Neukölln sports fans

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The Neuköllner Sportfreunde 1907 are a German sports club from Berlin with currently five teams in various national leagues. In the 1,500-member club, the sports of American football, baseball, basketball, bowling, boxing, cheerleading, figure skating, soccer, handball, hockey, athletics, roller art skating, bowling, senior and coronary sports and dancing are practiced.

The football department of Sportfreunde has been operating under the name NSF Gropiusstadt since 2012 .

The home of the people of Neukölln is the Silbersteinsportplatz , and in the past sports fans also used the Werner-Seelenbinder-Kampfbahn .

Departments

American football

The Berlin Bears were German champions in flag football in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Since they were founded in 1985, the Bears have played in German tackle football and reached the 2nd Bundesliga. After a year in the FLE, the team later broke up. In 2005 he returned to the league with two promotions up to the regional league. The cheerleaders reached the German runner-up. After the rebuilding in 2000, the cheerleaders also came back and have since increased their number more than tenfold.

baseball

The Roosters have become champions several times in Berlin-Brandenburg. The trainer is Jesco Veisz . He trained and played for the Roosters until 2003 and was head of the junior national team.

basketball

In 1950 the male youth team of Neukölln Sportfreunde won the German championship in basketball. There followed several Berlin championships and championships in the upper league north of the DBB, as well as four DBB runner-up championships. The best known and most successful basketball player who played at NSF during this time was the DBB national player and 1972 Olympian Klaus Weinand . For three seasons, from 1967 to 1970 , the NSF men's team played in the Basketball Bundesliga ( BBL ) of the German Basketball Federation ( DBB ). In the 1980s, the NSF basketball players played at the top of the 2nd Bundesliga, but had to forego the promotion to the 1st Bundesliga due to lack of money. Subsequently, the basketball division shrank in membership. The NSF can regularly achieve good placements in the field of maxi basketball players in the age group tournaments of the national best basketball games of the DBB, in which the older leisure basketball players play for the trophies donated by the DBB in final tournaments of the individual age groups.

bowling

The women's team is in the Guinness Book of Records as the German record champions. With the 28-time German champion and senior European champion Gisela Insinger, the Neukölln Sportfreunde have the only all-German champion in their ranks.

Boxing

In boxing, Neukölln sports fans can look back on a long and very successful history. Günther Heidemann boxed the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 and became German champion in the same year. He did the same again in 1955. Training mate Harry Kurschat was German lightweight champion in 1953, 1954 and 1956. In 1955 Kurschat won the first European championship title for the Neuköllner Sportfreunde and a year later at the Olympic Games in Melbourne Olympic silver. He also won seven Berlin championship titles in a row. The boxing team won under the then well-known coach Sengwein u. a. with boxers like Günther Heidemann, Herbert Heide, Harry Kurschat and Günther Haase Berlin and Brandenburg Championships, as well as the German team runner-up in 1951.

Oliver, Robert and Peter Suckrow, Klaus Niketta, Detlef Koch, Gerd Manthey, Theo Rygiel, Ralf and Graciano Rocchigiani , Lothar Radtke, Manfred Höhnow, Gunnar Jenssen, Leo Kakolewicz and Andreas Ginnow were known and successful beyond Berlin . In 1978 NSF boxers won five out of 10 German junior championship titles, which is unique in German boxing history. The Rocchigiani brothers became world champions among professionals.

Oktay Urkal was particularly successful from the end of the 80s to 1996 . The son of Turkish parents, born in Berlin in 1970, won the Berlin championships eight times in a row. When he became Turkish champion in 1991 and was still not allowed to go to Barcelona, ​​he decided to take up German citizenship. Since 1992 he has become the most successful German boxer ever. Two German team championships, three German championship titles, the vice European championship in 1994, bronze at the world championships in 1993 and 1995, numerous victories at international tournaments, military world championship and World Cup victory in 1994, European championship and silver at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Oktay Urkal was named Neukölln Sportsman of the Year four times in a row and was awarded the Neukölln Badge of Honor by the district and the Federal Minister of the Interior with the Silver Laurel Leaf . In 1996 Urkal switched to the professionals.

In 2003 and 2004 Konstantin Buga was German junior champion and from 2005 to 2007 also German men's champion, and in 2006 he was vice world champion in the military. In 2007 and 2009 he boxed 5th place at the World Championships, but then switched to the Velberter BC 22 due to work .

In women's boxing , Helena Kalinowski was German runner-up in 2005 and 2006 and German champion in 2007 and, like her sister, is also German champion in kickboxing. Natali is the German champion from 2005 to 2007, Yana Kultisheva German champion in 2006 and 2007.

Cheerleading

The Berlin Bears cheerleaders form an independent department. They reached the German runner-up. After the rebuilding in 2000, the cheerleaders also came back and have since increased their number more than tenfold.

Soccer

NSF Gropiusstadt
Basic data
Surname	Neuköllner Sportfreunde Gropiusstadt
Seat	Neukölln , Berlin
founding	1907 as JC Rixdorf
Colours	Red White
Board	Christian Hatzenberger
Website	nsfgropiusstadt.de
First soccer team
Venue	Silberstein Sports Ground, DEGEWO Stadium
Places	nb
league	District league A, season 2
2017/18	9th place
home Away

The Neuköllner Sportfreunde was founded in 1907 as the youth club Rixdorf and started in 1917 under the name Sport-Vereinigung Hellas 1907 Neukölln for the first time as an independent football club. In 1920 Hellas merged with Neuköllner SC 1920 to form Sportfreunde Neukölln in 1907 . After further affiliations with Neuköllner FC (1920) and FT 1904 Britz (1933), the Neuköllner team changed their name to Neuköllner SC in 1940 . On a sporting level, the club did not play a significant role in Berlin until the end of the Second World War .

Historical logo

Historical logo

In 1945 the club was dissolved and re-established as SG Neukölln-Süd . As early as 1947, the Berliners returned to the historic name Sportfreunde Neukölln, but were unable to establish themselves in high-class football straight away. The most successful times for sports fans began in 1964 with the first promotion to the Berlin amateur league . If the sports fans had to accept the immediate relegation in the opening season, they came back in 1966 and surprisingly rose to the Regionalliga Berlin ahead of the favorite teams of BFC Meteor 06 and VfL Nord Berlin . In the style of an elevator team, the people of Neukölln rose again with VfB Hermsdorf by return of post, but in the season 1968/69 they rose again. In the second attempt, the sports fans with only eight season points had no chance and were relegated from the amateur league in the early 1970s. After a decade in lower-class leagues, the Neuköllner Sportfreunde reported back in 1980 in the Berlin Football League . If the first three seasons could still be held with secured midfield positions, the final relegation took place in 1985. A return to the higher-class local football in West Berlin was no longer possible for the sports fans. On July 1, 2001, the soccer department of Neukölln Sportfreunde merged with Rudower SV to form Sportfreunde Neukölln-Rudow . Current league is the district league B in Berlin. The last successes were celebrated especially in the senior sector: In 2007 the team was runner-up in the German over 40 championship, which was held for the first time. In 2012 the over 50 won the first German over 50 championship.

In February 2012, the renaming of the department from SF Neukölln-Rudow to NSF Gropiusstadt was resolved at the annual general meeting and became effective on July 1, 2012. Currently (season: 2019/20) the club's football department no longer has any youth teams. However, the men's division is quite broad with nine different teams. In addition to the first and second men's teams, the club family includes an over 32, two over 40, three over 50 and one over 60 team.

statistics

• Participation in Regionalliga Berlin: 1967/68 , 1969/70
• Participation in Oberliga Berlin: 1980/81 to 1984/85
• Participation in the Berlin Amateur League: 1964/65, 1966/67, 1968/69, 1970/71, 1971/72
• Participation in the German amateur championship : 1967 (1st HR 0: 2, 1: 5 against 1. FC Cologne / amateurs )

Handball

The NSF handball players played for a number of years in a syndicate under the name HSG NSF / Südost. The men have made it to the Berlin Cup final several times in recent years and became Berlin runner-up. The female youth won a number of Berlin titles and cups and in 1988 the German championship.

hockey

The hockey department was among the top German players from the 1950s to the 1970s. In 1970, 1971 and 1972 the team won the German indoor title. The current men's team currently plays (as of 2009) in the 2nd indoor hockey Bundesliga.

athletics

Paul Sievert was German champion in athletics for the NSF in 1924. In the 50-kilometer walk at the German championships, he achieved the world record time of 4:34:03 hours. Before that, he had become the Brandenburg champion in 5000 meter walking and had set a German record over 15 kilometers and another world record over 25 kilometers. Sievert defended in 1925 confidently his German titles and promoted jointly with Arthur Schwab youth development of the club, so the Neuköllner Sportfreunde put the strongest team walkers Europe at that time.

His club mate Arthur Schwab , who won the first Brandenburg championship in 25-kilometer walking as early as 1920, was fifth at the 1924 Olympic Games in 10-kilometer walking, but started for Switzerland, where he over 3 and 10 in the following year Kilometer national champion. After that, only starting for Switzerland, he set a new world record in 2:42:13 hours on the International Running Days in Riga on October 8, 1934 on the 20-mile route (32.186 km) the old world record from 1870. At the European Athletics Championships in Turin in 1934 Schwab was runner-up behind the Latvian Janis Dahlinsch. In 1936 AT Schwab won the silver medal behind the Briton Witlock at the Olympia in Berlin over the 50 km distance. AT Schwab's son Fritz Schwab won 10 km walking silver at the 1946 European Championship; at the EM 1950 10 km walking gold.

At the end of the 1980s, Kerstin Preßler in particular shaped the image of Neukölln sports fans. She won several German championships in cross and road running, was an Olympic participant in Seoul in 1988, a World Cup participant in Rome and crowned her career with the world title in road running with the German team.

High jumper Martin Buß also came from the athletics department . He became a Berlin, North German and German youth champion almost out of nowhere. In 1995 he reached the junior vice European championship in high jump. Then he changed clubs. At the 1999 World Championships in Athletics, he won bronze and crowned his career with the world championship title in high jump in 2001. Soon after, he had to end his career due to injury. He returned to the Neukölln Sportfreunde and played soccer in the first men's team.

Runner Ingo Sensburg became European indoor champion over 3000 meters in the 1970s. He is the Berlin record champion in all sports, because he has so far achieved around 200 Berlin championship titles. With two senior world championships and numerous other titles, Ingo Sensburg achieved a total of well over 250 gold medals and countless placements in his career.

Roller skating

The roller skaters of the Neukölln Sportfreunde won a German championship in pair skating in 1954 through Gisela Schulze and Horst Hellmich. In the 1970s there were numerous championship titles in roller art, especially on the Berlin level, but also on the ice.

For several years, the ice and roller sports department has been running an annual ice skating school and a roller art skating project in cooperation with the Neukölln district office. Ton van de Weijer and Ingrid Jung-Fringel are the trainers of the department.

During this time Monika Lis won titles in the Berlin and North German championships. She became German champion and 2001 European champion in her age group. She won bronze medals at the European Junior Championships and in the 2009 World Games in the master class, which is equivalent to an Olympic medal.

Sports bowling

The bowling athletes of the Neukölln Sportfreunde have been promoted to the 1st Bundesliga several times in recent years. In the men's area, the asphalt bowlers play in the top group of the 2nd Bundesliga. Several times Berlin and German championships have been won by NSF bowlers.

With Nicole Müller one of the most successful bowlers Classic interior plays in the world at NSF. When she won three of her five world championship titles in 2002, she was also number 1 in the world rankings.

To dance

The dance sports department Weiss-Gold-Casino regularly organizes major events such as European and world championships or the Neukölln Sports Ball.

people

• Martin Buß , high jump world champion
• Oktay Urkal , boxer, Olympic silver, European champion
• Günther Heidemann , boxer, Olympic bronze
• Harry Kurschat , boxer, Olympic silver, European champion
• Ingo Sensburg , long-distance runner, European indoor champion
• Nicole Müller , sport bowler, world champion
• Gisela Insinger , bowling player, the only all-German champion
• Jesco Veisz , baseball player, head coach
• Monika Lis , roller skater, German champion, Worldgames bronze
• Klaus Weinand , national basketball player
• Artur Stolz , national basketball player
• Lisa-Marie Kwayie , German sprint champion

literature

• Hardy Greens : Neukölln sports fans. In: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 , p. 339.

Web links

• Website of the Neuköllner Sportfreunde
• Website of the NSF Gropiusstadt