Sibiu gymnastics club
| Sibiu gymnastics club | |
| Full name | Sibiu gymnastics club |
| place | Sibiu |
| Founded | October 30, 1862 |
| Dissolved | 1945 |
| Club colors | black-blue |
| Stadion | Gymnasium |
| Top league | Divizia A |
| successes | no |
The Hermannstädter Turnverein (HTV, Romanian. Societatea de Gimnastică Sibiu ) was a German sports club from Sibiu at a time when this city first belonged to Austria-Hungary and then to Romania .
history
The association was founded on October 30, 1862 with the aim of educating young people. With a decree of 1865, school gymnastics became a compulsory subject, so that from this point on the HTV initially functioned almost exclusively as an academic association. Fencing began around 1870 and before 1891 the HTV was renamed the Hermannstädter Men's Gymnastics Club . From 1890 gymnastics festivals were held on a regular basis, the general interest of which led to the establishment of a ladies 'team in girls' gymnastics in September 1896. Probably as a result of this acceptance of women, it was renamed the Hermannstädter Turnverein in 1897 or 1898 .
The first fistballs and footballs were bought in 1899 and 1900, and in 1902 the HTV was joined by a cycling department called Falken , which soon fell into disuse. In 1903 the first tennis games were held by the HTV. Up until the outbreak of the First World War there was a lively gymnastics activity, which could not be resumed until January 1919. In the spring of 1919, the first soccer games took place as part of the gymnastics team.
The weekly program of the HTV published on July 13, 1919 looked like this:
| meeting | event |
|---|---|
| Tuesday, 7–9 p.m. | Men's gymnastics |
| Wednesday, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. | Women's gymnastics |
| Friday, 7pm - 9pm | Men's gymnastics |
| Saturday, 6pm - 8pm | Women's gymnastics |
| Sunday morning | Soccer game, sport exercises |
| Sunday afternoon | Excursions, gym rides |
On July 27, 1919, another forest festival of the HTV took place without football, but the call was made on August 6, 1919: The gymnasts, who are also good footballers, are requested to appear on August 10 for a practice game with a strange team . A football match between the HTV and a Hungarian squad was planned for October 19, but no match report is available.
On December 10, 1919 the following weekly program of the HTV was published:
| meeting | event |
|---|---|
| Tuesday, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Men's and pupil gymnastics |
| Wednesday, 7–9 p.m. | Women's gymnastics |
| Friday, 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. | Men's and pupil gymnastics |
| Saturday, 6pm - 8pm | Women's gymnastics |
| Sunday, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Men's and pupil gymnastics |
| Sunday afternoon | Excursions, winter sports exercises |
In April 1920, an independent football department was founded within the club, which trained together with the "athletes" every afternoon from 5 p.m. From 1920 onwards, various other departments were founded: tennis, fencing, handball, swimming, etc. a.
In October 1934 the championship committee of the football association issued a warning to the HTV because the game announcements always read HTV and not the Romanian abbreviation SG Sibiu . This measure raised the question in the press of the German minority whether the state was allowed to intervene in the naming of associations and to insist on the romanized form of the names. In 1935 the HTV was renamed the Hermannstädter Turnverein "Armin" for " reasons of expediency" . With the outbreak of the Second World War and the Second Vienna Arbitration, gaming operations suffered considerably. Only city championships were held where the traditional clubs were represented by student teams. In parallel to the state championships, the German ethnic group held Gau championships. After the end of the Second World War, the association was dissolved by the new communist rulers around 1945. The few athletes who returned home unscathed from the war then played in Romanian teams from nationalized company clubs.
Football department
On April 25, 1920 the first public game of the football team of the HTV against the team of Romanian high school students took place, which was won 1-0. This was followed on May 2, 1920 by the second public game against the Zionist team (later Jehuda SC ), which the HTV won 3: 1 (0: 0). The new sport was presented to the general public on the occasion of the show gymnastics and sports festival on May 9, 1920, when HTV I defeated HTV II 3: 2 (2: 0) in front of 1,000 spectators. The German daily reported as follows: After a long break, the HTV has come back to the public with an event. The HTV has included the modern branches of personal hygiene in its program and was able to offer excellent football. After three more games against Hermannstadt teams, the first game against a foreign club took place on June 13, 1920 on the Turnschulgrund, which the HTV won 2-0 (1-0) against Rapid Brașov . When the first games for the Sibiu football championship took place on September 8, 1921 , the HTV was there alongside four other teams. The goal was to qualify for the regional championship in April / May 1922, which the HTV as well as NSE and four teams from the football championship of Brașov succeeded. There, however, NSE prevailed and qualified for the first final of the Romanian football championship . The HTV succeeded in doing this four times in later years: in 1925/26 , 1926/27 , 1929/30 and 1930/31 . In May 1933, the club temporarily resigned from the Romanian Football Association .
Club balance sheet
| season | placement |
|---|---|
| 1921/22 | 3rd place in the Sibiu championship , qualification for the final round Sibiu / Brașov and qualification for the newly founded 1st class of the championship Sibiu / Brașov |
| 1922/23 | 5th place in the 1st class of the championship Sibiu / Braşov and qualification for the re-established Sibiu championship |
| 1923/24 | 2nd place in the Sibiu Championship and qualification for the newly founded 1st class of the Sibiu Championship |
| 1924/25 | Withdrawal after the first half of the first class of the Sibiu Championship |
| 1925/26 | 1st place in the Sibiu Championship and participation in the final round of the Romanian football championship 1925/26 |
| 1926/27 | 1st place in the Sibiu Championship and participation in the final round of the Romanian football championship 1926/27 |
| 1927/28 | unknown placement in the Sibiu Championship (it is unclear which games were counted as championship games until the end) |
| 1928/29 | unknown placement in the Sibiu Championship (not all results are available) |
| 1929/30 | 1st place in the Sibiu Championship and participation in the final round of the Romanian football championship 1929/30 |
| 1930/31 | 1st place in the Sibiu championship, central league champion and participation in the final round of the Romanian football championship 1930/31 |
| 1931/32 | 3rd place in the 1st class of the Sibiu Championship |
| 1932/33 | Withdrawal after the first half of the Sibiu District Championship |
| 1933/34 | unknown placement in the Sibiu district championship (not all results are available) and promotion to the newly founded Divizia B |
| 1934/35 | 1st place in Divizia B and in the qualifying games for membership of Divizia A eliminated |
| 1935/36 | 6th place in Divizia B |
| 1936/37 | unknown placement in the Sibiu district championship (not all results are available) and promotion to Divizia B |
| 1937/38 | 12th place in Divizia B and withdrawal from the championship during the first half of the season |
| 1938/39 | 9th place in Divizia B |
Field handball department
The HTV became known far beyond the national borders with its field handball department. The club was initially Transylvanian champions in 1931 and 1932 and won the first six Romanian championship titles from 1933 to 1938.
The HTV provided the bulk of the national team, which finished fifth at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin . In addition to coach Hans Schuschnig , 12 of 18 players from the HTV also came: Karl Haffer , Fritz Haffer , Fritz Halmen , Willi Heidel , Hans Georg "Gerch" Herzog , Alfred Höchsmann , Wilhelm "Kiri" Kirschner , Günther Schorsten , Johann "Oki" Sonntag , Robert Speck , Willi Zacharias and Stefan Zoller . One can also count Hans Hermannstädter , who regularly helped out the HTV as a seminarist between 1936 and 1938.
The Romanian national field handball team with 13 players from the HTV also took fifth place at the first World Cup in 1938 in Germany . This time Friedrich Barth , Connerth , Karl Haffer , Fritz Halmen , Henning , Hans Hermannstädter , Hans Georg "Gerch" Herzog , Alfred Höchsmann , Wilhelm "Kiri" Kirschner , Günther Schorsten , Edwin Steilner , Ernst Wolf and Willi Zacharias were there.
Stadion
From 1920 to June 1927, like all teams in Sibiu, the HTV played its games on the rather narrow gymnasium grounds (playing field dimensions: 50 × 100 meters). In 1927, the Terenul Sportiv ONEF (playing field dimensions : 68 × 110 meters) was built on the former artillery riding arena behind the military swimming school . A tournament was played in order to generate further money for the completion of this new sports field. The games took place on June 12, 1927 and had the following outcome: HTV - NSE 3: 2 (3: 0) and Șoimii Sibiu - Aviația Mediaș 4: 2 (2: 2). From then on, Terenul Sportiv ONEF was the only venue for the soccer games and for the official field handball games, which led to some confusion in the recognition of game results in the 1927/28 season. The gymnasium grounds have since been built up, Terenul Sportiv ONEF has been modernized over the years and is now called Stadionul Municipal .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.siebenbuerger.de/zeitung/artikel/alteartikel/1314-geschichten-rund-um-den-handball-in.html
- ↑ Transylvania-Deutsches Tageblatt of May 12, 1920
- ↑ http://www.siebenbuerger.de/zeitung/artikel/v Variousenes/6122-deutsche-weltmeister-unter- rumaenischer.html
- ↑ http://www.siebenbuerger.de/zeitung/artikel/alteartikel/1736-geschichten-rund-um-den-handball-in.html