MSV Hindenburg Minden
The MSV Hindenburg Minden (officially: Military Sports Club Hindenburg Minden ) was a handball club from the East Westphalian city of Minden in North Rhine-Westphalia . The first team became German field handball champions in 1936 . The club colors were blue and yellow.
history
The club was founded on April 1, 1932 by soldiers from Pioneer Battalion 6 after it was discovered that there were numerous talented players among the soldiers. The association was named after the then Reich President Paul von Hindenburg . The new club quickly penetrated the Westphalian top and became the first champion of the newly founded handball Gauliga Westphalia in the 1933/34 season , but failed in the following German championship in the first round at the Academic TV Berlin . A year later, the Mindener defended the Gaume Championship and advanced at the national level to the final , which was lost in Stuttgart against the SV Magdeburg police with 8:10.
The greatest success of the club's history was reached in 1936, when the Minden in the final of the German Cup in Dortmund Stadium Rote Erde the MTSA Leipzig with 7: could defeat the fifth In the same year Arthur Knautz and Heinz Körvers took part with the German national team at the Olympic Games in Berlin and won the gold medal. In 1937 the team failed in the group phase at Waldhof Mannheim , in 1938 and 1939 they were in the semi-finals against MTSA Leipzig and Lintforter SpV .
With the outbreak of the Second World War , the team was withdrawn from the league, as all players were sent to the front as soldiers . Numerous athletes, including the two Olympic champions Knautz and Körvers, fell. For the 1940/41 season, when enough players were available again, the subscription master returned to the game and celebrated two more Gaume championships in Westphalia in 1941 and 1942. In the final of the German championship in 1941, the MSV in Kassel was defeated by the SV Police Hamburg 7: 9, in 1942 the SV Police Berlin was stronger in the quarter-finals. After PSV Recklinghausen was able to break through the supremacy of the Mindener in Westphalia in 1943 , the game had to be finally stopped due to the war.
On October 28, 1945, former members of MSV Hindenburg and MTV 1860 Minden founded the TuS Eintracht Minden association .
successes
- German champion: 1936
- German runner-up: 1935 , 1941
- Champion Handball-Gauliga Westfalen : 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942
Personalities
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Thomas Ohl: Arthur Knautz (1911–1943), Olympic Champion 1936. Landschaftsverband Rheinland , accessed on May 2, 2015 .
- ^ Sven Webers: German field handball championship 1933/34. Bundesligainfo.de, accessed on October 25, 2015 .
- ^ Sven Webers: German field handball championship 1934/35. Bundesligainfo.de, accessed on October 25, 2015 .
- ^ Sven Webers: German field handball championship 1935/36. Bundesligainfo.de, accessed on October 25, 2015 .
- ^ Sven Webers: German field handball championship 1936/37. Bundesligainfo.de, accessed on October 25, 2015 .
- ^ Sven Webers: German field handball championship 1937/38. Bundesligainfo.de, accessed on October 25, 2015 .
- ^ Sven Webers: German field handball championship 1938/39. Bundesligainfo.de, accessed on October 25, 2015 .
- ^ Association history. TuS Eintracht Minden , archived from the original on July 3, 2015 ; accessed on May 2, 2015 .