100 years - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2013 - 62 Euro Cent

With this special stamp, Österreichische Post AG congratulates the Tyrolean Ski Association on its 100th anniversary. The attractive brand image shows an "old ski warhorse" in a bold pose on a historic photo by Arnold Fanck and, at the top right, the legendary Tyrolean Ski Association logo - the Adler with the ski. History: Eight years after the founding of the Austrian Ski Association (1905) struck on 25 January 1913, the birth of the Tyrolean Ski Federation (TSV). The first member clubs were SC Arlberg, SK Innsbruck, WSV Reutte and WSV Hall. Also present were SK Gurgl, SK Imst, WSV Kitzbühel, SK Ladinia and the ski clubs of Kufstein, Wörgl, Kössen, St. Johann, Fieberbrunn, Ampezzo, Bolzano, Dobbiaco and Lienz. The membership fee cost at that time a total of five Heller. In 1914 the first sports competition of the TSV took place - namely the "1. Tyrolean championship in Reutte "in the disciplines of cross-country skiing and jumping. After the First World War, in the twenties and thirties, when ski tourism began slowly, the TSV organized several international FIS races. In 1938, the Tyrolean Ski Association was dissolved again and incorporated into the Reichsbund for physical exercises, "Fachamt Skilauf"; In 1945, when the dark years of the Second World War finally belonged to the past, however, the TSV organized itself anew and started with 16 clubs full of optimism into a bright future. After the golden age of the unforgettable Kitzbühler Toni Sailer in the fifties, the Tyrolean Ski Association experienced absolute highlights of its history with the two Winter Olympics in Innsbruck in 1964 and 1976. Other milestones were certainly the founding of the ski school Stams and the so-called "Skipool Tirol", which ensures the financial background for the best possible education of young talents, the Nordic Ski World Championships in Seefeld (1985), the Alpine Ski World Championships in St. Anton ( 2001) and the opening of the new Bergisel ski jump in 2002. The purpose of the Tyrolean Ski Federation is, according to its own statutes, "the promotion of skiing and related sports for the general good, in particular for the sportive training of the youth and for the promotion and maintenance of health". The association serves charitable purposes, it is run by volunteer officials and is not geared to profit. In 2009, Werner Margreiter was elected as the new president of the approximately 40,000 members of the Tyrolean Ski Association in the context of the 66th Annual General Meeting.