MTV Ponarth

MTV Ponarth
Full name	Men's gymnastics club Ponarth
place	Koenigsberg
Founded
Dissolved	1945
Club colors
Stadion	Palve square
Top league	Gauliga East Prussia
successes	1st round Tschammerpokal 1942

The men's gymnastics club Ponarth was a sports club from the Königsberg district of Ponarth . The footballers from the south of Pregelstadt played for two years in the Gauliga , the top division in Germany at the time. In addition, the MTV booked a participation in the Tschammer Cup , the forerunner of today's DFB Cup .

history

The club from the Königsberg suburb of Ponarth was a classic multi-discipline club that initially measured itself in the competitions of the German gymnastics association . In addition to football, the Ponarther handball teams were particularly popular . Furthermore were gymnastics , fist and rounders exercised.

Despite being called a men's gymnastics club, there were also women's teams in handball and fistball.

The soccer players first appeared in the top division, the Königsberg district league , in 1921/22 . In 1922, the sports department of MTV became independent as Königsberger STV , the soccer department of Königsberger STV took over the starting place in the top division.

It was only during the Second World War in 1942 that the team was promoted to the first division. The Gauliga Ostpreußen belonged to the kickers from Palve-Platz until they were discontinued after the end of the 1943/44 season, but there always remained mediocre.

The greatest success was participation in the finals in the Tschammerpokal in 1942 . After success in the regional elimination over the VfB Osterode , the SV Prussia-Samland Königsberg and the Reichsbahn SG Königsberg , the Ponarther entered on July 19, 1942 in the first main round at the national level at VfB Königsberg . Under the direction of referee Fritz Bouillon , however, the suburb footballers had no chance against the undisputed number 1 in Königsberg football. In the 0: 6 defeat, Ponarth even contributed an own goal to the 0: 3 in the meantime.

In August 1944, with the start of the Allied air raids, club life in Königsberg came to a standstill. With the occupation of Königsberg in April 1945 by the Red Army and the subsequent flight and expulsion of the remaining German population, the association ceased to exist.

In the Federal Republic of Germany, the club lived on in a traditional community that was a member of the “ Traditionsgemeinschaft der Leichtathleten aus den deutschen Ostgebieten e. V. ”became. Born in 1938, 100 m runner Erich Maletzki was one of the best sprinters in Germany in the post-war period (in 1958 he ran 100 m in 10.5 seconds). He took part in the East Prussian Championships for MTV Ponarth , which were organized by the DLV until 1971 .

Playing times

Playing times in the top divisions are taken into account.

league	season	societies	space	Goals, points	comment
County League Koenigsberg	1921/22	07th	06th	013:24 6-18
County League Koenigsberg	1922/23	07th	06th	0?:? 9-13	Spin-off of Königsberger STV
Gauliga East Prussia	1942/43	07th	06th	029:45 9-15
Gauliga East Prussia	1943/44	07th	04th	043:48 13-11	Suspension of the Gauliga after the end of the season

literature

• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
• Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
• Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SpVgg ASCO Königsberg (ed.): “ Chronicle of the ASCO-Königsberg Association with its original sports club East Prussia 1902, Academic Sports Club 1905” , Hamburg, August 1952