TK Hanover
The Turn-Klubb zu Hannover (known in Hannover as TKH, away from home often as TK Hannover) is a sports club in Hannover .
description
TK Hannover is the club in Hannover with the largest number of active members, in 2019 more than 7,000 people. Hannover 96 overtook the TKH as the club with the largest number of members in the city with a newly created fan membership, but of the approximately 20,000 members (2015) only 2,200 are registered as active full members in the individual branches.
The TKH currently operates around 50 different sports, which traditionally do not include football. In addition to competitive sports, the main focus is on recreational and health sports. Most of the members are registered in children's sports or fitness sports.
In competitive sports, the TKH has been producing teams and individual athletes in higher leagues and international competitions, world championships, Olympic Games, etc. for many years. This is especially true in the area of gymnastics / gymnastics , but also in the sports of athletics , fencing , fistball , cheerleading and basketball . In 2016 Olympic participant Andreas Toba was awarded the Bambi. The basketball women play in the 1st Bundesliga and the fistball players (women & men) are represented in the highest German division. The cheerleaders are reigning European champions in the PeeWee and Juniors categories (2019).
The club, which was founded in 1858 with its historically important gym from 1865, has its center with several of its own halls and studios in downtown Hanover near Aegidientorplatz , at Maschstraße 16. A new exercise center with a new fitness studio was completed in December 2016. In addition, the TKH maintains extensive sports grounds for athletics, lawn sports and tennis as well as a club restaurant in Hanover-Kirchrode at Hermann-Löns-Park . In addition, the association opened a children's sports center in 2013, a dance sports center in the Kolping House and a health center in Wülfel.
The TKH headquarters is also the state base of the Lower Saxony Gymnastics Federation . A school for gymnastics teachers was also affiliated with the association.
history
gym
Postcard , Verlag M. & E. Staffehl , around 1920
The club was founded in 1858 by dissatisfied members of the "men's gymnastics club Hanover from 1848" .
In 1865 the first gym was inaugurated. The building in neo-Gothic style was one of the very first club gyms and is considered an important milestone in the gymnastics movement in the 19th century. The club center was partially destroyed by the air raids on Hanover in World War II and an additional third floor was added after the war.
Gymnastics
In 1894 Georg Weitz won the German Gymnastics Festival . The Bundesliga team of gymnasts has been German champions three times since 1984, the last time in 1997. The TKH has been represented in the 1st gymnastics league without interruption since 1982.
The best-known members were the 1936 Olympic champion Gertrud "Trudi" Meyer and Herbert Lorenz , who won the bronze medal at the 1934 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Budapest .
athletics
In the German Athletics Championships in 1917 , 1921 and 1922 Heinrich Fricke won the pole vault .
Table tennis
The women's table tennis team became German champions in 1960. Jutta Kruse , Inge Müser , Landwehr, Möller, Bauer and Rosemarie Rabitz won the final against the TTC Blau-Gold Berlin . A year later, the team was German runner-up behind the Kiel TTK Grün-Weiß , but won the DTTB Cup. At the end of the 1990s, the competitive table tennis division was closed, and the neighboring club Schwalbe Döhren took on the playing rights for the individual leagues and most of the league players. The leisure table tennis department, which has existed in the club since 1979, only played amateur table tennis until 2013. With the 2013/14 season, the TT department (formerly the leisure department) resumed competition operations and started in the 2nd district class. In the 2017/18 season, the TKH will have three men's, one women's and one school team.
Other personalities
- Julius Blanck (1865–1930), among other things, donated the hiking hut in the Süntel in 1919 . Shortly after the seizure of power and long before the Nuremberg race laws , the facility, named after its Jewish honorary chairman, issued its own “ Aryan paragraph ” in May 1933. As a result, the “Julius Blanck Hut”, named after its Jewish honorary chairman "In the Süntel tacitly renamed" Jahnhütte ".
- Adolf Grahn (1841–1916) is considered the longest-serving "gymnastics father" in Lower Saxony
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl-Heinz Grotjahn MA: Turn-Klubb zu Hannover (TKH). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 631.
- ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Maschstrasse 16. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon p. 171
- ↑ Peter Schulze : BLANCK, Julius. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 57; online through google books
- ↑ Simon Benne : National Socialism / History of Jewish Sports examines ... , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from May 3, 2012
- ↑ Arnd Krüger (responsible): Adolf Grahn ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History, last accessed on December 24, 2013
