . Founded as a faith-based organization , today it is open to anyone who supports its goals. The concept of Jugendkraft or "youth power" is common to many countries and cultures, as in the Italian Juventus , and conveys the positive aspects of youthful energy and creativity.
7-470: DJK may refer to: DJK-Sportverband ( Deutsche Jugendkraft Sportverband , German Youth Sport Association) DJK Würzburg DJK Vilzing DJK Ammerthal DJK Abenberg DJK Waldberg DJK Germania Gladbeck DJK Don Bosco Bamberg DJK Agon 08 Düsseldorf Jutland Art Academy (Danish: Det Jyske Kunstakademi ), Denmark People [ edit ] Derrell Johnson-Koulianos (born 1987),
14-544: A former American football player D. J. Kennington (born 1977), a Canadian professional stock car racing driver Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title DJK . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DJK&oldid=1194486703 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
21-526: Is an independent youth organization and a member of Deutschen Sport Jugend (German Youth Sport) and the Bund der Deutschen Katholischen Jugend (Federation of German Catholic Youth). The DJK-Sportsverband includes about 1,200 clubs nationwide and has over 530,000 members, of which almost half are adolescents and young adults (January 2005). The individual member clubs are part of national sports federations and associations for their respective sports. Every two years,
28-636: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages DJK-Sportverband The DJK was established in Würzburg in 1920 under the leadership of Monsignor Carl Mostert and was active nationally until 1933 and the rise to power of the Nazis . Faith-based and worker's organizations were regarded as politically unpalatable by the regime and DFK-affiliated clubs were at that time dissolved or forced into mergers with mainstream clubs. On 1 July 1934, DJK head Adalbert Probst
35-887: The DJK joined the Deutscher Sportbund. The previously separate men's and women's DJK groups were merged in 1970. Today the organization acts as mediator between the church and sports, and places an emphasis on the role of faith in a sporting context. Based in Düsseldorf , the DJK is a member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (member with special responsibilities) and the Fédération internationale catholique d'éducation physique et sportive (International Organization of Catholic Sports Associations). The DJK-Sportjugend (DJK-Youth Sport)
42-433: The myriad of feuding postwar sports bodies under the national umbrella organization Deutscher Sportbund (German Sports Federation) in 1950. Within the DJK, a fierce factional dispute arose over whether the organization should return to being a separate and purely Catholic organization as it had been before the war, or an ideologically neutral organization that would integrate itself with other national sporting groups. In 1961
49-623: Was arrested by the Gestapo before being shot the next day. By early 1935, the DJK and similar organizations were banned outright. Following World War II , organizations of all types were banned across the country by occupying Allied authorities as part of the process of de-Nazification . New sporting organizations slowly emerged and the DJK was re-formed in 1947 as the "Verband für Sportpflege in katholischer Gemeinschaft" (Catholic Sports Association for Community Care). Former DJK head Prelate Ludwig Wolker played an important role in bringing together
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