SV Soltau

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SV Soltau
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Basic data
Surname Sports club Soltau from 1912 e. V.
Seat Soltau , Lower Saxony
founding 1912
Colours blue yellow
1. Chairman Sven Köster
Website www.sv-soltau.de
First soccer team
Head coach Florian Zerr
Venue Stadium on Winsener Strasse
Places 2,500
league 2nd district class Heidekreis-Nord
2019/20 11th place
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The SV Soltau von 1912 eV is a sports club in the Lower Saxony city ​​of Soltau .

history

In the late summer of 1912, twelve young men founded the Soltau football club from 1912 . The Soltau entrepreneur Willi Röders sen. provided the club with a sports facility near its Einfrielinger villa. The opportunities for competition were very limited in the early days, as only one other club in the Soltau district practiced the still young sport of football. All club members at that time were called up for military service in World War I from 1914 , which led to the temporary cessation of all sporting activities. Only a few members returned from the war, some seriously wounded. Sports operations were resumed in 1918. In particular, guards from the prisoner- of- war camp in Soltau formed the basic structure of the team.

Also in 1918, a sports field was built on today's SVS site on Winsener Strasse. On March 18, 1919, the football club merged with the local tennis club to form the Soltau von 1912 e. V. With the establishment of further departments, the number of members quickly grew to over 500. At the end of the 1920s, the club got into financial difficulties due to the economic crisis and the associated decreasing number of members, the tennis department then split off again.

On September 5, 1939, the National Socialists ordered a forced merger of the SVS with the city rivals MTV Soltau to form the Men's Gymnastics and Sports Club of 1864 (MTSV) . Officially, this meant the dissolution of SV Soltau. Sports activities were also severely restricted during the Second World War that followed. In 1945 the MTSV became the New Gymnastics and Games Association (NTSV) , from which SV Soltau broke away on October 18, 1947 and which finally became MTV Soltau again on May 3, 1948. Above all, the possible uses of the former sports field were the central point of numerous discussions with the British occupying forces in the period that followed. On June 17, 1951, a new lawn was finally inaugurated, and the foundation stone for the clubhouse was laid in October. Due to financial difficulties, however, this was not finished until September 13, 1959.

In 1953 the soccer team was a founding member of the third-rate amateur league Heide . There the club played until 1959 and again from 1961 to 1964. The runner-up in the 1961/62 season was the greatest success of this time. In 1964/65 it continued in the newly founded fourth-class Association League East . With only five points, however, the immediate relegation followed, 1968/69 it went again for another season in the association league. During this time there were also several test matches against Bundesliga clubs Eintracht Braunschweig , Werder Bremen and Hamburger SV . The latter came in 1968 with Uwe Seeler and attracted a record crowd of 3,000 spectators.

In the following period the SVS was passed down and in 1974 even landed in the 1st district class. Until the 1980s, the association shuttled between district and district level. From the end of the 80s, SVS manager Jürgen Ehlers planned the promotion to paid football with the help of local sponsors, and the construction of a representative stadium was also considered. At first the plan worked and it quickly went from the district league - when the district league was promoted in 1988 there were around 1,300 spectators - to the district league Lüneburg . After only one year, he was promoted to the fifth-class Landesliga Ost in 1991/92 . There, the former national player Jimmy Hartwig took over the coaching position in the 1992/93 season , on the field stood, among others, ex-Bundesliga player Ludger Kanders and Peter Hartwig, who previously played in the major league. But in terms of sport, things did not go well and when manager Ehlers was arrested for counterfeit money transactions in January 1993, the march was stopped and the club was relegated again at the end of the season.

Günther Schmidt, who subsequently took over the management of the club and was previously president of FC Neubrandenburg , did not give up yet. He planned to found an SV Soltau GmbH . Of this, 51 percent of the shares should go to himself, 10 percent should remain with the association and the remaining 39 percent should be sold to other investors. Before it came to that, Schmidt had a fatal accident in a traffic accident and the plan was discarded. In 1993/94, the club then narrowly missed the renewed association league promotion against city rivals MTV. From 1994 to 1999 they played for a few years in the meanwhile sixth class Lüneburg regional league, with the former second division players Karl Eggestein and Ralf Krause in the squad . This was followed by the descent, which reached its low point in 2001, when the club voluntarily withdrew into the 1st district class due to financial difficulties. With the exception of the district league years 2005 to 2007, several seasons followed at district level until 2013, when the district league was promoted again.

Departments

Football , badminton , Nordic walking , gymnastics as well as bobsleigh and sledging are currently offered at SV Soltau . The latter was founded in 1984 and is currently Germany's northernmost bobsleigh department.

Sports facilities

SV Soltau plays its home games in the stadium on Winsener Strasse .

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Club chronicle on the official homepage