DHC Hanover
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '7.3 " N , 9 ° 42' 7.3" E
The German Hockey Club Hannover eV (DHC) is a hockey , tennis and lacrosse club in Hanover .
history
On December 22nd, 1910, the club was founded by 17 former members of DSV Hannover 78 . The club colors were defined as black and red. Sports operations began in the spring of 1911. Hockey was played on a rented court on the cycling track, while tennis players were allowed to play as guests on courts of the German Tennis Association . In 1913 the club's own facility was opened in the Georgengarten . The sports facility consisted of two hockey and four tennis courts, as well as a small clubhouse. In 1924 a larger clubhouse was built, the tennis facility was expanded by three courts and a 600 m running track was completed.
During the Second World War, the clubhouse was hit in an air raid in 1943 and burned to the ground. Since the lease with the city of Hanover had expired in 1945, three hockey rinks and the running track were added to two neighboring clubs. In 1947 a small new clubhouse was built, which was enlarged in 1951. In 1950 the sports facility was expanded by two hockey fields, so that the club now has three courts again (2 × artificial turf, 1 × natural turf), while four outdoor courts are available for the tennis department. In 1970 the sports hall was inaugurated on the DHC facility. In 1990 the first artificial turf pitch was inaugurated on the DHC site in Hanover with a four-nation tournament. In 2009 the division "Lacrosse" was founded in the DHC. In 2012 the DHC Hannover officially opened the second artificial turf pitch on the club area "An der Graft".
hockey
The men's hockey team was one of the best German teams until World War II. At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 , three DHCers - Kurt Haverbeck , Herbert Hobein and Heinz Wöltje - won the bronze medal in the Olympic hockey tournament. Like many other traditional clubs, the club decided in 1949 to no longer participate in championship game traffic. This decision was withdrawn in 1963. In 1969 the men's team qualified for the newly created national league in field hockey and in 1973 the DHC was promoted to the indoor national league.
At the 1978 European field hockey championship in Hanover, Reinhard Krull , Andreas Wibusta and Reinhardt Lange were three DHCers in the victorious national team. At the end of the 80s, the DHC was relegated from the Bundesliga, and within Hanover, two competitors have now opened up with DTV and 78 .
The women of the DHC are currently playing on the field and in the hall in the Regionalliga Nord. The men are currently playing on the field in the Regionalliga Nord and indoors in the 2nd Bundesliga North (as of 2018).
Youth: One focus of the current sporting work is on youth hockey. This is also evident from the fact that the DHC is one of the few clubs in Germany that employs two full-time hockey coaches with the highest coaching license. In the past few years, the DHC youth has been playing its way forward and is now the determining force in Lower Saxony and Bremen. The DHC also regularly takes part in the intermediate rounds of the German Championship. However, participation in the finals was only possible again in the anniversary year 2010 (boys A and female youth B), female youth B won the German championship in 2010 on their own facility, in Berlin the boys' A team became German runner-up in the same year. The female youth managed the double in the following indoor season (2010/2011) and also won the German championship here.
The DHC Hannover has been the official youth hockey base of the German Hockey Federation since 2011. Since 2001, the Wilhelm-Hirte-Cup (WHC) has been one of the largest children's tournaments (for 6-9 year olds) in northern Germany once a year. The participants traditionally come from all over Germany.
lacrosse
Since July 2009, the "Lacrosse" division has been part of the DHC Hannover's sporting offer. Two women's teams, two men's teams and one female youth team play for the DHC in the Bundesliga North. In 2010 the German championship in lacrosse was held in the DHC Hannover.
The most successful team in the lacrosse division is the Bundesliga women's team. In 2015 the team is German lacrosse champion for the fourth time in a row. The runner-up title was achieved in 2011. The men play successfully in the 1st Bundesliga North. The juniors became German runner-up in 2010, German master and North German champion in 2011, North German runner-up in 2012, and achieved 3rd place at the German championship in 2012 in Hamburg.
The DHC is also strongly represented in the respective national teams.
tennis
The DHC has four tennis courts (ash).
Former athletics department
From the beginning of the 1920s, the athletics department was a leader in Hanover. After the Second World War, however, the department could no longer follow on from the successes of the twenties. Only the DHC exceptional athlete Jutta Heine won two silver medals at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 on the 200 m course and in the 4 x 100 m relay and was German champion in the 200 m in 1959 and 1961.
Former ice hockey department
In the early 1910s, ice hockey was played at the DHC. As a venue used was a 1910 opened skating rink that due to the small size spittoon was called. Games against teams from Leipzig and Berlin are assured for 1911.
Fonts
In 1985 the DHC published the Club Nachrichten in its 67th year .
literature
- 10 years of the Deutscher Hockey-Club Hannover EV , Hannover: Franz Scherrer , 1910
- Chronicle of the years 1910 to 1960 of the German Hockey Club eV , 1960
- Karl-Heinz Grotjahn MA: German Hockey Club (DHC) Hanover. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 129f.
Web links
- Literature from and about the German Hockey Club in the catalog of the German National Library
- DHC Hannover website
- Web presence of the lacrosse division of the DHC Hannover
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank Bröker : Ice Hockey in Germany. Nothing for weak nerves. Publishing house Andreas Reiffer. ISBN 978-3-934896-93-2
- ↑ https://www.hockeyarchives.info/Allemagne1911.htm
- ↑ https://www.hockeyarchives.info/Allemagne1912.htm
- ↑ Compare this information from the German National Library