TVA Eckernförde (company sports association)

TVA Eckernförde (the then common sports name) was a company sports association of the Eckernförde Torpedo Research Institute (TVA Eckernförde) until 1944 and was directly active in Eckernförde ; it formed the joint company sports community of the plants Eckernförde-Nord, Eckernförde-Süd and Eckernförde-Ost , the latter company was located in Surendorf (municipality of Schwedeneck ). The soccer team got into the Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein .

history

Since 1919 , the torpedo testing institute "TVA Eckernförde" was located in Eckernförde, which emerged from the Imperial Torpedo Workshop Friedrichsort , at its "headquarters" in the south of the city ( Sandkrug ), which was initially under the Imperial Navy. The south facility had existed as part of the Friedrichsort torpedo workshop since 1913. After the First World War, the TVA Eckernförde was only allowed to test and manufacture torpedoes for foreign clients (Versailles Treaty). Under the rule of the National Socialists, the plant developed into a complex arms industry with last (April 1945) over 24,000 employees (in addition to a number of forced laborers, prisoners of war, assigned soldiers and concentration camp prisoners, which cannot be precisely determined) in the main Eckernförde-Süd and the new ones Branch plants in Eckernförde-Nord, Surendorf, Neubrandenburg, Gotenhafen (Gdingen, today: Gdynia) and Toplitzsee (Austria). For Eckernförde itself, the figures vary between 7,300 (employment office) and around 10,000 employees in total in 1945; In 1933 around 400 people were employed in the entire plant, over 3,000 in 1939 and over 6,000 in 1940.

With the necessary workforce from the TVA, good football players from all over the Reich came to Eckernförde and partly joined the company's own sports community, and partly also the local rival Eckernförder SV (ESV), whose football field at Bystedtredder ( Martin-Kruse-Platz ) too the company sports association TVA Eckernförde used for their home games. Exact data about the time of the establishment of the company sports association TVA is just as little available as data about the time of registration for the regular football league.

1941 both TVA and ESV rose from the 1st district league Kiel to the district league Schleswig-Holstein ; at this time the district league was the second tier behind the Gauliga Nordmark . Due to the war, both the Gauliga Nordmark (in the Gauligen Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Mecklenburg) and the Schleswig-Holstein district league were divided into three squadrons for the 1942/43 season - with the result that seven clubs from the district league were divided into the new one Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein rose. In the 1942/43 season TVA and ESV came in the same season of the district league ("North"); Other teams included Flensburg 08 , VfR Neumünster (as: Neumünster 1910 ), Rendsburger TSV and now unknown teams such as Land und See or Germaniawerft - champions were VfB Kiel , TVA Eckernförde followed in 2nd place in the following season 1943 / 44 TVA Eckernförde and Eckernförde SV were assigned to different scales ("A" and "B"). Both Eckernförde clubs became champions of their season. From the subsequent round of promotion to the Gauliga, TVA came out 1st, ESV 2nd and Luftwaffensportverein Lübeck 3rd, so that TVA and ESV were determined to be promoted.

For both Eckernförde teams, membership of the Gauliga in 1944/45 in the Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein turned out to be only a short "last-minute Gauliga guest appearance": after only eight completed games, the Gauliga season had to be broken off due to the war in September 1944; previously, most of the scheduled games could no longer be played. Only TVA Eckernförde and Eckernförde SV managed to travel to an away game outside their own municipal boundaries at all; TVA won 4: 1 at VfB Kiel (August 20, 1944) and ESV was defeated by the Lübeck Ordnungspolizei (today: VfB Lübeck ) 2: 4 (August 13, 1944). In the second and last Gauliga game for both teams, TVA Eckernförde was defeated by Eckernförder SV 2: 4 (September 10, 1944) - in the previous round of promotion, TVA was still able to beat the neighbor 6: 1 (June 18, 1944).

Before the company sports community dissolved in 1944, TVA and ESV played together as "KSG Eckernförde" ( war sports community) from September 1944 and repeatedly competed in Kiel (as the only foreign team appearing there). At least two of these encounters (with one win and one defeat) were part of a points round of the so-called Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein, Staffel Kiel, which was introduced after the Gauliga season in Schleswig-Holstein was broken off (in the points round with the surrounding area, there were also a purely Kiel competition), which should take place every two weeks. It was also planned that in addition to the Kiel and Eckernförde teams, teams from Neumünster would take part in this round of points.

In addition to Eckernförde, the armaments company also had company sports associations in Gotenhafen and Neubrandenburg - 8,000 RM are said to have flowed into the company sports association TVA Eckernförde, 7,000 RM into the company sports association in Gotenhafen and 2,500 RM into that in Neubrandenburg.

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Reinhard Gusner: SHFV football magazine. 2005-02, page 31 ff.
Oliver Krauss: Armaments and armament testing in German naval history with special consideration of the Torpedoversuchsanstalt (TVA) , dissertation, Kiel 2006
Wolfgang Nolle: From the torpedo shooting range Eckernförde to the WTD 71. In: Jann-Markus Witt: Eckernförde - history of a port and naval city. Convent-Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-934613-96-9
Peter Staecker: Excerpts from the Oldesloer sports history. (1942/43 online)

References and comments

↑ Krauss also repeatedly points out the number of employees that cannot be precisely determined for Eckernförde
^ Association chronicles of the ESV from 1973 and 1998.
↑ From around the mid-1930s it was quite common for military units and organizations, as well as NS organizations, to register in the regular leagues in the form of company sports associations or sports clubs , e.g. B. Luftwaffe Sports Club Hamburg , BSG DWM Posen (company sports association of the German weapons and ammunition factories in Poznan)

↑ officially the Gauligen in was sports class and district leagues in circuit group renamed

↑ dissolved in mid-September 1944.

↑ Patrick Nawe: 100 years of Holstein Kiel: Kieler SV Holstein from 1900. Berliner Sportverlag, 2000, ISBN 3-328-00891-8 , p. 60.

↑ Table on Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein 1944/45 with reference to: Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .

^ Krauss, page 252

[1] Krauss also repeatedly points out the number of employees that cannot be precisely determined for Eckernförde

[2] Association chronicles of the ESV from 1973 and 1998.

[3] From around the mid-1930s it was quite common for military units and organizations, as well as NS organizations, to register in the regular leagues in the form of company sports associations or sports clubs , e.g. B. Luftwaffe Sports Club Hamburg , BSG DWM Posen (company sports association of the German weapons and ammunition factories in Poznan)

[4] y the Gauligen in was sports class and district leagues in circuit group renamed

[5] ssolved in mid-September 1944.

[6] Patrick Nawe: 100 years of Holstein Kiel: Kieler SV Holstein from 1900. Berliner Sportverlag, 2000, ISBN 3-328-00891-8 , p. 60.

[7] Table on Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein 1944/45 with reference to: Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .

[8] Krauss, page 252