PSV Grünweiß Frankfurt
The PSV Grünweiß Frankfurt (Polizeisportverein Grünweiß eV Frankfurt am Main) is a sports club in Frankfurt am Main .
The Union
The PSV Grünweiß was founded in 1919 by police officers, but today most of the 1,000 members are not members of the police. The association, which attaches particular importance to promoting youth and popular sports, is organized into twelve departments: basketball , boxing , handball (women) , ju-jutsu , karate , motorboat / sailing , motor sports , shooting , diving , tennis , children's gymnastics , Recreational sports . The association is a member of the Turngau Frankfurt .
Handball department
The handball department has existed since the club was founded and can therefore boast the most sporting successes. In indoor handball, for example, the first men's team became champions of the Hessen State League in 1950, 1951 and 1954, at which time the state leagues were the top division in German handball. In 1950, the team was able to qualify for the final round of the German handball championship in Berlin via the regional championship in southern Germany . In the final table of this tournament, green and white took third place.
The women caused a sensation in 1970 when they qualified as Southwest German champions for the first time for the final round of the German championship. This could be repeated in 1971, and in 1973 the green and white were there too. And each time the opponent was 1. FC Nürnberg , which was able to prevail relatively clearly three times (11: 7, 20:10, 11: 5).
When the two-track Bundesliga was founded in 1975/76 , PSV Grünweiß Frankfurt was there. In 1979 they were runner-up in the Bundesliga, Season South in the semi-finals for the German championship, but had to admit defeat to the North champions TuS Eintracht Minden (12:13, 16:16).
Two years later - this time as southern champion - the semi-finals again. First you had to admit defeat at VfL Oldenburg with 15:19. In the second leg the big appearance of the 21-year-old Hanne Koch: the left-hander alone contributed 15 goals in the 20:12 win over the North Germans. In Hagen / Westphalia in front of 800 spectators the final against TSV GutsMuths Berlin . Six goals by Hanne Koch and five of the 96-time Czech national player Lubica Mraz ensured the 11: 8 break lead. In the second half it was the 37-year-old goalkeeper Toni Verzay who saved her team from worse with brilliant saves, when the Berliners came threateningly close at 13:12 and 14:13. Between the 42nd and 50th minute the preliminary decision was made when Grünweiß took off at 18:13 and at the end of the day won the German championship title at 21:17. The championship team: Toni Verzay, Elke Damm - Gabi Berthold, Lubica Mraz (8 goals), Regina Ukat, Regina Kirschig (3), Uta Stähler, Birgit Harings (1), Heike Gerstle, Lilo Laun (2), Ottrun Weber, Hannelore Cook (7/3). Worth mentioning: Hanne Koch contributed 113 and Lubica Mraz 101 goals to the total of 369 Frankfurt goals of the season.
In 1984 and 1985 they reached the semi-finals twice, but each time the series champions of those years Bayer Leverkusen proved to be an insurmountable obstacle. In the Bundesliga , which has been single-track since 1985 , PSV regularly occupied a middle position before they withdrew from the top division in 1992/93 for economic reasons. For a few years it went on in the Oberliga Hessen. The PSV women are now playing in the Frankfurt regional league and achieved penultimate, eighth place in the 2007/08 season with 5:27 points, which prevented the 14-time police champions from slipping into the lowest division.
The biggest successes
- German champion 1981
- Southwest German master 1970, 1971, 1973
The Bundesliga balance sheet
| season | Division | space | Sp | Gates | Diff. | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975/76 | Bundesliga South | 6th | 14th | 97: 109 | −12 | 13:15 |
| 1976/77 | Bundesliga South | 3 | 14th | 169: 124 | 45 | 19: 9 |
| 1977/78 | Bundesliga South | 3 | 16 | 188: 179 | 9 | 19:13 |
| 1978/79 | Bundesliga South | 2 | 18th | 303: 207 | 96 | 28: 8 |
| 1979/80 | Bundesliga South | 3 | 18th | 277: 210 | 67 | 28: 8 |
| 1980/81 | Bundesliga South | 1 | 18th | 313: 209 | 104 | 32: 4 |
| 1981/82 | Bundesliga South | 3 | 18th | 324: 254 | 70 | 28: 8 |
| 1982/83 | Bundesliga South | 6th | 18th | 306: 282 | 24 | 20:16 |
| 1983/84 | Bundesliga South | 2 | 18th | 271: 247 | 24 | 25:11 |
| 1984/85 | Bundesliga South | 2 | 18th | 358: 299 | 59 | 29: 7 |
| 1985/86 | Bundesliga | 8th | 18th | 304: 339 | −35 | 11:25 |
| 1986/87 | Bundesliga | 6th | 18th | 341: 355 | −14 | 13:23 |
| 1987/88 | Bundesliga | 8th | 18th | 302: 342 | −40 | 10:26 |
| 1988/89 | Bundesliga | 9 | 18th | 287: 385 | −98 | 9:27 |
| 1989/90 | Bundesliga | 10 | 22nd | 449: 500 | −51 | 17:27 |
| 1990/91 | Bundesliga | 9 | 22nd | 473: 505 | −32 | 18:26 |
| 1991/92 | Bundesliga | 8th | 22nd | 424: 442 | −18 | 19:25 |
| 1992/93 | Bundesliga | 14th | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Winning the German championship |
Basketball department
In 1966 the basketball players of PSV Grünweiß Frankfurt were among the twenty founding members of the Basketball Bundesliga ( BBL ) of the German Basketball Federation ( DBB ). After five seasons, at the end of the 1970/71 season, the basketball players of the police sports club were relegated from the two-part BBL .
athletics
The athletics department, which has since been closed, had its focus particularly on the men's throwing disciplines. Erwin Blask joined PSV Grünweiß in the hammer throw towards the end of his sporting career and in 1952 and 1953 still achieved third place in the German championship. Hugo Ziermann , who was German hammer throw champion in 1956, 1957 and 1958, was more successful . Günther Noack was German champion in the discus throw in 1955.
Web links
Web presence of the association
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, issue No. 77 of April 3, 1967, page 13 - Basketball Bundesliga.