DJK Frankenberg Aachen
The DJK Frankenberg Aachen (written out: DJK Frankenberg 1912 Aachen eV ) is an Aachen sports club that was founded in 1912.
history
The youth club for 14 to 17 year old boys was established in 1911 in the Catholic parish Herz Jesu Aachen . In the following year, the club created a sports department in which punch and fistball and athletics were practiced. The First World War brought all sporting activities to a standstill. The establishment of the DJK -Reichsverband in 1920 helped the sports departments of the Catholic youth clubs to organize sports across the board. Since then there have been comparative competitions between the DJK clubs. The athletes now also played football and performed successfully under the name "DJK Frankenberg". Just ten years after it was founded, there were discussions about the “lack of religious interest among athletes”. This led to a temporary dissolution of the sports department. From 1928 onwards, athletes from Frankenberg took part again in field handball and fistball tournaments and championships, as well as in athletics competitions. At the beginning of 1934 the DJK Association and its clubs were banned by the National Socialists. After eventful early years, the club's history had reached its lowest point with the ban and dissolution.
After the horrors of the Nazi dictatorship and the Second World War and the great losses among the former members of the DJK Frankenberg, the “DJK Frankenberg 1912 Aachen e. V ". To this end, the chaplain of the Herz Jesu parish, Hugo Baurmann, gathered a group of young people around him. He was driven by the idea of bringing the adolescents closer to Christian life perspectives after the years of horror in a sports club and making them tangible in sporting togetherness. Sports began with table tennis , football and athletics. In the following years swimming and cycling were added. From 1953 there was gymnastics for women. Basketball and children's gymnastics as well as volleyball and rehabilitation sports groups later supplemented the club's offer. The number of members grew steadily. For several years the association has had between 700 and 800 members.
Women in the club
The origins of the club lay in the sports department of the Catholic youth club of the parish Herz Jesu. The sporting offer was aimed exclusively at boys and men. Even when it was founded in 1948, only male athletes were involved. In 1953 a women's sports department was set up. The commemorative publication for the 50th anniversary of the association paid tribute to the gymnastics carried out there, "which probably creates a welcome balance to professional activity for every participant". From 1965 there were first girls in the athletics department, the other departments followed in the next few years. In order to better represent the female members of the association, the position of a women's representative on the board was introduced in the statutes . There are now about the same number of male and female members.
Departments
basketball
Since the basketball department was founded in 1961, the DJK Frankenberg has successfully participated in championship games. From the beginning of the 1970s, there were also women's and youth teams, so that up to ten teams took part in the game each season. The best teams played in the second highest German leagues: the men in 1976 and the women in 1984. In 1986 the DJK Frankenberg hosted the basketball FICEP European championships for youth teams. From the youth team, Michael Pappert was appointed to the German youth national team in 1976.
The first of a total of four women's teams made it back to the third-highest basketball league (regional league) without defeat in the 2017/18 season. Another team plays in the regional league, the other two women's teams in the district league.
The first men compete in the regional league.
The UE35 -Damenmannschaft was able to qualify in the season 2017/18 once again for the German championship.
Popular sport
The increasing aging of society is reflected in the average age of the athletes. Sports activities change with age.
From 1948 there was a swimming department. The aim of swimming athletes was never competitive sport, but always swimming training and the possibility of healthy movement in the water, geared towards popular sports. Over 180 lifeguards have been trained over the years. In the first few years, people swam in the small pool, later until today in the large pool of the Elisabethhalle . Up to 90 swimmers were in the water at the same time in the 1960s. The swimming department was later assigned to popular sports.
athletics
Athletics has always been practiced at the DJK Frankenberg. After the re-establishment in 1948, the athletics department quickly developed into the largest department of the club. The performance-oriented training was very successful and there was always a lot of work for the next generation. The Aachen Waldstadion is used for training. So far, the successes of the Frankenberg athletes have been numerous. Especially in the school, youth and junior area, the athletes across all disciplines - up to 100 km races - whether as individual starters, as relay or in team competitions, repeatedly achieved placements among the top 10 in German championships as well numerous victories at DJK national sports festivals.
Outstanding achievements were achieved, among other things, in the decathlon through Christian Büscher's 5th place at the German Athletics Championships in 2008 , after he had already won 6th place a year earlier, and through the 7th place of Joachim Kube in the 200- Meter run at the German Athletics Championships in 2002 . The club's figureheads are the ultra-long distance runners, in which the men around Hans Waack (†), Diethard Gansow and Burkhard Ernst Weber won the silver medal in the team classification of the German athletics championships in 1993 and Hans Waack took 4th place in the individual classification won, which was followed a year later with a similar cast and a comparatively good performance. The women were not inferior to this either and Elena Kobrina, for example, was a bronze medalist at the German championships in 2002 in the 100 km road race, in which her twin sister Swetlana Waack won 7th place.
Cycling
The cycling department was founded in 1951. Right from the start, the drivers at the regional association level were very successful. The youth, main class and senior drivers also showed their qualities in international races with victories and good placements. Own amateur street races were held again and again. Particularly noteworthy are the international races "Around the Colynshof " and "Around the Elisenbrunnen " in the 1980s and 1990s. At that time there were annual cycle tourism trips with up to 800 participants. Even in the first decade of the new millennium, individual DJK Frankenberg junior drivers achieved good results as amateur licensed drivers.
Rehabilitation sports
For several years the DJK Frankenberg has been cooperating with the Center for Health Promotion (ZGF) of the Burtscheider Marienhospital in the field of health and rehabilitation sports. These offers are aimed primarily at older athletes.
volleyball
Volleyball has been played since the early 1980s. The men's team played in the league until 2006, since then they have been playing as a hobby team. The women's team stopped playing in 2000. Since 2008, new youth and women teams have been set up, which take part in the association's games again.
Well-known athletes (selection)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Preliminary distribution of the entitlements for the MWB 2018/2019 , on the website of the West German Basketball Association e. V., edition of May 28, 2018
- ↑ Ü35: German championships in Hagen-Haspe , press release of the West German Basketball Association e. V. of May 15, 2017