TSF Esslingen

TSF Esslingen

Full name	Gymnastics and sports fans Esslingen
place
Founded	1845
Dissolved	1999
Club colors
Stadion
Top league	1st amateur league (until 1971/72 / III)
successes

The TSF Esslingen was a sports club in Esslingen am Neckar .

history

The club was founded in 1845 as a men's gymnastics club in Esslingen . Over the years it has been renamed several times. The last name change was due to a merger on February 19, 1965, when the Sportfreunde Esslingen and the TSV Esslingen merged to form the TSF Esslingen.

In 1999 the club merged with VfL Post Esslingen to form SV 1845 Esslingen .

Football department

The most successful period of the footballers were the 1960s, when the team played in the amateur league North Württemberg . After the promotion to the then third-highest division in 1963, the Sportfreunde became runner-up behind the amateurs of VfB Stuttgart just two years later . Since the VfB amateurs were not eligible for promotion, TSF Esslingen was allowed to take part in the promotion games instead. There, however, the team could not prevail. In 1968 the team reached first place in the table at the end of the season. This first place meant that the TSF was allowed to take part in the promotion round to the Regionalliga Süd and had to compete against the winner of the 1st Amateur League Black Forest / Bodensee, FC Wangen 05 , for the Württemberg Amateur Championship. The title of Württemberg amateur champion was then secured by FC Wangen, who defeated the Esslingen team 3-0. In the promotion round to Regionalliga Süd, the Sportfreunde finished second behind VfL Neckarau , only 1 point behind. Esslingen thus again missed the promotion to the second class. In the following years only places in the lower midfield and in 1972 the club rose from bottom of the league. As relegated in the 2nd amateur league Württemberg just behind the SSV Aalen, the relegation was missed and the club was passed through to the lower amateur leagues.

Other sports

At the Olympic Games in 1904 , the club member Adolf Spinnler won an Olympic victory in the nine fights and also won another bronze medal.

The long-distance runner Otto Eitel , who started for the predecessor club TSV Esslingen, was German champion over 5000 m in 1940 and 1949 . In 1942, 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1949 he won the German championship over 10,000 m as well as the championship in cross-country running in 1949 and 1950 . Helmut Gude won the German championship in the 3000 m obstacle course in 1951 and 1952 and took part in this discipline at the 1952 Summer Olympics, where he finished eighth. With Eitel and Gude, TSV Esslingen also won the German cross-country team championship in 1950 and came second in 1949 and 1951.

In 1995 the fencing department at the German Cup in Alsfeld came in second in the "Saber" discipline behind SV Böblingen .