SV Germania Weingarten

	Club data
founding	1904
Members	500
address	SV Germania 04 Weingarten Ringstrasse 67 76356 Weingarten
Club colors	black red
Chairman	Ralph Oberacker
Sports facility	Mineralix-Arena Ringstrasse 67 76356 Weingarten
Trainer	Frank Heinzelbecker Waldemar Galwas
Internet	www.svgermania04.de www.ringen-in-weingarten.de

The SV Germania 04 Weingarten is a ring sports club from Weingarten (Baden) , which became German team champions in 2011, 2012 and 2017.

The Union

On April 26, 1904, the son of a Weingarten teacher and later Reich Sports Warden Heinrich Brunner founded the “Kampfsportverein Germania” with some friends in the hall of the inn “Rößle”. When the young strength sports club soon established a football department, it changed its name to “Sportverein Germania”. The sports club has been a pure wrestling club since the 1950s.

Today the club has around 500 members and has been represented in the highest German wrestling league since 1999. In addition to the first team, the 2nd and 3rd teams and the school team also regularly wrestle in the North Baden League. Due to the relegation in the 2017 season from the Oberliga to the Association League, the club will compete in 2018 with the second team in the Association League and another team in the State League.

Since 2007 the association has been led by the 1st chairman Ralph Oberacker.

In 2015, the Bundesliga operation was spun off into a GmbH. Since the 2017/2018 season, the previous Bundesliga team of the SVG has been wrestling with four other top clubs in the newly founded German Wrestling League .

Sporting successes

Founding years

At the world championships in Düsseldorf on June 6, 1910, Fritz Kärcher (weight class up to 85 kg / Greco-Roman) became vice world champion and was able to bring the silver medal back to Weingarten eleven years later at the European championships in Offenbach in the class up to 82.5 kg.

70s and 80s

After wrestling in the North Baden regional league in the 1970s, the Weingartener wrestlers made it to the league in 1983. Reiner Kunzmann, who was 3rd in the German A youth championship in the class up to 60 kg in Baunatal in 1982, was able to bring home the title of military world champion in Greco-Roman style in 1985. At the German Championships in 1986 in Schifferstadt, he achieved 3rd place in the featherweight division.

The 90s - promotion to the Bundesliga

In 1994 the 1st team of SV Germania managed to get promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga Southwest, in which the team occupied top places in the following five years and was runner-up three times and third twice. In 1999, under coach Willi Ullrich, the SVG achieved their greatest sporting success to date with promotion to the wrestling league .

The new millennium - Weingarten in the finals for the first time

After two years in the Bundesliga with the aim of staying up, SV Germania made it into the finals of the German championship for the first time in the third season of the first division in 2002. In the 2005/06 season , the Germans made it into the finals for the second time, after narrowly missing them in the previous three years. In the 2006/07 season they were able to qualify for the semi-finals for the first time and rank among the four best teams in Germany.

The SVG achieved its greatest success in the club's history in the 2009/10 season , when it was able to qualify for the finals for the first time under coach Frank Heinzelbecker and the sporting director Sebastian Mayer and became German runner-up behind KSV Aalen 05 .

Wrestling in a new dimension

In the following season 2010/11 they also qualified for the final. Against the RWG Mömbris-Königshofen they became German team champions for the first time in front of 4000 spectators in the Karlsruhe dm-Arena . In the 2011/2012 season Weingarten successfully defended the title on January 15, 2012: In the rematch of the final in Homburg , the three-point deficit against KSV Köllerbach was made up for with a 24:12 away win.

Weingarten against Nendingen - the duel of the coming years

In the following years, the 2013/14 season , 2014/15 season and 2015/16 season , SV Germania also made it into the final. The Bundesliga season ended as runner-up behind ASV Nendingen . Since there is a doping procedure against a wrestler from Nendingen, the result of the final in January 2016 could still be changed in favor of the SVG.

Due to the lack of suitable halls for the final round in the Karlsruhe area, SV Germania Weingarten made a name for itself in Ringer Germany with the extraordinary competition venues. While you had to wrestle in an old wood industry factory in Bruchsal in 2013/2014 , the club put a large event tent on the fairground across from the Mineralix-Arena with a capacity of around 3,000 spectators in the two following play-offs.

In the 2016/17 season , they managed to beat Nendingen in the semifinals and moved into the final again. There you met KSV Ispringen . After a 4-point lead from the downward struggle, an 11-13 defeat was enough to win the third German championship in the club's history. World Champion Frank Stäbler secured the necessary points in the penultimate fight of the evening.

Start in the German wrestling league

After years of disputes about the league structures, policy changes, threats of sanctions and the presentation of wrestling, there was a rift with the German Wrestling Association in 2016 . Five teams from the top German clubs, including the German champions from previous years Weingarten and Nendingen , finally founded the German Wrestling League on July 31, 2016 . The clubs do not go to the start themselves, but with their respective corporations.

The competitions of the German Wrestling League were held for the first time in the 2017/2018 season. While Germania Weingarten was able to achieve 3rd place, KSV Ispringen became the first German champion in the DRL. In the 2019/2020 season, the German championship in the DRL was celebrated for the first time. In the final rematch on January 25, 2020, team captain Jan Fischer secured the fourth German championship title in the 6th fight of the evening against KSV Ispringen.

The most important goals of the DRL are the representation of interests and the democratic self-determination of the member associations within the DRL. The league serves to professionally market the ring sport.

Women wrestling

The flagship in women's wrestling at SV Germania Weingarten is Luisa Niemesch . The home grown has already celebrated some national and international successes. Her greatest successes so far were the 2nd place at the World Junior Championships in Zagreb 2014 and the participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil 2016. At the World Championships in Paris 2017 she achieved a very good 5th place and was thus able to win to finally establish itself among the world's best.

Known wrestlers

nationality	Surname	in the club from ... to ...
Germany Germany	Adam Juretzko	2009-2019
	Oliver Hassler	2010-2017
	Marcel Ewald	2005-2015
	Frank Stäbler	2016-2017
	Jan Fischer	since 2017
	Luisa Niemesch	since 2002
Hungary Hungary	Mihaly Deak-Bardos	2008–2012
	Arpad knight	2006-2010
	Peter Modos	2013-2014
Romania Romania	Ionut Panait	since 2007
	Szabolcs Laszlo	2006-2014
Bulgaria Bulgaria	Anatoly Guidea	2011-2016
Sweden Sweden	Jimmy Lidberg	2014-2015
Armenia Armenia	Roman Amoyan	2015-2016
Albania Albania	Sahit Prizreni	2009-2015
Turkey Turkey	Taha Akgul	2011-2013
Ukraine Ukraine	Zhan Belenjuk	2012-2013
Poland Poland	Damian Janikowski	2016-2017
France France	Melonin Noumonvi	2010-2011
Cuba Cuba	Oscar Pino Hinds	since 2018

The Germania hall

In 1964, the construction of the "Germania Hall" began, which was inaugurated after three years of construction and until the beginning of 2006 was the home of SV Germania Weingarten.

Thanks to an innovative concept, a contract was signed with the community of Weingarten (Baden) in 2005 , which should enable the construction of a new sports and cultural center. Today this new hall is not only the new home arena of the SVG, but also offers enough space and training opportunities for other sports and cultural clubs. The building was completed in early 2007 and inaugurated on April 28, 2007 as the Kleiberit Arena.

Since August 1, 2013, the culture and sports center of SV Germania Weingarten has had the new name Mineralix-Arena, because after the expiry of the partnership with Kleiberit, a new partner and namesake was found with MinERALiX GmbH.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the extension of the Mineralix Arena took place in May 2019. The fitness studio housed there opened in February 2020. A terrace for the Germania restaurant was also built on the roof of the single-storey extension. At the end of June 2020, the roof terrace of the Germania restaurant was officially opened.

Web link

Official website

Individual evidence

^ Klaus Armbruster, NOVA Software GmbH: Ringer League Database. Retrieved May 20, 2018 .
^ German Ringer League e. V. Retrieved August 22, 2017 .
↑ Wrestling: ASV Nendingen again German team champion . In: Sport1.de . ( sport1.de [accessed on August 22, 2017]).
↑ SVG wrestles for the first time on the fairground opposite the Mineralix Arena . ( svgermania04.de [accessed on August 22, 2017]).
^ Wrestling - Bundesliga final: Weingarten is German wrestling champion - sport. In: swr.de. January 14, 2017. Retrieved February 11, 2017 .
↑ The KSV Ispringen is German champion 2018 . In: Deutsche Ringerliga eV February 9, 2018 ( ringerliga.de [accessed April 9, 2018]).
↑ Thomas Reuter, SV Germania Weingarten: With a Derby victory for the title! Germanic first time master of the DRL. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
↑ Goals and Philosophy - Deutsche Ringerliga e. V. Retrieved August 22, 2017 .
^ Dpa: Fourth German medal: wrestler Aline Focken wins World Cup silver . ( shz.de [accessed on August 25, 2017]).
^ The history of SV Germania 04 Weingarten - SV Germania 04 Weingarten. Retrieved August 22, 2017 .
^ SV Germania 04 Weingarten: Mineralix-Arena Weingarten - MinERALiX: The namesake of our arena. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
^ Thomas Reuter, SV Germania Weingarten: New fitness center in the Mineralix-Arena - opening in February. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
^ Thomas Reuter, SV Germania Weingarten: Roof terrace officially opened. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .

[1] Klaus Armbruster, NOVA Software GmbH: Ringer League Database. Retrieved May 20, 2018 .

[2] German Ringer League e. V. Retrieved August 22, 2017 .

[3] Wrestling: ASV Nendingen again German team champion . In: Sport1.de . ( sport1.de [accessed on August 22, 2017]).

[4] SVG wrestles for the first time on the fairground opposite the Mineralix Arena . ( svgermania04.de [accessed on August 22, 2017]).

[5] Wrestling - Bundesliga final: Weingarten is German wrestling champion - sport. In: swr.de. January 14, 2017. Retrieved February 11, 2017 .

[6] The KSV Ispringen is German champion 2018 . In: Deutsche Ringerliga eV February 9, 2018 ( ringerliga.de [accessed April 9, 2018]).

[7] Thomas Reuter, SV Germania Weingarten: With a Derby victory for the title! Germanic first time master of the DRL. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .

[8] Goals and Philosophy - Deutsche Ringerliga e. V. Retrieved August 22, 2017 .

[9] Dpa: Fourth German medal: wrestler Aline Focken wins World Cup silver . ( shz.de [accessed on August 25, 2017]).

[10] The history of SV Germania 04 Weingarten - SV Germania 04 Weingarten. Retrieved August 22, 2017 .

[11] SV Germania 04 Weingarten: Mineralix-Arena Weingarten - MinERALiX: The namesake of our arena. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .

[12] Thomas Reuter, SV Germania Weingarten: New fitness center in the Mineralix-Arena - opening in February. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .

[13] Thomas Reuter, SV Germania Weingarten: Roof terrace officially opened. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .