The Association of German railway sports clubs (German: Verband Deutscher Eisenbahner-Sportvereine – VDES) is the governing body for multiple-sports clubs in Germany associated with the German railway, historically the Deutsche Reichsbahn and currently the Deutsche Bahn.
[1] The association was formed on 7 March 1926, then under the name of Bund der Deutschen Reichsbahn-Turn- und Sportvereine.
After the Second World War the association was restarted in West Germany in 1948, now under the name of Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Eisenbahner-Sportvereine.
The association was officially reformed in 1950 while, in the same year, the Sportvereinigung Lokomotive was formed for the same purpose in East Germany.
In 1951 the association joined the USIC - Union Sportive Internationale des Cheminots, an international organisation formed in 1947.