Magdeburg swimming club from 1896

MSC from 1896
Club data
founding	February 2, 1896

The Magdeburg Swimming Club von 1896 eV is a swimming club from Magdeburg .

history

1896 to 1945

founding

There were several river baths in Magdeburg in the 19th century . Regular bathers of the "Friedrichstadtbad" founded the Magdeburg swimming club from 1896 on February 2nd, 1896 . By the turn of the century, the club had over 100 members who had won several German championship titles by 1903.

In 1904, disagreements between the board of directors and the "racing team" led to the founding of another swimming club in Magdeburg, the SC Hellas Magdeburg . Even so, the remaining active swimmers of the MSC from 1896 achieved 11 victories in 1904.

Rise and successes up to the First World War

Magdeburg developed into the stronghold of swimming in Germany . The most successful members of the MSC in 1896 were: Oskar Schiele , Hugo Vollmayer , Carl Gubener , Walter Prophet , Otto Bendung , Fritz Görges , Willy Kempf , Wilhelm Lützow .

In the period up to the First World War, Oskar Schiele was the most successful swimmer in Magdeburg's history as the “96er”. He achieved over 700 victories and was twice part of the German Olympic team (1906 in Athens - silver medal and 1912 in Stockholm). He won the English Royal Cup in London in 1907, 1909, 1913 and 1914. He set five world records, 100 m freestyle (1: 05.4 min), 4 × 100 m freestyle relay (4: 34.0 min), 100 m back (1: 18.4 min) and over 200 m back ( 3: 07.8 min and 3: 04.4 min).

Oskar Schiele also set fifteen German records between 1909 and 1911, was German freestyle champion in 1908 and 1909 over 100 m and in 1913 over 1500 m.

400 club members were soldiers in the First World War, 36 died in the war.

Successes up to World War II

After several interim solutions, the club's own facility in the Schleusengraben on the small town march with practice and competition track and clubhouse was put into operation in 1922. The number of members rose to 786 adults and 989 young people by the end of 1923.

At the swimming federation festival in Bremen in 1925, the club won three German championship titles. The win over 1500 m freestyle by 17-year-old Werner Neitzel was remarkable . In the following years, the freestyle relay was the domain of the “96”, so in 1926 in Düsseldorf , 1927 in Hanover , 1928 in Berlin , 1930 in Munich , 1933 in Weimar , 1934 in Nuremberg and 1935 in Plauen and Magdeburg.

From August 12th to 19th, 1934, the 4th European Swimming Championships took place in Magdeburg . The MSC was commissioned in 1896 with the organization and implementation on site . With the support of many volunteers, the new European swimming arena was built right next to the Neue Welt stadium . Germany won the European Cup of Nations ahead of Hungary with six gold, nine silver and four bronze medals. Active swimmers from the MSC from 1896 also contributed to the good result.

The club's swimmers and water polo players also took part in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin . The German water polo team won the silver medal.

In the following years and also in the first years of the Second World War , club members achieved good performance in swimming, for example in January 1941 over 6 × 100 m positions and 4 × 100 m backs. At the German swimming championships in Vienna on July 12th and 13th, 1941, Kurt Gerstenberg won the 100 m back, in water polo the MSC was runner-up in 1896.

In 1941/42 the MSC was listed as one of the three most successful swimming clubs in Germany. Werner Lentze achieved the 4,000th victory in national and international swimming competitions for the MSC from 1896 in September 1943 over 100 m breaststroke.

At the beginning of 1945 the entire swimming facility of the MSC from 1896 including the clubhouse was destroyed by the war.

1945 to 1991

reconstruction

After the end of the war, all sports clubs in the Soviet occupation zone were banned. " Company sports associations " (BSG) were later formed . In the BSG, swimmers and water polo players from the former Magdeburg swimming clubs MSC von 1896, SC Hellas and SC Poseidon came together. After the reconstruction of the Wilhelmbad (later Stadtbad), the only swimming facility of the time, they began again with training and competitions.

Foundation of the traditional community

On February 15, 1956, the traditional community of the MSC from 1896 was founded in West Germany . Clubmate Kurt Pipo took over the chairmanship. At irregular intervals from 1971 to 1991, 14 meetings of the club members took place in Hanover , Osterode / Harz and Altenau / Harz, in which individual club members from the GDR also took part.

From 1992

Meeting of the traditional community

The 15th meeting of the traditional community took place for the first time in Magdeburg from September 18-20, 1992. Wolf-Rüdiger Mattstedt was elected as the new chairman of the traditional community.

In the following years, the traditional community met annually in Magdeburg, including the 29th annual meeting from October 13th to 14th, 2007. There is also a monthly get-together for the 96ers in Magdeburg.

In the traditional community there are only proven senior swimmers and their relatives. Active swimming, including youth and youth work in Magdeburg, is essentially the responsibility of the swimming section of the Sportclub Magdeburg , the Hellas swimming club and others.

Honors

On October 12, 2007, another floor slab was laid on the Magdeburg “Sport Walk of Fame”. The great swimming successes of Oskar Schiele for the city of Magdeburg in the years up to the First World War were honored. His son Gustav Schiele, his grandchildren and great-grandchildren from Bremen, as well as some Magdeburg members of the traditional community took part in the inauguration of this floor slab.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Magdeburg Sports Walk of Fame gets a new base plate, State Capital Magdeburg. Accessed on September 25, 2015.