ATSV Saarbrücken

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The ATSV Saarbrücken (Altsaarbrücker Turn- und Sportverein von 1848 eV) is a German sports club from Saarbrücken .

General

It was founded in 1848 as the "Turngemeinde zu Saarbrücken und St. Johann", which emerged from the choral society "Elysium" founded in 1847. In 1952 the club name was changed to "Alt-Saarbrücker Turn- und Sportverein" (ATSV). It is the second oldest sports club in Saarland and with its 1700 members one of the largest and most successful sports clubs in Saarland. The ATSV is committed to popular and competitive sports. In addition, the club has its own sports and festival hall, which was inaugurated on Bellevue in Saarbrücken in 1956.

The 15 sports departments of the ATSV eV :

  • do gymnastics
  • basketball
  • Cheersport
  • Handball
  • Fistball
  • fencing
  • Soccer
  • karate
  • Kung fu
  • athletics
  • Bounce ball
  • swim
  • Dance sport
  • Table tennis
  • volleyball

Table tennis

The ATSV is known nationwide primarily for its successful table tennis department.

Men's team

In the 1960s, the men played in the Oberliga Südwest , the highest German division at the time. The team was withdrawn from this in 1966. In 1980 the men's team was promoted to the 1st Bundesliga , and in 1993 professional operations were discontinued due to a lack of sponsors.

The heyday of the ATSV were the 1980s under the manager Georg Rebmann, when the best German player at the time, Georg Böhm, played there, as well as his brother Josef and another top German man, Peter Engel . From 1980 to 1982 the Yugoslav world-class player Dragutin Šurbek was the star of the team, after which the first board was occupied by Stellan Bengtsson , who, like Šurbek, was already in the autumn of his career. Nevertheless, due to their balance, the team was able to celebrate some successes, especially in the middle and back positions. Later, a real superstar was signed in the double world and Olympic champion Jan-Ove Waldner , the Swede played in Saarbrücken from 1984 to 1987 . His successor was the Chinese Xie Saike , with whom Saarbrücken won the triple of the German Championship, the German Cup and the Nancy Evans Cup (ETTU) in 1989. The last great foreign player in Saarbrücken was Jörgen Persson , Swedish individual world champion from 1991, who played in Saarbrücken from 1991 to 1992.

The club won the European championship in 1985/86, in 86/87 it was second behind TTC drawbridge Grenzau . He won the ETTU Cup in 1982 and 1989.

As a trainer worked u. a. Stellan Bengtsson (until 1990) and Glenn Östh (1990 - December 31, 1991).

At the end of the 1991/92 season, in which they were German runner-up, the club withdrew the team from the 1st Bundesliga to the Regionalliga.

Ladies team

A women's team was also one of the top German teams in the 1980s. During the season, Jutta Deppner, Ulrike Killius, Renate Schiestel-Eder and Doris Breyer were champions of the Regionalliga West and were promoted to the 1st Bundesliga. In 1987 the team was withdrawn from the 1st BL, and in 1992 completely deregistered from the 2nd BL. From 2007 to 2019 the women's team of the ATSV played continuously in the 2nd Bundesliga, after which it was withdrawn for financial reasons.

Sarah de Nutte , Yoshida, Theresa Adams, Tessy Gonderinger and Ann-Kathrin Herges played in the 2013/14 season . In the 2014/15 season, the team played in the line-up Theresa Adams, Anna Rossikhina, Mariana Stoian, Tessy Gonderinger and Ann-Kathrin Herges.

successes

Other well-known athletes

  • Helga Hoffmann (athletics): Participation in three Olympic Games and four European championships, 14-time German champion (long jump and pentathlon).

Web links

swell

  • The ATSV Saarbrücken is about to end - Georg Rebmann no longer wants , DTS magazine , 1992/3 pages 40–41
  • 50 Years of the Saarländischer Tischtennis-Bund 1946–1996, Ed. Saarländischer Tischtennis-Bund eV, pages 41–44

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1966/16 issue Süd-West, page 14
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/11 page 15
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/8 page 46
  4. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1987/4 Page 29
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/12 page 39
  6. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2019/2 page 6
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1986/5 page 28