Hanover 78

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Hanover 78
Surname German Sports Club Hanover 1878 eV
Club colors blue White
Founded September 14, 1878
Association headquarters Ferdinand-Wilhelm-Fricke-Weg 2
30169 Hanover
Members 950 (2010)
Departments 7th
Chairman Günter Küster
Homepage www.hannover78.de
Hannover clubhouse 78

The German Sports Club Hanover founded in 1878 e. V. (Hannover 78) is a traditional Hanoverian sports club. It is the oldest rugby club and at the same time the oldest lawn sports club in Germany. Today it offers the fields of hockey , recreational sports , rugby , tennis and handball .

History and description

Hannover 78 was founded on September 14, 1878 by the then 14-year-old Ferdinand Wilhelm Fricke and other students from the secondary school as the “Hannoversche Schüler-Football-Club”. The high school students in particular became hard-working club founders: the Germania football club was established at Lyzeum I, which later became the Ratsgymnasium, and the KWG football club at Kaiser Wilhelm Gymnasium. They played rugby against each other or against the British. Ferdinand-Wilhelm Fricke led the training of the secondary school students, he realized: Together we are stronger. He operated the amalgamation of the student associations. Although 70 members were registered in its first year of existence, not all students followed Fricke's call. It was not until the mid-1880s that the remains of “Germania” and the KWG association in Hanover 78 went up. At the request of the Teutons, the club was now renamed “Deutscher Fußballverein Hannover 1878” (“Football” was understood to mean rugby at the time).

The club grounds are located in the sports park belonging to Calenberger Neustadt near the HDI-Arena . In addition to the clubhouse, it includes an artificial turf stadium for hockey, a rugby field (each with floodlights), nine tennis courts and a sports hall for hockey and tennis.

sports

hockey

Entrance to the club area

Hockey has been played at Hannover 78 since 1909. It is not only the largest, but also one of the most successful hockey divisions in northern Germany. With around 480 members, the hockey department is the club's largest. The 1st men play in the Regionalliga Nord on the field and 2nd Bundesliga hall , the 1st women play both on the field and in the hall in the Regionalliga Nord.

rugby

The 150-member rugby department is the nucleus of the club. The club won nine German championships, eleven German men's cup wins and 21 national titles with the youth teams. 61 of the club's male players were appointed to the national team, including Pascal Fischer . The men's team currently plays in the 1st Bundesliga .

tennis

Hannover 78 is represented in tennis by eight adult teams and nine youth teams. As with many other tennis clubs, there has been a decline in membership. At the peak of the tennis boom, the department had around 500 members, and around 200 in 2007.

Handball

The foundation stone for this still young department was laid in the summer of 2004 when a first team of around a dozen boys and girls was set up. After almost eleven years, this department had grown to around 140 members by 2015.

Soccer

Hannover 78 was a founding member of the German Football and Cricket Federation in 1891 and of the Association of Hanover Football Associations in 1900 . He was also one of the 86 founding clubs of the German Football Association (DFB). At the founding meeting of the DFB on January 28, 1900 in Leipzig , Hannover 78 was represented by the school director Hermann Raydt.

athletics

The club was also active in athletics. Erich Ludwig won the championship title in the German athletics championships in 1903 in the 100 meter run .

Trivia

Hannover 78 also plays a role in the history of the famous soccer club Hannover 96 . 78 boss Ferdinand Wilhelm Fricke wanted to find playing partners for his rugby team and therefore suggested the founding of this further rugby club in 1896.

The most prominent 78 member was the heath poet Hermann Löns . The Löns Cup, which is often played in hockey, is named after him.

literature

  • 125 years of the German Sports Club Hanover founded in 1878 eV , Hanover 2003.
  • Festschrift : 78th 100 years. The hockey and tennis department ... , Hanover 2009.
  • Karl-Heinz Grotjahn: Hanover - H. 78. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 253 f.
  • Lothar Wieser, Hubert Dwertmann, Arnd Krüger , Hans Langenfeld , Joachim Schlüchtermann, Ludwig Schulte-Huxel (Red.): Sport in Hanover. From the city's foundation to today , ed. from the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History , Hoya eV, ed. from NISH with scientific advisory board by Arnd Krüger and Hans Langenfeld, 1st edition, Hoya: Niedersächsisches Inst. für Sportgeschichte, 1991, ISBN 3-923478-56-9 .
  • Allgemeine Sport Zeitung (Vienna), various editions from year 1891, accessed on June 17, 2017 on ANNO - the virtual newspaper reading room of the Austrian National Library.

Web links

Commons : Hannover 78  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Böttcher : Fricke, (1) Wilhelm. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 191 f.
  2. ^ Hannoversche Neue Presse of February 15, 2016, No. 38: Rugby bankruptcy! Printing game in Hanover .
  3. ^ Carl Koppehel: History of the German football sport . Volume III of the DFB series of publications. Ed .: German Football Association. Wilhelm Limpert-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1954, p. 88 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 19.6 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 3 ″  E