Police Sports Association Vienna
The Police Sports Association Vienna is an Austrian leisure and service sports club with 26 sections and 24 sports groups and currently has 10,000 members. It was founded in the era of the President of the Police and later Chancellor Johann Schober in 1918 and has been based in the 22nd district of Vienna, Donaustadt, in the Kaisermühlen district since 1949 .
The main sections of the Police Sports Association today Hockey , Fistball , fencing , football , health sports , weightlifting , golf , gymnastics and gymnastics , judo , canoeing , Krav Maga , motor sports , mountain biking , cycling , horse riding , wrestling , chess , shooting sports , skiing , sports bowling , Tennis , table tennis and yachting . The former handball section is also of great historical importance .
The Bureau
The presidium consists of the executive state police president Gerhard Pürstl and the state police vice president Michaela Kardeis , general Karl Mahrer and court advisor Michael Lepuschitz. Government councilor Franz Koci and group inspector Erwin Böhm are responsible for sports management.
Selected sections
ice Hockey
The ice hockey section of the Police Sports Association is called EC Vienna Ice Tigers and is currently playing in the fourth level, the Vienna sub-league. The training location of the Ice Tigers is the Eisring Süd in Windtenstrasse. The 2005/06 season ended the Ice Tigers in fifth place.
Handball
The handball section, which no longer exists today, was once one of the most successful of the SV Police. After the first nationwide Austrian championships for men and women were announced by the ÖHB at the end of the Second World War , the club’s men’s team was among the best in the country and faced tough competition with ATSV Linz . Nevertheless, he managed to become Austrian handball champions twice in a row in 1948 and 1949.
- 2 × Austrian champion : 1948, 1949
Soccer
The soccer section of the Vienna Police Sports Association was founded in 1918 and played for several years in the second league in the 1930s and 1940s , the second Austrian level at that time. After these successes, the soccer team barely appeared for decades. It was not until 1996 that the promotion to the Vienna City League could be celebrated by winning the title in sub-division B. A year later, the football department of the police club merged with the football section of the SKV fire brigade . In the last few years the club won the Vienna Toto Cup four times as a police / fire brigade . In 2003 the section was renamed PSV Team for Vienna and in 2004 the first promotion to the Regionalliga Ost , in which the team is also represented in the current 2012/13 season.
Weightlifting
In 1910, Stemmer and Ringer founded the Police Strength Sports Club , the forerunner of today's Police Sports Association , which was founded again by the Stemmers and Wrestlers in 1918 after the First World War . Training took place in the court stables and in the Prater tennis club. In 1923 the training hall in Postgasse (1st district) was acquired and served as the home of the weightlifting section until the end of the 80s. After that, the section had to stop its sporting activities by 1999 due to a lack of athletes.
In addition to 10 national championship titles with the team (1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1947) and 1946 in the middle heavyweight division, the athletes in the weightlifting section won two titles at the German team championships and five titles at the Vienna team Team championship (1929, 1931, 1932, 1934 and 1940) also achieved considerable success in the individual competitions. The most successful athletes were Karl Hipfinger (bronze medal Olympic Games 1932 Los Angeles, European champion 1929, seven times Austrian national champion in 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1932, four world records) and Anton Richter (medal winner at European and World Championships, twelve times Austrian State champion 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1952, six world records).
In addition to Hipfinger and Richter, the following athletes became Austrian champions: Anton Hangel (1934), Alois Schöbinger (1938, 1939, 1940 and 1941), Ernst Hermann (1939, 1940, 1942 and 1943), Josef Stropek (1939, 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1943), Johann von Szabados (1942) and Fritz Haller (1946). In the period between 1938 and 1943, some athletes also became German champions: Anton Richter (1939, 1940 and 1941), Alois Schöbinger (1941), Johann von Szabados (1942 and 1943) and Ernst Hermann (1943). In addition, the section achieved numerous individual titles at the Vienna championships, Austrian junior and senior championships as well as at the European and world championships for seniors.
At the beginning of 1999, a competitive community was formed between the weightlifting section of PSV WIEN and the traditional Viennese club KSC ARGOS / AK HERMANN. Section head is currently a control inspector. D. Stoifl Alois. The training facility is located in the Kendlerstrasse sports complex (Red-Star-Platz) in 1160 Vienna.
Judo
Establishment of the section in 1946 (still without his own section head). In 1952, despite his handicap of a broken hand, Robert Jaquemond brought the European Judo Championship to Vienna and also a second place in the All category. Another proof of achievement followed in 1954 - the Judo Relay of the Police Sports Association fought over the London police team in a comparative tournament. And again it was Jaquemond who demonstrated the high level of performance. In a final exhibition match he single-handedly beats all ten fighters of the London selection one after the other. The team from the very beginning laid a solid foundation for the further development work of the section.
In 1953 and 1958 PSV Vienna won the Austrian team championship .
1955 Relocation to the new training facilities of the Roßauerkaserne. Franz Nimführ becomes the first section head of the Judo section. In the 1950s and 1960s, the national team often consisted almost exclusively of fighters from the Judo section. At the first world championship in this sport (1956 in Tokyo) Walter Gauhs finished fifth for Austria and in 1958 won the title of European champion.
In 1959, on behalf of the Ministry of the Interior, the training of its own judo instructors under the direction of Franz Nimführ. Among the first instructors were those used to success, such as Walter Gauhs, Robert Jaquemond, Leopold Korner, Franz Neubauer, Fritz Svihalek and Rudolf Zwickl. Later, under the section head Leopold Korner (from 1960), the range of self-defense courses was opened to the general public.
The training offer must not concentrate solely on the young competitors, but must also appeal to health athletes. This is a maxim of the many years of work of trainer Fritz Svihalek, who headed the section from 1975. In addition to the declining interest in judo throughout Austria, the loss of the traditional training facilities after moving to the BRG Glasergasse 1090 Vienna made itself felt particularly painful in 1995.
After a long illness of the section head Fritz Svihalek, the head of the section was handed over to the deputy section head Manfred Hofbauer at the end of 2002. In May 2003, Section Deputy Joachim Jira organized the move to the Federal Criminal Police Office on Josef-Holaubek-Platz. This marked the beginning of a new era for the Section. In September 2003, another training base was opened in the evangelical primary school Vienna 2. For the first time in a long time, this base resulted in a significant increase in children in the section.
On January 1, 2007, the previous deputy section head Joachim Jira took over the leadership of the Judo section. The sports offer of the Judo section was included in the BSO's “Fit for Austria” program in autumn 2007. At the same time, the high quality standard in the area of training was awarded the Fit seal of quality.
golf
The Golf Section was founded on April 22, 2003 in the premises of the Inner City Police Department. The section grew rapidly and currently has the highest membership of all sections of the Police Sports Association Vienna (approx. 1,800 / as of 2018).
Water polo
After the Second World War, the water polo players won the Austrian Bundesliga championship .
Sports facility
The police sports association's leisure and service sports center is located in the Kaisermühlen district. It was built in 1949 by officers from the alarm department on the Kleines Gänsehäufel peninsula directly on the Old Danube and, after a general renovation in 2000, includes football pitches , athletics and fitness facilities with every modern convenience (saunas, etc.), as well as a police bath . Modern seminar rooms, a bowling alley and a canteen are attached.