SC Forward Wacker 04

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SC Forward Wacker 04
SC Vorwärts-Wacker 04 Billstedt.gif
Basic data
Surname SC Vorwärts-Wacker
from 1904 eV
Seat Hamburg-Billstedt
founding August 3, 1904
Colours purple-white-red
Website www.vorwaerts-wacker.de
First soccer team
Venue Öjendorfer Weg sports field
Places nb
league Landesliga Hansa
2018/19 8th place
home

The SC Vorwärts-Wacker from 1904 is a sports club in the Hamburg district of Billstedt .

The foundation of SV Wacker 04

On August 3, 1904, the club SV Wacker was founded by Max Zimmermann and his friend Gustav Ortmann from 1904, one of the two original clubs of today's club "SC Vorwärts-Wacker 04". In the first few years of the club's history, the two founders had to struggle with great difficulties, because at that time football was just a raw sport for most of the people. The first competitions were held in Billstrasse and Trauns-Garten. In the second year after the association was founded, they moved to Grevenweg. The move to Grevenweg brought a considerable increase in the team's strength.

In 1905/06 there were already four strong football teams that were feared by their opponents at the time such as Borussia Bahrenfeld , Nordstern , Hohenzollern , Germania and Teutonia because of their playing strength. Admission to the North German Football Association in 1907 was associated with particular difficulties. But after many negotiations it was finally possible to become a member. SV Wacker 04 played in the second Hamburg soccer class. In the 1913/14 season, the club became champions and thus made it to the first Hamburg division .

The foundation of SC Vorwärts Schiffbek in 1913

In the same season in which SV Wacker became champions of the second division in Hamburg, SC Vorwärts was founded (1913). Heinrich Lüders founded the sports club "SC Vorwärts Schiffbek von 1913" together with Vincent Havlena on August 1st, 1913, an association which at that time only included workers from the Stahlbau Eggers company. As early as 1914, the club had three teams, and they were playing for the Hamburg championship in the decider against Hamburger 93. Since the first game ended 3: 3, a second leg had to decide the championship, but this was not due to the start of the war.

In the first year after the founding of the Hamburg championship , the first club title was denied due to the start of the war, and the rapid rise of SV Wacker was also stopped for the time being because of the discontinued game operations . Hamburg league , which, as already mentioned, was promoted to in 1914.

SV Wacker and SC Forward to World War II

Many players and club members on both sides of Wacker and Vorwärts died during the war. In the early 1920s, both clubs had their sports facility in Billstedt. So it came about that from then on there was great rivalry between the two clubs, as is usually the case between two neighboring clubs.

In the 1920s, the two clubs again played an important role in Hamburg football. Forward played the first three years of the twenties in the Hamburg A-relay of the workers' sport cartel and won in the year in which the Hamburg club SC Lorbeer 06 became German champions (1922) against this team 3-0. But the workers' sports club had to take a big disappointment in 1923: One year later they even got promoted to the A-class , in which u. a. Wacker 04, RFK and Komet Blankenese have already played. Thus, the two local rivals had been in the same league since 1925, and the championship title was always played among the four teams mentioned above in the following years, and there were always exciting games between each other. In 1928, the year in which Vorwärts founded a boxing department and a handball department (this was one of the reasons why the company had over 1000 members, one of the largest 12 in Hamburg ), the villages of Öjendorf, Schiffbek and Kirchsteinbek were merged into one large community through a municipal reform. A Hamburg newspaper called on the population of the villages to come up with a name for the area. "Billstedt" became the most popular name. “Little Moscow” came just behind, as the east of Hamburg was more “left”.

The next few years were very successful for SV Wacker. One was feared in the area as a " league killer" and was promoted to the strong league . Unfortunately, they were relegated two years later and later not returned to the top division. Forward was also very successful in the following period. For example, they won the Bille Cup in 1930 against their big rival SV Wacker (3-2 in the final ). In the following years there were also games in which the players from Vorwärts and Wacker not only played against each other, but also with each other. On May 19, 1931, a selection team from Vorwärts and Wacker played against the strong league clubs of the Lübeck Police. In the end, they won 10: 2 (6: 0 at halftime). Since then there have been many games between the two rivals' selection teams against other teams. For example the games in 1934 against Altona 93 and the former German champion Holstein Kiel . In the game against Holstein Kiel, which was the inauguration game of the Billstedter Stadium ( Hein-Klink-Stadion , today home of Billstedt-Horn), it was against the gala team of the old master from Kiel. In the end it was 4: 4, they had withstood the huge favorites.

In 1939, in the meantime Billstedt had been relocated from Prussia to Hamburg by the Greater Hamburg Act , was the biggest sporting event in the club's history of the SC Vorwärts: This small club competed in the Tschammer Cup (today DFB Cup ) against Fortuna Düsseldorf , a club that belonged to the top German at the time: It was a team peppered with national players. A total of 6100 teams from all over Germany competed, and the small district division from Billstedt had come further than 6036 other clubs. Now the favorite from Düsseldorf came to Billstedt . After 90 minutes of the fight, the final result was 1: 3 for Düsseldorf. The 6,000 spectators saw a great game that brought the club nationwide reputation.

Destruction and reconstruction after World War II

The Second World War brought destruction to the clubs and all of Germany . At that time, all of the club's writings and documents were burned, and the sports equipment was completely destroyed. After the war, the clubs had nothing and had to start over. In the spring of 1946 Wacker reached the championship in the A3 class and rose to the district league. In the district league 1946/47 Wacker was after Borussia Harburg in second place after the autumn series and was able to leave teams like the Harburger Turnerbund, Komet, Wilhelmsburg 09 and Vorwärts behind. At the end of the season the team had claimed fourth place and was promoted to the newly founded association league .

Vorwärts also had to start all over again after the war. After a year it was possible to set up eight men's teams and nine youth teams. The youth team became Hamburg champions in 1946 . In 1946 Vorwärts members rebuilt the sports field on Möllner Landstrasse, and with this new space came the unstoppable rise of the club. In 1948 it was promoted to the 2nd amateur league (the last game of the season of the following season was attended by 6,700 spectators and many did not come in because the game was sold out) and due to the then very strong handball department with over 1000 members, it was one of Hamburg's major clubs.

Forward and Wacker until 1990

In the following years, the first men from forward was rather unsuccessful: several attempts failed to make the recovery after relegation in 1950 from the amateur league , and soon followed by relegation from the association league . It was no longer possible to keep good players, because they were mostly poached by league clubs and young players were drafted into the Bundeswehr. But the youth department made up for these failures. You became a master several times, almost every year. The reserve team also played outstandingly: They became class champions in 1950/51 with 59 out of 60 points and a goal difference of 170: 41 (!). The expert team managed to achieve a goal difference of 168: 7 (!) In 14 games.

Heinrich Lüders, the founder of Vorwärts, died in October 1960. Meanwhile, Wacker founded a boxing department , a table tennis department and a gymnastics department . The boxing department in particular, under the long-term management of the former forward boxer Herbert Glabbatz, was very successful, including numerous Hamburg championships, North German championships and even the German championship in junior boxing twice. With Wolfgang Störk , who had won the German championship title, and Erwin Maddaracz two boxers who boxed in the German national team.

The new common sports field

In 1967, due to construction work in the city, both clubs had to move to the sports facility on Öjendorfer Weg / Jenkelweg, which was exemplary for the time. Some time after the merger in 1990, the authorities received a grant of 300,000 DM and were able to finance today's clubhouse. On March 26, 2002, the old club house was demolished and the foundation stone was laid on August 22, 2002. The club house was completed on October 11, 2002.

The merger in 1990

As early as the 1960s, considerations arose to unite the two clubs Vorwärts and Wacker in order to finally get out of football mediocrity. In 1990 the time had come: Bernhard Kämper III. (a total of almost 10 years as President; seven years Vorwärts and two years Vorwärts-Wacker) and Herbert Glabbatz (30 years President of Wacker) sat down and managed to bring the two former rivals together. At the general assembly in the Kämper restaurant on May 19, 1990, the merger to form SC Vorwärts - Wacker 04 von 1904 eV was sealed with only a few votes against and abstentions.

Through this merger one even reached the Oberliga Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein in 1997 , in which Vorwärts / Wacker was able to establish itself. In the 2000/01 season, the team even landed in seventh place, followed by eighth place in the table one season later. When it came to qualifying for the future Oberliga Nord in the 2003/04 season , the Billstedter clearly missed the saving eighth place in 15th place. After the 2007/08 season, the first team was able to qualify as the league leader of the Landesliga Hansa for the Oberliga Hamburg from the 2008/09 season. There they rose again as bottom of the table straight away, so that the club played again in the Landesliga Hansa in the 2009/10 season. There the team was runner-up and met in a relegation game for promotion to the league on June 9, 2010 on the runner-up of the Hammonia season, the SV Rugenbergen. Vorwärts / Wacker lost this play-off on penalties 3: 4 after the game ended goalless after 120 minutes.

As runner-up in the 2010/11 season, the club finally managed to return to the Hamburg Oberliga. The playing time in May 2011, when forward / Wacker by a 1 was crowned: 0 win against Oberliga Niendorfer TSV moved first time since 1998 in the final of the Hamburg State Cup, in which one on June 1, 2011, however the Eimsbütteler TV with 0: 1 lost. After only one season, the club rose back to the national league in 2012 as penultimate. Five years later, Vorwärts-Wacker was promoted to the Hamburg Oberliga , but was relegated again after just one year in 2018.

Known players

Other departments

The marching band division won a silver medal in the march, concert and show scoring at the German championships . In 2007, the first men's table tennis team was promoted to the top Hamburg league, the Hamburg League . In the 2016/17 season, the highest of the six men's teams played in the 1st regional league. The only women's team played in the 1st district league.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the men's teams of SC Vorwärts-Wacker 04 at www.tt-maximus.de, accessed on June 24, 2017.
  2. ↑ List of the women's team of SC Vorwärts-Wacker 04 at www.tt-maximus.de, accessed on June 24, 2017.