Chess club Berolina Mitte

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chess Club Berolina Mitte eV
(SV Berolina Mitte)
founding April 1, 1949
Seat Schachcafé "en passant"
10437 Berlin
Schönhauser Allee 58 / corner of Gneiststr.
main emphasis Chess sport
Chair Katja Sommaro
Members 69 (2017)
Website www.svberolinamitte.de

The chess club Berolina Mitte eV is a chess club from the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg. In 1952 and 1954 the club was GDR runner-up.

history

The club was founded on April 1, 1949 as a chess department at BSG Eintracht 49 in Berlin. It emerged from the Prenzlauer Berg chess group, which was one of the leading chess groups and clubs in Berlin and Germany. Head of department became the head of the chess group, Eugen Natzmer. Natzmer himself was a strong player and a member of the 1st team.

After 1950, the BSG was renamed ZSG Empor Werner Seelenbinder . As early as 1952, the company was renamed BSG Motor Mitte . The BSG was run by the office machine and equipment factory "Secura". During this time the department achieved its greatest successes in GDR chess. In 1952 and 1954, in the GDR team championship, the BSG unit Leipzig-East came second. In 1955, Motor Mitte was third again, after which the sporty decline began. Many top performers such as IM Berthold Koch , national team Dieter Brüntrup, Johannes Eising or Horst Handel were delegated to SC Motor Berlin and other performance centers of the GDR.

When the name was changed to BSG Motor Berolina in 1957 , the department played for a few years across the region, including in the 2nd GDR league, before the Berlin district league remained the top division for decades.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, the BSG, in which only the chess and bowling sections remained, renamed itself the Berolina Mitte sports club . After the bowling section broke away from the sports club, the chess section became just as independent a few years later. Since May 1st 2005 the official name is Schachverein Berolina Mitte eV

successes

In 1947 and 1948 the Prenzlauer Berg chess group became team champions in Berlin. In 1949 the Wedding chess group had to be given precedence. The chess group, which has meanwhile joined BSG Werner Seelenbinder, achieved the greatest success in 1952 and 1954, when it was runner-up in the GDR's German team championship behind the Leipzig-East unit.

Important players

Head of department and chairperson

The first department head was Eugen Natzmer in 1949. Paul Traugur followed him around 1955, and Werner Windmüller a few months later. Windmüller was in office for almost 60 years. He handed over the chairmanship to Katja Sommaro in January 2014 and was appointed honorary chairman by the assembly.

Federal Cross of Merit for Werner Windmüller

On the initiative of two association members, Werner Windmüller (born November 26, 1930) was proposed for the Federal Cross of Merit in 2007. This was to honor his decades of voluntary commitment as chairman for the association.
On December 10, 2007, Windmüller received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon from Thomas Härtel , State Secretary for Sport in the Berlin Senate, in a small ceremony .

Gambling halls

From 1974 to 1992, rooms on the ground floor at Wichertstrasse 9 were the home of the association. Until 2001, Berolina played first in Greifenhagener Straße, then in Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Straße 11 - both as a sub-tenant of the Humanist Center. In 2001, Berolina accepted the offer from Sven Horn, who opened the chess café "en passant" on Schönhauser Allee. The association has second rooms in the senior citizen leisure center Husemannstrasse.

Press

In June 2000 the weekend supplement of the Berliner Zeitung published a multi-page article " Weltflucht im Schach " about the Berlin chess scene in general and the club SV Berolina Mitte in particular. The author Sieglinde Geisel had researched this in the association a year earlier. The name of the association is not mentioned in the article itself and the names of the interviewees have also been changed.
After the publication, the author thanked the club with a cold buffet in the club rooms.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GDR team championship 1952 on schachbund.de
  2. ↑ Report on the honor ( memento from September 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (award of the Federal Cross of Merit)