Germania Wiesbaden

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Coat of arms of SG Germania Wiesbaden

The SG Germania Wiesbaden is a football club from the Hessian state capital Wiesbaden, founded in 1903 . The club, which is at home in Waldstrasse in the western part of the city center, was always overshadowed by its local competitor SV Wiesbaden from the start , but established itself as number two in Wiesbaden football for many decades. The most successful time of Germania were the ten years between 1963 and 1973, when you could not only prove yourself in the Hessian amateur league, but also in 1966/67a year-long guest appearance in the Regionalliga Süd, the second highest level in Germany at the time. In the 1970s, the club fell back into the lower classes. The Germania women's team, on the other hand, played in the third-highest soccer class, the Regionalliga Süd , from 2009 to 2011 .

history

The club was founded in September 1903 under the name FC Germania as a union of the two street football clubs FC Germany and FC Columbia . Just four years after it was founded, the club had for the first time succeeded in advancing to the highest level, the Northern District League of the South German Football Association, where it could only stay for a year. After the First World War, Germania merged with the Wiesbaden football club to form FV Germania , and in 1919/20 won the Rhine District Championship and thus qualification for the Northern Main District League, which was founded as the new top division. The "Waldsträßler" even temporarily ousted local rivals SV Wiesbaden as number one in the city, but in the course of the 1920s the Germanic tribes slipped back into second class. In general, football was in crisis in the city marked by the occupation. A liaison with the SVW, which came about in 1930, resulted in the spin-off and re-establishment as SC Waldstraße Wiesbaden four years later, which was so successful in the following years that it was shortly before jumping into the top division in 1939/40 , the Gauliga Hessen , stood.

After the Second World War and the associated dissolution of the sports clubs, the club was re-established as SC Germania Wiesbaden in 1945 , and from 1949 onwards, the current name SG Germania started . In the same year the new club house was opened. In 1951, the team rose to the 2nd amateur league as champions of the Wiesbaden district class, and two more years later, in 1953, they moved into the 1st amateur league in Hessen for the first time under coach Bernhard Kellerhoff . Another highlight of the promotion year was a friendly match against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, which attracted 13,500 spectators to the grounds on Waldstrasse. The guarantee of success for the black and whites during this time was the so-called “cannon storm”, consisting of Willi and Wolfgang Elze, Bruno Müller, Werner Schreiber and Ludwig Lakatos. Already in the year after promotion, Germania reached sixth place and two years later, in 1955/56, under coach "Teddy" Debus, Spvgg. 03 Neu-Isenburg had an exciting head-to-head race for the championship , which was finally lost by a 2: 3 in direct clash.

This was followed by a few years as an elevator team between the 1st and 2nd amateur league, until Germania found its way back to its old strength in the early 1960s under coach Eugen Csákány. Raised back to the Hessian upper house in 1961/62, the team met their local rivals SV Wiesbaden for the first time in 40 years and celebrated a brilliant victory with a 4-0 win. Through careful club management and intensive work with young talent, further successes soon emerged. In 1965, Germania won the Hessen Cup with a 5: 3 over 1. FC Langen , and in the subsequent first round of the South German Cup competition they narrowly failed with 1: 2 at FSV Frankfurt. The following season 1965/66 was the most successful in the club's history: With 93 goals through the parade tower around Jupp Schmitz, Jürgen Janitz, Reinhard Meier , Kurt Steinbrenner and Herbert Kautzmann and a long way ahead of the rest of the field - runner-up SG Westend Frankfurt was 8 : 1 beaten, local rivals SVW in front of 7000 spectators on Waldstrasse sent home with a 6: 1 - Germania became Hessen champion under coach Otto Tempel and rose to the Regionalliga Süd . In what was then the second highest level of the Bundesliga, the home games of the 1966/67 round had to be played in the stadium on Berliner Straße , as the Rotgrantplatz on Waldstraße was not suitable for the regional league. With the new coach Hans Schwerdhöfer and reinforced by the Yugoslav B national goalkeeper Branko Crnkovic, Ernst-Dieter Schermuly (Borussia Fulda) and Emil März (SpVgg Weisenau), Germania started with a 2-0 win over Schweinfurt 05 and a 1-1 draw at VfR Mannheim was promising into the season, but after a 2: 4 against Offenbacher Kickers in front of 12,000 spectators it went downhill. The black and whites slipped into the table cellar and after a 0: 6 against SpVgg Fürth in the last second division home game in front of only 1,500 supporters, finally descended as 17th and penultimate.

Back in the amateur camp, after two years in the Hessen League, he was relegated to the group league again in 1969. Germania rose to the amateur league again the following year, and the team of player-coach Fahrudin Jusufi once again aroused optimism on Waldstrasse, but in 1973 the black and whites finally said goodbye to the national football stage. Apart from a five-year guest appearance in the regional league (1983–1988), SG Germania Wiesbaden has since played in the lower football classes in the region, most recently in the Wiesbaden regional league (as of 2012/13 season). In the last few years, however, the women's team of SG Germania has made a name for itself. She was Hessen champion in the 2008/09 season and rose to the Regionalliga Süd .

Venue

In 1910, Germania found a home on Waldstrasse in the west of the city, far away from the villa districts in the north and east of Wiesbaden, and is still located there today. In 1949, the clubhouse, which was soon known as the “Samba Hut”, was opened, the area was expanded to a capacity of 9,000 spectators (1954) and the clubhouse was expanded into a stately sports and cultural facility by 1955. The game and training operations take place in the stadium on Waldstraße from March to October, the club also uses the sports field on Erlenweg in Wiesbaden-Biebrich .

Table tennis

In the 1950s, the men's team of the Germania Wiesbaden was represented in the table tennis upper league, the top German division at the time.

Around 1954, the table tennis department of SV Wiesbaden , which was German team runner-up four times in a row from 1950 to 1953, joined the Germania Wiesbaden club. Because of team difficulties, the club withdrew the team in 1960. In 1961, the table tennis department of the ABC Wiesbaden club, whose men's team was also represented in the major league until 1960, transferred to Germania Wiesbaden.

Today (2015) the men's team plays in the district class.

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Remarks

  1. ^ To the Greens, legendary football clubs Hessen . History of origins according to the club lexicon (2009): Founding as FC Germania 03 on September 3, 1903, FC Germany and FC Columbia, on the other hand, merge in 1907 to form Wiesbaden FV , which then merged with FC Germania to form SG Germania in 1918 .
  2. ↑ Zeitschrift dts , 1954/5 page 11
  3. ↑ Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , page 146
  4. ↑ Zeitschrift dts , 1960/18 page 10
  5. ↑ Journal dts , 1961/14 Page 10
  6. ↑ Zeitschrift dts , 1960/5 page 9

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