Sport Münzinger

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Sport Münzinger GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1889
Seat Munich , Germany
management
  • Flori Schuster
  • Rainer Angstl
Branch Sportswear and leisurewear, especially football articles ; earlier general sporting goods, very earlier also rubber and caoutchouc products
Website www.sport-muenzinger.de

Sport Münzinger,
Marienplatz 8; left entrance to Weinstrasse.

Sport Münzinger is a Munich sports retailer. The former family business was supplier to the royal Bavarian court from 1892 and was the first to move into the new town hall building on Marienplatz in 1904 , where it is still located today. Since joining the Schuster sports store, which was founded in 1913, the company has been part of the Schuster Group.

Historical classification

Sport Münzinger is generally referred to as the oldest sports shop in the Bavarian capital, Munich .

The company is also one of the oldest sports shops still active today. In May 2014, the Guinness Book of Records certified the British sports shop Whites Sports in Warrington as the “oldest sports shop in the world in operation”. It wasn't founded until 1901. In Zurich there is the Och Sport company , whose origins go back to 1837. However, the company itself states that it did not open the “first real sports shops in Switzerland” until 1912.

In Germany, there is the somewhat older Sport Breitmeyer (Intersport Breitmeyer) in Stuttgart , which was founded in 1882 as a specialist shop for hiking and gymnastics clothing. In Düsseldorf , the leather goods shop with saddlery founded by Kaspar Thelen in 1898 focused on sporting goods by 1920 at the latest. In 2013, the then oldest sports shop in the federal capital, the Ski Hütte, which was founded in 1924, closed in Berlin , 35 years later as Sport Münzinger and 11 years after the current parent company, Sporthaus Schuster. Sport Sander in Hamburg-Harburg was founded in 1928 and Sport Schuster in Hamburg-Eppendorf in 1934. Both were named in articles in the Hamburger Abendblatt from 2003 and 2004 as the oldest sports shop in town.

Sport Münzinger is, according to an article in the newspaper Die Welt from 2012, “Germany's largest store for football articles ”.

Company history

Münzinger's "rubber and gutta-percha goods as well as sporting goods" (Royal Bay. Court supplier)

The company was founded by Hermann Münzinger († March 13, 1913 at the age of 62) on June 28, 1889 under the name of Hermann Münzinger zu Munich as a shop for " rubber and gutta-percha goods and sporting goods" in the former stock exchange building in Theatiner - Corner of Maffeistraße. On August 10, 1892 the business of Ludwig III. , at that time still a prince, to the king. Bay. Purveyors to the court ordered. The first move to the Luitpoldblock on the corner of Brienner Strasse took place in 1900 . At the same time, together with the purveyors to the court, Franz Fischer & Son (now Tapeten Fischer, Theatinerpassage), the Hansa Linoleum shop was opened on Finkenstrasse.

Moving into the new Munich City Hall until the Second World War

Sport Münzinger women's sports costumes (approx. 1936–1938),
exhibits from the special exhibition Gretchen mag's mondän (2015–2016) in the Munich City Museum .

In October 1904 the business premises in Munich City Hall were moved into. In 1908 Hermann Münzinger's son Hans joined his father's company, who ran the business from 1913 after the founder's death, but had to be represented by an authorized signatory during the war from 1914 to 1918 . The company was gradually expanded. For a long time, the range of offers covered all kinds of sports. As part of the special exhibition Gretchen mag's mondän , shown from September 2015 to May 2016 in the Munich City Museum , two Sport Münzinger women's sports costumes from the National Socialist era can be seen. In 1940, because of the Second World War, a partial production ban for sporting goods, textiles and sports shoes was issued. Hans Münzinger's sons Alfred (* May 1920; † 18 February 1995) and Heinz (* August 1921; † 1979) became shareholders in the company that was converted into a limited partnership in 1943 while they were still on the front lines .

Post-war years and reconstruction

Sport Münzinger on Marienplatz, 1964.
Shop window on Marienplatz.
Shop window and main entrance in the Weinstrasse.

After the war ended, the US military government appointed Salo Blechner (born November 20, 1914 in Munich, † May 28, 2007 in Boston , Massachusetts ) as a trustee , who had survived concentration camps and forced labor under the Nazis. He emigrated to the United States in April 1946 . Blechner recognized himself in 1999 during a visit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in a photo taken by the SS from the "Elbe Command" in Neuengamme concentration camp . The post-war offer was sparse at first. Roman Haller writes in his post-war memoirs ... and nobody wanted to stay : “... at Sport-Münzinger on Marienplatz there was a sign saying that balls could be sewn when the raw material was delivered. [...] In the end he let himself be spread and Sport-Münzinger sewed a ball for us for a small fee. We boys waited longingly for two months until the ball was ready. "

The Münzingers, who had taken over the management of Blechner again, opened a 700 m² branch with sales and exhibition rooms, warehouse, dispatch and workshop in Kaufingerstrasse in 1951 . In addition to large equipment, sporting goods for the US occupation forces were also included in the range. In addition, a branch was opened at Agnes-Bernauer-Strasse 71 in Munich's Laim district in 1955 , and travel was also offered in both stores. In 1961 the branch was relocated from Kaufingerstrasse to the newly constructed building at Sporerstrasse 2 by the Münzinger company. Little by little, Sport Münzinger concentrated on football articles and had exclusive contracts with well-known sporting goods manufacturers for long periods of time to supply the teams of TSV 1860 Munich and FC Bayern Munich, and also sponsored regional amateur clubs. Münzinger also brokered the procurement of training balls for participation in the 1954 World Cup , where the German national soccer team won their first world championship title. Sepp Herberger later thanked him personally with a postcard . The World Cup final ball was later displayed in the shop window. In the installation Fan Shop Kurt Landauer for the trans-media project Landauer by BR , ARD , Degeto Film , WDR and Zeitsprung Pictures in the foyer of the Jewish Museum Munich 2014, the Bayern jersey of the youth player Josef Hess from the house Sport Münzinger from the season around 1958 was displayed.

Company splitting, realignment, Lacoste and takeover by the Sporthaus Schuster

In 1975 a fire destroyed the business premises in the town hall and sales of goods had to be continued briefly in the neighboring Ludwig Beck department store on Rathauseck . In the same year Rolf Münzinger joined the company, Dorothée Münzinger (born March 4, 1952) four years later. In 1982 a Lacoste brand mono-label store was opened in the administrative building on Sporerstrasse . Three years later, Dorothée and Rolf Münzinger split the branches in the city center and those in Laim. Rolf Münzinger continued to operate his branch in Laim as his own company, Dorothée Münzinger became the sole general partner of the limited partnership. In 1987 she opened a HEAD store in the office on Sporerstrasse . At the end of the 1990s the company ran into economic difficulties. From September 1999 Dorothée Münzinger acted as the company's liquidator according to the entry in the commercial register .

Sports Münzinger (right) with the then associated Lacoste - flagship store (inputs on the wine route); Photo from 2008.

2003 Sport Münzinger was taken over by Flori Schuster. The entrepreneurial families Schuster and Münzinger were already close friends. Dorothée Münzinger was again active in the management team until June 2015 after the company was taken over by the Schuster Group. As of 2006, the company again operated a Lacoste store as a franchisee in the business premises on Marienplatz with a separate entrance on Weinstrasse, which was the largest in Germany with a sales area of ​​300 m² on two floors; back then the flagship store . The premises of the Lacoste store were later leased to other business operators.

Business abandonment

In June 2020, the management announced the closure of the shop in the town hall on Munich's Marienplatz at the end of 2020. On the one hand, the company complained of a sharp drop in sales due to the 2019 corona pandemic (in particular, a lack of income from tourists). On the other hand, the declining demand for football fan articles had a negative effect on the business result, which the managing director Flori Schuster attributed to wrong decisions and quarrels in the association policy of UEFA and FIFA (for example the decision to award the World Cup to Qatar ). Since Münzinger had specialized in football articles after a repositioning, the absence of football fans had a particular effect on the store. Another reason for the closure was the FC Bayern Munich adventure world planned in the immediate vicinity .

Remarkable

The branch on Agnes-Bernauer-Straße is shown several times in the episode The Yellow Package of the television series The Fifth Column .

Web links

Commons : Sport Münzinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Lady on the Tiger , Der Spiegel 37/1964, September 9, 1964.
  2. ^ "This month Guinness World Records certified Whites Sports Shop as the oldest sports shop in operation." Guinnessworldrecords.com .
  3. ↑ 175 - From 1837 to 2012 in 12 chapters. Oh sport. 2012.
  4. ^ Sven Hahn: Retail in Stuttgart: Sport Breitmeyer is looking for a new place to stay , Stuttgarter Zeitung , March 23, 2015.
  5. ↑ History ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sportthelen.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Sporthaus Kasper Thelen.
  6. ↑ Cay Dobberke: Après Ski Hut: Berlin's oldest sports shop closes , Der Tagesspiegel , August 2, 2013.
  7. ^ Adolf Brockmann: Sport Sander is 75 years old. , Hamburger Abendblatt, May 23, 2003.
  8. ^ Bob Geisler: Hamburg's oldest sports shop. Hamburger Abendblatt, February 25, 2004.
  9. ↑ Jens Hartmann, Andre Tauber: The business with round leather , Die Welt, June 8, 2012.
  10. ↑ a b Traditional store celebrates its 125th anniversary - The greatest milestones from Sport Münzinger , tz , October 24, 2014.
  11. ^ Sport Münzinger , Marco Polo travel guide .
  12. ↑ a b c Chronicle from 1889–2012 on the company website.
  13. ^ Hansa linoleum ; Advertisement in Pharus Cities Atlas , 1906, p. 137. ( limited preview in Google book search).
  14. ↑ Gretchen want's to be chic , Textile is more, 2015.
  15. ↑ # 093; = 386292 & a = 10 Alfred Münzinger is dead ( memento of the original from November 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.textilwirtschaft.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Textile Industry , February 23, 1995.
  16. ^ Salo , memorial website of the Blechner family.
  17. ↑ Symbolic images: The prisoner from the "Elbe Command" ( memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / media.offenes-archiv.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Open Archive, Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial.
  18. ↑ Roman Haller: ... and nobody wanted to stay: Jewish life stories in post-war Bavaria. Dölling and Galitz, 2004, p. 57. ISBN 978-3-935-54982-0 .
  19. ↑ Sports tradition in Munich City Hall (press release), Sport Münzinger.
  20. ^ Address book publishing company Ruf (ed.): Münchner Stadtadressbuch 1966 .
  21. ↑ a b Andreas Zimniok: 120 years of Sport Münzinger - outfitter for König and Kaiser , Münchner Merkur , 29 September 2009.
  22. ↑ FC Bayern jersey of youth player Josef Hess Munich (Sport Münzinger), around 1958, FC Bayern Erlebniswelt / Archiv, Munich. In: Kurt Landauer Fan Shop , Jewish Museum Munich, October 7, 2014.
  23. ^ Kurt Landauer fan shop , Jewish Museum Munich, October 7, 2014.
  24. ^ Münzinger Dorothee , Commercial Register.
  25. ↑ Marienplatz 8. Lacoste flagship store opened on March 9, 2006 in Munich , Ganz-muenchen.de, 2006.
  26. ↑ k.newvision: Football becomes lifestyle - the revitalization of a highly frequented prime location on Munich's Marienplatz. In: https://www.k-newvision.de/portfolio/neupositionierung-sport-muenzinger/ . k.newvision, accessed June 26, 2020 .
  27. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Munich: Sport Münzinger closes at the end of the year. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  28. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: "It's not just about profitability. It's about real estate". Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
  29. ↑ Street sweepers Vol. 13: The fifth column Vol. 1 (episode 2)