SG Stahl Brandenburg

This article explains the sports community Stahl Brandenburg from 1990; For the company sports association that existed from 1950, see BSG Stahl Brandenburg , for the soccer club BSV and FC Stahl Brandenburg see BSV Brandenburg .

Steel Brandenburg

Surname	Sportgemeinschaft Stahl Brandenburg eV
Club colors	blue White
Founded	July 6, 1990 November 20, 1950 as BSG Stahl
Place of foundation	Brandenburg on the Havel
Association headquarters	Bremer Strasse 9 14770 Brandenburg an der Havel
Departments	9
Chairman	Helga Blawid
Homepage	sg-stahl.de

The SG Stahl Brandenburg is a sports club in the city of Brandenburg an der Havel . After changing the legal form, it emerged from the former BSG Stahl Brandenburg . Important departments from earlier decades were, for example, football and handball, which was played in the top division, the major league . In 2015 the departments for disabled sports , bowling , billiards , table tennis , weight training , fin swimming , gymnastics and rugby are affiliated to the association.

history

The BSG Stahl Brandenburg, founded in 1950, was one of the largest company sports associations in the GDR with over 2,000 members and more than fifteen sections. Many of the former sections were dissolved or spun off in the course of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The SG Stahl Brandenburg association was entered in the register of associations on July 6, 1990.

Departments

rugby

Steel Brandenburg
Basic data
Surname	Sportgemeinschaft Stahl Brandenburg eV
Seat	Brandenburg an der Havel , Germany
founding	1959 (BSG Motor Nord) 1962 (BSG Stahl Brandenburg)
Colours	blue White
Website	rugby-brandenburg-havel.de
First soccer team
Head coach	Torsten Busse
Venue	Medical sports field
Places	2
league	Regionalliga Northeast
Regionalliga Nordost 2012/13	5th place
home Away

Rugby field on the medical sports field

In the course of an international match between the GDR national team and the Romanian team on October 12, 1958 on the Werner-Seelenbinder-Sportplatz in Brandenburg's northern district , which was attended by more than 3000 spectators and in which the GDR had their only draw in their international history against the Romanians scored, a rugby section was founded at what was then Thälmannwerft. In 1959, the newly founded sports department of BSG Motor Nord Brandenburg , the company sports association of the shipyard, joined. Since the Thälmann shipyard closed in 1962 and the BSG Motor Nord was dissolved in this context, the rugby players had to look for a new home club and so joined the BSG Stahl Brandenburg. In 1975, Stahl's youth team won the GDR championship.

At the beginning of the 1980s, the medical sports field behind what was then the district neurological clinic was converted into a rugby field and has been the home of the department ever since. At that time, the team played in the first, the upper league of the GDR. Stahl Brandenburg achieved their greatest success in the 1987/88 season under the then coach Gerd Wendler, when they were second behind Stahl Hennigsdorf and thus GDR runner-up and established themselves as the top team. During this time six players were members of the GDR's national rugby union team . These came together to 66 international appearances. The brothers Helmut Busse (34 games) and Torsten Busse (22 games) made the most international appearances . Silvio Wicht came up with four missions. Two and a half years later, in 1990, the A-class under the coaching team of Holger Thomas and Reiner Hermann became the last master of the GDR.

With the political change, many players left the club or ended their sporting careers. This became such a problem that consideration was given to the dissolution of the rugby division. A gradual consolidation followed, so that in the 1999/2000 season, after a second place in the Regionalliga Ost and a subsequent successful qualifying round, the leap to the 2nd Bundesliga succeeded. An important player at that time was the former national player Jens Riechers , who had moved from USV Potsdam to Brandenburg . Brandenburg was able to hold two seasons in the league before relegation back to the regional league followed. They also took part in the two second division years in the DRV Cup , but were eliminated in the first round of the cup. After three seasons in the regional league, the championship round of the regional leagues in the northeast was decided in 2004/05 and was thus able to celebrate the promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga. In the following season Brandenburg was after victories against the other Brandenburg second division clubs Hennigsdorf, Potsdam and Hohen Neuendorf in the final account fifth and safely managed to stay in the league. At the same time, this was the best post-reunification ranking that Brandenburg could achieve. One season later, in 2007, they were knocked off the last of the 2nd Bundesliga North and relegated back to the Regionalliga. Since this relegation, Brandenburg has worsened from season to season and despite league reform, which resulted in an increase in the national leagues and, in this context, a withdrawal of opposing teams from the lower leagues into the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga, plays in the lower area of ​​the Regional League East.

successes

• GDR Oberliga: 2nd place in 1988

Fin swimming

A diving section was founded in Brandenburg an der Havel in 1960. At that time, today's section was the basic organization of the Society for Sport and Technology . After the GST was dissolved in 1989, divers and fin swimming had to reorient themselves. Instead of founding an independent association, SG Stahl Brandenburg was joined. The section became a member of the Association of German Sports Divers and developed into a very good association on a national and international scale. Brandenburg divers and fin swimmers achieved good placements in world, European and German championships. Due to the successful work of the department, the decided Landessportbund in Brandenburg to establish a regional training base. Due to the excellent work with young talent, the department was awarded the Green Ribbon in 2000 for exemplary talent development in the association.

Table tennis

At the beginning of 1950, sport-interested workers of the Brandenburg steel and rolling mill founded the table tennis section in the BSG Stahl Brandenburg. In 1964 the department's sports hall on the Gördenbrücke burned down completely. Three years later, rooms in the former Opel canteen, today's sports hall on the Gördenbrücke, were put into operation. As a result, the section established itself and table tennis players from Stahl Brandenburg were among the best in the Potsdam district. This is how the greatest successes were achieved in the 1970s. In one season, the BSG even managed to win all individual and team titles in the district. In the junior area, Stahl Brandenburg was one of the top national clubs. Before the political turnaround, international games, GDR championships, district championships and performance class tournaments were also regularly held in Brandenburg. With the political change in 1989/90 the table tennis department had around 85 members. In the following years this number grew to around 100, of which 40 percent trained in the children and youth sector. 13 teams have since taken part in active competitions. There are currently ten teams.

Boxing

Athletes in the boxing section won a number of national championships in the early 1950s. In 1951 H. Daberkow won gold in the light welterweight division . Conrad Gutschmidt won the bantamweight title in the same year. Three years later he was able to repeat his success in the light welterweight division. For the following season he left Brandenburg and joined BSG Stahl Riesa , where he was able to build on previous performances with further championships. He is not to be confused with the boxer Guthschmidt, who won silver starting in 1953 in the lightweight for the BSG Empor Brandenburg.

Former departments

Stahlpalast, the former steel sports hall in which the handball league games were played

→ Main articles : BSG Stahl Brandenburg  and BSV Brandenburg

Former sections of SG Stahl Brandenburg and BSG Stahl Brandenburg were, for example, football , handball , sailing and canoeing . The footballer played first-class in the GDR league in the 1980s and in the UEFA Cup in the 1986/87 season . Home was the steel stadium or the stadium on Quenz. After the political change, the football and handball departments separated from the entire club and subsequently operated as an independent BSV Stahl Brandenburg .

The handball team of the BSG Stahl Brandenburg and the BSG Stahl Kirchmöser played first-class in the handball league of the GDR in the second half of the 1980s . The team played their home games in the steel hall . With the footballers, the department joined the newly founded BSV Stahl Brandenburg in 1990. Sailing and canoeing were also successful sections that could win medals in national championships, but left the club as a whole after the fall of the Wall.

Web links

Commons : Stahl Brandenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of SG Stahl Brandenburg
• Homepage of the rugby department
• Homepage of the fin swimming department
• Homepage of the table tennis department

Individual evidence

1. ^ The departments of the SG . Accessed January 3, 2014
2. ^ Rugby - GDR championships . Accessed January 7, 2014.
3. ↑ Claus-Peter Bach (Ed.): 100 Years of the German Rugby Association , p. 171 f., 2000, Heidelberg.
4. ^ History of the Rugby Department . Accessed January 3, 2014.
5. ↑ Qualification 2nd Rugby Bundesliga North / East Spring 2000 . Accessed January 3, 2014.
6. ↑ 2. Bundesliga North / East 2001/02 . Accessed January 3, 2014.
7. ↑ DRV Cup . Accessed October 14, 2015.
8. ↑ Championship round northeast 2004/05 . Accessed January 3, 2014.
9. ↑ 2. Bundesliga North 2005/06 . Accessed January 3, 2014.
10. ↑ 2. Bundesliga North 2006/07 . Accessed January 3, 2014.
11. ↑ History of the Fin Swimming Department ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed January 3, 2014. 
12. ^ Chronicle of the table tennis department . Accessed January 3, 2014.
13. ↑ ^{a b} Boxing - GDR - Amateurs Championships (light welterweight) . Accessed February 22, 2015.
14. ^ Boxing - GDR - Amateurs Championships (bantamweight) . Accessed February 22, 2015.
15. ↑ Boxing - GDR - Amateurs Championships (lightweight) . Accessed February 22, 2015.
16. ↑ BSV STAHL BRANDENBURG . Accessed December 26, 2014.