Upper Alster VfW
| Oberalster VfW eV | ||
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| Club data | ||
| founding | June 26, 1912 | |
| Address / contact |
Wellingsbüttler Landstrasse 43a 22337 Hamburg |
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| Club colors | Blue yellow | |
| Table tennis department | ||
| Division 1. Men | Association Oberliga Nord | |
| Venue | Hermann-Ruge-Weg, Hamburg-Hummelsbüttel |
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| Club successes | many years second Bundesliga | |
| Division 1. Women | Hamburg League | |
| Venue | Hermann-Ruge-Weg, Hamburg-Hummelsbüttel |
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| Club successes | Table tennis Bundesliga 1973–1976 | |
| Internet | ||
| Homepage | www.oberalstervfw.de | |
The Upper Alster Association for Water Sports is a multi-disciplinary sports club from Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel . The club was founded on June 26, 1912 initially as a pure canoeing club. In addition to the canoeists, handball players and table tennis players in particular achieved sporting successes. The club's greatest successes were the German runner-up in field handball in 1936 and third place a year later as well as the three years from 1973 to 1976 in which the women's team played in the table tennis Bundesliga . In addition, there are top rankings of individual canoeists and table tennis players on the German and North German levels.
history
The Upper Alster north of the Fuhlsbütteler Schleuse has always been a popular destination for Hamburgers. Since the beginning of the 20th century it has also been used for the newly emerging canoeing sport. However, competitions were initially largely unknown. There were only a few clubs that practiced the new sport. On June 26, 1912, some canoeists who were not only interested in hiking, but also in sporting competition, founded the Oberalster VfW. In the same year - together with the Canoe Club Alsterbrüder - a long-distance race from Fuhlsbüttel to Rodenbek was held. The club, which initially had two boat berths (in Fuhlsbüttel and on the Mellingburg ), was one of the founding members of the German Canoe Association (DKV) on March 15, 1914, of which it was one of the clubs with the largest number of members. In 1921 VfW built the first boathouse in Fuhlsbüttel on the Alster. It burned down in August 1930. The current building, which was expanded in the 1950s, was inaugurated after just seven months. In the 1920s, a handball department and later a table tennis department was founded. In 1959 a fencing department was added. In addition to these divisions, there are now departments for football , gymnastics , dance , triathlon and volleyball as well as a running club.
water sports
The canoeists were the founders of the association. They also achieved their first titles at local level before other sports were considered. National successes soon followed: In the Einerkanadier won the German championship title from 1926 to 1928 with Joseph Thalhammer and Franz Eilken drivers of the Oberalster VfW, and in 1926 the titles in the German fighting game championship and the German long distance championship . One reason for these successes was that the club was the first club in the DKV to set up a special youth department with performance-oriented training. In the 1920s it was still the largest youth department of a German canoe club. After the Second World War , young people in particular won titles. The female youth received the German championship title in the kayak foursome in 1954; In 1958 Helga Petersen became German champion in the kayak one of the female youth.
Handball
After handball had initially been practiced as a recreational sport for canoeists, the club decided in 1927 to take part in the competitions organized by the German Sports Authority for Athletics . After just a few years, the athletes reached Hamburg's top division, the Oberliga. When the German Reichsbund for physical exercises ordered the establishment of Gauligen in all team sports in 1934 , Oberalster qualified as one of three Hamburg clubs alongside the SV Police Hamburg and SV St. Georg from 1895 for the Gauliga Nordmark , in the teams from Hamburg, Mecklenburg and Schleswig-Holstein competed. In the first year the handball players came in third place. In 1936, Oberalster became Northern Markmaster before the gymnastics club Hassee-Winterbek and qualified for the German championship. There the successes continued; Oberalster played the final against the army club MTSV Hindenburg-Minden . Until one minute before the end of regular time, the water sportsmen led by one goal, but then had to accept the compensation and finally lost in extra time. In the two following years, the water sports enthusiasts also won the Nordmark Championship in front of Hassee-Winterbek. At the German championship in 1937 a third place jumped out.
With Hans Theilig , Willy Bandholz and Hermann Hansen , Oberalster provided three players for the German national team that won the gold medal in field handball at the Summer Olympics in Berlin in 1936. With Hans Theilig and Gerd Schauer , two Oberalster players were also involved in winning the men's handball world championship in 1938 . Other national players of the club in the 1930s were Otto Reich and Heini Wendland .
After the Second World War, the first men's team first established itself again in the Hamburg Oberliga, from which it was relegated in 1959. Currently, the club plays in a syndicate with Farmsener TV in lower-class Hamburg leagues with two women's and two men's teams.
Table tennis
The table tennis department was founded on October 10, 1929. At first it served primarily the winter occupation of water sports enthusiasts. Only after the re-establishment of the department in February 1946 did the sporting upswing begin, but it was all the more sustainable. As early as 1949, the first women's team was promoted to the Hamburg City League. Since there was no league yet, Oberalster was first class. The boathouse, which had previously been played in, now proved unsuitable for competitive sports. Therefore, the games were from now on played in the canteen at Hamburg Airport and later in the Alstertal high school on Erdkampsweg. In the mid-1960s, the department moved to the sports halls of the newly built Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium on Struckholt, very close to the boathouse. The Hermann-Ruge-Weg sports hall in Hummelsbüttel has also been used since 1978 .
In 1961, the first women's team became champions of the city league for the first time. In the promotion round to the Oberliga Nord , introduced in 1959 , the water sportsmen still failed. Two years later, Anneliese Bischoff, Ursula Kareseit, Lotti Pöhlsen, Renate Odefey, Christa Ebeling and Ilse Laude made the leap into the North German elite class. After immediate relegation, the women rose directly back up in 1965 and 1967, and descended in 1966 and 1968; In 1969, the women's team failed in the promotion round. In return, the men made it into the city league for the first time. There they immediately became masters - as did the ladies once again. While the women were promoted to the league this time and have since played uninterruptedly nationally, the men's team just failed as third in the promotion round.
After there had been a men's table tennis league since 1966, a women's league was also introduced for the 1972/73 season. As fifth in the Oberliga Nord, Oberalster missed the qualification for the North / West relay by one place. After Ev-Kathleen Zemke, multiple Hamburg champion in women's singles, moved from local rivals TTC Rot-Weiß Hamburg to Struckholt in the summer of 1972 , the goal was clear: They wanted to get into the Bundesliga. The team with Zemke as well as Waltraut Sander, Doris Hilbert, Christa Hinz and Gitta Bröhan became northern champions in 1973 without defeat and achieved the targeted promotion. Since the first men's team also rose to the league, Oberalster had established itself as the determining club at Hamburg level, a position that the club held for a good ten years. In the women's Bundesliga, Oberalster started with Ev-Kathleen Zemke, Waltraut Sander and the only 16-year-old Helga Bultze. Although the team was only penultimate in its debut season, it kept its class because the TTC Ramsharde from Flensburg withdrew its team. In the summer of 1974, Helga Bultze, who had not won a game in the previous season, moved to the newly promoted Bundesliga and local competitor Bramfelder TTV . She was replaced by Maja Willhöft. With the experience of a Bundesliga year in the back, the performances became more stable. Sixth place in the summer of 1975 entitles them to participate in the qualifying tournaments for the new single-track women's Bundesliga.
While the fifth and sixth of the two Bundesliga seasons initially competed in one group and the four Oberliga champions in another group, the respective group winners and runners-up then played the two free Bundesliga places in another group. In the elimination round of the Bundesliga clubs Oberalster initially lost 4-6 against Olympia Bonn - in the previous Bundesliga games they had defeated the capital city women. If things looked bad at first, two victories followed against ATSV Saarbrücken and MTV Munich 1879 , so that in the end they even won the group in front of the Munich women with equal points. Bonn - also 4: 2 points - was eliminated due to the poorer playing relationship. In the subsequent qualifying round against the best Oberliga champions, there seemed to be a false start as well, but after a 4-0 deficit, a furious comeback led to a 5-5 draw against Northern Champion Holstein Quickborn . Against the big favorites Post SV Düsseldorf with ex-world champion Diane Schöler, the team lost 3: 6 as expected. The last game against Munich meant the decision - as in the elimination round, VfW won 6: 3. For the next Bundesliga season, the Oberalster women strengthened themselves with Jana Veckova , who moved from VfL Osnabrück to the Alster, and Almuth Schoon from Niendorfer TSV . However, the competition was too strong. With 6:30 points, Zemke, Veckova, Schoon and Sander were bottom of the table and were relegated to the top league together with the TTC Olympia Koblenz .
This ended the topic of first class at Oberalster. Later, the Oberalsteraner played for women and men for a few years in the Second Bundesliga North, introduced in 1981, most recently the first men’s team in 2004/05 in the Hazinski-Oltmann-Weber-Kleffel-Christophersen-Pech lineup. In the 2018/19 season, the first (of six) men’s team plays in the Association's Oberliga Nord . The first (of three) women’s team plays in the Hamburg League .
In addition to various titles on the north German and Hamburg level - particularly noteworthy in 1975, when Oberalster won 29 of 32 medals in the Hamburg championships for women and men - Ev-Kathleen Zemke's successes at German championships stand out. In 1973 she and Ingrid Bahnert from TTK Grün-Weiß in Kiel won the runner-up in the women's doubles. A year later she was third in the women's doubles with Ingrid Bahnert and received bronze in the women's singles. Frank Scharlau came third in the individual at the German youth championships in 1975.
Oberalster achieved great national successes, especially in the senior classes. In addition to various titles in singles, doubles and mixed on the north German and German level, Oberalsters women managed six times between 1985 and 1992 to win the German team championship title in the boathouse on Struckholt. In 2012, the men's over-60s of the water sports team became German team champions. The internationally most successful athlete from Oberalster, however, was a young man: The leg amputee Volker Johansson finished fifth in his disability class in the men's singles at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul.
Soccer
The soccer division , first launched in 1929 , disbanded after only one year. It was not until 1986 that the company was permanently re-established. The 1st team plays in the season 2012/13 in the Hamburg district class season 2.
Greatest successes
champion in the district class and promotion to the district league in the 1989/90 season.
Runner-up in the district class and promotion to the district league in the 1995/96 season.
Runner-up in the district league and promotion to the district league in the 1998/99 season.
Champion in the district class and promotion to the district league in the 2007/08 season.
1st men - placements since 1986
| season | league | space |
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| 1986/87 | District class 8 | 11. |
| 1987/88 | District class 10 | 13. |
| 1988/89 | District class 10 | 8th. |
| 1989/90 | District class 10 | 1. |
| 1990/91 | District League 6 | 14th |
| 1991/92 | District class 9 | 7th |
| 1992/93 | District class 9 | 9. |
| 1993/94 | District class 9 | 5. |
| 1994/95 | District class 9 | 6th |
| 1995/96 | District class 8 | 2. |
| 1996/97 | District League 5 | 5. |
| 1997/98 | District League 5 | 3. |
| 1998/99 | District League 6 | 2. |
| 1999/2000 | District League North | 6th |
| 2000/01 | District League North | 13. |
| 2001/02 | District League North | 15th |
| 2002/03 | District League 6 | 16. |
| 2003/04 | District class 6 | 9. |
| 2004/05 | District class 6 | 15th |
| 2005/06 | District class 6 | 8th. |
| 2006/07 | District class 6 | 6th |
| 2007/08 | District class 7 | 1. |
| 2008/09 | District League 5 | 9. |
| 2009/10 | District League 5 | 14th |
| 2010/11 | District class 7 | 9. |
| 2011/12 | District class 7 | 15th |
| 2012/13 | District class 2 | 11. |
literature
- 50 years "Oberalster VfW , Hamburg 1962.
- Walter Quast: 50 years of table tennis at Oberalster VfW , Hamburg 1979.
- Anneliese Bischoff: Oberalster VfW , in: 50 Years of the Hamburg Table Tennis Association. Chronicle 1948 - 1998 , Hamburg 1998, pp. 34–36.