HSG University of Rostock
| Surname | Hochschulsportgemeinschaft Universität Rostock eV |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1949 |
| Association headquarters | Ulmenstrasse 69, House 4, 18057 Rostock |
| Members | 2,300 [12/2019] |
| Chairman | Andreas Tesche |
| Homepage | https://www.hsgunirostock.de/ |
The Hochschulsportgemeinschaft Universität Rostock , HSG Uni Rostock for short , is a German sports club from the Hanseatic city of Rostock . It is one of the oldest sports clubs in Rostock and offers its 2300 members offers in popular sports , health sports and trend sports . The health sport department has over 700 members and is numerically one of the strongest in all of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Further departments of the HSG Uni Rostock are as follows: baseball, basketball, fencing, football, handball, hockey, jazz dance, athletics, parkour & freerunning, rowing, chess, swimming, senior dance, table tennis, gymnastics, floorball, volleyball and yoga.
Historical development
The establishment of the University Sports Association of the University of Rostock in May 1949 coincided with the reorganization and profiling of the higher education system in the former Soviet occupation zone and from October this year in the GDR . In terms of the organization of sport at the time, the HSG was to be classified as a company sports community . She was responsible for university sports and also for the organization and implementation of student recreational sports. The full-time and honorary leading functionaries were employees of the University of Rostock .
Adapted to the organizational forms of sport in the GDR, the HSG was divided into sections, which in turn had independent management. Particularly noteworthy here are the sections: athletics, handball, volleyball, swimming, hockey and rowing, which quickly developed into high-performance communities and helped establish sports outside of competitive sports in the north of the GDR.
HSG athletes took part in many national and international competitions, especially as part of student competitions. Many successes could be achieved in the following years. The University of Rostock occupied a respected place among the students who did sport . Excellent performance in the main sports mentioned, cups and certificates confirm this development. The board members and the many volunteer functionaries who have made a decisive contribution to the good, remarkable results should not be left unmentioned.
Right from the start, great emphasis was placed on targeted, sporting cooperation with sports communities of friendly foreign universities and colleges. a. competitions between swimmers and athletes from the University of Brno , which are still friendly today and which are held at least once a year. The handball players also set standards. Her sporting ties with the University in Gdańsk also persist to this day, even if the students from that time are almost all retirees today.
The athletes can look back on many events of such sporting cooperation. The names Renate Vogel and Christiane Schmalbruch should also be mentioned here, who are still today, as athletes and trainers, examples for young and old.
With the social change at the end of 1989 and the later accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany , essential changes in the organization and content of the entire higher education system changed, and of course also in the field of university sports.
The HSG Uni Rostock eV today and in its further development
The most important result of the changed organization was that the university sport was separated from the HSG and integrated into the teaching and educational system of the university itself. This means that the university no longer has a sports community. The independent Hochschulsportgemeinschaft Universität Rostock eV was created, which is organizationally assigned to the Stadtsportbund.
The HSG Uni Rostock eV naturally continued the good traditions of the "old HSG". The good foundation provided the best conditions for a club to develop over the last 20 years that offers sports enthusiasts of all walks of life an extensive and varied range of sports. The management of the HSG always attached great importance to versatility, to offers for senior citizens and to the targeted recruitment of children for sporting activities.
With around 2,300 members, the HSG is one of the associations with the largest number of members in the Hanseatic City of Rostock. Almost 300 children and over 1,000 men and women of senior age train regularly. In this area, the HSG is the strongest group among the Rostock sports clubs. Over 60% of the members are women.
Fonts
As a result of the seventy years of existence of the HSG Uni Rostock, it was inevitable that various texts, brochures, booklets and books about the club, the active people and their sporting activities were published. In addition to journalistic articles in the local and regional press, a few HSG members have managed to publish various publications that are directly related to the HSG University of Rostock. First and foremost, Dr. Wolfgang Pahncke, who was editorially responsible for three volumes (20, 25 and 30 years of the University Sports Association of the University of Rostock) on the history of the club. Shortly after his death in 1989, due to economic scarcity, a commemorative publication was published on the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the University of Rostock. After the fall of the Wall, some departments took separate paths and published texts on their own, which thematically focused on the work of the individual departments. In 1999 the traditional rowers celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of their division. In 2006, hikers and mountaineers followed suit, and in 2019 the handball department published a book about the revitalization of their area after this core sport could not be practiced under the umbrella of the HSG for years.
literature
- Marcus Helwing: Second Wave - About the re-emergence of an HSG department and university handball in the Hanseatic city of Rostock in the third millennium, Norderstedt, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7481-4181-5 , 236S.
- Klaus Wagner (ed.): 50 years of hiking and mountaineering - HSG Uni Rostock 1956–2006 , Rostock, 2006, 58S.
- Wolfgang Krutzke: 50 Years of Rowing - University Sports Association of the University of Rostock 1949–1999 - Boats, Names and History (s) , Rostock, 1999, 80S.
- Wolfgang Pahncke : 20 years of university sports association at the University of Rostock 1949–1969 , Wismar, 1969, 47S.
- Wolfgang Pahncke : 25 years of the University Sports Association of the University of Rostock 1949–1974 , Greifswald, 1974, 80S.
- Wolfgang Pahncke , Karl-Heinz Lemcke: 30 Years of the University Sports Association of the University of Rostock 1949–1979 , Wismar, 1979, 60S.
- Board of the HSG WPU Rostock (ed.): 40 Years of the University Sports Association of the University of Rostock 1949–1989 , Rostock, 1989, 39S.
- Ralf-Peter Lange: The development of the university sports community of the University of Rostock from the 8th party congress of the SED to the 11th. SED party congress (1971–1986). , Diploma thesis, Rostock, 1986.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ LSB MV: LSB Statistics 2019. LSB MV, accessed on May 18, 2020 .