SV Prague Stuttgart
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| Surname | Sports club Prague Stuttgart 1899 e. V. |
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| Club colors | purple white |
| Founded | 1899 |
| Association headquarters | Stuttgart |
| Members | 535 (as of January 31, 2020) |
| Chairman | Ralf Schäfer |
| Homepage | www.svprag.de |
The SV Prague Stuttgart is an established in 1899 sports club from the Stuttgart district on the Prague and thus in Stuttgart-Nord is home. The club has over 500 members in the boxing, basketball, soccer, volleyball, bounce ball and gymnastics departments.
history
The club was founded in 1899 as the Prague Gymnastics Club . On June 6, 1919 gymnastics club closed, the I. Athletic Club Prague and Spielvereinigung Prague for Sport Association Prague-Stuttgart 1899 e. V. together.
The club's footballers played in the then first-class Gauliga Württemberg in the 1944/45 season . They finished the championship, which was prematurely discontinued due to the war, in second place behind SpVgg Feuerbach and ahead of the Kickers / Sportfreunde and Ludwigsburg syndicate. After the end of the war, the first team was assigned to the district class according to their strength in 1946, but could not hold this class for long.
After the turmoil of World War II , on September 27, 1947, the gymnasts united under the direction of Georg Steck with the Prague game association under the leadership of Willy Knörzer to form the Sportverein Prag Stuttgart 1899 e. V.
In the period that followed, the club won numerous German individual boxing titles with the high point of the German team championship in 1951 in Berlin. Wuerttemberg championships in basketball and handball as well as the German championships in bounce ball 1993 (Bundesliga) followed. The footballers rose in 1980 from the district league and in 1989 for the first time in the club's history in the district league B. Since then, the first team has been commuting at regular intervals between district league A and district league B. Since 2010 there has been a tremendous and continuous boom in the field of youth football due to the great efforts of those responsible.
The Prague basketball players were the first athletes of all branches in Germany who were allowed to take part in an international competition in Lausanne / Switzerland after the war with the approval of the American military government (Berlin) and the President of the World Basketball Federation, Mr. Jones. In the 1980s there was another great success with promotion to the league, currently there is no active team.
On November 4, 2007, after years of efforts, the new artificial turf pitch was opened on the sports grounds on Parlerstrasse, from which the neighboring Mühlbachof School also benefits in particular.
In 2009 the club was 110 years old and one year later it celebrated its club anniversary "111 years of sport on the Prague" on and at its club premises on Parlerstrasse.
The small sports club from Killesberg received a lot of attention in February 2011 when Björn Seemann, long-standing and still current member of the football department, stood up to run for the office of President of VfB Stuttgart.
Chair since 1947
- 1947–1960 Willy Knörzer
- 1960–1964 Erich Bader
- 1964–1978 Karl Kussmaul
- 1978–1985 Georg Schlee
- 1985–1988 Richard Pfeffer
- 1988–2000 Albert Kütter
- since 2000 Ralf Schäfer
successes
- Württemberg handball champion: 1923
- Promotion to the then first-class Gauliga (football): 1944
- 4th place at the German championships (basketball): 1947
- German team champion in boxing: 1951
- Promotion to the basketball league: 1984
- German rebound ball champion (Bundesliga): 1993
The boxers of SV Prague
Nationally and internationally, SV Prague was best known for its boxing department. The season was German team champion in Berlin in 1951. Stuttgart's Lord Mayor Arnulf Klett insisted on receiving the convoy of cars on the way to Killesberg and saying greetings. For decades, the department was the most successful in Württemberg, and the club is still one of the last active boxing sports in Stuttgart.
Prague personalities
Georg Schlee (born on January 13, 1908, died on January 5, 1995) joined the association in 1932. He played at VfB Stuttgart up to the A-youth and later active for SV Prag football until 1948. In 1934 Georg Schlee took over the management of the boxing department and held this position until 1962. He also worked as a boxing referee before he moved to the Prague club management and from 1978 to 1985 was the club's first chairman. In addition, Schlee was the second chairman and lawyer of the Württemberg amateur boxing association for many years and was honored as a sports pioneer by the city of Stuttgart in 1978 .
Adolf Reinhardt (born April 13, 1902, died June 18, 1990) joined SV Prague in 1924 and, in addition to his active football career, quickly devoted himself to the referee guild. Reinhardt was the first German referee who was allowed to conduct an international match after the Second World War, namely the 1952 international match between Austria and Ireland in Vienna. He also whistled the finals for the German soccer championship in 1941 and 1951 and the DFB Cup final between Rot-Weiss Essen and Alemannia Aachen (2-1) in 1953 , in which Helmut Rahn and Jupp Derwall scored goals. Between 1946 and 1960 Reinhardt ran the office of the Württemberg Football Association. Reinhardt was recognized as a sports pioneer by the city of Stuttgart .
Georg Steck (born on November 21, 1896, died on June 10, 1978) joined the association in 1918. As a long-time member of the board of directors, all of his work was considered gymnastics. He headed the Turngau Stuttgart from 1945 to 1955 and was thus significantly involved in the reconstruction after the Second World War. In 1956 he received the title of Sports Pioneer of the City of Stuttgart. Efforts to name today's Werner Siemens School after him failed. The sports hall opened there in 1981 is popularly known as the Georg-Steck-Halle.
Karl Kussmaul (born on September 3, 1909, died on July 23, 1978) had been a member since 1923 and, after his active time, joined the board and also headed the football department. In addition to Willy Knörzer, he played a key role in the construction of the new clubhouse on Parlerstrasse and was in charge of the old people's comradeship of the Württemberg football and athletics association. From 1964 to 1978 Karl Kussmaul was 1st chairman of SV Prague.
Willy Knörzer (born on March 27, 1909, died in May 1960) During his tenure as first chairman from 1947 to 1960, the great successes of the boxing department fell with the highlight in 1951, the German team championship in Berlin. Also in 1951 the promotion of the first soccer team to the district class, with Willy Knörzer still playing as a 42-year-old and even becoming the top scorer. The clubhouse at Mühlbachhof was planned and built under his leadership. In 1960 Knörzer held the office of first chairman of the Stuttgarter Kickers for a short time.
Outside of his activities for SV Prag, Willy Knörzer gained a wide reputation as a sports patron and organizer. In his radio and television shops he gave some active workers wages and bread. He founded the Stuttgart Radrennbahn GmbH and built a representative open-air track near the gas boiler.
From 1957 he also devoted himself to professional boxing, he organized fights with world and European champions in many German cities. Despite the great sporting successes, professional boxing was his path to ruin, the economic decline could not be stopped. After financial difficulties with his television business, he committed suicide in May 1960.
Richard Pfeffer (born on October 19, 1919, died on April 11, 1997) directed the fortunes of Prague's youth football team for many years after his career as an active footballer. During this time, the juniors of SV Prag celebrated their greatest successes and played in the same class and at eye level with VfB Stuttgart. From 1969 to 1973 he headed the football department before moving to the board. From 1985 to 1988 Richard Pfeffer was the first director of SV Prague.
Sports field at the Mühlbachhof
After various locations, including on Steinbeißstraße, on Neckarstraße or on what was then Ludwigsburger Straße (today Heilbronner Straße near the Bülow Tower), the club received a sports facility in the so-called Akacienwäldchen from 1922, where today there is about that in the Killesberg Park "Valley of the Roses" is located. In 1937, after only 15 years of use, the area fell victim to the forced evacuation of the 1939 Reich Garden Show . After great commitment by Georg Schlee, the new domicile at Parlerstrasse 86 (Mühlbachhof) was moved into in 1938. At the beginning of the fifties the clubhouse was built there, which still exists today in its basic form. From the former lawn, which was used in the last days of World War II by the few residents as arable land for growing food, was a threshing floor space (hard court), which was converted into the artificial turf of 2007. Between November 2018 and February 2020, the old cabin wing from 1964 was demolished and replaced by a two-story new building.
Prague small-field football tournament
The Prague small-field football tournament has been played since 1985. An average of 500 spectators and active table footballers gather every year on the sports field on Parlerstrasse, with one or the other former Bundesliga player being actively represented. 20 teams take part in the tournament. In 2012 the tournament was given the additional name Lothar Schubert Memorial Tournament.
Well-known former athletes of SV Prague
- Erwin Deyhle (* 1914; † 1989), former German national soccer goalkeeper
- Zvonko "Toni" Kurbos (* 1960), professional footballer at Stuttgarter Kickers, SK Tongeren, FC Metz, AS Monaco, among others