ASV Vorwärts
The Armeesportvereinigung Vorwärts (''Army Sports Association Forward''), briefly ASV Vorwärts, was the Sports associations (East Germany), sports association of the German Democratic Republic's National People's Army (NVA) and its predecessor, the Kasernierte Volkspolizei, Barracked People's Police (''Kasernierte Volkspolizei''). Together with the sport clubs and the SV Dynamo, the ASV Vorwärts was one of the most important supports of the East German elite sports system. From their clubs in Potsdam, Frankfurt (Oder), Neubrandenburg, Stralsund or Rostock emerged well-known sportsmen like the boxer Henry Maske or the canoeist Birgit Fischer. In almost every city with barracks or other army installations the ASV kept a training center. Apart from providing the training equipment, the most important task of the local sections was the promotion of youth sports. The uniform ASV tracksuit, brown polyamide with yellow and red stripes on the arms and the oval ''ASV'' emblem on the le ...
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