Bremerhaven 93

Bremerhaven 93
Full name	Gymnastics and Sports Club Bremerhaven from 1893 eV
place	Bremerhaven
Founded	August 7, 1893
Dissolved	June 30, 1977
Club colors	Red White
Stadion	Customs Inland Stadium
Top league	Oberliga Nord
successes
home Away

Bremerhaven 93 (officially: Gymnastics and Sports Club Bremerhaven from 1893 eV ) was a sports club from Bremerhaven . The club became known for its football department , which reached the semi-finals of the German workers' championship in 1921 and 1923 and the final round of the German championship in 1955. The club played in the top division for 17 years. In 1977 the club went up in the OSC Bremerhaven .

history

1893 to 1933: In workers' sport

The club was founded on August 7, 1893 as a workers gymnastics club in Bremerhaven by port workers . The ATV was one of the oldest clubs in the ATSB (ATSB) and was also the oldest proletarian gymnastics club on the Lower Weser . In 1912, a group of young people from the Lehe district demanded the establishment of a football department, which was founded in the same year and, unusually for this time, was able to assert itself through sport.

Between 1914 and 1924, the workers' sports clubs in the greater Bremerhaven area merged to form the Unterweser Free Gymnastics Association, with the individual clubs, including the ATV Bremerhaven, remaining as departments.

The footballers settled down at the sports field on Rickmersstrasse and became the darling of the port workers. In the summer of 1921, the ATV, which took on as FT Unterweser Dept. 1 Bremerhaven , reached the semi-finals of the German workers' championship , but failed with 2: 3 after extra time to Nordiska Berlin . Two years later, the sports field on Rickmersstrasse had to be abandoned. The barracks sports ground in Lehe became the new venue. At the same time, the team qualified again for the German workers' championship , where in the semi-finals they lost after a 2-0 defeat against SV Stralau from Berlin .

On April 1, 1926, the ATV opened together with the bourgeois rivals Sparta and ATS the domestic customs territory Stadium . Also in 1926, center runner Willi Knebel made his debut in the German workers' national team. In the following years, the ATV provided two other national players with Bernhard Peetz and Werner Krohn, but could no longer qualify for the German workers' championship.

1933 to 1948

When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the ATSB and its affiliated associations were forcibly dissolved. However, since the association was of great importance for the city and had supporters in the proletarian as well as in the bourgeois camp, the association could continue to exist. The association's chairman Albert Paecht managed to save the association with the help of Walter Bleicher, the chairman of the NSDAP's parliamentary group . After a vote, on June 11, 1933, the ATV became TuS Bremerhaven 93. This joined the DFB and was able to continue to participate in the game. However, the 93s had to start over in the district class.

In 1937 he was promoted to the then second-class district league. In 1942 the club was included in the newly created, first-class Gauliga Weser-Ems . On June 13, 1943, the 93ers formed a war game community together with the Leh gymnastics club , which was regrouped in the newly created Gauliga Osthannover .

After the Second World War , TuS Bremerhaven 93 was dissolved in November 1945. SG Bremerhaven was founded as the successor and took on its old name again in March 1947.

In 1946, the team was accepted into the newly created Oberliga Niedersachsen-Nord , where they managed, among other things, a 3-2 win at Werder Bremen . At the end of the season, qualification for the newly created Oberliga Nord was missed by two points. In 1948 the team first became the first champions of the Bremen amateur league and, after a 3-0 win over Itzehoer SV, made it to the Oberliga Nord.

1948 to 1963: Oberliga Nord

On the first match day of the 1948/49 Oberliga season , the 93ers suffered a 7-1 defeat at Hamburger SV . Despite surprising successes such as a 3-0 win over FC St. Pauli , it was only enough to finish last at the end of the season. At the end of the season, the NFV introduced the contract player statute and increased the Oberliga Nord from twelve to 16 teams. For the following season , the former Austrian national player Gustav Wieser took over the coaching office and led the team to tenth place.

In 1950 the club hired the young coach Helmuth Johannsen , under whose direction the 93ers became a fixture in the Oberliga Nord. The team finished eighth in the table three times in a row and even seventh in 1954. Johannsen left Bremerhaven in the direction of Holstein Kiel and was replaced by Robert Gebhardt . Right at the beginning of the 1954/55 season , 93 beat the reigning German champions Hannover 96 2-1 and took over the championship lead for the first time after a 2-1 win over Bremer SV . With a winning streak in the second half of the season, the Bremerhaven-based company secured the runner-up. In the meantime, the team also caused a sensation in the DFB Cup and reached the quarter-finals , where they lost 2-0 to FC Schalke 04 .

In order to qualify for the final round of the German championship , the 93s had to play qualifying games against the runner-up in the Oberliga Südwest Wormatia Worms . The game in neutral Düsseldorf ended 3: 3 after extra time , before Bremerhaven won the replay at the same point 3: 2. The DFB did not allow the Zollinlandstadion for the final round because it was too small and had too few seats. The club then moved to Bremen's Weser Stadium and rented several ships for the fans to transport them to and from the venue.

In the promotion round, 93 won his “home games” against Wormatia Worms 1-0 and against Kickers Offenbach 2-0. There was a 1-1 draw against group winners Rot-Weiss Essen . In the end, Bremerhaven took second place. With this success, the expectations of the Bremerhaven football fans also increased significantly. However, the team could no longer meet this requirement in the following years. In addition, the inland customs stadium proved to be a major problem due to its small capacity and lack of comfort. In 1956, the 93s only finished seventh.

Coach Gebhardt left Bremerhaven in 1958 for SV Sodingen . A year later, the new coach Erich Garske rejuvenated the team with young players like Uwe Klimaschefski and wintered with the team in second place. Internal quarrels between Garske and the board caused the 93 to slip to fifth place. Numerous top performers left the club, which in the last few years of the Oberliga Nord only fought against relegation. In 1963 the Bremerhaven-based company qualified as thirteenth with a lot of effort for the newly created Regionalliga Nord .

1963 to 1974: Regionalliga Nord

Even in the new league, the 93s did not get beyond mediocrity. It was not until the 1965/66 season that the club was able to pick up on better days. But the success was short-lived. In the following season, relegation was only avoided with great difficulty. The average attendance had dropped to 2,200. Coach Werner Lang was replaced by Fritz Schollmeyer. After a series of eight victories in a row, the 93ers reached the top of the table in the spring of 1968, before internal turbulence let the team slip to fifth. The financial worries increased as the club was now 100,000 marks in debt.

As a consequence, more homegrown people such as Egon Coordes , Willi Reimann and Eckhard Deterding were built into the team. In terms of sport, the team couldn't get beyond midfield, while the Zollinlandstadion was renovated in the early 1970s. From 1971, the 93er got into the relegation regions and both in 1972 and in the following season could only hold out in the regional league with great difficulty. In the last regional league season 1973/74 it was only enough for 14th place. The team suffered a 9-1 home defeat against FC St. Pauli .

The newly introduced 2nd Bundesliga was thus missed, so that from 1974 onwards the 93ers only played third-rate for the first time. The association's mountain of debt had meanwhile risen to 400,000 marks. In the meantime, from February 1972, the ATS Bremerhaven and the SV Bremerhaven police formed the major club OSC Bremerhaven. The city granted TuS 93 a grant of 100,000 marks in the summer of 1972. In return, the association agreed to join the OSC. In June 1974 the members of TuS 93 agreed to join, which took place on July 10, 1974. Only the first soccer team initially remained independent.

1974 to 1977: the last few years

The first team of the 93ers initially remained independent because of the high debts, which is why the team was sometimes referred to as OSC 93 by the media . After the sale of the ATSB-Platz on Siebenbergensweg, the OSC leadership agreed on June 23, 1975 to take over the debts of the 93s. The connection of the first team did not take place until July 1, 1977 for technical reasons. In terms of sport, the 93ers initially fell back into the mediocrity of the amateur Oberliga Nord. On September 7, 1975, the club played its last home game in the Zollinlandstadion and parted goalless from SC Victoria Hamburg .

Two weeks later, 8,000 spectators saw a 1: 4 home defeat against Eintracht Nordhorn in the newly opened North Sea Stadium . For the 1976/77 season the 93ers were debt-free and with the support of a sponsorship group were able to strengthen the team considerably. With 98 goals scored, the 93 became champions of the amateur Oberliga Nord. At Victoria Hamburg the team won 8-0, against SpVgg Bad Pyrmont even 10-0. In the following round of promotion, the Bremerhaven team prevailed against 1. FC Bocholt , Spandauer SV and SVA Gütersloh and were promoted to the 2. Bundesliga North.

After joining

The new OSC Bremerhaven club was never able to meet the expectations placed on it. 7200 spectators saw the first home game in the 2nd Bundesliga, which was lost 3-0 to Arminia Bielefeld . At the end of the season, the OSC was relegated and managed to get promoted again with a relegation win against Hertha Zehlendorf . The second attempt in the 2nd Bundesliga ended with relegation and the OSC occasionally slipped into sixth division. The club has been playing in Bremen's highest amateur league since 1996.

Skeptics who had warned of the merger because the major club OSC was more geared towards popular than competitive sports saw themselves confirmed a short time later. Helmut Johanssen, who coached the 93ers in the early 1950s, found after the OSC was relegated to the second division in 1980 that 93 was “a trademark, a term that should not have been given up”.

The Customs Inland Stadium

The name goes back to the former customs inland station. The square was created on the site of the station. Until 1956 there was no grandstand. The stadium, which was often only called "Zolli" in football circles, was known for its atmosphere, the spectators sat close to the pitch. After the end of the TuS, the place initially belonged to the OSC. FC Bremerhaven later took over the stadium, the large wooden stand had long since been demolished. The games of FC Bremerhaven then only took place in front of a maximum of 4500 spectators. The stadium used to have a capacity of around 25,000 seats. The square is no longer a sports facility. The city of Bremerhaven pursued plans for a community meeting place for the fallow land.

Personalities

Mohamed Amiq Horst Bertl Bernd Brexendorf Erich Bucker Erich Busch Egon Coordes

Eckhard Deterding Günter Diekmann Helmut Geruschke Horst Grunenberg Emil Izsó Helmuth Johannsen

Rolf Kaemmer Wilfried Kapteina Uwe Klimaschefski Werner Lang Walter Nachtwey Oswald Pfau

Willi Reimann Gerd Richter Vitomir Rogoznica Dieter Rost Willi Schröder Gerhard Zebrowski

Web links

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 , p. 178.
2. ^ Regional history of the Lower Weser region
3. ↑ www.arbeiterfussball.de: ATSB championship 1921