Arminia Bielefeld (handball)

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Arminia Bielefeld (officially: Deutscher Sportclub Arminia Bielefeld eV ) is a sports club from Bielefeld . The first men's handball team played in the then first-class Gauliga Westfalen in the 1930s .

history

The club was founded on May 3, 1905 as the 1st Bielefeld football club Arminia and took its current name on January 30, 1926. The handball department was founded in 1923 and experienced its most successful period in the 1930s. In 1933, the Bielefeld team reached the final round of the Westphalia Championship and qualified for the newly created, first-class Gauliga Westfalen. One of the club's top performers was Franz Dierkes, who narrowly missed the nomination for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin . In the following years there were personnel problems as numerous players were drafted into the Wehrmacht . The Bielefelder got down from the Gauliga in 1938 and had to stop playing because of the Second World War in the early 1940s.

After the end of the war, the handball players quickly resumed gaming and, despite successful youth work, were never able to build on their pre-war successes. While clubs from the outskirts of Bielefeld such as TSV Altenhagen 03 or TuS Jöllenbeck offered higher-class handball, Arminia only played at the district level. At the beginning of the 1970s, hope grew again when the youth team became East Westphalia champions. However, the players moved to other clubs. The formerly great influence of the handball department in the overall club continued to decline. Most recently, the department lamented its role as a stepchild in the club before the department was dissolved in 1987. The member of the state parliament Hans Feuss and the later president of Arminia Jörg Zillies played handball for Arminia Bielefeld.

In their most successful years, Arminia Bielefeld's handball players played on the Alm and regularly welcomed several thousand spectators. One theory says that the handball player and club chairman Karl Demberg is the originator of the unusual stadium name. The background is Dembergs quote "Let them come, we will bend them on our alpine pasture!" The handball department had always claimed the authorship of the name and played against SuS Osnabrück on the Alm for the first time on January 26, 1926. After the war, the handball players played their home games on the field on the Westplatz next to the Alm , while indoor handball played the Almhalle was used.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Jens Kirschneck, Marcus Uhlig , Volker Backes, Olaf Bentkämper, Julien Lecoeur: Arminia Bielefeld - 100 years of passion . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-479-0 , p. 68, 83 .
  2. ↑ Münsterländische Volkszeitung of March 28, 1938
  3. ↑ a b Ulrike Polenz, Thomas Brinkmeier: Abteilunge . In: Arminia Bielefeld (Ed.): 111 years of Arminia Bielefeld . 2016, p. 130 .
  4. ^ "Football meets handball" at the DSC. Arminia Bielefeld, accessed November 15, 2017 .