Hamburg rugby club

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Hamburger RC
Full name Hamburg rugby club from 1950 e. V.
Nickname (s) HRC
Founded June 6, 1950
Stadion Rugby arena city park
Places Barmwisch rugby pitch
president GermanyGermany Alexander Niepold
Trainer GermanyGermany tbd
Homepage www.hrc-rugby.de
league 1. Bundesliga North / East
Association League North
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The Hamburger RC (short HRC) is a mainly in Rugby active sports club from the Hamburg district of Barmbek . The HRC has also had a pétanque department since 2013 .

overview

According to its own information, the HRC has around 300 members (as of 2017). The games of the first men's team in the 1st Rugby Bundesliga (group north / east) take place in the rugby arena on Saarlandstrasse in Hamburg- Winterhude , the games of the second team on Saarlandstrasse and Barmwisch in Hamburg- Bramfeld . The club house is located at Imstedt 6 in Barmbek-Süd .

history

The Hamburg rugby club was founded on June 6, 1950 by the journalist Emil Creydt. After the founding of the HRC, Creydt held the post of 1st chairman of the newly founded Hamburg Rugby Association from 1953. In addition to the HRC, the founding members were FC St. Pauli , Hamburger SV , Sportvereinigung Polizei, ASK, ETV, Altona 93, SV St. Georg, Fichte Langenhorn and the Uhlenhorster Hockey Club. Emil Creydt was also the second chairman of the German Rugby Association for many years .

The 1950s were particularly difficult for the HRC. When in 1958 some club members left the HRC after quarrels and founded a new rugby club under the name Wandsbeker RC , the HRC was about to end. But the Wandsbeker RC could not hold up and was dissolved again after a short time. Not only the "renegades" came back to the HRC, but also some new players, so that the HRC emerged stronger from the crisis and was finally able to establish itself in the Hamburg rugby scene in the 1960s.

Nevertheless, the end of the HRC was almost decided in 1969 due to the decline in membership. In an extraordinary general meeting , some members of the association's board requested the dissolution of the HRC in order to join the SC Urania Hamburg . But the active players successfully braced themselves against this plan and this crisis situation ultimately strengthened the cohesion in the club.

March 1975 was a turning point in the history of the HRC. Founder Emil Creydt died on March 20th at the age of 74. In the same month the HRC moved into its new club house in Barmbek-Süd . The sporting breakthrough came in the 1981/82 season. Reinforced by former Bundesliga players, the HRC won its own seven-tier tournament for the first time and was also Hamburg champions . The membership increased to 138 in 1984. The second Hamburg championship followed in 1986. There were also team trips to France , Portugal , Denmark and the Czech Republic .

In terms of sport, the club made it to the semi-finals in the German Rugby Cup in 1989 and the quarter-finals in 1991 and 1992. In addition, the HRC took part in the qualification for the 1st Rugby Bundesliga . The newly formed North Cup league was won by the HRC in 1994 and 1995. This was followed by relegation to the regional league. From the end of the 1990s, the HRC played the qualification for the 2nd Rugby Bundesliga. Since 1998 the HRC has played in the second highest German rugby league, from which the team was relegated to the Regionalliga Nord in 2005, and in 2006 they were promoted to the 2nd Rugby Bundesliga North. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Hamburg rugby club has also concentrated on youth work , so that nowadays youth players in the age groups from U6 to U18 belong to the club. In the course of the Bundesliga reform in 2012, the Hamburg rugby club was accepted into the newly structured 1st Bundesliga for the first time due to its sporting success. After signing the former U19 national coach Carsten Segert, the Hamburg rugby club was able to advance into the championship round of Germany's 16 best teams.

The best-known players of the HRC are Lukas Hinds-Johnson, player of the German Rugby Union national team and now on the ball for RK 03 Berlin . Former HRC player Ferdinand Richter played for the Espoirs of Stade Toulousain and for the French club Blagnac SCR . Together with his younger brother Valentin Richter (ex-captain of Hamburg RC) he ran for the Austrian national rugby union team .

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