SV Wacker Helbra
The SV Wacker Helbra is a sports club in the municipality of Helbra in Saxony-Anhalt, which has around 4500 inhabitants . The club maintains three men's soccer teams as well as a youth soccer department for all junior classes.
history
Club development
The roots of SV Wacker lead back to the football club Wacker Helbra 1912, which was founded in July 1912. The first sports facility to be purchased was a piece of fallow land for ten Reichsmarks. As early as 1921, the club had four football teams, and in 1925 the Am Pfarrholz sports field, which is still in use today, was inaugurated.
After the end of the Second World War , the FV Wacker, like all sports clubs in East Germany, was permanently dissolved at the instigation of the Soviet occupying forces. Around 100 sports enthusiasts founded the Helbra gymnastics and sports club in Helbra in 1945 in order to be able to use the sports traffic, which was initially only permitted regionally. However, this name did not last long because an "association" did not fit into the political landscape. The names SG Konsum and SG Aufbau were invented in 1947, before the Helbraer Stahlhütte took over the sports association with the establishment of company sports associations (BSG) in the Soviet occupation zone and converted it into the BSG friendship Koch-Hütte Helbra. After the establishment of the central GDR sports association Stahl for the metallurgy sector, the BSG was given the name Stahl Helbra in 1951. Before that, she had appeared as a BSG activist Helbra for a year. When the previous sponsoring company, the August-Bebel-Hütte in Helbra, was taken over into the Eislebener Mansfeld Kombinat, there was another name change to BSG Mansfeldkombinat Helbra.
When the system of company sports associations collapsed after German reunification due to changes in economic conditions, members of the previous BSG Mansfeldkombinat founded the civil association SV Wacker Helbra e. V.
Football sport development
The Wackeraner football did not excel nationwide until 1945. The new beginning after the Second World War also took place on the lower levels of the region. In 1956, BSG Stahl was the relay winner of the Halle district class and qualified for the then fourth-class Halle district league . There the Helbraer reached the third place in 1957, which entitled to promotion to the 2nd GDR league . For the third division, however, the quality of the team was not enough, at the end of the 1958 season they only came third from the bottom and had to return to the district league. She stayed there until 1968, after which she had to relegate again to immediately return to the district league after a year, which had meanwhile become third class after the second GDR league was closed. In 1974 the BSG Mansfeldkombinat rose again to the district class, and from now until 1979 there was a constant up and down between fourth and third division. Between 1979 and 1990 the Helbraer stayed below the district league, in which they only rose again in 1990.
BSG Stahl Helbra qualified four times by reaching the district cup final for the GDR-wide FDGB cup competition . Both in 1961/62 and 1962/63, the team was twice victorious and thus reached the third round of the cup.
| All GDR cup games of the BSG Stahl Helbra | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Forward Leipzig - Stahl Helbra | 6-0 |
| 1961/62 | Stahl Helbra - Stahl Gröditz Stahl Helbra - Motor Hennigsdorf activist Laubusch - Stahl Helbra |
2: 1 4: 3 3: 1 |
| 1962/63 | Stahl Helbra - Motor Nord Erfurt Stahl Helbra - Motor Weimar Progress Weißenfels - Stahl Helbra |
3: 2 2: 0 3: 2 |
| 1966/67 | Stahl Helbra - Forward Leipzig | 3: 6 |
The BSG successor SV Wacker also remained in the lower leagues in the DFB game operations . In 1999 there was a short-term guest appearance in the Landesliga Sachsen-Anhalt, which was again followed by an interplay between the Landesliga and the Landesklasse. Since 2007, SV Wacker has been back in the national class, which has been the 8th league since 2008.