VfB Chemnitz (1901)
| VfB Chemnitz | |
| Full name | VfB Chemnitz |
| place | Chemnitz , Saxony |
| Founded | 1901 |
| Dissolved | 1938 |
| Club colors | Blue White |
| Stadion | Stadium on Kurt-Wieland-Straße |
| Top league | Gauliga Central Saxony |
| successes | Middle Saxon Gauliga champions: 1919 |
VfB Chemnitz was a German football club from Chemnitz . It was founded in 1901 and merged with SV Teutonia in 1901 Chemnitz to form Sportvereinigung 01 Chemnitz in 1938 .
history
VfB Chemnitz was founded in 1901. The club achieved the greatest success in the club's history in the 1918/19 season. The club was able to win the championship in the Gauliga Central Saxony and thereby qualified for the Central German championship in 1918/19. In the round of 16, the team met Viktoria Zerbst and moved into the quarter-finals with a 3-0 win. There you faced the team from the Dresdner Fußballring in 1902 and were eliminated from the competition with a 3-2 defeat.
In the following years the club could not celebrate any further successes and even after the introduction of the Gauliga Sachsen , the club could not qualify for this league. As a result, the merger of VfB Chemnitz and SV Teutonia 1901 Chemnitz was decided in 1938 and the new club was called Sportvereinigung 01 Chemnitz .
successes
- Middle Saxon Gauliga champions: 1919
Successor club
The sports association 01 Chemnitz could not celebrate any further notable successes until the First World War. After the Second World War , Sportvereinigung 01 Chemnitz , like all clubs in the Soviet occupation zone, was dissolved. The SG Chemnitz Schloß is the successor to the sports association .
From the end of 1948, sports operations in the Soviet zone of occupation were likely to be organized by means of company sports associations , or BSG for short, and SG was converted into BSG Handel und Sozial-Versicherung Chemnitz. After a while the carrier company changed . As a result, the club now took up the name BSG Motor Fritz-Heckert Karl-Marx-Stadt . Under this name, the football department played a total of eleven seasons in the GDR league .