SV Viktoria Prussia 07 Frankfurt
The SV Viktoria Preußen Frankfurt 07 is a sports club from the north of Frankfurt city district Eckenheim . The club gained nationwide fame through its extremely successful wrestling department up into the 1950s, from which, among other things, the five-time German champion Max Leichter came.
history
It was founded on May 6, 1907 as SV Viktoria 07 , with the abbreviation SV standing for " heavy athletics club". This is the generic term (which is hardly used today) for the sports wrestling , lifting and round weight competition that were practiced in the club at that time . Under the direction of the brothers Lorenz and Ferdinand Schaub, the wrestlers achieved considerable success. A football department was added in 1909.
It did not take long before tensions arose between the footballers and the remainder of the club, which was dominated by the heavy athletics department. As a consequence, the footballers left the club and started their own business as a football club in Eckenheim in 1912 . Weakened by the First World War , which had just ended, the two clubs joined forces again in the 1918/19 season under the name SV Viktoria 07 - 1912 Eckenheim .
In the following years, the wrestlers under the direction of Adam Hommel achieved a good reputation throughout Germany. The footballers were also relatively successful and at times played in the highest class of the South German Football Association .
After the Second World War , the wrestlers were soon able to build on earlier successes. Adam Hommel won the German runner-up and Max Leichter became light heavyweight and heavyweight champion.
For the footballers, rebuilding turned out to be far more difficult; Mainly because they no longer had their own sports field and had to play their home games on foreign courts for seven years. Under these conditions, many members joined other associations, which decimated the number of members. There was a further decline in membership after the death of Adam Hommel, when the wrestlers left the club completely and went into business for themselves.
From then on football became the most important sport of the Eckenheim club and the youth department was its flagship. Nevertheless, SV Viktoria 07 was meanwhile a club that offered many sports, but could not promote its football team beyond training standards because it lacked the necessary financial resources.
In contrast , FC Preußen from the neighboring district of Preungesheim , which was formed in 1951 from a Mitropa company sports group and had meanwhile made its way into the Hessen League, had sufficient financial resources . Because both clubs could benefit from each other's opportunities, they pooled their strengths and merged in 1965 to form SV Viktoria Preußen 07 Frankfurt .
Departments
The merged club now consists of the departments football , gymnastics and gymnastics as well as table tennis , whereby the focus of the association's work is on youth work and has also shaped personalities in football. With Armin Kraaz (123 Bundesliga games, 3 goals for Eintracht Frankfurt ) and Peter Koch (108 second division games, 7 goals for FSV Frankfurt ), two players from their own ranks became professional footballers. The traditional Whitsun tournaments of the soccer youth department, through which the club was able to attract attention, are known nationwide. The first men's soccer team has been playing in the Frankfurt am Main district league since the 2014/15 season .
The first men's team in the table tennis department won promotion to the Regionalliga Südwest, the third highest division, in 2003. In the 2017/18 season she competes in the Hessenliga South / West.