TG Viktoria Augsburg
| TG Viktoria Augsburg | |||
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| Surname | Gymnastics community Viktoria Augsburg 1897 e. V. |
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| Seat | Augsburg , Bavaria | ||
| founding | April 22, 1897 | ||
| president | Sebastian Kerstan | ||
| Website | www.tgva.net | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | District sports facility south | ||
| Places | k. A. | ||
| league | District League Swabian South | ||
| 2018/19 | 7th place | ||
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The TG Viktoria Augsburg (also Turngemeinschaft Viktoria Augsburg 1897 eV or TGVA for short ) was founded in 1897 and is based in the Augsburg district of Hochfeld at the sports facility south . The club is best known for the formerly successful volleyball division, which made the double in 1985 . There are currently departments for basketball , fistball , fitness , soccer , athletics and swimming .
TG Viktoria has been responsible for organizing the Perlach Tower , the oldest and most famous flight of stairs in Germany, for many years . Every year on the Day of German Unity, a number of athletes storm the total of 261 steps to the finish, the tower's viewing platform.
Emergence
The founding of the club, at that time still under the name Arbeiter-Turnverein Augsburg , dates back to April 22nd in 1897. It was not until 1919 that the name was changed to Turngemeinde Augsburg . In the Nazi period took place a ban on the Turngemeinde because the Board in 1933 is not generally arranged Gleichschaltung wanted to subject. After the end of the Nazi dictatorship, the gymnastics community merged with the Reichsbahn-Sportverein and FC Viktoria and was henceforth listed in the club register under the name Turngemeinschaft Viktoria Augsburg 1897 .
successes
basketball
The basketball department of TG Viktoria Augsburg was founded in 1946. Shortly afterwards in 1949, the first team around national player Rudolph Beyerlein became Bavarian runner-up. The women were also very successful in the early years and took fourth place at the German championships in 1952. In 1976 the first men's team rose to the top division. After three years the class could no longer be held and the entire department began to decline. At the end of the 1990s there was another heyday and the department had the highest level in history with 110 members. At the moment there is only one men's team that was promoted to the district league in the 2015/16 season.
Soccer
The football department had its heyday right after the Second World War : In the 1947/48 season the men's team played in the southern season of the Bavarian amateur league , the second highest league at the time, but was relegated after one season.
In the following decades, the team shuttled back and forth between the upper leagues at the district level, before being relegated to the last division within a short period of time in the late 1990s. For the 2009/10 season, the championship in the A-class Augsburg 1 and thus the promotion to the district class succeeded. After winning the championship in the Augsburg Süd district class in 2012/13, the TG Viktoria played in the Augsburg district league until another championship and promotion to the Schwaben Süd district league was achieved in 2016.
volleyball
The women's volleyball team of TG Viktoria achieved the greatest success in the club's history in the 1984/85 season under coach Peter Götz, when they won the double from the German championship and the DVV cup . In the same season, the team also won the CEV Cup , the third-highest European Cup competition for club teams.
In the following season the women left TG Viktoria and played for FC Augsburg in the European Cup , but returned after a short time. Since then, the volleyball department has not been able to build on these successes in the mid-1980s. At the end of 2010, the volleyball department finally dissolved.
Famous athletes
- Rudolf Beyerlein, national basketball player
- Jörg Löhr , national handball player
- Frank Löhr, national handball player
- Katja Mayer , long distance runner
- Natalie Simanowski , cyclist
swell
- Günther Grünsteudel , Günter Hägele, Rudolf Frankenberger (eds.): Augsburger Stadtlexikon. 2nd Edition. Perlach, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-922769-28-4 .
Web links
- Deutsche Volleyball Zeitung: Venit, vidit, Viktoria! , May 1985 (PDF file; 3 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The German Football Archive - Final Tables from 1900 to Today: Amateur League Bayern 1947/48
- ↑ SchwabenSoccer: This is what champions look like: TG Viktoria Augsburg, Master A-Class A1 ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ DVL - German Volleyball Bundesliga: Volleyball - German Masters ( Memento from July 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ DVL - German Volleyball Bundesliga: Volleyball - Cup Winner Women ( Memento from May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ TG Viktoria Augsburg: Chronicle of Volleyball ( Memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Augsburger Allgemeine - Online: History of FC Augsburg