Mannheim FV 1898

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The Mannheimer Fußball-Verein 1898 , also known as Mannheimer FV 1898 , was a German football club from Mannheim that only existed for almost two years and was one of the 86 founding clubs of the German Football Association .

history

On August 1, 1898, the Mannheimer FV 1898 was founded as the fifth football club in Mannheim. The Mannheimer Fußballgesellschaft 1896 , the Mannheimer FC Viktoria 1897 , the Mannheimer FG Union 1897 and the Mannheimer FG Germania 1897 had already formed in Mannheim . The founding of the Mannheim FV in 1898 was preceded by the departure of some players from the Mannheim FG in 1896 under the leadership of "Seppl" Frey, who were now involved in the newly created club. "Seppl" Frey was also named the first "Captain". E. Bierreth (1st chairman) and Hans Fricks took over the management of the association. The club colors were, based on the Mannheim city colors, blue-white-red, but the playing attire was only white. Mannheim's FV 1898 , whose club was the "Alte Fritz" in U 6.8 , won his first game 3-0 against MFG Union 1897 . The game had to be stopped after two thirds of the season, however, because the players of the MFG Union did not consider the third goal of MFV 1898 to be regular and therefore did not want to accept it.
As in 1899 increasingly abuses in Mannheim sweepstakes operation went wide and the desire for a better organization grew, the five Mannheimer football clubs met at the suggestion of Walther Bensemann on 11 June 1899 at the local "Liedertafel" and called there the Mannheimer Football Association launched . Its task was to facilitate the maintenance of friendly relationships between the clubs, to raise the level of play through competitions within the federal government and to take responsibility for lack of discipline on the playing fields. Two members of MFV 1898 took on important positions within the federal government: Heinrich Derschum held the office of secretary, while “Seppl” Frey became the first “federal captain”. The chairman of the federal government was Carl Specht, who, after a trip to England where he got to know the game, played a key role in ensuring that football found its way into Mannheim from 1892 onwards.
The first round of the Mannheim Football Association began on October 30, 1899. All five member clubs competed against each other once and the winner of the round was entitled to participate in the South German Football Championship . The Mannheimer FV 1898 occupied at the end of the round the second place behind the master Mannheim FG 1896 . MFV 1898 won three of the four championship games , only the later champions MFG 1896 were clearly defeated with 0: 9. On December 10, 1899 there was a competition between the MFG 1896 and a selection of the four other clubs of the Mannheim Football Association . This selection included four MFV 1898 players: Josef “Seppl” Frey, Heinrich Best, Otto Idstein and Heinrich Derschum . MFG won the first Mannheim selection game 4-0 in 1896 .

When on January 28, 1900 the founding assembly of the German Football Association under the name “I. General German Football Day ”took place in the Leipzig restaurant“ Zum Mariengarten ”, MFV 1898 was among the 86 clubs represented there. Walther Bensemann was present on behalf of the Mannheim football clubs when the founding of the German Football Association was decided with 64:22 votes .

Another important topic at the turn of the century was, in addition to the shortage of soccer fields and the differences of opinion about the interpretation of rules, the importance of amateur status. The Mannheimer Football Club in 1898 introduced in 1900 in Mannheim Football Association the request, only amateurs after the German Rowing Association allow imported from England control in club football. This rule said:

"An amateur is anyone who only practices rowing as a hobby with his own means or has done so and has or had no prospect of any financial advantages, neither earns a living as a worker just through his own hands nor is considered a non-amateur in another branch of sport [ ...] "

If the federal government had followed this regulation, craftsmen and other physically working footballers would have been excluded from the game. However, this differentiation according to social class was not made on the official side. MFV 1898's application was rejected. In the same year, the DFB took over the rowing association's paragraph at the national level, but in a class-neutral form. After the application was rejected, the MFV 1898 drew conclusions from it and dissolved the association on May 2, 1900 after less than two years of existence. In the "General-Anzeiger der Stadt Mannheim und Umgebung" of May 9th, 1900 one could read the following:

“After all attempts to introduce the amateur paragraph in the other clubs of the local soccer association failed, the general assembly on May 2nd of this year decided to liquidate the club. The available cash as well as the equipment are to be used for charitable purposes. "

Two of the leading figures of MFV 1898 played a more prominent role in Mannheim football even after the club was dissolved. “Seppl” Frey was then again a member of the MFG in 1896 and in 1910 even active for southern Germany in the quarter and semi-finals of the Crown Prince's Cup. There he had well-known teammates in Gottfried Fuchs , Fritz Förderer , Arthur Hiller , Eugen Kipp and Max Breunig . Frey was not used in the final. Heinrich Derschum was first chairman of the Mannheim FG Sport 1899 in July 1900 , when it was decided to hold a large sports festival on August 5, 1900 on the cycling track in Luisenpark. From 1912 Derschum was a member of the board of directors of the first elected administration of VfR Mannheim .

literature

  • Gerhard Zeilinger: The pioneering days of the soccer game in Mannheim. Football archive, Mannheim 1992, ISBN 3-89426-044-0 .
  • Helmut Hengstler, Axel Hoinka, Arnulf Moser: 125 years of the rowing club “Neptun” eV Constance. Ed. Ruderverein "Neptun" eV Konstanz, Konstanz 2010, p. 26 ( [1] PDF).
  • Marie Kuster: Sport and Politics - The History of FC Schalke 04 in the “Third Reich.” GRIN Verlag 2009, ISBN 3-656-09015-7 , p. 63.