Boxing club 1. FC Nuremberg

Boxing club 1. FC Nürnberg eV
Club data
founding	1995 ( 1925 )
Address / contact	Valznerweiherstrasse 200 90480 Nuremberg
1. Chairman	Boguslaw Brzozowski
2nd chairman	Sandra Mueller
Members	?
Club colors	Red White
Club successes	1 × German team runner-up (1992)
Internet
Homepage	www.box-club-fcn.de

The boxing club 1. FC Nürnberg eV emerged from the boxing department of the main club as an independent club in 1995 as part of the organizational reform at 1. FC Nürnberg . Like the other former club departments, the boxing club 1. FC Nürnberg has since been part of the FCN umbrella organization. With around 120 active boxers, the 1. FC Nürnberg boxing club is, according to its own information, the largest Bavarian boxing club.

history

Karl Hertel founded a boxing department within 1. FC Nürnberg in 1925. As early as 1925 there was a first national success when Hans Herbst was in the final of the German championship. The outstanding boxer at FCN in those years was Georg Strauss , who was in the ring in 183 fights from 1926 to 1933 and was Bavarian champion several times. It was also Georg Strauss who pushed ahead with the reconstruction of the FCN's boxing relay after World War II , in which he lost a leg. Theo Hasselbacher took over the training and was responsible for the following successes until his death in 1983.

The boxing relay was one of the public attractions alongside the soccer players from 1. FC Nürnberg. In 1949 she boxed against SV Bamberg in front of 30,000 spectators before the soccer game between the club and 1. FC Kaiserslautern . With heavyweight Karl Kistner one of the best German boxers of that time belonged to the club. The 1952 German champion took an excellent 5th place out of 32 players in boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki . His club mate Heinz Appler , who won the German lightweight championship in 1951 and 1953, was one of the Olympic athletes in Helsinki.

In 1955, the boxing relay brought the Bavarian team championship to Nuremberg. In addition to Kistner and Appler, the club also provided individual Bavarian champions with Emil Diem (flyweight 1953), Josef Wilkat (featherweight 1956), Peter Alber (semi-difficult 1956), Walter Totzauer and Walter Kunstmann (both semi-difficult). Then there is Edgar Vogt , who was Bavarian middleweight champion in 1957 and then came second in the German championships and boxed several times for the national relay.

On December 2, 1967, the boxing department inaugurated a new hall. The next great success that has been handed down dates back to the 1970s. First of all, the twins Manfred Hopf and Gerhard Hopf should be mentioned. Manfred was Bavarian light welterweight champion in 1969, 1976 and 1977 and won a bronze medal at the military world championship in 1978. Even more successful was Gerhard, who was nine times Bavarian champion between 1969 and 1980 and six times southern German champion from 1974 to 1980. It was never enough for him to win the German title, but the lightweight finished third in 1975 and second in 1977 at the national championships. The youth department also won numerous titles in Bavarian and southern German championships and podium places in German championships.

The next German championship in 1975 brings Ernst Schrödinger flyweight to Nuremberg. The national relay boxer also won the Bavarian and South German championships in 1974 and 1976, and in 1976 he also achieved third place in the German championships. He is by far the most successful of a total of five Schrödinger. Horst, Dieter, Norbert and Jürgen each managed to win titles in northern Bavaria. From the successful youth work of those days, Hermann Forberg (Bantam 1976), Klaus-Dieter Forberg (lightweight 1978) and Hans-Peter Dörfler (light welterweight 1980) stand out with their bronze medals at the German junior championships.

In the early 1980s, two of the most successful club boxers after Karl Kistner entered the ring: Peter Gailer and Martin Scharf , who both boxed for the national relay. Gailer won eleven Bavarian and five southern German championships in bantam and featherweight between 1982 and 1995. At German championships he has two third places and six second places. In 1986 he was crowned by winning the bantamweight title. Martin Scharf was denied a German title win, but he also won several junior championships in the light flyweight division as well as two Bavarian and southern German championships for seniors and fourth place at the German championships in 1994. The members of the FCN boxing relay also fought for numerous other Northern Bavarian and Bavarian titles and top placements.

After the death of coach Theo Hasselbacher in 1983, Manfred Hopf took over the training. The boxing relay was also successful as a team and won several championships in the Bavarian League. From 1990 to 1994 1. FC Nürnberg boxed in the German league and in 1992 won the German runner-up. At the same time, Nuremberg boxes can still be found at the top of the Bavarian and southern German championships. But only Robert Herzing managed to win a title in southern Germany in 1991, which the light middleweight won a fifth place at the German championships. In 1995 the boxing department of 1. FC Nürnberg became an independent club as part of the organizational reform of the FCN.

Manfred Hopf, who meanwhile shares the training with Fernando Marzano, became the Bavarian national trainer at the end of the 1990s. Uwe Schulz was also responsible for the training. Under his wing, u. a. Tuncay Kasim, Alexander Abrahamian and Awetik Abrahamian to the first successes. Kasim was 1999 Franconian champion, North Bavarian champion, Bavarian runner-up and 3rd of the South German championships in bantamweight. Alexander Abrahamian became German junior champion in 1997 and Bavarian runner-up in the welterweight division in 1998. He is now boxing as a professional for Wilfried Sauerland's boxing stable . His brother Awetik, who also became German junior champion in 1997 and Bavarian senior champion in 1998 for the light middleweight club, is also a professional at Sauerland under his fighting name Arthur Abraham and, as IBF world champion, is certainly the most successful boxer to date to emerge from 1. FC Nürnberg . With Chorem Awetisjan , 1998 Bavarian champion and international South German champion in the light middleweight division, and Alichan Awdijan , two other current professional boxers have their roots in Nuremberg.

After Manfred Hopf finally switched to the Bavarian amateur boxing association as a trainer in 2001, the former athletes Boguslaw Brzozowski, Orie McQueen and Metin Okcu took over the training management of the club boxers as a team. The boxing club now pays special attention to the integration of children and young people from migrant families. As a base association and cooperation partner in the special program “Integration through Sport” in the Bavarian State Sports Association, at least half of the active people at 1. FCN are immigrants and repatriates. With Katharina Haase, who was Bavarian runner-up in the bantamweight division in 2004, a woman achieved a top position for the club for the first time. In 2006, Tuncay Kasim (Halbwelter) and the great talent Sergej Lutz (Bantam), who was the southern German champion in the junior division in 2005, each took fourth place in the German senior championships.

successes

singles

German championships

• 1952: Karl Kistner (heavyweight)
• 1975: Ernst Schrödinger (flyweight)
• 1986: Peter Gailer (bantamweight)

Bavarian Championships

• 1968: Rudi Pavala (runner-up in featherweight)
• 2017: Benedikt Volland (runner-up in the light heavyweight division)

International success

• 1952: Karl Kistner (heavyweight) finishes fifth at the Helsinki Olympics
• 1978: Manfred Hopf (light welterweight) wins gold at the military world championships in Ghana

Web links

• http://www.box-club-fcn.de/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Inge Klimiont: A successful year 2004 for the boxing club 1.FC Nürnberg eV 18 trophies were ready for the championship award . In: brfcn.franken.de. Boxing Club 1.FC Nürnberg eV, archived from the original on April 3, 2007 ; Retrieved May 29, 2007 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} History since 1925. The beginning of the eventful boxing history at the club was written in 1925. In: brfcn.franken.de. Box-Club 1.FC Nürnberg eV, archived from the original on August 6, 2004 ; Retrieved May 29, 2007 . 
3. ↑ When the old club grounds in Zerzabelshof were demolished , the data from the 1960s was lost.
4. ^ The German Championships in Olympic Boxing 2006 in Straubing. Sergej Lutz and Tuncay Kasim v. Club took an honorable 4th place. In: brfcn.franken.de. Boxing Club 1.FC Nürnberg eV, archived from the original on May 6, 2008 ; Retrieved May 29, 2007 .