ATV Leipzig 1845

ATV Leipzig 1845

Surname	General gymnastics club in Leipzig from 1845 e. V.
Club colors	Red White
Founded	July 30, 1845
Place of foundation	Leipzig
Association headquarters	Gerhard-Langner-Weg 1 04299 Leipzig
Departments	5
Chairman	Kai Müller-Hegemann
Homepage	www.atv1845.de
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The General Gymnastics Club of Leipzig from 1845 e. V. ( ATV Leipzig 1845 for short ) is a sports club founded on July 30, 1845, which is currently divided into the departments of hockey , tennis , lacrosse , frisbee and gymnastics . Its complex is not far from Leipzig's landmark - the Monument to the Battle of the Nations . It includes two natural grass courts, eight tennis courts and an artificial turf field as well as a natural hockey field. In the recent past, the club has largely become known for its hockey department, through which the European Junior Championships 2000, the first indoor hockey world championship in 2003 , the European men's championship on the field in 2005 and the double indoor European championship 2012 came about. For some years now, the club has been producing youth national players from the department described, especially in the female field.

history

On July 30, 1845, the General Gymnastics Club in Leipzig was founded. Carl Ernst Bock , Karl Biedermann and Moritz Schreber were among the founders .

“On August 24th, the newly founded gymnastics club in Leipzig opened the gymnasium after a well-attended meeting in the rifle house, in which three members of the Turnrath gave lectures. The chairman, Prof. Dr. Biedermann, discussed gymnastics as a cultural-historical moment of the spiritual, moral and social, as the speaker after him, Prof. Dr. Bock, from a medical point of view, from which Dr. Schreber gave a short lecture on gymnastics as an orthopedic remedy. After the gymnastics teacher Heusinger from Dresden had brought greetings and congratulations from the Dresden gymnastics club, the meeting took off for the inauguration of the nearby gymnasium. "

- Report in the Illustrirten Zeitung of October 11, 1845

On November 16, 1845, the association, which had existed since the summer of the previous year, was formally constituted by replacing the provisional gymnastics council with an elected one and starting a consultation on the statutes. At the same time, a request was made to the city ​​council to set up a permanent gym. So far, only temporary solutions were available for this; For example, the bookseller Karl August Reimer had made a building available so that practice could continue during the winter.

In 1846 the gymnasium on Holzgasse was inaugurated. In the following year, the first municipal gymnasium was available to the ATV for annual use. Ladies gymnastics was introduced for the first time in 1848. This year the club already had 770 members, not only in gymnastics , but also 30 members in the singing club, 80 in the gymnastics team and 180 in the fire fighting and rescue company. In 1850 the city of Leipzig gave the order that the boys of III. Citizen school should be the first to receive physical education in the club. In 1853 more schools were added. In 1860 the first German gymnastics and youth festival took place in Coburg . The ATV was involved in it, as in all subsequent German gymnastics festivals until 1945.

From August 1st to 5th, 1863, the ATV hosted the 3rd General German Gymnastics Festival in Leipzig. This year the association had 2552 members in 36 ranks. In addition, the city entrusted the association with the implementation of all year round physical education in all city schools and declared them to be mandatory. In 1867 some of the members resigned from the ATV and founded the Leipziger Turnverein (Westvorstadt), which was later called the Turn- und Sportverein 1867 . In 1868 the " Deutsche Turnerschaft " (DT) was founded in Weimar . The ATV was represented by the gymnastics councils Schürmann and Brettschneider.

In 1876, the ATV declared its membership of the German Gymnastics Association on February 16. In 1886 the Riegenvereinigung was founded, in 1888 the "Spielvereinigung" (game association) of the ATV. Gymnasts of the united ranks began to play batball and soccer in the farm meadows.

During the 7th German Gymnastics Festival in Munich in 1889, members of the ATV game association played a football game against a London club team for the first time. From January 6, 1892 to 1898, Justus Carl Lion was chairman of the ATV and then honorary chairman. In 1893, the ATV supported the initiative of the German Patriots Association to erect a monument to the battle of the nations in Leipzig with an exhibition gymnastics on October 18 .

At the 50th anniversary of the foundation festival in 1895, the following balance was drawn: there were 1576 members in 11 association departments and classes; 67 gymnast; a games department with 88 members and play operations in soccer, sling ball , batball, fistball , cricket and lawn tennis. In 1906 the ATV became an "association with Gaurerechte". In 1899 the last municipal school got its own gym. The association had thus completed the task assigned to it in 1863.

The 12th German Gymnastics Festival took place in Leipzig from July 12th to 16th, 1913. The ATV participated in the preparations with 200 members. 1229 gymnasts of the ATV took part in demonstrations and competitions. On October 18, 1913, the ATV took part in the courier runs of the German Gymnastics Association for the consecration of the Monument to the Battle of the Nations. For the 75th foundation festival in 1920, gymnastics and athletic competitions took place. In 1922, in addition to gymnastics, the ATV offered a games and sports department with foot, fist, punch and handball as well as popular (track and field) exercises, a swimming team (in the Königin-Carola-Bad), a fencing department and a singing department. In the following year stickball (hockey) was added.

On August 24, 1924, the new playground at the Völkerschlachtdenkmal was inaugurated. In 1931 the game and popular sports department comprised the following categories: popular gymnastics (athletics), fist, hand, soccer and stick ball (hockey) as well as tennis, ice hockey , skiing , swimming and water sports . In the course of the alignment of all sports associations in 1936, the German gymnastics association dissolved. From this point on, the gymnasts belonged to Pillar I of the DRL, which was placed under the protection of the NSDAP from 1938 as the National Socialist Reichsbund for physical exercises . In 1940 the first Leipzig indoor hockey tournament took place in the men's gym of the ATV, which the ATV won.

In April 1940, 200 members of the ATV were already at war, and more were in labor service. The ATV tried anyway to continue the game operations and club life. On December 20, 1945, the association was dissolved by order of the Allied Control Authority under Control Council Act No. 2 of October 10, 1945 and Directive No. 23 of December 17, 1945. Directive No. 23 also regulated the development of new sports structures. The Leipzig Probstheida sports community was formed in 1946 from former members of ATV 1845 and VfB Leipzig , which was also founded by former ATV members. Former members of Department 2 (South Center) were active in swimming, fistball, hockey, soccer, athletics, gymnastics and roller skating, among others.

On June 12, 1949, the men of the ATV were runner-up in hockey in the Soviet occupation zone . The women's team became city champions that year. In 1949 and 1950, when the company sports associations (BSG) were founded, the SG Probstheida became the BSG "Erich Zeigner". From this later the BSG Einheit Ost and the BSG Einheit Zentrum (EZL), which existed until 1990, emerged.

1951 brought the BSG EZL 5 GDR championship titles in hockey. In the following years the women and men always played in the top division of the GDR, even after the founding of the sports club and the associated delegation of the best players (men) to SC Leipzig. Since the first international hockey match in a GDR selection in 1951, BSG EZL players have been constantly represented in national teams. Despite the lack of space, tennis was an intense game; the first women's and men's teams played in the top league.

At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, some members of the BSG EZL took part in hockey. The soccer and gymnastics sections were founded in the 1970s. In the following 1980s, pop gymnastics , athletics, swimming and hiking were added. In 1989 the BSG unit center had 819 members, of which 375 in tennis, 212 in hockey, 56 in football, 38 each in chess and bowling, 24 in gymnastics, 23 in swimming, 20 each in athletics and pop gymnastics and 13 in the hiking section.

On July 1, 1990, the general gymnastics club of Leipzig was re-established by 1845 eV as the legal successor to the association that was dissolved in 1945 and entered into the association register of the city of Leipzig on September 13. It had 366 members organized in the hockey, tennis, soccer and gymnastics departments. In 1991 the ATV women's hockey team was the only team in the new federal states to play in the first division. After the 1991 field season, the same applied to the 1992/1993 indoor season. In January 1995 the club became a talent base for Saxony in tennis.

In 1996 the first artificial turf pitch was inaugurated on the ATV facility due to the women's promotion to the Bundesliga. In 2000 the club was the host of the European Junior Hockey Championship before the ATV hosted the first indoor hockey world championship in 2003.

In 2004, the female youth A of the Leipzig club won the German championship title in field hockey as the first and so far only East German team.

In 2005 the club hosted the men's field hockey championship, which gave ATV a new artificial turf. In the 2008/09 field season, the first men in hockey made it to the second Bundesliga for the first time.

From January 13th to 15th, 2012, the club organized the men's and women's indoor hockey championship in the Leipzig Arena in cooperation with the DHB and the city of Leipzig .

In July 2013, the association was expanded with the establishment of the Frisbee department by including members of the Ultimate Frisbee group "Saxy Divers Leipzig".

In 2015, the club incorporated the Lacrosse section and thus took over the women's team in the 1st Bundesliga East, the men's team in the 2nd Bundesliga East and the youth team that was being established.

From February 4th to 8th, 2015, the association organized the 4th indoor hockey world championship for women and men in the Arena Leipzig again with the DHB, the city of Leipzig and the SHV.

successes

GDR championship tennis

• female Children: 1979, 1987, 1988, 1989 team champions
• Girls - doubles: 1989 Sabine Mehnert and Franka Wiemers
• Girls - singles: 1988 Sabine Mehnert
• female Youth: 1979 team champion
• Women - doubles: 1986 Harriet Berger and Inka Surkus

GDR championship hockey

• Women: Field 1989 | Halle 1951, 1952, 1979, 1989
• Men: Field 1951, 1964, 1971, 1974 | Halle 1951, 1952, 1975
• female Youth: Field 1950, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1989 | Halle 1950, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1983, 1987, 1988
• female Children: Feld 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 | Halle 1980, 1985, 1988

German championship title

• Hockey - female Youth A field 2004

GDR national player of ATV Leipzig

Men's	Period	Number of games	Ladies	Period	Number of games
Werner Grabo	1950	2	Edit write	1954	1
Karl Funke	1952	1	Dorle Bradtke	1954-58	9
Hans-Joachim Rohrwacher	1952-56	14th	Gitta Remmler	1954-58	8th
Joachim Weiskopf	1956-63	13	Rosemarie Uecker	1955-58	5
Hans-Dietrich Sasse	1963-79	79	Ingeborg Sasse	1970-80	25th
Reinhard Sasse	1966-79	81	Elke Lückert	1977-90	80
Bernd Jabin	1971	4th	Regina Kratz	1979-81	7th
Wolfgang Remmler	1974	2	Elenor Hofmann	1983-84	7th
Gerhard Langer	1975-78	10	Andrea Kunad	1987-90	22nd
Lutz Rademacher	1978	1	Kerstin Reinhardt	1987-90	11
Lutz Nordmann	1980	2	Sabine Sasse	1987-90	27
Kai Müller-Hegemann	1981	1	Sabine Schwarz	1989	2
Tim Graefe	1986-90	12	Ines Thieme	1989	3
			Ulrike Sluga	1989-90	3
			Heidi Wiedersich	1989–1996 *	14 *

* Heidi Wiedersich: including games for the German national team after reunification

swell

• Festschrift 150 years of the General Gymnastics Club in Leipzig from 1845 eV
• Festschrift 75 years of hockey at the Völkerschlachtdenkmal
• News from the Allgemeine Turnverein zu Leipzig for the jubilee year 1895. digital

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Eberhard Friedrich Richter : The father of the Leipzig gymnastics . In: The Gazebo . No. 31 , 1863, p. 484–489 ( ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online [accessed July 30, 2020]).
2. ^ Gymnastics Club in Leipzig. In:  Illustrirte Zeitung , October 11, 1845, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).
3. ↑ Schiller Festival . - gymnastics club. In:  Morgenblatt for educated stands / Morgenblatt for educated readers , December 5, 1845, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
4. ^ German field hockey championship 2004/05. Female women A. In: Hockey.de. Deutscher Hockey-Bund , accessed on February 18, 2016 . 
5. ^ European Hockey Championship Men Leipzig 2005. In: Hockey.de. Deutscher Hockey-Bund, accessed on February 18, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Hockey archive on the website of the German Hockey Association: [1] (accessed on March 8, 2014)

Web links

• Official website of ATV Leipzig
• The history of the ATV 1845