Cologne Athletes Club 1882

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Cologne AC
Surname Cologne Athletes Club 1882 e. V.
Club colors Red White
Founded June 14, 1882
Association headquarters Schanzenstrasse 6
51069 Cologne
Members 75
Chairman Wilhelm Reuter

The Cologne Athletes Club 1882 e. V. is the oldest still active weightlifting club in the world and is based in the Cologne district of Mülheim . In addition to the Olympic duel , its members also devote themselves to pure powerlifting .

Club history

The club was founded on June 14, 1882 in the restoration hall of Circus Carré under the name of Kölner Athleten-Klub . On November 1, 1882, the first general assembly took place, in which the first board, consisting of Franz Beenen as first chairman and Jakob Zimmermann as secretary, was elected.

In the early years the members made their own weights and dumbbells available to the club, they practiced in a gym at Gertrudenstraße 28 in downtown Cologne and the monthly fee was only one mark. After six months of existence, there were 26 active members. 1884 was an exercise facility Bach's horse- rented in post 26, in addition to the heavy athletics also athletics , wrestling and gymnastics were operated. In the general assembly of December 17, 1884 it was decided to join the Sieg-Rheinischen Turngau and thus the German gymnastics association. The admission took place on February 1, 1885. The first competition of the Cologne AC was contested on May 31, 1886 against the athletes of the local sports club in Elberfeld . Anton Müller and Christian Schäfer from Cologne won the first prizes.

Co-founding member Rudolf Bredemeyer was the initiator of one of the predecessor associations of today's Federal Association of German Weightlifters (BVDG) in 1891 and in 1893 the first German weightlifting championship was held in a weight class. Jakob Schneider from Cologne AC won it . In 1895, the association moved its meetings to the Zur Henne restaurant at Ehrenstrasse 60, in 1898 to the H. Abels brewery at Hahnenstrasse 43 and in 1902 to the Altdeutsche Weinstube at Hof 14.

In its heyday, the association consisted of 60 active and 120 inactive members. The training consisted of lifting and wrestling on Tuesdays and Fridays. Lightweight exercises for older men were offered on Thursdays. Through this, the club operated the then popular tug of war , in which Heinrich Schneidereit from Cologne AC won the gold medal with the German national team at the Olympic Games in Athens in 1906.

From 1924 to 1926 the wrestling in the Cologne AC stopped because the members were no longer interested in this. Gymnastics was also discontinued and on October 14, 1926 the association was temporarily dissolved with a cash balance of 137.25 marks. A short-term re-formation failed due to the misappropriation of the association's assets by the then chairman. The re-establishment took place on June 15, 1932. In September of this year, the district youth day was held. In the Third Reich , heavy athletics was at its height at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 , but after that it was quiet again for the Cologne AC .

In 1967 and 1971 the Cologne AC West German team champion, as the winner of today's 2nd Bundesliga . A qualification for the 1st Bundesliga failed again and again in the following years. In 2006 the club finally resigned from the 2nd Bundesliga for financial reasons and started the following season in the Regionalliga West. Here, behind the retired from the 1st Bundesliga, VfL Duisburg-Süd and AC Soest took third place.

In 2016, numerous powerlifters broke away from the Cologne AC after legal disputes and founded their own club under the name Kraftsport Colonia . The following year, a doping scandal also shook the Cologne AC . On March 1, 2017, the BVDG informed that at the competition control carried out on February 4, 2017 on the occasion of the regional league competition in Cologne between the Cologne AC and the AC Goliath Mengede , the presence of the substances amphetamine was detected by Mostafa Nassiri, athlete and trainer in the Cologne AC and Metandienone (trade name Dianabol) was detected. As a result, the athlete was suspended for a possible anti-doping rule violation. On April 24, 2017 Nassiri was sentenced to a four-year competition ban for violating Article 2.1 of the BVDG's anti-doping regulations.

The most successful international athlete in recent history in the senior category over 60 is Hans Ehlenz , having won five world championship titles, eight world records, 80 German records and the gold medal at the 1994 Masters Olympics in Brisbane, Australia .

The most successful athlete in the RAW bench press sub-discipline is Walter Kurda, with 26 national and eleven international titles in the open class and in the Masters. He is also the first over 60-year-old to have reached 200 kg and 210 kg in a competition. In addition, Sepp Pohlkötter was able to achieve a German bench press championship at the Masters in 1999 and 2007 .

The Cologne AC also offers its members open fitness courses in the premises of the former Carlswerk bobbin factory .

Sporting successes (selection)

  • 1893: Jakob Schneider becomes the first German weightlifting champion
  • 1903: Heinrich Schneidereit becomes vice world champion in Paris
  • 1906: Gold medal in the tug of war for Heinrich Schneidereit with the national team as well as two bronze medals in weightlifting at the 1906 Olympic Games in Athens
  • 1906: Heinrich Schneidereit becomes world champion of all classes in weightlifting in Lille, France, as well as world champion in the newly created heavyweight class over 80 kg
  • 1993: Heinrich Bartsch becomes Masters European Champion in Sokolov in the Czech Republic .
  • 2006: Susanne Küttler becomes Masters European Champion in Heinsheim

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim Specks: What would Eisen-Heinrich have said about it? Image , June 22, 2015. Accessed May 20, 2020.
  2. ↑ Susanne Rohlfing: Curiosities from the dumbbell kingdom. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , March 8, 2004. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  3. ↑ Peter Stroß: A real show of strength. Kölnsport, August 25, 2018. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b BVDG sanctions. Retrieved March 5, 2017 . ( Judgment and decision as PDF )
  5. ^ Kurt Rosenberger: Hans Ehlenz was 75 years old. Masters weightlifting, November 3, 2008. Accessed February 6, 2018. (PDF; 446 kB)
  6. ^ Johnny Vasquez: Masters Raw World Records: Bench Press. PowerliftingWatch.com, April 7, 2019. Retrieved February 6, 2018.