Acronym | VDB |
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Founded | 1912 |
Defunct | 2005 |
Style | Professional wrestling |
Headquarters | Berlin, Germany |
Website | Official website |
Verband der Berufsringer was a German professional wrestling promotion founded in 1912. It is the oldest known wrestling promotion in the world.[1][2][3][4]
For much of the post World War II period, VDB was the dominant professional wrestling promotion in Germany until overtaken by the Austria-based Catch Wrestling Association (originally the IBV) circa the late 1970s. By this point, its dominant star was Axel Dieter. VDB's calendar revolved chiefly around multi-night summer tournaments in cities in West Germany and Austria such as Graz, Hamburg and Vienna which were later taken over by the CWA and its successor the EWP.