SC Comet Berlin
| SC Comet 1899 | |
| Full name | Sport Club Komet 1899 Berlin |
| place | Berlin |
| Founded | 1899 |
| Dissolved | unknown |
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The SC Komet Berlin was a sports club from Berlin and on January 28, 1900 was one of the 86 founding members of the German Football Association .
history
The association was founded in 1899. On November 4, 1904, he was one of the founding members of the Association of Berlin Athletics Clubs , with Komet member Otto Gronert becoming its first chairman. In terms of sport, the SC Komet was meaningless in Berlin football.
The athletics division was more successful . The most important athlete was Arthur Hoffmann , who was German champion in the 100-meter run and German champion in the long jump in 1908 . In the same year he won the silver medal in the Olympic relay at the Olympic Games in London . Emil Welz became German champions in the discus throw in 1906 and Alex Abraham in 1907 and 1908 . Johannes Böge became German marathon champion in 1907 . Max Köhler became German champion in the 50 km walk in 1923 , Otto Buchmann became German champion in high jump in 1908 . Almost all German championship titles of the SC Komet were won in the years before the First World War . After the war, the club was overshadowed by the much more successful local rivals SC Charlottenburg and Berliner Sport-Club .
The ice hockey team was one of the founding members of the first Berlin ice hockey league in 1910.
A rugby team was founded in 1912 by Pedro Ludwig (Worms), but was dissolved again in 1914 with the beginning of World War I.
The association was dissolved in the 1930s.
literature
- DFB (Hrsg.): German Football Yearbook . tape 1904 . Grethlein and Co., Leipzig.
- Fritz Steinmetz , 75 years of the German Athletics Championships (1898–1972) . Bartels and Wernitz, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-87039-956-2 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Grönke: So it was in Berlin and Central Germany, in: 75 years DRV 1900-1975