Wheelchair Sport Club Frankfurt

Surname	Wheelchair Sport Club Frankfurt eV
Founded	June 30, 1967
Place of foundation	Seckbach
Association headquarters	Friedberger Landstrasse 430 ; 60389 Frankfurt am Main
Members	294 (January 1, 2010)
Departments	12
Chairman	Manfred Emmel
Homepage	www.rscfrankfurt.eu

The Wheelchair Sports Club Frankfurt is a both latitude and higher competition oriented sports club in Frankfurt . Its members include German cup winners, German champions, European champions, world champions and Olympic champions.

history

The association was founded on June 30, 1967 in the Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Frankfurt am Main in the Seckbach district as the Hessian disabled sports community for paraplegics and renamed on April 8, 1978 to the current name of the association. The first chairman at the time was Kurt Nicklas †.

In 1974 Gudrun Meyer received the “Sports Badge of the City of Frankfurt am Main” from Mayor Walter Wallmann . The first edition of the association newspaper Das Sprachrohr appeared in 1978. In the same year, the “Silver Medal for Disabled Sports” was awarded for the first time by Federal President Walter Scheel : to Bernd Börstler and Manfred Emmel. In 1980 and 1983 the first basketball team was honored with the "Sports Badge of the State of Hesse", presented by the Hessian Minister of State Armin Clauss ; in 1982 it was given to Karl-Heinz Müller. In 1985 the dancing department was founded, in 1988 the sport shooting department.

On July 7, 1988, members of the RSCF appeared in a television program at ZDF in Mainz. In July 1989 the last edition of the quarterly association newspaper Das Sprachrohr was published ; In the same year Manfred Emmel received the silver medal for disabled sports from Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble . On October 17th, 1992 the 25th anniversary of the RSC Frankfurt was held in the casino of the Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt-Unterliederbach. In February 1993, after an interruption of almost four years, the club newspaper was relaunched and published again for the first time. In the 1993/94 season, the first team in the basketball championship of the wheelchair basketball Bundesliga . On October 10, 1995, the 1st basketball team in the Kaisersaal of the Frankfurt City Hall Römer received the Ammerschläger Medal from Mayor Petra Roth . Only eleven days later, on October 21, a mixed team from the RSCF competed in basketball against the 2nd Bundesliga team from TV Langen (pedestrians) on the TV program Hessen-Report of the RTL . In 1997 the self-defense department was established.

Development of the membership

While the number of members increased only slowly in the first decade of existence, the number tripled in the years 1997 to 1987. By 2010, 300 members had been reached.

In 2005 a separate sponsorship association was founded for the basketball department, the sponsorship association for wheelchair basketball Rhein-Main e. V. On December 5th of the same year, on the occasion of the International Volunteer Day in the historic Kaisersaal des Frankfurter Römer, the mayor Petra Roth, the mayor and the sports director presented the RSC Frankfurt with a certificate of thanks and recognition for the voluntary work.

successes

Members of the association have successfully participated in local, regional, national, national and international competitions. The RSC is represented by one team each in the first basketball division, in the first rugby division and in the first table tennis division.

Olympic Champion Medals won at the Paralympic Games :

Gold medal: Bernd Börstler † (table tennis), Manfred Emmel (swimming, table tennis), Edmund Weber (athletics)
Silver medal: Wolfgang Hollhorst, Horst Rödig, Abdulgazi Karaman (basketball), Horst Binner, Bernd Börstler (table tennis), Manfred Emmel (athletics, swimming, table tennis), Edmund Weber (athletics)
Bronze medal: Bernd Börstler (athletics)

World Champion

Gold medal: Thorsten Ahlbrecht (sport shooting), Manfred Emmel (table tennis), Walter Straß (sport shooting)
Silver medal: Thorsten Ahlbrecht, Ebba Hegemann (sport shooting), Rainer Oppler (table tennis)
Bronze medal: Ebba Hegemann, Walter Straß (sport shooting)

European champion

Gold medal: Bernd Börstler †, Manfred Emmel (table tennis), Ebba Hegemann, Walter Straß (sport shooting)
Silver medal: Cornelia Bäcker (sport shooting), Frigga Dern (table tennis), Pietro Fabris, Christiane Fürll-Riede (dancing), Ebba Hegemann (sport shooting), Rainer Oppler (table tennis), Walter Straß (sport shooting)
Bronze medal: Cornelia Bäcker (sport shooting), Manfred Emmel (table tennis), Walter Straß (sport shooting)

German champions Thorsten Ahlbrecht (sport shooting), Otto Albrecht, Klaus Bartels (basketball), Bernd Börstler †, Herbert Broos (table tennis), Frigga Dern (athletics, table tennis), Manfred Emmel (swimming, table tennis), Ebba Hegemann (sport shooting), Wolfgang Hollhorst (basketball, athletics), Edwin Hornung, Abdulgazi Karaman, Horst Kempf (basketball), Wolf Meißner (table tennis), Gudrun Meyer (athletics, table tennis), Rainer Oppler (table tennis), Andrea Naumann / Jean-Marc Clément (dancing), Günther Ritter (basketball, athletics), Horst Rödig, Ugur Savluk, Joachim Schermuly (basketball), Jakob Scholles (archery), Walter Straß (sport shooting), Jürgen Tannhäuser, Reiner Velte, Holger Walter (basketball), Edmund Weber (athletics), Klaus Weber, Karlheinz Wirz (basketball)

German cup winners Otto Albrecht, Wolfgang Hollhorst, Abdulgazi Karaman, Jörg Leonhardt, Horst Rödig, Ugur Savluk, Joachim Schermuly, Reiner Velte, Klaus Weber, Karlheinz Wirz (basketball)

Silver medal for disabled sports A silver medal for disabled sports was awarded to:

1978 - Bernd Börstler, Manfred Emmel (presented by Federal President Walter Scheel)
1989 - Manfred Emmel (presented by Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble)

Sports badge of the state of Hessen The sports badge of the state of Hessen received:

1980 - 1st team in basketball at the RSC Frankfurt
1982 - Karl-Heinz Müller
1983 - 1st team in basketball at the RSC Frankfurt (presented by the Hessian Minister of State Armin Clauss)

Heinz Lindner Prize of the State Sports Association of Hesse

1990 - RSC Frankfurt for outstanding sports club work

Sports badge of the city of Frankfurt am Main The sports badge of the city of Frankfurt am Main received

1974 - Gudrun Meyer (presented by Lord Mayor Walter Wallmann)

Ammerschläger medal

1995 - 1st team in basketball at the RSC Frankfurt (presented by Mayor Petra Roth)

Honorary members

Ruleman Eylert †, senior physician at the professional association accident clinic in Frankfurt am Main and club physician of the RSCF
Alfred Daßbach †, general manager of the construction trade association, managing director of the supporting association of the trade association accident clinic in Frankfurt am Main and sponsor of the association
Horst Kempf
Manfred Emmel

Chairperson

1967 - 1973: Kurt Nicklas †
1973 - 1975: Karl-Heinz Müller †
1975 - 1979: Edmund Weber †
1979 - 1985: Horst Lozar †
1985 - 1993: Klaus Bartels †
1993 - 1993: Herbert Broos
1993 - 1994: Jakob Scholles (acting) †
1994 - 2015: Manfred Emmel
2015 - 2019 Pierre Fontaine
2019 - currently Roland Rheingans

watch TV

1988 - Members of the RSCF appeared in a television program on July 7th at the ZDF in Mainz
1995 - A mixed team from the RSCF competed in basketball against the 2nd Bundesliga team from TV Langen (pedestrians) on the TV program Hessen-Report of the RTL on October 21

Club crest

The club crest of the RSC Frankfurt is executed in a dark blue. It is dominated in its center by an integrated red coat of arms, which shows the Frankfurt city coat of arms with city eagle, under whose fangs in blue the abbreviation RSC stands. The lettering Wheelchair Sport Club is at the top, the lettering Frankfurt at the foot of the blue coat of arms, both in yellow capital letters. To the left and right of the red integrated city coat of arms there are six pictograms each, which represent sports of the RSC.

Sports offered

The sports offered within the club include basketball , archery , darts , handbiking , athletics , rugby , swimming , sport shooting , dancing , tennis , table tennis and winter sports as well as general sports activities for children and young people.

Training facilities

Swimming pool of the BG-Unfallklinik, Friedberger Landstrasse 430
Sports hall of the State Sports Association of Hesse, Otto-Fleck-Schneise 4
Sports hall of the Franz Böhm School, Eichendorffstr. 77
Gym of the BG-Unfallklinik, Friedberger Landstrasse 430

Mainhatten Skywheelers

The RSC Frankfurt team playing in the wheelchair basketball Bundesliga has been performing under the name Mainhatten Skywheelers since the 2009/10 season . The name refers to the skyline of Frankfurt, the only city in Germany whose city is reminiscent of the appearance of Manhattan . The team has its own logo.

Wheelchair basketball association

In October 2005, the Friends of Wheelchair Basketball Rhein-Main was founded to provide targeted support to young people and senior citizens of this sport who are members of the RSC Frankfurt. It is about rehabilitation as well as popular and competitive sports.

In order to implement the most target-oriented funding measures possible, the development association focuses on institutional and private sponsoring, specifically recruits members for a support group and looks for sponsors and advertising partners for the Bundesliga team of the RSC.