DJK Offenburg
The DJK Offenburg is a sports club from Offenburg with the divisions football, table tennis, women gymnastics, badminton and snooker. It has about 440 members (2010).
The men's table tennis team played in the Bundesliga in the early 2000s .
Chronicle of the main association
The roots of the association were laid around 1915 when an "Association of Catholic Young Men" was formed. In 1920 he became the DJK sports association , where DJK stands for German youth force . Like all other DJK associations, the DJK Offenburg was dissolved in the mid-1930s by order of the National Socialists . After the Second World War , the association was re-established on May 30, 1954.
Table tennis
Simultaneously with the re-establishment of the club in 1954, a table tennis department was formed , which took part in the official game operation for the first time in the 1955/56 season. Thanks to intensive youth work, several teams in the women's and men's area were later registered.
Men's
The men's team reached the Second Table Tennis League South in 1967/77, at that time the third highest German division. When the four-part 2. Bundesliga was created in 1981, the DJK was one of the participating teams. When several top performers left the club in the early 1990s, the team had to relegate bottom of the table at the end of the 1992/93 season. Two years later she returned to the 2nd Bundesliga South. In the following years, the team mainly occupied places in the lower third of the table. In 1999 the team was completely reformed with the help of six newcomers. She came second in the line-up of Mu Hao (China), Istvan Moldovan (Norway), Denis Gavrilov (Russia), Constantin Cioti (Romania), Viktor Bykov (Belarus) and Konstantin Tschepkasov (Russia) under head coach Pavel Levine. Since the first division TTF Bad Honnef withdrew its team, the DJK Offenburg team was able to advance to the first division.
In the first Bundesliga season 2000/01 Offenburg came in an unexpected seventh place and reached the semi-finals in the ETTU Cup , in which they were eliminated against the eventual winner Montpellier TT after a 3-1 away win and a 0-3 home defeat. In the following season 2001/02 they finished sixth in the league with the Chinese newcomer Bai Fengtian and the Czech Richard Výborný . One season later they were relegated from the Bundesliga as tenth in the table.
In 2003 the DJK merged with the Bundesliga club TTC Karlsruhe-Neureut to form the new club TTC Karlsruhe-Neureut / DJK Offenburg . The top players of the two clubs joined the new club, the remaining players and teams continued to play at their original clubs. Due to financial problems and discrepancies between the original clubs, the new club ended up in last place in 2003/04. He then decided not to start in the 2nd Bundesliga.
Ladies
The women's team succeeded in 2008 in the line-up of Linglan He, Christine Koch, Jana Schneider and Zeljka Dragas promotion from the Regionalliga to the 2nd Bundesliga, where they finished ninth in the 2009/10 season.
youth
In 1990, the former Chinese national coach Li Shusen was committed. He also took care of the training of the young people. The boys' team reached the final of the German championships in 1991/92. In 1993, the association was awarded the Dresdner Bank Green Belt for exemplary youth work .
2010/11 season
Are currently active
- Five men's teams - first team upper league
- Two women's teams - first team 2nd Bundesliga
- Two youth teams
Soccer
The footballers of the DJK Offenburg are at home in the game classes of the Offenburg district. They had their most successful time between 1981 and 1986 when they played in the Kreisliga A Offenburg Staffel Nord. Before that, there were a few shorter guest appearances in their predecessor, the B-Class Offenburg Staffel Nord. They have been playing in the lowest division without interruption since 1986.
Web links
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- Manfred Schillings: Dedicated young talent , DTS magazine , 1993/12 p. 34.
- René Adler: Make one out of two , DTS magazine , 2003/2 p. 25.
- René Adler: The turnaround , DTS magazine , 2003/4 p. 30.
- DTTB: Agreement reached , DTS magazine , 2003/5 p. 5.
- Klaus Teichmann: Zig-zag course , DTS magazine , 2004/6 p. 13.
Individual evidence
- ↑ DTS magazine , 2004/7 p. 5.
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2008/6 regional south p. 3.
- ^ Balance sheets of the DJK Offenburg , German sports club for soccer statistics