Casting 46ers

Casting 46ers
Founded	1937
Hall	Sports hall Gießen-Ost (3752 seats)
Homepage	www.giessen46ers.de
executive Director	Michael Koch , Philipp Reuner
Sports director	Michael Koch
Trainer	Ingo Freyer
league	BBL 2019/20: 14th place
Colours	Red / white / black
home Away
successes
German champion 1965, 1967, 1968, 1975, 1978 German cup winner 1969, 1973, 1979 champion of the ProA 2015

The Jobstairs Gießen 46ers (formerly Gießen 46ers , spelling JobStairs GIESSEN 46ers ) are a German basketball team from the central Hessian town of Gießen . Since the establishment of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) in 1966, the team (or the main club MTV Gießen ) was the only team to play in the first division for 46 years without interruption until relegation in the 2012/2013 season . In terms of sport, however, they would have been relegated in the 2003/2004 , 2008/2009 and 2011/2012 seasons , but were able to remain in the league through wildcards or the withdrawal of other teams. As champions of the second highest basketball league ProA 2015 , the Gießen 46ers have been back in the Bundesliga since the 2015/2016 season .

The basketball department was founded in 1937 as part of MTV Gießen , from which the professional department was spun off into Gispo-Sportmarketing Gesellschaft Gießen mbH in the 1990s. The team has undergone five name changes and previously played in the league as MTV 1846 Gießen , Gießen Flippers , Avitos Gießen and LTi Gießen 46ers . The club has not had a name sponsor since 2013; since August 28, 2019, the club has been trading under the name Jobstairs Gießen 46ers. Milch & zucker Talent Acquisition & Talent Management Company AG from Giessen , to which the Jobstairs portal belongs, has acquired the naming rights of Mittelhessen for four seasons.

history

Early beginnings

In 1937 the basketball department was established within the men's gymnastics club in Giessen, which was founded in 1846 . It is therefore one of the oldest in Germany. As early as 1939, the team qualified for the first time for the final round of the German championship. However, due to the Second World War , gaming operations came to a standstill.

In the post-war period, the club began regular training again in 1948 and won the Hessen Championship for the first time in the same year. The team was finally able to move up in 1950 to what was then the highest German division, the Oberliga, which was divided into several groups and where the Giessen team played in the Southwest group. However, after only one season, it was decided to return to the national league for financial reasons. After winning the Hessian championship again in 1953, MTV was a member of the newly founded Oberliga Hessen in 1955. After two years one rose again from the Landesliga Nordhessen.

1962 to 1979: Gießen's rise to the championship team

Season dates 1966–1979

season	Space*	Points	Season Notes
1966/67	1	32: 4	Foundation of the two-part BBL
1967/68	1	33: 3
1968/69	1	32: 4	Runner-up, cup winner
1969/70	1	32: 4	Runner-up
1970/71	2	28: 8
1971/72	1	26: 2	Runner-up
1972/73	1	28: 0	Runner-up, cup winner
1973/74	1	26: 2
1974/75	1	22: 6
1975/76	5	20:16	Introduction of the single-track Bundesliga
1976/77	4th	24:12
1977/78	2	28: 8
1978/79	1	26:10	Cup winner, runner-up
highlighted in green: German champion * placement after the end of the main round

After many years in the regional league, Giessen managed to move up to the Oberliga Südwest again in 1962, thanks in part to newcomer Ernest Butler , the first American in German basketball. They also won the Hessen Championship for the third time in the same year. In the first year the team qualified for the final round of the German championship. There they failed in the 2nd round at the eventual German champions from Aachen , although the team managed to inflict the only defeat of the season on the Aacheners. In 1965, the Giesseners were able to advance to the final of the championship for the first time, which took place in Heidelberg. Thanks to Butler's decisive basket, coach Peter Nennstiel's team won the first German championship with 69:68 against VfL Osnabrück . This duel was the first of several fights in the coming years against Osnabrück to win the title.

With the establishment of the two-tier basketball league ( BBL ) in 1966 , the Giessen players entered the top class of the German Basketball Federation ( DBB ). Directly in the first season of the BBL you could win the second championship in the final against Osnabrück, which you won with 85:73. The title was defended the following year. In the final they again defeated the host team from Osnabrück 79:69.

In the 1968/69 season the Osnabrück team managed to beat the Giessen in the final for the only time. In front of their home crowd this time the team lost 69:76 to their rivals. Two months later, the Giessen could return the favor by winning their first cup with a 75:74 win against VfL. In the following year they had to be satisfied with the title of runner-up, this time after a 73:76 defeat against TuS 04 Leverkusen . In the 1970/71 season , the team failed for the first time since the foundation of the BBL to move into the final. You had to be content with third place, which you could achieve in two games against USC Heidelberg . In the following season they lost again in the final against Leverkusen, this time with defeats in both finals.

1973 was probably the most exciting final in Giessen history. Since both the first and the second leg ended in a draw, the second leg in Heidelberg went into extra time. There the Giesseners lost with a point difference of 70:71. This was the fourth runner-up in the last 5 years. A short time later, the team was able to at least secure the cup victory against MTV Wolfenbüttel . In the following year it was again not enough to win the title, losing after two games in the semi-finals due to the bad point difference against SSV Hagen .

After a seven-year dry spell, the Giessen team won their fourth German championship in 1975 . Again it was against the rival from Heidelberg, to whom they had only just lost two years ago. This time the Giessen could prevail thanks to the better difference from the two games and celebrate their title. Despite a team that stayed together, the MTV was unable to build on their performance in the following year and in the end achieved a disappointing 5th place in the now single-track Bundesliga, in which there were no more finals, but only home and away games.

For the 1976/77 season there was another final round, in which the best six teams took their points and played against each other again. However, there were no knockout games like before. After the Giesseners finished 5th again in the main round, they were able to play their way up to 3rd place thanks to a good final round. In the meantime, a renewed win of the title seemed possible, but after defeats against the top teams from Heidelberg and Leverkusen all hopes had to be buried.

In 1978 the Giesseners celebrated their fifth and last championship. As third in the main round, level on points with the two first-placed rivals from Heidelberg and Leverkusen, Giessen had a good chance of winning the title again. Giessen played a good final round and thanks to a 67:65 win against MTV Wolfenbüttel on the penultimate match day, the team made it clear that they had won the title early. Also in 1979 the Giessen team went into the season as one of the favorites for the title, which turned out to be justified as the leader of the table after the main round. In the final round, however, the Giessen weakened and could only win 4 of the 10 games. In the end, however, the team ended up just in second place, clearly trailing behind the new champions from Leverkusen. On the other hand, the Giessen team were able to make their third cup success clear by narrowly winning two games against SSC Göttingen .

MTV won a total of five German championships (1965, 1967, 1968, 1975, 1978) and three cup wins (1969, 1973, 1979) during this period.

1980 to 1990: Gießen as a talent springboard

Season dates 1980–19900

season	Space*	Points	Season Notes
1979/80	3	28: 8
1980/81	4th	22:14
1981/82	6th	16:20
1982/83	7th	16:20	First participation in the relegation round
1983/84	7th	14:22
1984/85	6th	16:20
1985/86	5	24:20
1986/87	6th	20:20
1987/88	7th	16:28
1988/89	8th	16:28
1989/90	10	14:30
* Placement after the end of the main round

In 1980 the Gießen team advanced to the final of the cup competition and lost against BSC Saturn Cologne after a two-way leg with 132: 146. Also in the championship it was enough for the Lahnstädter trained by Hannes Neumann for the third place. Then Bernd Röder took over on the touchline. In the two following years, Gießen had no chance in both competitions for the first time in many seasons. In 1982 Hans Georg Heß ended his playing career after fourteen years in the men's gymnastics jersey. In the same year Neumann returned to the coaching bench. At the end of the 1982/83 season , Giessen was seventh in the final ranking for the first time in the relegation round. But the class was confidently ensured.

Even in the years 1983 to 1985 it was not possible to build on old successes. At the age of 17, however, Michael Koch celebrated his Bundesliga debut in this phase of Gießen basketball . The later national player is one of the most successful German basketball players with seventeen national and international titles won. For the 1985/86 season , Henning Harnisch and Jan Villwock, two future national players, joined the Giessen squad now trained by Günther Lindenstruth and Hans Hess. Led by this young trio, Mittelhessen qualified as sixth in the table next year not only for the playoffs, but also defeated Steiner Bayreuth 2-0 in the fourth final . Only in the semi-finals was it over after a 2-1 win against the eventual champions from Cologne. Koch then left the Gießen company for Bayreuth, and Harnisch also moved to Leverkusen a year later. Both belonged to the golden generation of the German national basketball team and won the European Championship in 1993 . Jan Villwock remained loyal to Central Hesse until 1995. He completed 288 games for Giessen, in which he scored 4058 points and thus holds the team-internal player record.

In the championship rounds of 1988 and 1989 , the MTV failed in the quarter-finals to Bayreuth. At the end of the decade, Johnnie Bell, who was signed up after the ninth game day, contributed to the fact that the class could be fought for in the relegation round.

1990 to 2000: Name change and professionalization

Season dates 1990-20000

season	Space*	Points	Season Notes
1990/91	6th	24:40
1991/92	3	32:32
1992/93	4th	32:32
1993/94	4th	26:38	Renamed to Flippers
1994/95	4th	28:36
1995/96	7th	28:24
1996/97	10	24:28	Organizer BBL Top Four
1997/98	9	22:26
1998/99	7th	28:14
1999/00	7th	30:22
* Placement after the end of the main round

For the first time since 1975 again divided into a north and south group, Giessen closed the 1990/91 season in sixth and last place in the table in the south. Right at the start of the season, coach Klaus-Günther Mewes had to clear the place for Hans Brauer , who sovereignly saved MTV from relegation in the relegation round and led his team to the cup semi-finals (84: 111 against Leverkusen). Brauer remained the trainer for the Mittelhessen in the following season and led them into the quarter-finals of the playoffs, where it should go against the big favorites Alba Berlin . Before and before the changeover deadline, those responsible had secured the rights to NBA player Leon Wood, who was available to the Giessen team for a few games in the championship round due to an injury:

“MTV 1846 had been waiting for him since January, and on the Thursday after Ash Wednesday, assistant trainer Michael Müller met him at Frankfurt Airport. And was amazed when Wood wanted to go to the east hall immediately after his Atlantic flight - to throw a little on the basket. Contemporary witnesses claim that Wood then hit forty to warm up fifty threesomes (others claim to have seen 25 out of thirty attempts). In any case, coach Hans Brauer and his co. Michael Müller had their mouths open. "

- Wolfgang Lehmann

In fact, the Mittelhessen Berlin brought Berlin to the brink of defeat in the first leg (83:80). The home game in the Gießen-Ost sports hall went to MTV with 86:75, with Wood pouring 33 points out of the capital alone. Only in the decisive third game did the Berliners around the former NBA professional Uwe Blab prove to be a size too big. Also in the 1992/93 season , the men's gymnastics playoff excursion should end in the quarter-finals, this time after a 2-0 defeat against eventual champions Bayer Leverkusen.

There were decisive changes before the 1993/94 season : The Bundesliga team was spun off from the regular team, and GISPO Sportmarketing GmbH took over the financial and organizational fate. This was accompanied by a change of name to MTV Gießen Flippers. One of the co-founders was the entrepreneur and former owner of the Schneekoppe food company, Gerald Wagener , who, together with Robert Mayer, brought in the amount of one million DM. Nevertheless, the flippers, now trained again by Hannes Neumann, failed again in the quarter-finals at Bayer Leverkusen. This pattern continued in the seasons 1994/95 (1: 2 in the quarter-finals against Bamberg) and 1995/96 (3: 4 against Berlin).

In 1997 , the Mittelhessen missed the playoffs, but qualified for the BBL Top Four , which they were also the host. In mid-April the Gießener Alba Berlin, trained again by Hans Brauer, lost 72:83 in front of their home crowd in the final. After that , Stefan Koch from the nearby Lich took over the coaching position for the first time . In his second year , the brother of the former Giessen player Michael Koch led the team as seventh in the main round in the introduced playoff qualification, in which Ratiopharm Ulm had to admit defeat. In the cup, the flippers advanced to the final, in which Alba Berlin was able to prevail again. At the end of the season, Koch left the Giessen team and joined the new Opel Skyliners Frankfurt team. Since the Licher BasketBären also achieved promotion to the Bundesliga this year , there were a total of six Hessenderbys in the fourteen-team league. While Lich was immediately relegated to the second division, the Frankfurters should establish themselves in the BBL. Under the new coach Joe Whelton , the Giessen team reached the playoff quarter-finals in 1999/2000 , but lost to Bayer Leverkusen.

2000 to 2010: Avitos years, playoffs 2005, financial problems

2000-2010 season dates

season	Space*	Points	Season Notes
2000/01	4th	30:22	Renaming of Avitos Gießen
2001/02	6th	30:22
2002/03	10	22:30
2003/04	14 **	14:42	Renaming casting 46ers ; Bankruptcy Hagen and MBC
2004/05	6th	36:24
2005/06	11	22:38
2006/07	16	22:46
2007/08	16	18:50	Renaming LTi Gießen 46ers
2008/09	17 **	16:52	Wildcard after withdrawal from Nördlingen and Cologne
2009/10	14th	24:44
* Placement after the end of the main round ** Relegation after withdrawal of other teams / wildcard

At the beginning of the 2000/01 season , the Linden-based PC mail order company Avitos became the name sponsor of the Gießen team for three years, which under the name Avitos Gießen immediately made it to the playoff semifinals in the first year under coach Joe Whelton , where the later champion Alba Berlin was defeated. In the course of the new sponsor, the traditional Giessen colors red and white were replaced by the sponsor colors blue, yellow and black. The next year they were eliminated in the quarter-finals against the newly founded team from Cologne , before they narrowly missed the playoffs in the 2002/03 season after a catastrophic start to the season. In the same season the team reached the TOP4 tournament for the cup in a sensational game against Frankfurt.

After three years, Avitos did not renew the sponsorship contract and the search for a new name sponsor was unsuccessful. The management then tied back to the tradition of MTV Gießen and changed the jersey and club colors back to red and white. After Joe Whelton's contract as head coach was not renewed, Chris Finch, a trainer from England, came to the Lahn to lead the 46ers back into the playoffs. After almost two thirds of the season, however, he was dismissed and replaced by the former Bundesliga player of MTV Giessen, Armin Andres. Andres previously worked as head coach for the teams from Bamberg and Hagen in the Bundesliga. But despite the new coach, the last match day of the 2003/04 season sealed Gießen's first relegation from the first division of German basketball - for the time being. A defeat of the later finalist GHP Bamberg at the last remaining competitor for relegation, EnBW Ludwigsburg brought the decision back then. The right to participate was withdrawn from the central German basketball club due to bankruptcy, and the club was declared relegated at the end of the season. Since the second relegated, Brandt Hagen , also had to go to the third division for economic reasons, the Giesseners remained in the Bundesliga.

Chuck Eidson , here in the jersey by BC Lietuvos rytas (2007)

With the returning coach Stefan Koch, the 46ers turned out to be the league's surprise team in the 2004/05 season : Instead of fighting for relegation, the team played in the playoffs. Particularly spicy: Exactly one year to the day after the relegation was apparently sealed, the playoff participation was secured with a victory in Ludwigsburg. Even their opponent in the quarter-finals, RheinEnergie Köln , a favorite for the championship title, could not prevent the team around the American small forward from Giessen, Chuck Eidson , from winning the series with three to two games. In the decisive game in Cologne , Eidson achieved the club's record of 40 points in a playoff game, which is still valid today, and center Souleymane Wane set the previous record of six blocks in one game. In 2008, a film with the title "FIVE" was even made about this memorable fifth game. In the semifinals they lost to the later title holder from Bamberg after a big fight with one to three games. Two months after the end of the season, Chuck Eidson was named Player of the Year by Bundesliga fans for his all-round game .

Although large parts of the team could be kept, you could not build on the successful last season in the following year . This was due, among other things, to a serious injury Eidson in the pre-season, which forced him to sit out almost the entire year. They clearly missed the playoffs and ended up in 11th place in the table. However, Anton Gavel was named Rookie of the Year. However, like Chuck Eidson, this was not to be kept in Gießen due to the disappointing season and financial reasons.

The 2006/07 season was marked by a fresh start under the coach Stefan Koch and the new Austrian assistant coach Gerald Wasshuber . Christoph Berndt succeeded Christian Maruschka as managing director . The team, mainly made up of unknown talents, could not win a single game until November 2006. Since there were further defeats even after the first win, Stefan Koch resigned from his position as coach on December 4, 2006. He was succeeded three days later by Ken Scalabroni . In addition, on January 18, 2007, Dirk Schäfer succeeded Christoph Berndt as managing director of the 46ers sponsoring company. At the end of the season, the Giesseners landed in 16th place despite the bad start to the season and coach Ken Scalabroni was replaced by Thorsten Leibenath at the end of the 2006/07 season .

In December 2006, the main, finance, economic and legal committee of the Giessen city council decided to assume a default guarantee for the association in the amount of 200,000 euros. The reason for this measure was that the banks needed a security in the time between the payment of liabilities and the arrival of sponsorship money. The assumption of this deficiency guarantee was very controversial in Gießen, as a corporation (City of Gießen) took over a deficiency guarantee for a privately run company (46ers).

Björn Harmsen trained the 46ers from 2011 to 2012

The year 2007/08 began again with many player changes, which meant that the team had to be largely re-composed. The team again only reached 16th place and the financial situation continued to worsen. In January, manager Dirk Schäfer appeared in front of the press to announce that 200,000 euros would be needed for the game to continue until the end of February. Many fans then organized donation and advertising campaigns to support the club. On January 24th, 2008 Dirk Schäfer appeared again in front of the press to present the LTi group of companies as the new main and name sponsor. The Gießen 46ers will initially operate under the name LTi until the end of the 2009/10 season. Thereupon the financial emergency was considered to be drastically defused. After the disappointing season, as in the previous year, there was a change of coach at the end of the season. Simon Cote came on for Thorsten Leibenath, who made use of a release clause in the contract and moved to the Artland Dragons .

After a bad start to the season in 2008/09 , the team slipped to the bottom of the table. In October it became known that the club was on the verge of bankruptcy. The debts amounted to 500,000 euros. Because of this, the club started the “Rescue Card” campaign, which initially only contained a card for the home game against Telekom Baskets Bonn and was automatically extended to a season ticket for the rest of the season, as the club had not filed for bankruptcy. Due to the persistently poor financial situation, there were also various personnel changes. Christoph Syring was installed as managing director and the previous manager Dirk Schäfer took over the post of sales manager. After the lost game against the New York Phantoms Braunschweig, Simon Cote was released from his position as head coach with immediate effect. The sporting director Vladimir Bogojevič initially took over his role temporarily until the end of the 2008/2009 season. After that, Bogojevic stayed on as head coach.

On April 26th, after 2004, the sporting descent of the longest member of the national basketball league was confirmed. However, due to the withdrawal of the Giants Nördlingen on July 9, 2009, a wildcard was assigned, so that the 46ers also played in the first division in the 2009/10 season .

The new season began with a bad start. Although David Teague was the top scorer until the winter break, they lost the first seven games. Since they only won 5 games up to the 19th matchday and Teague sustained cartilage damage, which ultimately led to his contract being terminated in March, two experienced players, Osvaldo Jeanty and Elvir Ovčina, were hired , who essentially contributed to the Gießeners' season finished in 14th place.

2010 to 2013: decline and relegation from the BBL

Season dates 2010–2013

season	Space*	Points	Season Notes
2010/11	15th	18:50
2011/12	17 **	18:50
2012/13	18th	2:60	Deduction of 6 positive rating points for filing for bankruptcy
Highlighted in red: relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga. * Placement after the end of the main round ** Relegation by wildcard

The 2010-11 season got off to a promising start for the 46ers. On the first day of the match a win against Telekom Baskets Bonn was achieved and after seven games they were in the top positions with five wins. After a subsequent series of twelve defeats in a row and slipping to 16th place in the table, Bogojevic resigned on January 16, 2011 from his post as head coach and limited himself to his duties as the club's sports director. His successor was the American Steven Key , who received a contract until the end of the season. The negative series could be ended soon, but the club did not manage to distance itself from the relegation ranks. In the end it was enough on the last day of the season with the 15th place to relegate. Despite achieving the season goal, the expiring contract with Key was not extended, so that on May 30th the 46ers introduced the previous MBC trainer Björn Harmsen as the new head coach.

The 46ers also spent most of the 2011/12 season in the lower section of the table. Despite some changes in the squad and additional commitments, the team never managed to call up consistent performance. On the last day of the main round, there was a decisive duel for relegation against Phoenix Hagen . Previously, the BG Göttingen was already known as a relegated athlete. Due to the 85:72 defeat in Hagen, Gießen was determined to be the second relegated from the BBL on April 28, 2012 and would have had to go to the second division for the first time in the club's history. But due to the waiver of ProA runner-up Kirchheim Knights , a place in the basketball Bundesliga initially remained free. The league allowed a wildcard procedure and the Gießen 46ers and Giants Düsseldorf applied for a free starting place for the 2012/2013 season. The Gießen 46ers were awarded the contract on June 6, 2012, and they continued to be represented in the BBL. Heiko Schelberg joined the club at the beginning of the year . From April he was in office as managing director.

After the last season, which was again disappointing, at the beginning of the 2012/13 season, a large part of the team was replaced and Mathias Fischer signed as the new head coach . Nevertheless, only four wins were achieved by the 14th matchday. On December 22nd, 2012, immediately after the home win in the game against runners-up ratiopharm Ulm , it was announced that the Gießen 46ers had filed for insolvency at the local court in Gießen due to impending insolvency . This meant at the same time a deduction of four points in the table, with which the prospects of relegation were very low. At the end of January 2013, two points were deducted again because the association had violated the obligation to notify the BBL.

The association managed to collect the deficit of € 360,000 to end the season through fan donations, sponsor payments and loans. However, the team lost important top performers such as Ryan Brooks , who was handed over to the Frankfurt Skyliners together with LaQuan Prowell , or Jasmin Perković , who drew a contract option to end the contract early. The 46ers then failed to win another game and at the end of the season ended up in last place with only two positive points and were relegated as the last founding member of the basketball Bundesliga for the first time in 46 years. Thus, the club started in the second-class ProA in the 2013/14 season .

2013 to 2019: Rebuilding the ProA and re-promotion

Season dates 2013–20190

season	Space*	Points	Season Notes
ProA 13/14	4th	36:24	Renaming of Gießen 46ers
ProA 14/15	3	42:18	Second division champion and promotion
2015/16	9	34:34
2016/17	9	30:34
2017/18	11	32:36
2018/19	13	26:42
* Placement after the end of the main round

Denis Wucherer (2017)

As the new head coach, Mittelhessen presented the former national player Denis Wucherer , who previously worked as an assistant coach for FC Bayern Munich . With a completely reorganized team, the 46ers ended their first season in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA in 4th place and secured home rights in the first playoff round. There, the Giessen won 3-2 against Science City Jena . In the semifinals, however, the 46ers had to admit defeat to the eventual champions BG Göttingen .

For the 2014/2015 season, Wucherer remained on board as head coach and again put together a largely changed team. The 46ers quickly established themselves in the top group of the ProA and ended the regular season with 21 wins and 9 defeats in third place in the table. In the quarter-finals there was a clash with MLP Academics Heidelberg , against which the 46ers were able to prevail 3-0. The team was also able to successfully contest the semi-finals and also won the series 3-0 against the Nuremberg Basketball Club . By making it to the final, the 46ers secured their sporty return to the basketball Bundesliga . In the final, the club met the s.Oliver Baskets from Würzburg. With two wins, the 46ers secured the championship of the 2nd Bundesliga ProA against the Baskets , finished the playoffs as undefeated champions and thus played again in the basketball Bundesliga from the 2015/2016 season. In the first season after being promoted again, they narrowly missed entry into the playoffs: At the end of the points round, Giessen was ninth in the table (tied with eighth Würzburg). In March 2017, coach Wucherer announced that he would not extend his contract, which was due to expire at the end of the 2016/17 season; Ingo Freyer was hired as his successor .

Shortly before the start of the 2017/18 season , the Mittelhessen signed John Bryant , who was previously unlearned . After initial acclimatization difficulties, the two-time MVP quickly built on the achievements that he had already shown in the service of ratiopharm ulms and Bayern Munich . His 18.2 points and 10.7 rebounds on average contributed to the fact that the 46ers team, which was renewed in many parts, was able to establish itself in the middle of the table in the third year after being promoted again and was involved in the fight for a lower playoff place for a long time. At the end of the season, the Giessen found themselves in eleventh place in the table. Bryant was elected to the all-first team of the Basketball Bundesliga. It was the first 46 to receive this honor since 2006. In the MVP election, Bryant came in second behind Berlin's Luke Sikma . In mid-May, the club announced that they had signed Bryant for two more years. Led by Bryant, who took on German citizenship in December 2018, the 46ers started the 2018/19 season with a winning streak , thanks to which they ranked third in the table after eight match days. A series of defeats meant that the team that signed the clubless Jared Jordan in early 2019 fell out of the playoffs at the turn of the year. Seven games without a win in March and April let the Giessen wander into the no man's land of the table. However, the team was no longer in danger of relegation. John Bryant was named the best offensive player at the end of the season.

At the beginning of December 2019 it was announced that managing director Heiko Schelberg would leave his position at the end of the season. In its initial report, the Gießener Allgemeine had referred to a decision at a shareholders' meeting a few days earlier. The association confirmed the statement in a press release on the same day. Only a few months earlier, the manager, who has been with the company since 2012, had managed to win a name sponsor.

Since 2020

Season dates since 20200

season	Space*	Points	Season Notes
2019/20	13	12:28	Cancellation of the main round
* Placement after the end of the main round

The former Gießen player Michael Koch was introduced as the new managing director in February 2020 (start of service: March 1, 2020). On March 1st, the association announced that the shareholders and Schelberg had agreed on an immediate amicable termination of the management contract. The COVID-19 pandemic in Germany forced the league to take a break in early March. After the last four lost games, the 46ers, who were in thirteenth place at the time, had to play for the penultimate from Weißenfels . The Mitteldeutsche Basketball Club had planned to hold it until the day before the game. Luke Petrasek and Kendall Gray were the first players to ask for a contract termination. Stephen Brown followed a day later. Most recently, only Brandon Thomas remained of the Americans, who has school-age children in Germany. On April 27, the league unanimously decided in a meeting to continue the season. The master is to be held in a special mode among ten teams. Gießen appealed against participation citing moral, health, financial and sporting reasons, as did six other teams. They still held the league in terms of sport. At the end of May, the club announced that it would part ways with its second manager, Philipp Reuner, at the end of September.

In July, John Bryant left the club after three years. He was the first player in Giessen's jersey to score a triple-double.

Graduating placements since 1966

Squad

Squad of the GIESSEN 46ers in the 2019/2020 season
Attention: The squad information is out of date! (current season: 2020/2021)
player No. Nat. Surname birth size info Last club Guards ( PG , SG ) 33 Brandon Thomas 17th August 1984 1.98 m Regatas Corrientes 12 Leon Okpara February 3, 1998 1.95 m DL RheinStars Cologne 4th Bjarne Kraushaar June 12, 1999 1.90 m DL Licher BasketBears 7th Tim Levin Köpple September 3, 2000 1.82 m DL Ratiopharm Ulm Academy Forwards ( SF , PF ) 8th Alen Pjanic March 5, 1997 2.00 m DL Licher BasketBears 10 Tim Uhlemann April 9, 1999 2.03 m DL own youth Center ( C ) Ingo Freyer Head coach Steven Wriedt Assistant coach Legend Abbr. meaning DL Double license with GIESSEN 46ers II NBBL Also in the NBBL team captain swell Team homepage Status: 2019/20 season

Change to the 2019/2020 season - Basketball Bundesliga

Additions: Kendall Gray (Atletico Petroleos de Luanda), Alexander Abreu (Santeros de Aguada), Teyvon Myers (Jämtland Basket), Luke Petrasek ( Greensboro Swarm ), Jordan Barnett (Fort Wayne Mad Ants)

Departures: Siyani Chambers ( New Heroes Den Bosch ), Benjamin Lischka ( Telekom Baskets Bonn ), David Bell (Brussels Basket), Mahir Agva ( Darüşşafaka SK Istanbul ), Jared Jordan ( CSU Sibiu ), Larry Gordon ( Hapoel Eilat BC )

In-season departures after the suspension of the league: Kendall Gray, Luke Petrasek, Stephen Brown, Jordan Barnett, Teyvon Myers, Matt Tiby, John Bryant

supervisor

• Sören Beck - team manager
• Wolfgang Leutheuser, Ulrich Faber - team doctors
• Lukas Lai, Dirk Lösel - Physio-Team

Environment of the association

Youth work, cooperations, Depant GIESSEN 46ers Rackelos

The club operates two youth teams of its own, both of which play in the top national leagues. The U19s play in the youth basketball league and the U16s belong to the youth basketball league .

In addition, the people of Giessen work closely with the youth department of the parent club MTV Giessen and the youth basketball center in Central Hesse. Thus, talents are repeatedly taken over into their own junior team in order to introduce them to the professional team through competition practice against the best of their own age in Germany.

There was also a cooperation with the ProB team of the Licher BasketBären for several years . Equipped with a double license, young players gathered match practice in the lower house of the second division and at the same time moved up into the BBL squad of the 46ers. After the 2016/17 season , after the resignation of shareholders, the Licher team ceded their license. As a result, the 46ers endeavored to take over the ProB playing authorization in order to provide a second division team under their own leadership from the 2017/18 season. The relicensing process required for this ended positively for the club from Central Hesse in July 2017. The name of the new team is Depant GIESSEN 46ers Rackelos .

East hall from the west

Venues

In the early years the team played first in the Gießen Miller Hall and later in the gym of the Pestalozzi School. From 1962 on, when it was promoted to the highest German league, the club played for seven years in the double gym on Bismarckstrasse , which is now part of the Liebig School in Giessen . The official capacity was 1,200 spectators.

The current home ground of the Gießen 46ers is the Gießen-Ost sports hall , built in 1969 , which belongs to the city of Gießen as a school sports hall. At that time it had a capacity of 3,150 spectators. In 2006 it was expanded from tax revenues to a capacity of 4,003 viewers in order to meet current standards. The renovation was completed in January 2007 and since then the hall has had 2,615 seats and standing room for 1,388 as well as a VIP box. Due to structural changes in the course of the 2014/2015 promotion to the Bundesliga, the maximum capacity for home basketball games for the Gießen 46ers fell to 3,752 at the start of the 2015/2016 season. Specifically, the VIP area, which was previously located in an adjacent sports hall, was relocated to the west gallery above the standing room, which now functions as the “west gallery VIP area”.

Location and directions

The hall is located in the east of Giessen between the comprehensive school Giessen-Ost and the Philosophikum I of the Justus Liebig University . At home games, the university's parking spaces are used to cope with car traffic.

The Vogelsbergbahn has a stop on Licher Straße approx. 750 m away. Several city bus routes stop at the neighboring East School . In addition, the nearby Schiffenberger Tal industrial park is accessible with several regional bus routes.

Fans, audience numbers and capacity

season	total	average	Season record	workload	capacity
2007/08	57.210	3,365	3,890	84.07%	4,003
2008/09	58,538	3,443	4.003 (ex.)	86.02%	4,003
2009/10	55,454	3,262	3,870	81.49%	4,003
2010/11	59,878	3,522	4.003 (ex.)	87.99%	4,003
2011/12	59,131	3,478	4.003 (ex.)	86.89%	4,003
2012/13	49,489	2,911	4.003 (ex.)	72.72%	4,003
2013/14	32,985	2,199	3.122 (ex.)	70.44%	3.122
2014/15	37,605	2,507	3.284 (ex.)	76.34%	3,284
2015/16	59,697	3,512	3.752 (ex.)	93.60%	3,752
2016/17	54,654	3,416	3.752 (ex.)	91.05%	3,752
2017/18	57,222	3,366	3.752 (ex.)	89.71%	3,752
2018/19	59,524	3,501	3.752 (ex.)	93.32%	3,752
2019/20	39,378	3,282	3.752 (ex.)	87.50%	3,752

The fans of the Gießen 46ers are known for the loud support of their team. This is precisely why the atmosphere in the Osthalle at home is also described as very "heated". In addition, the team is supported by numerous fans in almost all away games, who usually organize at least one fan bus to the respective opponent. In 2005, 1,200 fans from Gießen drove to Cologne for the decisive quarter-final game of the playoffs to cheer on their team.

There is a special rivalry with the fans of the Frankfurt Skyliners . This results on the one hand from the short distance and the emergence of the so-called Hessenderby , on the other hand from the fact that Gießen, as a founding member of the BBL, with many successes in the past, stands in contrast to the team founded in 1999, which has accordingly had successes in recent years.

In the early years of the Bundesliga basketball league there was also a certain rivalry with fans of VfL Osnabrück . This was based on the many finals (4 × Bundesliga, 1 × cup) in which the two clubs played against each other until 1970. The finals of the first three Bundesliga years were always MTV Gießen - VfL Osnabrück. In the end, the Gießen team almost always prevailed, only in 1969 the VfL won the German championship in Gießen. This rivalry soon ended, however, as the Osnabrück basketball department was closed in 1973.

The theoretical total capacity of the Gießener Sporthalle Ost has been 4,003 since the renovation was completed in early 2007. Structural changes during the home games of the Gießen 46ers cause deviations. The strong decimation in the second division years 2013 to 2015 is due, for example, to the fact that the mobile standing room on the west side was not set up during this time.

mascot

Fabius and Fabi with a few players

The mascot has been the dragon Fabius since 2005, who is also the mascot of Stadtwerke Gießen and in this role also provided entertainment for the former cooperation partner Licher BasketBären . Fabius is played by Michael Rogalla, who is known in the region as the clown Ichmael and who also enlivens the costume of the mascot of the neighboring handball Bundesliga club HSG Wetzlar . Fabius entertains the audience at home games in the east hall with interludes such as juggling basketballs, unicycling and skateboarding as well as activities with small children. Fabius is supported by the young dragon Fabi. Former mascots of the Gießen 46ers included the Avitos Tiger and before that the Delfin Flipper.

statistics

successes

• German championship in 1965, 1967 , 1968 , 1975 and 1978
• German Cup victory in 1969, 1973 and 1979
• Champion of the ProA 2015

Pour in the Eternal Table

Status: summer 2019

rank	society	Basket ratio	Points balance	Championship title	BBL playing times
1	Alba Berlin	118.161: 108.069	1953: 843	8th	38
2	Brose Bamberg	123.820: 116.351	1,891: 1,103	9	45
3	Bayer Leverkusen	107.171: 94.183	1763: 673	14th	40
4th	Casting 46ers	121.071: 120.039	1480  : 1500	4th	51
5	Brandt Hagen	82.506: 80.416	1042: 958	1	38

Head coach since 1962

1962–1966: Peter Nennstiel 1966-1970: Laszlo Lakfalvi 1970-1971: Mita Ozarcuk 1971–1975: Dietfried Kienast 1975–1977: Klaus Jungnickel 1977–1980: Hannes Neumann 1980–1982: Bernd Röder 1982–1984: Hannes Neumann 1984–1987: Günther Lindenstruth 1987–1988: Dieter Krausch

1988-1989: Charles Toth 1989–1991: Klaus-Günther Mewes 1991–1993: Hans Brauer 1993–1994: Hannes Neumann 1994-1996: Armin Andres 1996–1997: Hans Brauer 1997–1999: Stefan Koch 1999-2003: Joseph Whelton 2003-2004: Chris Finch 2004: Armin Andres

2004–2006: Stefan Koch 2006-2007: Ken Scalabroni 2007–2008: Thorsten Leibenath 2008-2009: Simon Cote 2009–2011: Vladimir Bogojevič 2011: Steven Key 2011–2012: Björn Harmsen 2012–2013: Mathias Fischer 2013–2017: Denis Wucherer since 2017: Ingo Freyer

Individual awards

John Bryant (2013) in the FC Bayern jersey

BBL awards

season	player	Award
2004/05	Chuck Eidson	Player of the year
2004/05	Chuck Eidson	Best offensive player
2004/05	Stefan Koch	Coach of the year
2004/05	Anton Gavel	Most Improved Player
2005/06	Anton Gavel	Best young player
2018/19	John Bryant	Best offensive player

ALL-BBL teams

season	player	Position / team
2004/05	Chuck Eidson	Forward / First Team
2005/06	Chuck Eidson	Forward / First Team
2017/18	John Bryant	Center / First Team
2018/19	John Bryant	Center / Second Team

Best marks in recent seasons

The value is given in brackets. yellowthe values ​​that were also the best in the league are marked. Scroll down for older data.

season	Points *	Rebounds *	Assists *	Steals *	Blocks *	Effectiveness *
2019/20	Teyvon Myers 286 (14.3)	John Bryant 132 (6.6)	Stephen Brown 97 (5.1)	Teyvon Myers 22 (1.1)	Luke Petrasek 15 (1.4)	John Bryant 286 (14.3)
2018/19	John Bryant 584 (19.5)	John Bryant 305 ( 10.2 )	Jared Jordan 147 (7.8)	Larry Gordon 25 (0.7)	John Bryant 26 (0.9)	John Bryant 770 ( 25.7 )
2017/18	John Bryant 620 (18.2)	John Bryant 362 ( 10.7 )	Darvin Davis 130 (4.6)	Jahenns Manigat 22 (1,2)	John Bryant 49 (1.4)	John Bryant 820 ( 24.1 )
2016/17	Cameron Wells 463 (14.0)	Dwayne Evans 213 (7.1)	Cameron Wells 135 (4.1)	Thomas Scrubb 33 (1.8)	Justin Sears 20 (0.7)	Cameron Wells 135 (14.7)
2015/16	Suleiman Braimoh 399 (12.1)	Gabriel Olaseni 175 (7.0)	Braydon Hobbs 166 (4.9)	Braydon Hobbs 58 (1.7)	Gabriel Olaseni 23 (0.9)	Gabriel Olaseni 23 (15.8)
2014/15	Cameron Wells 443 (12.3)	Yorman Polas Bartolo 209 (5.6)	Anthony DiLeo 147 (3.9)	Yorman Polas Bartolo 68 (1.8)	Bjorn Schoo 24 (0.6)	Cameron Wells 443 (14.5)
2013/14	Myles Hesson 532 (16.1)	Myles Hesson 224 (6.8)	Steven Bennett 124 (3.4)	Joshiko Saibou 59 (1.6)	Robert Chubb 33 (1.0)	Myles Hesson 532 (15.6)
2012/13	Ryan Brooks 302 (15.9)	Elvir Ovčina 210 (7.0)	Elvir Ovčina 105 (3.5)	Ryan Brooks 18 (1.0)	LaQuan Prowell 14 (0.8)	Elvir Ovčina 105 (13.8)
2011/12	Barry Stewart 453 (13.3)	Elvir Ovčina 214 (6.5)	Radenko Pilčević 95 (3.3)	Wayne Bernard 47 (1.4)	Robert Oehle 13 (0.4)	Elvir Ovčina 214 (12.9)
2010/11	Zachery Peacock 465 (13.7)	Elvir Ovčina 225 (6.6)	Giorgi Gamqrelidze 92 (3.7)	Zachery Peacock 34 (1.0)	Elvir Ovčina 19 (0.6)	Zachery Peacock 34 (14.4)
2009/10	David Teague 368 ( 20.4 )	Elvir Ovčina 113 (8.1)	Lorenzo Williams 89 (3.6)	David Teague 27 (1.5)	Elvir Ovčina 14 (1.0)	Elvir Ovčina 14 (17.4)
2008/09	Michael Umeh 455 (13.8)	Corey Rouse 176 (6.1)	Heiko Schaffartzik 93 (2.9)	Michael Umeh 32 (1.0)	Ricky Hickman 6 (0.3)	Michael Umeh 455 (11.8)
2007/08	Michael Umeh 446 (13.1)	Corey Rouse 189 (6.1)	Michael Umeh 68 (2.0)	Michael Umeh 31 (0.9)	Corey Rouse 14 (0.5)	Corey Rouse 14 (11.4)
2006/07	Rouven Roessler 369 (11.2)	Robert Maras 226 (6.9)	Obie Trotter 91 (2.8)	Obie Trotter 64 (2.0)	Robert Maras 20 (0.6)	Robert Maras 20 (11.8)
2005/06	Anton Gavel 479 (16.0)	Gerrit Terdenge 122 (5.1)	Louis Campbell / 110 (3.7)	Anton Gavel 54 (1.8)	Adam Chubb 17 (0.9)	Anton Gavel 54 (15)
2004/05	Chuck Eidson 758 (19.9)	Souleymane Wane 341 (9.0)	Chuck Eidson 127 (3.3)	Chuck Eidson 99 ( 2.6 )	Souleymane Wane 44 (1.2)	Chuck Eidson 127 (19)
2003/04	John Thomas 426 (18.5)	Wilbur Johnson 170 (6.8)	John Thomas 88 (3.8)	Brian Lynch 29 (1.5)	Wilbur Johnson 19 (0.8)	John Thomas 88 (15.7)
2002/03	Bjorn Aubre McKie 674 ( 25.0 )	Ajmal Basit 289 (10.3)	Bjorn Aubre McKie 82 (3.2)	Bjorn Aubre McKie 68 ( 2.7 )	Ajmal Bassit 44 (1.6)	Bjorn Aubre McKie 674 ( 20.5 )
2001/02	Gregory Stevenson 493 (15.2)	TJ Lux 235 (8.1)	William Donlon 79 (4.0)	TJ Lux 20 (0.7)	Rick Stafford 49 (1.7)	TJ Lux 466 (16.1)
2000/01	Adonis Jordan 587 (18.3)	Reggie Bassette 196 (9.8)	Adonis Jordan 124 (3.9)	Reggie Bassette 41 (2.1)	Reggie Bassette 40 (2.0)	Reggie Bassette 418 (20.9)

^* Only players who have played at least 50% of the games are considered.

Player records

Here is an overview of the individual records in different areas that the players in the Giessen team achieved.

Status: May 2020; Players marked in bold are still active for casting

Games	Points	Rebounds *	Assists *
Hans Georg Hess (299) Jan Villwock (288) Josef Waniek (275) Thomas Andres (259) Ulrich Strack (257) Robert Minor (246) Florian Hartenstein (237) Roland Peters (219) Benjamin Lischka (196) Christoph Seifert (191)	Jan Villwock (4058) Klaus Jungnickel (3296) Thomas Andres (3167) Hans Georg Hess (3070) Josef Waniek (2865) Robert Minor (2472) Karl Ampt (2369) Christoph Seifert (2323) Ted Hundley (1916) Matthias Strauss (1825)	Elvir Ovcina (890) John Bryant (806) Gerrit Terdenge (653) Benjamin Lischka (633) Arne Alig (620) Florian Hartenstein (606) Jacek Duda (602) Maurice Jeffers (580) Thomas Andres (575) Douglas Keith Roth (529)	Thomas Andres (562) Cameron Wells (403) John Bryant (337) Arne Alig (335) Vladimir Bogojevic (317) Elvir Ovcina (312) Anthony DiLeo (286) Richard Barry (275) Louis Anthony Campbell (224) Patrick King (207)

^* The statistics for rebounds and assists are not fully available until 1991.

Coach records

Status: May 2020

Most games	Most wins (win rate)
Hannes Neumann - 148 Denis Usurer - 144 Stefan Koch - 136 Hans Brewer - 131 Joseph Whelton - 130 Günther Lindenstruth - 96 Armin Andres - 91 Laszlo Lakfalvi - 88 Ingo Freyer - 88 Klaus Jungnickel - 75 Dietfried Kienast - 73 Vladimir Bogojevic - 71	Hannes Neumann - 85 (0.57) Denis Wucherer - 82 (0.57) Laszlo Lakfalvi - 75 (0.85) Joseph Whelton - 68 (0.52) Hans Brauer - 64 (0.49) Dietfried Kienast - 61 (0.84) Stefan Koch - 61 (0.45) Günther Lindenstruth - 47 (0.49) Klaus Jungnickel - 46 (0.61) Armin Andres - 39 (0.43) Bernd Roeder - 37 (0.48)

Hall of Fame

The players in the Giessen Hall of Fame have usually played for the club for many years and shaped the team's game. Many come from the championship teams in the 1960s and 70s and were mostly among the best players in German basketball at the time. Nevertheless, many other players from later periods who have made a contribution to the club have also been included. Long-time trainers and the former manager Heinz-Ewald Hirsch, who shaped the club for many years, are also members.

Surname	In the club	Remarks
Karl Ampt	1967-1978	Ampt was part of the championship team in 1967/68. The filigree winger took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. With the exception of a two-year interlude at 1. FC Bamberg , the future dentist ended his career in Giessen.
Thomas Andres	1990-1998	Playing at the side of his brother Armin , Thomas Andres shaped the face of the Giessen team in the 1990s. With 259 appearances and 3167 points, the advanced player is one of the hardest-working Giessen players of all time. Andres even leads the assists category (see player records) with 562 assists.
Eberhard Bauernfeind	1971-1979	Bauernfeind celebrated two German championships with MTV (1975, 1978).
Jörg Bernath	1967-1976	After two youth championships, the Gießen home grown-up switched to FC Bayern Munich wearing the MTV jersey. In the mid-1970s, Bernath returned to Central Hesse and was part of the 1975 championship team.
Hans Brauer	1990-1993 1994 1996-1997	The journalist Wolfgang Lehmann described Brauer as the club's last “part-time trainer”, who took over the sidelines several times during a transition phase to more professional structures in the 90s.
Michael Breitbach	1971-1976	In the 1974/75 season, MTV was looking for a successor to coach Dietfried Kienast. Captain Michael Breitbach played a key role in convincing ex-team-mate Klaus “Dschang” Jungnickel of a commitment. With success: In the end, the Hessians celebrated their fourth championship.
Ernest Butler	1962-1965	“... and then Butler met! The MTV Gießen leads, the game is over! It couldn't get any more dramatic, MTV Gießen became German basketball champions in 1965 thanks to Butler's throwing the basket, ”commented Hajo Rauschenbach for the radio on the final seconds of the final between Gießen and Osnabrück. The American gave the Hessians the first championship with his basket. The jazz player accompanied training sessions by Dirk Nowitzki mentor Holger Geschwindner with his saxophone, such as in the documentary Nowitzki. The perfect litter is seen.
Karl Clausen †	until 1966	Clausen won the German championship with the men's gymnastics in 1965. Like his father Theo , who is considered a German basketball pioneer, he later taught at the Laubach Alumnat .
Dennis Curran	1974-1976	Announced as a center player who measures over two meters, Curran turned out to be barely taller than 190 cm when he arrived at Frankfurt Airport. But even without the guards, the American made a lasting impression in the 1974/75 season. He was not only the top scorer of the league, but also transformed the decisive basket in the final against Heidelberg.
Burkhard Ehrlich	1964-1967	Ehrlich was part of the squad that brought the first German championship to the Lahn.
Wolfgang Fengler	1979-1981	The former national basketball player came to Giessen in 1979 and played for MTV for two years. According to Wolfgang Lehmann, the aesthetic play system of the German-American, who scored points in his BBL career in 2015, will be remembered.
Jürgen Gelling	until 1966	Gelling was on the championship team from 1965.
Holger Geschwindner	1964-1970	Dirk Nowitzki's mentor also played for MTV when he was active and won three German championships. His play area is described as just as unconventional as that of his protégé and NBA champion .
Henning Harnisch	1985-1988	The later 169-time national basketball player moved after his time in Gießen to Leverkusen and later to Berlin, where he won nine championship titles and five cup successes. If he benefited from the talent promotion of his first professional station at MTV himself, he was presented with the Berlin-Brandenburg Sports Journalists' Golden Ribbon in 2016 for his work in promoting young talent.
Hans Georg Hess	1968-1982	"Hansi" Hess was initially one of the championship squads of the 1975 and 1978 seasons. In the 1980s, he remained connected to the club through his work as an assistant coach.
Heinz-Ewald Hirsch †	1966-1984	The long-time manager of the Bundesliga club worked from 1966 until the 1980s. He stayed with MTV as a team supervisor until the year he passed away in 2005.
Ted Hundley	1977-1980	Hundley came to MTV Giessen in 1977 and won the championship there. The American , who had been transferred from NCAA , contributed an average of 25 points to the success of his team. The "man without muscles" - as his nickname - stayed with the Hessians until 1980 and won the DBB Cup in 1979. He scored no less than 2413 points - then playing for Heidelberg in the Bundesliga for another year - within four seasons in the basketball league.
Klaus Jungnickel	1966-1974	Called “Die goldene Hand” and “Dschang”, he won three German championships with MTV in the 1960s - and was the first to be called into the Giessen Hall of Fame. In 1975 he moved to the coaching bench and also led his team to the championship title this season.
Dietfried Kienast	1966-1971	In his youth, Kienast also attended the Laubach boarding school where basketball pioneer Theo Clausen practiced after the Second World War. With the Middle Hesse he was twice German champion as a player. From 1971 to 1974 he coached the people of Giessen, from 1972 parallel to his work as a national basketball coach.
Michael Koch	1983-1987	Koch began his career, in the course of which he should win ten national championship titles and the European championship in 1993, in 1983 with MTV. Born in nearby Lich, the future Bundesliga coach showed his talent early on - possibly the greatest in the club's history. He has been the club's managing director since March 2020.
Laszlo Lakfalvi †	1966-1970	The native Hungarian led the Giessen team to two championship titles and the cup win in 1969 as a coach within four years.
Robert Minor	1972-1982	The center won two championships with the Giesseners and shaped the face of the people of Lahnstadt in the 1970s.
Michael Mitchell	2000-2004	The US power forward with an Irish passport was brought to the Lahn by former Avitos Gießen coach Joe Whelton and contributed to the championship semi-finals being reached again in 2001 for the first time since 1987. Mitchell remained loyal to Giessen in the following years, but had to sit out due to injury in his last season 2004/05, whereupon he ended his career.
Peter Nennstiel †	1962-1966	Nennstiel was the coach of the first championship team from 1965. As early as the 1950s, he had a decisive influence on the face of MTV as a player.
Hannes Neumann †	1977–1980 1982–1983 1993–1994	Neumann was the coach of the Gießen Bundesliga club in the 70s, 80s and 90s for a total of six years. At 148, he holds the coaching record for the most coached games of all MTV coaches. Since he won of these 85, he also leads in this category (see coaching records). In 1978 the sports scientist led the Middle Hesse to the German championship.
Roland Peters	1969-1980	Peters played for the Giessener for eleven years and won two championships and two cup wins during this time. With 219 appearances, he ranks seventh in the team's internal ranking (see player records). According to Wolfgang Lehmann, the 21-time national team player was remembered by the fans for another reason. Despite being only 190 cm tall, Peters was able to dunk .
Bernd Röder	1966-1973	The later coach of the German national basketball team rose with MTV 1846, then won the club's first championship in 1965 and also worked there as a coach in the youth department. In this role he won four German championships.
Heinz Ross	1966-1968	Ross won two championships with the Giessen, including in 1965 after a close final against Osnabrück. After Klaus Jungnickel had to sit on the bench with five fouls in the closing stages, Ross came into play and ordered the lead with a free throw (67:66). In the decisive attack with twenty seconds left to play, Ross played the throw-in to Holger Geschwindner, who passed the ball to Ernest Buttler shortly before the end, who in turn sank the goal from victory 69:68.
Hans-Georg Rupp	1964-1966	Rupp was also part of the championship team in 1965 and acted as a rotation player in the build-up position, among others behind Holger Geschwindner.
Ulrich Strack	1972-1990	Strack was one of the most talented homegrowns that MTV produced in its history. His game overview and creativity on the floor was praised. Strack changed clubs twice in the course of his career, but always returned to the Hessians. He shaped the face of the team in the 70s and 80s.
Matthias Strauss	1975-1981	Strauss played for MTV for six years and won the championship once and the cup once during this phase. His speed in the switching game was decisive for the team's play area and ensured that today's dentist was appointed to the national team.
Klaus Urmitzer	1964/65, 1969-1973	Urmitzer was one of the top performers in the master squad from 1965. He then played in Heidelberg and moved back to Giessen at the end of the decade. As a result of a car accident on the way back from an away game in Heidelberg, the seriously injured Urmitzer was in hospital for a month and had to end his professional career as a result.
Jan Villwock	1985-1995	In his ten years with Giessen, Villwock played 288 Bundesliga games, placing him in second place behind Hans Hess in the team's internal best list. In these he scored over 4000 points and leads the list in this category by a large margin.
Josef Waniek	1979-1990	Statistically on Villwock's heels was Josef Waniek, who played 275 games in eleven years (third place) and scored 2865 points (fifth place).
Henner Weigand	1969-1976	Weigand (born 1951) experienced the championship finals in 1965 from the stands in his youth; four years later, the home-grown man made the leap into the Bundesliga squad. He was part of the championship team from 1975, but had to stop professional sport a year later due to an injury.
Jochen Wucherer	1965-1967	The father of the later 46ers trainer Denis Wucherer won the German championship with Giessen in 1967. His second son Nicolas Wucherer was also active for MTV in the early 1990s.
Chuck Eidson	2004-2006	Eidson was the leader of the legendary team that made it into the playoff semi-finals against Bamberg in 2005 and previously knocked out Cologne 3-2. At the beginning of his second year with Hessen, the small forward was seriously injured. After a successful recovery, however, he had an extremely successful career with top European clubs.

social commitment

Since 2009 there has been a partnership with the Children's Heart Healing Association , which takes care of the needs of families with children with heart disease.

Web links

Commons : pouring 46ers  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Homepage of the main club MTV 1846 Giessen
• Presentation of the association on easycredit-bbl.de
• German national basketball team 1968 to 1972 - preparation for the 1972 Summer Olympics

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Vogel: Gießen 46ers: New name sponsor and new logo . In: Gießener Allgemeine . August 28, 2019 ( giessener-allgemeine.de ).
2. ↑ Gießener Anzeiger: It all began with a visit to a pub ( Memento from May 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Wolfgang Lehmann: Young, unorthodox, successful: Peter Nennstiel. In: Giessen46ers.de , accessed on May 26, 2018.
4. ↑ 1967 to today: An overview of the cup competition. In: easyCredit BBL. Archived from the original on February 18, 2018 ; accessed on May 25, 2018 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Lukas Becker: GA supplement Chronicle: Harnisch and Koch. In: Gießener Allgemeine. September 27, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Wolfgang Lehmann: Play Off series against Berlin with Leon Wood - "Always look on the bright side of life". In: Giessen 46ers. Retrieved May 26, 2018 . 
7. ↑ GIESSEN 46ers - The Bundesliga veteran from the Lahn. In: Giessen 46ers. Retrieved May 26, 2018 . 
8. ^ Jens Voss: Portrait of Gerald Wagener: The entrepreneur. In: RP online. February 10, 2018, accessed May 26, 2018 . 
9. ↑ SCHNEEKOPPE match day sponsor. In: Giessen 46ers. Retrieved May 26, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Player records. In: easyCredit BBL. Retrieved July 13, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Giessener Eidson suffered a knee injury. In: RP online. September 15, 2005, accessed May 31, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Giessen46ers.de: Christoph Syring new managing director . September 11, 2008, accessed May 26, 2018.
13. ↑ Giessen46ers.de: Shepherd takes over sales management . September 28, 2008, accessed May 26, 2018.
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