BC Hamburg

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BC Hamburg
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Surname Basketball Club Hamburg eV
Club colors black and yellow
Founded 1952
Place of foundation Hamburg-Winterhude
Association headquarters Theodor-Körner-Weg 13
22455 Hamburg
Members 185
Chairman Till Everling & Michael Wäldle
Homepage hamburg-tigers.de

The BC Hamburg (formerly BC Johanneum, then BCJ Tigers Hamburg ) is a basketball club based in Hamburg . As BCJ Hamburg Tigers, the team rose to the basketball league in 1999 and stayed in the league for two years. In the 1999/2000 season , the Tigers reached the play-off eighth-finals. In 2001 they were relegated to the second basketball division and a year later they were again second division champions. The first men's team is currently playing in the major league.

history

Rowers from the Johanneum Scholars' School played basketball as a counterbalance to their other sporting activities and founded the Johanneum basketball club in 1952. The men's team rose in the 1950s to what was then the highest German division, the Oberliga (North Staffel). The first Johanneum player to make the leap into the German national team was Jürgen Wurft. As part of a reform of the divisions, the BC Johanneum landed in the third division regional league in the 1960s. In 1979 the team was promoted to the 2nd basketball league for the first time , with Heiner Zarnack and Jens Holtkötter, two players in the squad who later shaped the club's history. The "excursion" into the second class lasted only a year. In 1983 the BC Johanneum became champions of the Regionalliga Nord under coach Zarnack and then played for three years in the 2nd basketball league until 1986.

In 1994 Jens Holtkötter joined the club as a financier, and in the 1994/95 season the team coached by Zarnack won the championship title in the Regionalliga Nord and returned to the 2nd Bundesliga. There the team advanced to the top group in the following years. In the run-up to the second division season 96/97, the team budget was increased to around 500,000 D-Marks (previously 150,000 D-Marks), the main round 96/97 of the 2nd Bundesliga North was finished as the leader of the table, the team around Robert Feaster , Andrew Bailey , Guðmundur Bragason and Pat Elzie and Dimitri Buschin missed promotion to the Bundesliga in the relegation round. Until February 1998 Heiner Zarnack looked after the team, which had received the self-designation "Heroes of Hamburg", as coach, then temporarily Hans-Dieter Niedlich and then from the 1998/99 season the American Tim Butler . Also in the run-up to the 98/99 season, Cecil Egwuatu from local rivals SC Rist Wedel, one of the most promising German playmaker talents of the time, was signed. With the beginning of the game year 98/99 the team called itself BCJ Hamburg Tigers, but BC Johanneum Hamburg remained the official club name. With the changed name it was hoped to increase the pulling power in the search for additional donors. In the person of Adebayo Akinkunle , there was a strong US-American who was reinforced during the season by the builder Maurice Newby and the NBA experienced Mitchell "JJ" Anderson . The top-class team, under coach Butler, then made it to the top division of the country in the spring of 1999. Again you had previously finished the 2nd Bundesliga North as the main round champion. As of 1999, the entire BC Johanneum club had 235 members and 16 teams in the men's, women's and youth areas.

The team entered the first Bundesliga year with a budget of 2.2 million Deutschmarks. From the promotion team, top performers such as Carsten Heinichen , Michael Broderick , Akinkunle and Newby were retained. Young star Egwuatu, on the other hand, did not receive a contract extension because there was disagreement about how his role for Hamburg in the Bundesliga should look like. The question of the hall was already considered a difficulty for the team's future at this point. The Heimstätte Sporthalle Wandsbek with 2400 spectator seats and other venues that existed in the city at the time were assessed as unsuitable for further development of the team in the medium term. "With the location in Hamburg we will never be able to challenge a team like Alba Berlin ," said Holtkötter in autumn 1999. In November 1999, promotion coach Butler resigned after the club management rejected his request to suspend player Dimitri Buschin. Before that, there had been considerations to part with Butler, as his relationship with assistant coach Niedlich and sports director Zarnack was disrupted after the American had denied both of them their basketball expertise. Peter Schomers was hired as Butler's successor. Already in the first year of the Bundesliga there were delays in paying players' salaries and financial difficulties, also because no main sponsor could be found. In December 1999, the team was on the brink of failure as the players refused to continue their work without pay. A written declaration by the club in mid-December, in which the payment of salaries was promised, ultimately convinced the players. "We're not doing well at the moment, but we have no substantial problems," Holtkötter admitted in December 99, but also emphasized: "The BCJ Tigers project is not in danger." In March 2000, the club separated from manager Carsten Rühl , he was succeeded by Axel Cadow . Despite the unrest, the Hamburg team reached the championship round as a league newcomer, where they were eliminated in the first round. Even after the end of the season, players were demanding outstanding wages through their lawyers and advisers.

The professional journal Basketball wrote in the run-up to the 2000/01 season: “It can only get better. It must. Nobody in Hamburg likes to imagine a season that is the same as the previous one. (...) The most important thing for the Tigers, however, remains that this time the action takes place on the floor. Nothing would be harder than a new edition of last year's horror cabinet. ”But even in the second Bundesliga year, the club was plagued by economic worries. Mark below that of the previous season, a hole of around 800,000 Deutschmarks. Again, salaries were not paid on time and bills were not paid, which in a player's apartment led to the operator turning off the electricity. On the part of the management of the Bundesliga, the club was accused of failing to adhere to license requirements. At the end of September 2000, Manager Cadow resigned from his position for personal reasons, the position initially remained vacant and the club's president and patron Holtkötter initially took over the duties. In December 2000, Duane Woodward , one of the team's most important players, was dismissed because of a physical abuse in training. In a report by the newspaper Die Welt it was said that this was the "temporary negative climax of another chaotic season for the Tigers". At the end of January 2001, Cecil Egwuatu, one of the heroes of the rise, who had left in grudge in 1999, was brought back. The team, whose environment, according to Schomers' statement in March 2001, was “not worthy of a first division club”, slipped to the bottom of the Bundesliga table with eleven defeats in a row. Woodward's expulsion was “the big break” and unsettled the team , so Holtkötter later. Although the American was brought back in March 2001 and a coaching change was made in April 2001 (the former BCJ player Pat Elzie replaced Schomers) and a new manager, Kai Lorenz, was hired, but relegation was missed, although the team under Elzie had a winning streak.

At the end of August 2001, Lorenz was dismissed as a manager for financial reasons. For the 2001/02 second division season, Hamburg put together a team that was traded as a championship contender thanks to Woodward's commitment. The team management also announced the immediate return to the Bundesliga as a goal. The club's economic difficulties continued in the second division, debts of 500,000 euros had accumulated, and in March 2002 bankruptcy proceedings were initiated against the club. The 2001/02 season was very successful in sporting terms: Hamburg won the second division championship.

After the bankruptcy of the BC Johanneum, a successor club was founded with the BC Hamburg, which after winning the championship in spring and summer 2002 tried to create the economic conditions to exercise the sporting right to return to the Bundesliga. The team management also considered moving to the hall at the Volkspark, which was still under construction at the time . At the beginning of May 2002, the BCH announced the separation from Holtkötter, who had invested around 3.5 million euros in the team since 1994. Nothing came of the hoped-for return to the first division: BC Hamburg did not find the necessary donors and did not receive a license for the Bundesliga, and the majority of the second division clubs voted against the transfer of the right to participate from the bankrupt BC Johanneum to the successor club BC Hamburg, so that the team was downgraded to the regional league has been. According to the daily newspaper, this meant "the final chapter of years of mismanagement under the hegemony of the slain patron Holtkötter".

In 2003, BC Hamburg considered applying for a free place in the basketball league as a regional league team, but the project ultimately did not lead to success. In the following years, the team of the BCH rose to the top division. In the 2010s, the later Bundesliga players Ismet Akpinar , Lennard Larysz and Louis Olinde emerged from the club's youth department.

Last Hamburg Bundesliga squad (2000-2001)

nationality Surname position Date of birth size Today's Club (2008)
RussiaRussia Dima Bushin 4/5 2.06 m
NigeriaNigeria / GermanyGermany Cecil Egwuatu 1 February 29, 1980 1.82 m no longer active
GermanyGermany Marcus Engelke 5 1972 2.05 m ETV Hamburg
GermanyGermany Stephan Flesch 2/3 1981 1.98 m no longer active
UkraineUkraine Konstantin Furman 5 April 13, 1976 2.06 m Hapa Ansbach Piranhas ( ) GermanyGermany
FranceFrance Jelani Gardner 1/2 December 26, 1975 1.98 m University - Yugra Surgut ( ) RussiaRussia
United StatesUnited States Detric Golden 1 1977 1.77 m no longer active
GermanyGermany Carsten Heinichen 1 1968 1.68 m no longer active
United StatesUnited States Fredrick Herzog 3/4 1969 1.98 m no longer active
GermanyGermany / United StatesUnited States Steven Johnson 1/2 20th August 1966 1.97 m no longer active
GermanyGermany / CroatiaCroatia Zoran Krezic 1/2 August 16, 1979 1.90 m no longer active
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina / CroatiaCroatia Damir Kurtagic 4th 17th May 1974 2.04 m Bramfelder SV Hamburg ( ) GermanyGermany
GermanyGermany Lorenz Manthey March 29, 1983 1.90 m no longer active
GermanyGermany Jamal Martin 2/3 December 14, 1982 1.95 m no longer active
GermanyGermany Björn Meyer-Schomann 3/4 October 29, 1970 2.00 m Halstenbeker TS (2nd regional league)
GermanyGermany Peer Scheer 2 February 22, 1983 1.93 m no longer active
GermanyGermany Michael Stockhammer 2/3 4th February 1980 1.93 m BasketClubs Vienna ( ) AustriaAustria
GermanyGermany Marc Suhr 5 January 9, 1969 2.15 m no longer active
United StatesUnited States Duane Woodward 1 4th June 1976 1.93 m Proteas Eka AEL Limassol ( ) Cyprus RepublicRepublic of Cyprus
United StatesUnited States Patrick Elzie Head coach November 22, 1960 - SC RASTA Vechta ( ) GermanyGermany

Club personalities

Top marks in the BBL

season Points Rebounds Assists Steals Blocks
2000/2001 Fredrick Herzog 566 (17.2 per game)United StatesUnited States
 Marc Suhr 230 (7.9)GermanyGermany
 Duane Woodward 96 (4.8)United StatesUnited States
 Steven Johnson / 49 (1.6)United StatesUnited StatesGermanyGermany
 Fredrick Herzog 15 (0.5) United StatesUnited States
1999/2000 Maurice Newby 412 (16.5)FranceFrance
 Adebayo Akinkunle 229 (10.4)United StatesUnited States
 Gary Wright / 84 (3.2)BelgiumBelgiumUnited StatesUnited States
 Gary Wright / 29 (1.1)BelgiumBelgiumUnited StatesUnited States
 Adebayo Akinkunle 19 (0.9) United StatesUnited States

Web links

Individual evidence

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