SV Thorn
| SV Thorn | |||
| Full name | Sports club Thorn | ||
| place | Thorn | ||
| Founded | May 7, 1940 | ||
| Dissolved | 1944 | ||
| Club colors | |||
| Stadion | Municipal stadium on Zeppelinstrasse, sports field on Kulmer Landstrasse | ||
| Top league | Gauliga | ||
| successes | Relay champion 1941/42 | ||
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The sports club Thorn was a German sports club from the city of Thorn (Polish: Toruń ) in occupied Poland during the Second World War .
history
The association was founded on May 7, 1940. SV Thorn had three departments, including football, handball and athletics. The SV won their first game on May 12, 1940 against a Wehrmacht infantry team 4-2.
In the Gauliga
In the 1941/42 season the Thorner champions of season B of District III (Bromberg). In the games for the district championship against the winner of Season A, SG Bromberg , they were runner-up after a 1: 5 defeat and a 4: 1 win. The SV Thorn was defeated in the promotion games, but rose after the expansion of the Gauliga to eleven teams.
In the game year 1942/43 they took 4th place. The sports club Thorn took in the 1943/44 season in the table of the Gauliga Danzig-West Prussia in 6th place.
The "off" in autumn 1944
Only in Danzig-West Prussia and Pomerania did the start of the 1944/45 season begin on July 23, 1944 . Because of the difficult traffic conditions, only the teams from Gdansk and the Gotenhafen area were represented in the top division. The clubs from Thorn, Bromberg and Elbing were assigned to the district league in their cities. The two newcomers WKG Kriegsmarine Gotenhafen and WKG Kriegsmarine Oxhöft also belonged to the new division class . The two relegated Prussia Danzig and Post SG Danzig continued to play in the top division. However, the total war and the collapsing fronts prevented further gaming. At the beginning of October, all military and air force sports clubs were also dissolved.