SV Police Lübeck

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The Sports Association Police Lübeck (from 1935 Police Sports Club Lübeck, from June 23, 1941 SG Ordnungspolizei Lübeck) was a sports club from the Hanseatic City of Lübeck that existed from 1921 to 1945 . The football team , which played consistently in the top division between 1933 and 1945, and the boxing department, which won several North German and one German championships, celebrated important successes. The club was dissolved by the British after the end of the war. On September 20, 1945, VfB Lübeck was founded, which was a merger of the workers' sports club BSV Vorwärts and the sports association of the police.

Establishment and general development

On August 24, 1921, the Lübeck Police Sports Association was founded by 39 police officers, including Albert Langenheim, who later became secretary, near the Marli barracks that existed at the time. Shortly afterwards, the police athletes started playing with two soccer teams and one athletics team. In the early days of the club, the boxing and handball departments were quickly added, so that the club developed into one of the largest sports clubs in Lübeck. One of the most important people was the commander of the Lübeck police at the time, Otto Pries, who was not only important for the club because of his position in the police, but was also one of the most important athletes in the SPL as a member of several departments. After the SV Police opened up to people outside the police force around 1930, the club was the second largest club in the Hanseatic City of Lübeck in terms of membership numbers.

After the National Socialists came to power , the club was forced to make changes to its structure and in 1935 had to rename itself to the Lübeck Police Sports Club. After the board of directors comprised the positions of a chairman, a treasurer, a secretary and, after the association gained greater popularity in the 1920s, a manager, before the changes, Oskar Kriegbaum took their place on April 23, 1934, as the association manager its employees determined themselves. From 1935, this was the Lübeck police chief Walther Schröder . Under his chairmanship, the first expansion of the Lohmühle was carried out, which the club took over as a sports facility from the ATSV Lübeck , which was banned in 1933 , and which was renamed the "Adolf-Hitler-Kampfbahn" by creating a seating and standing stand . Until 1934 the club had its sports facility in the courtyard of the barracks in Fackenburger Allee . During this time, civilians at the police sports club also had access to the club, which was an exception to other police sports clubs in Germany.

After the end of the Second World War, the association, which had been called SG Ordnungspolizei since June 23, 1941, was dissolved. In addition, the office was looted by so-called " Displaced Persons " and the association's assets were confiscated. A few months later, some of the club's athletes found each other and founded VfB Lübeck together with former members of the BSV Vorwärts.

Soccer

As early as 1920, some men from the SV Police, which was founded a year later, were involved in football. With players like Willi "Natzki" Steffens, the Lübeck SV Police, previously known as the cup team, achieved sporting advancement. Together with VfL Eutin, Parchimer SC and Rostocker SV, the Lübeckers finally rose in the 1927/28 season in the first-class Lübeck / Mecklenburg district league, which was played in two seasons this season. After the SPL had to relegate again after only one year, in the summer of 1930 they were promoted again to the new Lübeck / Mecklenburg Oberliga, which they could hold from now on.

After the club participated in the North German championship in 1930/31 after the runner-up and failed in the second round to Arminia Hannover , the club was first league champion in 1932 and was number one in the city ahead of local rivals LBV Phönix . In the north German championship there was only one point in the group matches against Altona 93, Komet Bremen and Eintracht Braunschweig. In 1932 the SV Police took on members of the VfR Lübeck , which was formed from Allemannia Lübeck and Germania Lübeck in 1921 and which had to be dissolved due to financial difficulties. The SV Police also took over the Wilhelmshöhe sports facility from VfR.

The SV Police were the only club from Lübeck to qualify for the Gauliga Nordmark, which was created in 1933 as the new top division . Previously they had celebrated a victory against Hannover 96 in the preliminary round of the North German Championship, but were eliminated in the preliminary round behind Holstein Kiel and Union 03 Altona . In the first season of the Gauliga, the SV Police only reached the penultimate place, but got a chance to stay in the league because Viktoria Wilhelmsburg was transferred to another Gau. So the police prevailed in the promotion round together with Victoria Hamburg and FC St. Pauli before Union-Teutonia Kiel and Oldesloer SV . The Gauliga Nordmark, which formed the top division for Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Lübeck and Mecklenburg, belonged to the SV Police from then on, as did Hamburger SV , Eimsbütteler TV , Holstein Kiel and Altona 93.

Already in the 1934/35 season, the club established itself as fifth in the Gauliga. In the 1935/36 season they defeated Holstein Kiel for the first time in a league game with 8: 5. The team's greatest success was third place in the 1937/38 season, when they only had to admit defeat to Hamburger SV and Eimsbütteler TV, but were able to place themselves ahead of Holstein Kiel. The best-known players in these years were still Willi Steffens and goal scorer Fritz Buthmann, who scored a total of 86 goals in the first five years of the Gauliga.

Under captain Erwin Luchs - later a guest player at First Vienna FC - and new players such as the later league players "Hennes" Claßen or Hermann Matthews, the SV Police also made 1939 a successful year. The main goal scorer at that time was Karl Wenzel (father of the Bundesliga players Horst Wenzel and Rüdiger Wenzel ); who were also active at the later VfB Lübeck after the end of the war. In the 1941/42 and 1942/43 seasons, Wenzel scored 28 goals in 29 games.

After the Gauliga Nordmark was dissolved in 1942, the team took second place in the Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein before the national game operations had to be stopped in 1944. The team played the last Gauliga game in Lübeck on August 13, 1944 against Eckernförder SV (4-2). After the war-related termination of the Gauliga season, a city league, the so-called Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck relay continued. Participants in the relay were - in addition to SG OrPo - the clubs Phönix Lübeck, Gut Heil Lübeck , Post-SG Lübeck, Blau-Weiß Lübeck ( BLM company ), Schwarz-Weiß Marli and BSG Lachswehr Lübeck ( Drägerwerk company ). On September 19, 1944, the club took over the players of the dissolved air force sports club Lübeck . After a bad start with only one point from three games, the SG OrPo won all games, probably the last on March 25, 1945 against Blau-Weiß. On April 22, 1945, a friendly game against TSV Schlutup took place on the Lohmühle , the last game before the end of the war, which occurred for Lübeck on May 2 with the invasion of the British .

Since the outbreak of war, the Lübeck police had major problems setting up the team. Until the start of the game, the supervisor Hermann Albrecht sometimes did not know whether certain players were still in Lübeck or were already in the war. In 1944, Max Hoppe and Albert Felgenhauer, two players from a Kriegsmarine unit, joined the Lübeck Ordnungspolizei, who later played an important role in the founding of the VfB.

The best-known coaches of the footballers were the later Austrian national coach "Edi" Bauer (1938), but also the former national players Hans Lang (1931/32), Walter Risse (1934/35) and Albert Eschenlohr (1936/37).

Season results 1933-1945
Playtime league League level space score Gates Remarks
1933/34 Gauliga Nordmark (I) 9. 13:23 40:64 Avoided relegation afterwards
1934/35 Gauliga Nordmark (I) 5. 14:22 38:47
1935/36 Gauliga Nordmark (I) 5. 18:18 49:54
1936/37 Gauliga Nordmark (I) 6th 15:21 40:46
1937/38 Gauliga Nordmark (I) 3. 25:19 58:37
1938/39 Gauliga Nordmark (I) 6th 16:24 36:55
1939/40 Gauliga Nordmark, Season 1 (I) 3. 09:11 22:25 The Gauliga was played in two seasons
1940/41 Gauliga Nordmark (I) 3. 28:16 67:41
1941/42 Gauliga Nordmark (I) 4th 18:18 47:40 Integration into the Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein
1942/43 Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein (I) 2. 26:10 71:30
1943/44 Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein (I) 6th 15:21 33:55
1944/45 Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein (I) aborted 02: 00 04: 02

Boxing

After the department was founded in 1924, the club won city championships around 1927, and national successes were celebrated in 1931: Boxers Heß in the Bantam weight class, Brockmöller in the lightweight, Bergbauer in the welterweight, Hermann Eckstein in the light heavyweight and Friedrich Eckstein in the heavyweight division won the Gaumeist title in five of the seven disciplines, which means that the club has been one of the most important regionally since then.

The greatest and most important success of any sportsman in the Lübeck police force was achieved by Friedrich Eckstein, who became the German heavyweight champion in 1934. The year before, he beat boxer Ramek in Berlin - sensationally according to some local sports reporters. Important members of the boxing department were above all Friedrich, Paul and Hermann Eckstein, as well as Rolf Brockmöller, who, after winning the Gaumeist title in lightweight, contested further championship fights in 1935 and later, after having worked in the boxing department from 1924 Became coach of the boxing teams.

Other departments

In field handball , the Police Sports Association was largely able to achieve regional successes, such as winning the Lübeck district championship and winning the East District Championship, but in some cases it was possible to gain national recognition at short notice by participating in the North German championship in handball circles. In addition to the men's team, there was a women's team in the club from 1933, but due to a small number of opponents in northern Germany, it was unable to celebrate any successes.

In 1929, Lieutenant Christian Voss founded an athletics department, which he initially managed as a successful all-rounder. Outside Lübeck, the department became known in particular through Herbert Paasche. He not only won the police championship in the 100-meter run and 400-meter run, but was also one of the ten best runners in Germany with a time of 49.9 seconds in the 400-meter run and held the Lübeck record for a long time over 800 meters.

In 1934 the table tennis department was founded, which, like the chess and swimming departments , could hardly celebrate any success and was mostly practiced outside of competitions with other teams.

Newsletter

In 1927 the so-called news sheet was published by the office, which was supposed to serve on the one hand to inform club members about current events, on the other hand to serve as documentation about successes and developments. After the outbreak of war, the newsletter was expanded to include a so-called field sheet section, in which details about the condition of those athletes who were at the war at the time were given. In the summer of 1941 the newspaper was discontinued due to the war.

literature

  • Walter Bergmann (Ed.): 30 years of VfB Lübeck. about BSV Vorwärts, Lübeck from 1919 and sports association "Police" Lübeck eV Festschrift. Movement Games Association, Lübeck 1949.
  • Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2019. ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8

Sources, References and Notes

  1. ^ A b Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , p. 32 .
  2. ^ Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , p. 37 .
  3. ^ Walter Bergmann (Ed.): 30 years of VfB Lübeck. about BSV Vorwärts, Lübeck from 1919 and sports association "Police" Lübeck eV Festschrift. Association for Movement Games, Lübeck 1949, p. 13.
  4. ^ Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , p. 25 .
  5. ^ Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , p. 281 ff .
  6. ^ Hardy Green , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 303.
  7. ^ Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , p. 13 ff., 280 ff .
  8. ↑ a b Walter Bergmann (Ed.): 30 years VfB Lübeck. about BSV Vorwärts, Lübeck from 1919 and sports association "Police" Lübeck eV Festschrift. Association for Movement Games, Lübeck 1949, p. 17.
  9. ^ Walter Bergmann (Ed.): 30 years of VfB Lübeck. about BSV Vorwärts, Lübeck from 1919 and sports association "Police" Lübeck eV Festschrift. Association for Movement Games, Lübeck 1949, pp. 21–22.
  10. ^ Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , p. 19, 22 .
  11. ↑ Report on the 1932 season  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / historie.pimms.de  
  12. ^ Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , p. 20, 21, 280 .
  13. ↑ This is presented unclearly or incorrectly in various sources. It happened that an additional place became available because Viktoria Wilhelmsburg had to switch to the Lower Saxony Gauliga . Therefore, the Lübeck police, although penultimate, were able to subsequently secure the league by successfully participating in the promotion round.
  14. ^ Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , p. 25-29 .
  15. ↑ a b Walter Bergmann (Ed.): 30 years VfB Lübeck. about BSV Vorwärts, Lübeck from 1919 and sports association "Police" Lübeck eV Festschrift. Association for Movement Games, Lübeck 1949, p. 27.
  16. ↑ Oldesloer sports history - the Luftwaffensportverein Lübeck had failed in mid-1944 in the promotion round to the Gauliga at TVA Eckernförde and the Eckernförder SV
  17. ↑ Hamburger Anzeiger, August 6, 1938, page 19, and August 11, 1939, page 7
  18. ^ Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , p. 23, 25, 304, 307 .
  19. ^ Walter Bergmann (Ed.): 30 years of VfB Lübeck. about BSV Vorwärts, Lübeck from 1919 and sports association "Police" Lübeck eV Festschrift. Association for Movement Games, Lübeck 1949, pp. 32–34.
  20. ^ Walter Bergmann (Ed.): 30 years of VfB Lübeck. about BSV Vorwärts, Lübeck from 1919 and sports association "Police" Lübeck eV Festschrift. Association for Movement Games, Lübeck 1949, pp. 35–38.
  21. ^ Walter Bergmann (Ed.): 30 years of VfB Lübeck. about BSV Vorwärts, Lübeck from 1919 and sports association "Police" Lübeck eV Festschrift. Association for Movement Games, Lübeck 1949, pp. 38–44.
  22. ^ Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , p. 32 .