Duisburg SpV

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Duisburg SpV
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Full name Duisburger Spielverein e. V.
place Duisburg
Founded March 22, 1900
Dissolved June 30, 1964
Club colors
Stadion Sports ground at Grunewald (1901–1914)
Sports ground on Rheintörchenstrasse (1918–1954)
Wedaustadion (1954–1964)
Top league Oberliga West
successes German runner-up in 1913
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The Duisburger Spielverein (mostly abbreviated to Duisburger SpV or DSV ) was a sports club from Duisburg . The club was one of the pioneering clubs in West German football and was able to win the West German championship ten times. In 1913 the game club became German runners-up . The club provided five German national players . Because of their red jerseys, the players were also known as "red blouses". On July 1, 1964, the game club merged with TuS Duisburg 48/99 to form Eintracht Duisburg .

history

The gaming club in the German Empire

On March 25, 1848, the Duisburg gymnastics community for adults was founded in 1848 . In 1892, after a study trip to London , a club member brought the soccer game to Duisburg. A year later, the first place was built on the powder meadow. In 1896 the club received an invitation to four friendly matches in England . The games were all lost with a goal difference of 0:37. On October 23, 1898 one was one of the founding members of the Rheinischer Spiel-Verband . Two years later the German Gymnastics Association banned its member clubs from playing football. It is considered "un-German" and "English disease". On the initiative of the later DFB President Gottfried Hinze , the football department founded the Duisburg game club on March 22, 1900 .

From 1902, the Rheinische Spiel-Verband set up a league system. The game club was placed in the first class of the 3rd district and was runner-up behind the tied Essen SV 1899 . On November 4, 1903, the DSV joined the German Football Association in order to be able to take part in the finals for the German championship . The “red blouses” promptly won their first West German championship. In the semifinals , the team failed by the reigning champions VfB Leipzig , who only scored the winning goal to make it 3-2 in the 132nd minute of the game.

Six further West German championships followed until the outbreak of the First World War for the DSV, which moved into its sports field on Grunewald in 1901 . The “red blouses” were also able to keep up at the national level. After the Duisburg team failed in the quarter-finals at the Karlsruher FV in 1905 , they reached the semi-finals three years later . Here the Stuttgarter Kickers clearly prevailed with 5: 1 goals. The game club initially protested that the rain- soaked pitch was not playable. The DFB rejected the protest on the grounds that footballers are after all not cowards .

Team photo from 1913

In 1909 the West German Game Association introduced a "ten league" for the strongest clubs in the association area. The game club secured three of the four championships played. In 1910, the DSV provided players with Lothar Budzinski-Kreth and Christian Schilling for the first time for the German national team. After the team failed in the quarter-finals at the Karlsruhe FV and Holstein Kiel at the German championships in 1910 and 1911 , they made it to the finals for the first time in 1913 . First, a 2-1 quarter-final win against the favored Stuttgarter Kickers succeeded. In the semifinals, the game club met Holstein Kiel. 10,000 spectators in nearby Essen saw a 2-1 victory for the “Rotblusen”, which was the first West German club to make it into the final. There, VfB Leipzig proved to be too strong and won the final 3-1. Heinrich Fischer scored the consolation goal from Duisburg .

Between the world wars

During the First World War, only district championships were held. After the end of the war, the association , which is anchored in the upper middle class, also opened up to simple workers who were previously not allowed to become members of the association. From 1920, West German championships were played again, in which the "red blouses" were able to enter three times on the list of winners. In 1921 the club reached the German championship for the first time after the end of the war and caused a sensation with a 2-1 quarter-final after extra time over the up-and-coming Hamburger SV . The final was missed with a 1: 2 defeat after extra time against Berliner FC Vorwärts . Three years later , 1. FC Nürnberg prevented DSV from participating in the final with a 3-1 semi-final victory. Nuremberg were able to beat the “Red Blouses” in the semi-finals in 1925 , this time 3-0.

In 1927, the game club secured its eleventh and last western championship. The Duisburg team met upstart FC Schalke 04 for the first time . In the round of 16 against Berliner SC Kickers , DSV was already leading 2-0, but lost 4-5 after extra time. The winning goal for the capital city only fell in the 147th minute of the game. At the end of the 1920s, the game club increasingly fell back into mediocrity and got into financial difficulties. Numerous top performers switched to other clubs.

When the Gauligen was introduced in 1933, the game club was not taken into account. In the Third Reich , the club had a difficult time due to its bourgeois origin and was called a Jewish club . It was not until 1943 that he was promoted to the Lower Rhine Gauliga . The “red blouses” did not compete there, but instead formed a war game community together with TuS 48/99 , which immediately secured the gaume championship. At the national level , the quarter-finals were reached, where the Air Force Sports Club Hamburg got the upper hand 3-0.

post war period

After the end of the Second World War , the Spielverein and TuS 48/99 went their separate ways again. In 1947 it was all about qualifying for the newly created Oberliga West , for which the DSV should have come under the top two in its district league Rechter Niederrhein . Behind Rot-Weiß Oberhausen , the “Rotblusen” and Hamborn 07 crossed the finish line with the same number of points, so a play-off was necessary, which Hamborn won 2-1 after extra time. A year later, the game club failed in the promotion round to the Oberliga West at Rot-Weiss Essen . It wasn't until 1949 that the leap in class was achieved when the DSV prevailed against the Duisburg FV 08 and the VfL Benrath .

After a tenth place in the 1949/50 season, he was relegated to the newly created II Division a year later . The direct re-promotion was just missed, as the game club had a goal quotient that was 0.034 goals worse than TSG Vohwinkel 80 . A year later , the "red blouses" were one point behind the Rheydter Spielverein third. It was not until coach Fred Harthaus was brought back in 1953 that he was promoted to the Oberliga West.

Back in the upper house, the game club caused a sensation with victories against Borussia Dortmund and the champions Rot-Weiss Essen . Eighth place in the 1954/55 season was followed by fourth place a year later . The “Rotblusen” started the 1956/57 season with 14: 0 points and they held the lead until the 23rd match day. At the end of the season, the team collapsed, but maintained second place in the table due to the better goal quotient compared to 1. FC Köln, which entitles them to participate in the final round of the German championship .

The game club started with a 1-1 draw against Hamburger SV and then beat 1. FC Saarbrücken 3-1. So the DSV needed a win in the final game against 1. FC Nürnberg in order to reach the final. In the 84th minute, the Nürnberger were able to equalize to 2-2, which means that Hamburger SV moved into the final with their 2-1 win over Saarbrücken.

Decline

The game club could not build on the successes of the 1956/57 season in the following years. In the following season , the “red blouses” slipped down to tenth place. Instead of 20,000 as in the previous season, only an average of 13,000 spectators came to the home games. After reaching fifth place again in 1960 , the team got into a relegation battle in the early 1960s. In 1962 , the game club finally rose from bottom of the table in the II. Division. A year later , the team managed with difficulty to qualify for the newly created Regionalliga West .

In the same year, local rival Meidericher SV qualified for the newly created Bundesliga . The game club, now in debt with over 100,000 marks , took up merger talks with TuS 48/99, FV 08 and Duisburger SC 1900 during the 1963/64 season . In the meantime, the “red blouses” qualified for the DFB Cup for the first time ; the team failed after a 2-0 win at Eintracht Gelsenkirchen in the round of 16 at Altona 93 . On June 22, 1964, the merger of the DSV with the TuS 48/99 to form Eintracht Duisburg was decided at a general meeting.

Venues

The first club-owned sports field of the DSV, called the sports field at Grunewald , was located on the later site of the Duisburg freight yard since 1901 . This square was the venue for an international match between Germany and Belgium in 1910 , but had to be abandoned in 1914 due to the expansion of the freight yard. As a replacement, the DSV built a new square on Rheintörchenstrasse in the Wanheimerort district by 1918 . In 1930 the city of Duisburg took over this system and left it to the DSV for use. The DSV stayed there until 1954, only for important games with a large number of visitors they moved to the Wedaustadion. From 1954 the DSV played all home games in the Wedaustadion . The municipal sports facility Düsseldorfer Straße is located at the site of the old DSV square in Wanheimerort .

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Personalities

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hardy Green , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 131.
  2. ↑ Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , p. 19.
  3. ↑ Grüne (1996), p. 31.
  4. ↑ Grüne (1996), p. 96.
  5. ↑ Grüne (1996), p. 363.
  6. ↑ Approximate location of the DSV-Platz on Grunewald
  7. ↑ Location of the DSV-Platz in Wanheimerort

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