Germania Bochum
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| Full name | Sports club Germania 06 Bochum eV |
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| place | Bochum | ||
| Founded | December 1906 | ||
| Dissolved | April 14, 1938 | ||
| Club colors | black-blue | ||
| Stadion | Germania sports field on Castroper Strasse | ||
| Top league | Gauliga Westphalia | ||
| successes | Vice-champion of the Gauliga Westphalia 1936 |
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Germania Bochum (officially: Sportverein Germania 06 Bochum eV ) was a sports club from Bochum . The soccer team played in the first-class Gauliga Westfalen for five years . In 1938, Germania merged with VfL Bochum .
history
The club was founded in December 1906 as the Bochum football club and was later renamed Germania Bochum. In 1924 the Vorwärts Bochum association joined Germania. On April 14, 1938, Germania was forced to merge with TuS Bochum 08 and TV 1848 Bochum to form VfL Bochum.
FC Bochum was initially a "wild club" that did not take part in organized games. Only after the textile entrepreneur Otto Wüst, father of the later VfL President Ottokar Wüst , took over the chairmanship in 1910 , the club joined the West German Game Association . In terms of sport, the proletarian Germania was initially overshadowed by civil associations such as TuS 08 or MBV Linden 05 . It was not until 1926 that the leap into the top division succeeded with promotion to the 1st Ruhr district league. Relegation was achieved through a show of strength. First of all, with a 3-2 playoff win against United Prussia Bochum, direct relegation was avoided. This was followed by a 4-1 victory in the relegation game against the penultimate of the parallel group SV Langendreer 04 .
In 1929 the Germania became runners-up in Group 2 behind FC Schalke 04 . Two years later, the Bochum runners-up in the Ruhr district. First, the team secured the relay victory with a 2-1 win in the playoff against Westfalia Herne , but then lost 4-0 in the final of the Ruhr district championship Union Gelsenkirchen . In the quarterfinals of the second round , Germania failed with 2: 4 to Borussia Rheine . In 1932, Germania again had the chance to win the Ruhr district championship, but came third in the final behind FC Schalke 04 and Schwarz-Weiß Essen . A year later, the team qualified for the newly created Gauliga Westfalen.
In the Gauliga, Germania was initially in the shadow of SV Höntrop from the then still independent town of Wattenscheid . The greatest success was the runner-up behind FC Schalke 04 in the 1935/36 season . A year later, the club took part for the first and only time in the Tschammer Cup , the forerunner of the DFB Cup . After a 6: 5 win over VfR Köln 04 rrh. The end came in the second round after a 3-0 defeat at Berliner SV 92 . In 1938 there was a forced merger. The National Socialist regime wanted to form a large Bochum club and took care of the debt relief of the three clubs involved. The club members were strictly against the union. Years later, the members of the three parent associations are said to have strictly sat at separate tables at meetings.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hardy Green , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 76.
- ↑ a b Ralf Piorr (Hrsg.): The pot is round - The lexicon of Revier football: The clubs . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-356-9 , p. 26 .