TuRa Leipzig
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| Full name | Gymnastics and lawn sports club 1899 Leipzig |
| place | Leipzig |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Dissolved | 1945 |
| Club colors | red-white, from 1938 blue-yellow |
| Stadion | Leutzscher Stadium |
| Top league | Gauliga Saxony |
| successes | see statistics |
The gymnastics and lawn sports club 1899 Leipzig or TuRa Leipzig for short was a German football club from Leipzig . Home was the Leutzsch stadium .
history
The club was founded in 1932 as a works team by the Leipzig machine manufacturer Carl M. Schwarz (also known as Karl Schwarz) under the name SV TuRa Leipzig and initially operated in the Leipzig district class area . After the first season in 1933/34, the club was promoted to the district class , and in 1936 to the Gauliga Sachsen . There the club played with the exception of the 1941/42 season with moderate success until its dissolution. TuRa Leipzig took part twice in the Tschammerpokal (today DFB-Pokal), the greatest success here in 1940 was reaching the 2nd final round (today 2nd main round), in which they lost 1: 2 to SpVgg Fürth .
The entrepreneur and enthusiastic football fan and Carl M. Schwarz - himself chairman of TuRa Leipzig and financially very generous towards the club - lured through his manager, the British Jack Emonts (also Jakob Emonts, at least later also manager of the Tura cash registers CM Schwarz GmbH ), well-known or promising players to Leipzig at an early age, such as B. Zwickau goalkeeper Heinz Croy, the Bielefeld brothers Willy, Herbert and Gerhard Schmidt or the Eintracht Frankfurt player Willi Lindner . Players within Leipzig also switched to TuRa, for example Bernhard Zander (from SC Wacker Leipzig ) and Werner Brembach (from SV Fortuna Leipzig 02 ). After the German workers' sports clubs were banned in spring 1933, players, officials and coaches from this area also came to TuRa Leipzig.
The semi-professional players of the club were officially employed by Schwarz in the machine company and paid a salary, they were released for football training. In addition to the point games in the leagues, which attracted more and more crowds, TuRa Leipzig became more and more well-known through so-called parlor games (today comparable to friendly games ), in which the club often played against higher-ranking teams and often won. In 1935, in front of around 30,000 spectators (the official number varies depending on the source), the club won 2-1 against the then reigning German champions FC Schalke 04 .
A rivalry quickly developed between the tradition- conscious VfB Leipzig and the new TuRa Leipzig club. After the first meeting, the Neue Leipziger Zeitung published the following on March 18, 1935: “The ball hadn't been rolling for long, you could feel from the stands the two rivals already had that feverish, irritable mood that was closer to the term hostility than the term fighting spirit. ... "
In November 1938, the club merged with Leipziger SV 1899 (formed in 1919 as a merger of the Leipzig clubs Britannia 1899 and FC Hertha 05 ) and subsequently appeared under the name Turn- und Rasensportverein 1899 Leipzig (TuRa 1899 Leipzig). From 1944 to 1945, the club went to a merger with the SpVgg Leipzig in 1899 as a war game community at, but was prematurely retired from playing. After the end of World War II , TuRa Leipzig was dissolved like all other Leipzig sports clubs in 1945, large parts of the club were then merged into SG Leipzig-Leutzsch , later BSG Chemie and FC Sachsen Leipzig .
In addition to soccer, the club also played handball and sport shooting , in 1939 TuRa Leipzig comprised a total of 30 teams . At the beginning of the 1940s, Schwarz adapted the company name to that of the soccer team, and the machine factory was called Tura-Registrierkassen CM Schwarz GmbH , often referred to as TURA machines for short in advertising . Carl M. Schwarz himself and the manager Jack Emonts died in a bomb attack on Leipzig on April 6, 1945.
dress
In 1939 the first team wore purely burgundy clothes, the other teams of the club played in completely brown color. At this point in time, the first team came up with the new club crest (blue-yellow), all others - youngsters and old men - with the old crest, which was in use from 1932 to 1938 (red-white).
statistics
League:
- 1933/34: 1st district class (place 1 of 10 in the district league; place 1 of 3 in the promotion round to the district class)
- 1934/35: District class (2nd place out of 11)
- 1935/36: District class (1st place out of 11 in the district league; 2nd place out of 4 in the promotion round to Gauliga)
- 1936/37: Gauliga Sachsen (6th place out of 10)
- 1937/38: Gauliga Sachsen (7th place out of 10)
- 1938/39: Gauliga Sachsen (10th place out of 10)
- 1939/40: Gauliga Sachsen , Season 1 (5th place out of 6)
- 1940/41: Division class (Gauliga Sachsen) (7th of 12th place)
- 1941/42: Division class (Gauliga Sachsen) (9th place out of 10)
- 1942/43: District class (1st place out of 11 in the district league; 1st place out of 4 in the promotion round to the Gauliga)
- 1943/44: Gauklasse (Gauliga Sachsen) (8th place out of 10)
- 1944/45: Saxon War Class, Sportkreis Leipziger Schlachtfeld, Season 1 (3rd place out of 6; the season was not played to the end)
Cup:
- 1940: Tschammer Cup (2nd final round)
- 1943: Tschammer Cup (2nd intermediate round)
people
literature
- Martin Trümpelmann: 40 years of TURA Leipzig 1899-1939. [Festschrift] , Leipzig 1939.
- Jens Fuge : Leutzscher legend. From Britannia 1899 to FC Sachsen , Sachsenbuch, Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-910148-72-7 , pp. 8-10.
- Jens Fuge: A century of Leipzig football. The years 1893 to 1945 , Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung , Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-928833-23-5 , p. 96ff.
- Horst Sachse: Football in and around Leipzig. From the beginnings to 1945 (Leipzig calendar. Special edition 2000), Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-934565-14-X .
- Hardy Greens : TuRa Leipzig. In: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
- Britt Schlehahn: "An idea that created enthusiasm". In: cruiser. Das Leipzig-Magazin , 2014, No. 06, ISSN 0943-0547 , pp. 24-25.
Individual evidence
- ^ Message from the company's board of directors to the city of Leipzig dated April 10, 1945 about the death of Schwarz and Emonts , to be found on the Tura GmbH website on the company's history (last accessed: June 2, 2014).
