Germania Fulda
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| Surname | Fuldaer Spielverein Germania 09 e. V. | ||
| Seat | Fulda , Hesse | ||
| founding | August 8, 1909 | ||
| Colours | black-and-white | ||
| president | Harald Hoffmann | ||
| Website | www.germania-fulda.de | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Uwe Kress | ||
| Venue | Gallasiniring sports complex | ||
| Places | 5000 | ||
| league | District League A Fulda (9th league) | ||
| 2017/18 | 8th place | ||
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The Fuldaer Spiel-Verein Germania 09 , short: Germania Fulda, is a sports club from the East Hessian city of Fulda . The football department, founded in 1909, had its most successful phase between 1930 and 1938, when six of these eight years were spent in the top football classes at the time, including four years in the Gauliga Hessen . After the Second World War , the steady decline of FSV Germania began in or within the Hessian amateur leagues. In the 2017/18 season, the club's football department played its games in the ninth-class Kreisliga A Fulda. In addition to its main division football, Germania Fulda now also offers the possibility of hiking, table tennis, aerobics and gymnastics in a club.
Sporting development
The FSV Germania was founded on August 8, 1909 under the original name Spielvereinigung Germania in the Rehberg an der Tränke restaurant by former members of the Fulda Victoria. Since the founders of the association were still minors, they needed one of their fathers to make the establishment of the association effective. The founding team of FSV Germania included Karl Haubrich, Johann Hofmann, Wilhelm Köck, Josef Lomb, Gustav Orth, Herman Bender, Emil Schneider and Oskar Frech. As early as 1910, the name of the association was changed to the form that still exists today. Only in the 1945/46 season did the company operate under the name SG Germania Fulda, shortly after the club was re-established on October 13, 1945.
In 1910 Germania joined the West German Game Association and achieved three group wins in a row in the association's B class. Promotions within the league system were not planned at this time. The First World War broke out shortly after the championship began in the summer of 1914 . Many members of the club were called up for military service, and gaming was suspended until the end of the war. Only in February 1919 did the club wake up again with a reunion of the members. In the 1919/20 season, Germania entered the first-class district league Hessen / Hanover, but could not hold the class. After the clubs VfR Fulda and Helvetia Fulda joined Germania in 1920 , the East Hessians succeeded in returning to regional excellence in 1922 with promotion to the Hessen District League. The stay in the upper house was again short-lived. As early as 1924, Germania had to go back to the second-class lower house around selection player Wallenburger. The engagement of foreign coaches, like the Hungarian Turnauer or the Englishman Atwood, had not worked.
After another temporary guest appearance in the first class - between 1930 and 1932 they played in the district class Hessen / Hanover against regional greats such as Borussia Fulda or Spielverein 06 Kassel - Germania qualified in 1934 for the Gauliga Hessen, which was newly created in 1933. They were able to stay in the top division of Hesse for four seasons, where they met local rivals Borussia Fulda, various Kassel clubs ( BC Sport , CSC 03 , SV Kurhessen , Spielverein 06) and the oldest Hessian soccer club, FC Hanau 93 . The best place was the fifth place, which one could occupy in 1935 and 1936. During this time, the only participation in the Tschammer Cup took place . In September 1935 the three-time German champions SpVgg Fürth were met in the first final round . Three goals by the Fürth player Emil Leupold initiated the clear 5-1 defeat in front of 2500 spectators on the Germania-Platz. Finally, in 1938, together with Borussia Fulda, they had to accept relegation from the Gauliga. While the local rival succeeded in direct recovery, Germania gradually slipped into the sporting mediocrity.
After the Second World War, Germania first found itself in the second-class Kurhessenliga or Landesliga Fulda. In 1950 they only narrowly escaped relegation from the district class (later 2nd amateur league). It is all the more remarkable that the following year under coach Fritz Teufel they were able to celebrate promotion to the first amateur league . In the decisive game for promotion, the team around “Edi” and Hugo Zaczyk beat SG Hoechst 3-0. In the 1st amateur league Hessen they met their local rivals Borussia Fulda, against whom both games were lost. In total, Germania only managed 9 wins in 34 games, and thus, being third from bottom, they could not prevent their direct relegation.
After that, the black and whites were close to advancement several times. In 1953 they failed in the promotion round at CSC 03 Kassel, in 1956 Germania Marburg was 2-1 victorious in the promotion game, and in 1959 they had to cede the championship to SV Neuhof due to an unexpected defeat on the last game day in Sontra. In the period that followed, the East Hessians continued to lose touch with the higher football classes. In the summer of 1972, they even slipped into the A-Class. It was only under coach Erwin Tippmann, with whom they made it to the district class in 1974, that things started to improve again. In the district class, they were runner-up in 1975 and third in 1977, when the local rivals Borussia Fulda suffered their only defeat of the season in front of 3000 spectators at the local Gallasiniring. Also in 1978 they played for the championship and the associated promotion to the regional league, but in the crucial phase they lost out after a 1-0 defeat against SV Buchonia Flieden . After spending more years in the upper echelons of the district class, in 1982 they were again relegated to the A-class.
It was not until the late 1980s that black and white caused a stir again. Between 1989 and 2001, Germania spent twelve years in the Landesliga Nord. The Germans sealed their promotion to the state league in 1989 with a 6-2 win over the reserve team of SG Hessen Hersfeld. The ambitions within the club soon increased, and with Reinhold Helker a financier could be won, with whose help one wanted to realize the promotion to the Oberliga Hessen . Increased investments were made in the team and the coaching team, for example, in the 1992/93 season, the former Eintracht player Fred Schaub was hired as a player coach. Other former professionals like Henry Lesser or Wayne Thomas also played for Germania during this phase. The patron Reinhold Helker gained more and more influence and in 1994 replaced the club's chairman Eberhard Strott. Under Helker's leadership, however, the club found itself in increasingly dangerous financial and sporting waters. During the 1995/96 season, coach Wayne Thomas, who had held this position since October 1994, resigned after a 3-7 defeat by Asbach. Rumors about financial problems spread and found their first confirmation in the departure of the top performer Uwe Kirchner during the season. Despite all this unrest, the team took a good third place at the end of the 1995/96 season. Before the first game in the 1996/97 season, the new coach Donougher resigned and justified this with a salary cut proposed by the club due to financial bottlenecks, which he did not want to accept. The patron and chairman of the board, Helker, who was in Switzerland at the time, sensed an intrigue against himself and finally brought Germania into great trouble with his resignation. Germania did not recover properly from these processes. Although it was difficult to secure membership of the regional league until 2001, relegation in that same year was followed by free fall to the district league B, which has been a member since 2009. In 2017, ex-professional Hayrettin Yildiz was promoted to the district league A.
Venues and infrastructure
The first sporting home was on the site of the former parade ground near the Fulda district of Sickels . But the club soon moved on and relocated its sporting activities to the Klosterwiese near the Neuenberg district . During the German Revolution , the Fulda Citizens Guard held military exercises on this. At the beginning of the 20th century the Klosterwiese also served as a venue for the Fuldaer Kickers and Borussia Fulda. After the First World War, Germania initially played its games on the Bleiche sports field , which was located on the site of today's Aueweiher. Since this place was often unusable due to flooding, a new sports field was built near Neuenberg, which was called Waldheim . The Waldheim sports field, which even had a covered grandstand, was inaugurated in 1920 with a friendly match against German champions 1. FC Nürnberg . But even this sports field was not immune from water damage and so it happened that the Teutons had to look around for a new home as early as 1926, because the "old" Waldheim, as it was called from then on, had been destroyed by floods. The "new" Waldheim , which opened in 1927, was built in Johannisau as a replacement . Two years later, a wooden grandstand was built and the new home was completed. The "new" Waldheim was the scene of friendly matches against teams like the Wycombe Wanderers or SV 01 Gotha in the period that followed. During the Second World War, the grounds of the Waldheim sports field passed to a new owner without the knowledge of Germania, who forbade black and white people to use the facility. When the “new” Waldheim was almost completely destroyed in an air raid in September 1944, Germania lost this home for good.
When, after the Second World War, the company was initially without its own sports field, the attempt to lease the grounds of the destroyed Waldheim failed. The use of the Bleiche sports field was not permanent either, as the problems caused by flooding persisted. Eventually they found a transitional home in Johannisau , the home of Borussia Fulda, which they remained loyal to until 1959. In the year of its 50th anniversary, Germania finally moved to the stadium on Gallasiniring , where home games are still played today. This move also involved a significant change in milieu in the area around the club. In the first 50 years of its existence, people always settled in the lower town of Fuldas, where at least at the beginning their members were mostly recruited from skilled workers, but now they found themselves in a fast-growing district in the eastern part of the city. Multicultural aspects were much more important than before, and Germania focused more on integration and youth work. With the Germanenklause built by members of the association in 1989, club life also found a new focus away from the grass.
Well-known former players
literature
- Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Hesse. Between FC Alsbach, Eintracht Frankfurt and Tuspo Ziegenhain. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-244-0 , pp. 84-85.
- Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 , p. 170.
- Ulf Leinweber: 50 years of Hessen football. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-121-2 .
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ Game data Germania Fulda - SpVgg Fürth on kleeblatt-chronik.de, accessed on July 17, 2012.
- ↑ Fulda citizens in a national frenzy of freedom ( memento of the original from August 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on fuldaerzeitung.de, accessed on July 17, 2012.
- ^ The way of the football department 1903 - 2003 on the pages of the Fuldaer Turnerschaft 1848, accessed on July 17, 2012.
- ↑ Picture of the two teams on the occasion of the inauguration of the site ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on fuldaerzeitung.de, accessed on July 17, 2012.
