Alemannia Dortmund
| Alemannia Dortmund | |
| Full name | Association for movement games Alemannia Dortmund eV |
| place | Dortmund , North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Founded | March 13, 1926 |
| Dissolved | May 27, 1973 |
| Club colors | black-and-white |
| Stadion | Hobertsburg |
| Top league | Gauliga Westphalia |
| successes | Promotion to the Gauliga Westphalia in 1943 |
Alemannia Dortmund (officially: Association for Movement Games Alemannia Dortmund eV ) was a sports club from Dortmund . The first team played in the first-class Gauliga Westfalen in the 1940s .
history
Structural development
In 1905 the Rheingold Dortmund gymnastics club was founded, which two years later was renamed Alemannia 05 Dortmund . Also in 1907 the Dortmunder SV 07 was founded, which in 1913 merged with Alemannia 05 to form SSV Alemannia Dortmund . The second parent association was founded on June 14, 1897 as the Dortmund youth association or Protestant association of young men in the western district and was close to the Protestant church . Eight years later, the footballers separated from the youth club and founded VfB Dortmund 97 . After Dortmund's SC 95, this was the second oldest football club in the city. On March 13, 1926, SSV Alemannia Dortmund and VfB Dortmund 97 merged to form VfB Alemannia Dortmund . This in turn merged on May 27, 1973 with SV 08 Dortmund to form SC Dortmund 97/08 .
The parent clubs
The 05er were among the figureheads of Dortmund football in the early 1920s. The club, which is actually based in the Dorstfeld district, opened its Hobertsburg stadium on Fredenbaum in 1921. 5,000 spectators came to the opening game of the "Northerners" against an opponent who was not known by name. In its first season in the new stadium, the team was runner-up in the Ruhrgauliga behind the Essener Turnerbund . For a short time, the club took on the leading sporting role in the city. In the following years the 05er slipped down into the table basement.
VfB was Borussia Dortmund's first opponent on January 15, 1911 and lost the game 3: 9. A star from the BVB Walk of Fame in front of Borsigplatz 9 reminds us of this game today. In terms of sport, VfB reached the top division after the First World War , where the team did not come out of midfield. After the interim relegation, the 97ers mostly fought against relegation until the merger.
Merger partner SV 08 Dortmund was founded in 1908. In 1920 the team was promoted to the top division after a 4-2 win after extra time in the playoff against Borussia Dortmund. A year later, SV 08 negotiated a merger with Borussia Dortmund. While the board was in favor, the members rejected the merger. Although the SV 08 was immediately relegated, it made the new leap to first class as early as 1922. Again the playoff went into extra time before Dortmund beat Schalke gymnastics club 2-1. Two years later, the Schalke footballers split off as FC Schalke 04 . In the later decades, the club did not get beyond local leagues. SV 08 produced two later Bundesliga players with Hans-Georg Dulz and Werner Weist and a later second division player with Detlef Behrens .
VfB Alemannia Dortmund
After the merger, VfB Alemannia played in the first-class Ruhr district league and fought with Dortmund's SC 95 for local supremacy. In 1931 the Alemanni were third in their season, before relegation followed a year later after an 8-0 defeat in the decider against Sportfreunde 95 Dortmund . In 1935 the team, now based in the Alemanniastadion , became champions of the district class, but failed in the promotion round to Gauliga Westfalen at TuS Bochum 08 and Erler SV 08 . At the second attempt in 1938, the Dortmund team failed because of Arminia Bielefeld . It was not until 1943 that they were promoted to the Gauliga, where the team, however, played a minor role.
The Alemanniastadion was destroyed in the Second World War, so that the Alemannia returned to the Hobertsburg. In the season 1945/46 the club belonged to the first-class Landesliga Westfalen , but had to relegate with 0:32 points as the bottom of the table. Only in 1956 succeeded in returning to the now fourth-class national league, to which Alemannia had been a member for three years. 1962 followed the renewed promotion to the state league, where Wolfgang Wehmann had a large share with 48 goals this season. This time VfB Alemannia, which has since returned to the restored Alemanniastadion, stayed in the national league until 1968.
In the early 1970s, the board negotiated a merger with several other clubs in the region to create a counterweight to Borussia Dortmund. In addition to VfB Alemannia and SV 08, DJK Frankonia , SG Nord-Ost , SV Roland and FC Merkur were also involved. However, there was only a small merger between Alemannia and SV 08.
Successor club SC 97/08 Dortmund
The fusion club made it to the national league in 1974 and was fifth in the table twice in a row. Then things went downhill for the club. 1979 the SC 97/08 rose from the national league. It was the first of three relegations in a row that led the club to the district league B in 1981. In the meantime, the club returned to the district league from 1993 to 1998 and in the 1999/2000 season, before the SC 97/08 slipped into the district league C, the lowest division, in 2016. For the 2018/19 season they returned to the district league B.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Hardy Green , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 .
- ↑ a b Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling : The fame, the dream and the money . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-480-4 , p. 20, 36, 64 .
- ↑ a b c Hartmut Hering: In the land of a thousand derbies . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-7307-0209-3 , p. 113-118 .
- ^ A b German Sports Club for Football Statistics (Ed.): Football in West Germany 1902/03 - 1932/33 . 2009, DNB 997617357 , p. 91, 103 .
- ^ SC Dortmund. Tables Archive.info, accessed on May 11, 2019 .