ESV Olympia Cologne

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ESV Olympia Cologne
Club logo
Surname Railway
Sports Club Olympia Köln e. V.
Club colors red , black , green
Founded January 17, 1927
Place of foundation Cologne , Germany
Association headquarters Werkstattstrasse 38b
50733 Cologne
Members around 1200
Departments 9
Chairman Guido Sadlo
Homepage www.esv-olympia.de

The ESV Olympia Köln is a German amateur sports club with club based in the Cologne district of Nippes . Up until the 1960s, the club was able to celebrate considerable success in wrestling , walking and volleyball , today its focus is primarily on football , judo and tennis .

history

Foundation and development

The club was founded in 1927 as a company sports club of the Reichsbahn under the name Reichsbahnturn- und Sportverein Köln . The sports offer was initially aimed primarily at railway employees in Cologne, who were able to practice gymnastics , fistball , hiking , athletics and soccer in six departments .

In the years that followed, the range was expanded with new departments and the club's own facilities. Tennis was added in 1927 and handball in 1930. In 1928 the club got its own gymnasium on the premises of the local repair shop and a year later a bowling alley.

The association under National Socialism

In the 1930s, departments for heavy athletics (1935), skiing (1935/36), boxing and swimming were added. In 1935 the Stemmclub Nippes joined the club in 1910 and with him the wrestler Georg Pulheim . Heinrich Nettesheim , his half-brother Ferdinand Schmitz and Peter Cremer from the 1900 Ehrenfeld wrestling club followed shortly afterwards .

Thus the association counted the so-called Cologne Ringer-Kleeblatt (Nettesheim, Pulheim and Schmitz) among its members. Nettesheim and Pulheim took part in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and the 1939 European wrestling championship . In 1938 the sports facility in Gleisdreieck in Nippes was opened with a soccer field, tennis courts and an ash track. The clubhouse is still located there today. In 1938 the association had around 1,800 members in twelve departments.

On October 1, 1939, by order of the National Socialist sports authorities, the club was renamed Reichsbahn-Sportgemeinschaft Köln . There are hardly any reports from the time of the Second World War , partly because of difficult conditions for competitions and continuous sporting activities, partly because of a lack of documentation.

post war period

On August 10, 1945, the club was re-established under the name of Reichsbahn-Sportverein Köln . The tennis courts were put back into operation in the summer of 1945. Judo (1948), chess (1951), gymnastics (1952) and canoeing (1962) were added as new departments .

On October 28, 1949, the club gave itself the current name Eisenbahnersportverein Olympia Köln . The addition of “Olympia” to the name is intended to indicate participation in the Olympic Games and the wide range of sports on offer.

The walker Hermann Grittner won five championship titles and seven runner- ups at German championships over different distances between 1940 and 1954.

1970s until today

Since the 1970s, popular sports with a focus on football, judo and tennis have dominated. In 2011 a badminton department was added.

Today's departments / sports offered (as of 2019)

  • Soccer
  • tennis
  • Judo
  • do gymnastics
  • Canoe (founded 1962)
  • swim
  • Handball
  • gymnastics
  • badminton

swell

  • Wolfgang Langel, Karl Vendel, Heinz Stüber: Eisenbahner-Sportverein Olympia Köln eV - 1927 - 1987 , commemorative publication for the 60th anniversary of the club, Cologne 1987.
  • Reinhold Kruse: 70 years of ESV-Olympia-Platz , article in "Kölner Wochenspiegel" on the history of the sports facility "Gleisdreieck", issue of August 20, 2008.
  • 50 years ESV Olympia Köln eV - 1927 - 1977 , also the program for the festivities from June 4th to 12th 1977, Cologne 1977.
  • 40 years ESV Olympia Köln eV - 1927 - 1967 . Cologne 1967, self-published (at the same time the program for the 40th anniversary on June 3, 1967 in the Sartory-Festsaal), Cologne 1967.
  • Association of German Railway Sports Associations: 40 Years of Railway Sports - 1926 - 1966 , commemorative publication, at the same time a comprehensive annual report 1961–1965, Munich 1966.

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