The Chemnitz clubs ASA-FF and Athletic Sonnenberg, the SG Bornheim 1945 Grün-Weiss from Frankfurt/Main and the Jewish sports association Makkabi Germany will receive the Julius Hirsch Award of the DFB. This was announced by the German Football Association on Wednesday. The award is endowed with a total of 21,000 euros. The award ceremony will take place on November 13 in Berlin.
The first prize is shared by ASA-FF with the project "#HEIMSPIEL Chemnitz" and the Chemnitz district club Athletic Sonnenberg. The former, together with fans of Chemnitzer FC against racism, "set a visible and effective narrative in the squares of Chemnitz against right-wing radicalism and for diversity and openness in Europe's Capital of Culture 2025," according to the DFB. At Athletic Sonnenberg diversity is shaped and an understanding of anti-discrimination is expected from the members.
On the awards decided an eight-member jury headed by DFB President Bernd Neuendorf. With the foundation of the Julius Hirsch Award, the association has been commemorating the German-Jewish national soccer player Julius Hirsch, who was murdered in Auschwitz, since 2005.
