VfB unit to Pankow

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VfB unit to Pankow 1893
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Basic data
Surname Association for movement games /
unit to Pankow 1893 e. V.
Seat Berlin
founding May 14, 1991
Colours blue White
Website www.einheitpankow.de
First soccer team
Venue Paul Zobel sports field
Places 3,500
league District League A Berlin, Season 2
2017/18 7th place
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The VfB Einheit zu Pankow 1893 (official: Association for movement games / Einheit zu Pankow 1893 eV ) is a football club from the northern Berlin district of Pankow in the district of the same name . It was created in 1991 from the merger of the two clubs SG Einheit Pankow and VfB zu Pankow in 1893 , but its roots go back to VfB Pankow , which was founded in 1893 .

History of VfB Pankow

Historical logo of VfB Pankow (1893–1951)

1893 to 1945

VfB Pankow was founded on August 10, 1893 and was one of the founding clubs of the German Football Association (DFB) . On September 28, 1899, the Pankower Lawn Tennis Association joined the VfB in 1896. In football, VfB belonged to the Oberliga Berlin from 1918. With a fourth place in the for the time being last season of the single track of the league 1919/20 Pankow cut off very successfully. In 1925 VfB missed relegation in the playoffs against BFC Prussia and had to go to the second division, from which VfB only returned in 1930. The second place in the season B 1932/33 was the best placement for VfB so far, which was therefore also qualified for the new Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg . From this, however, VfB rose again after three years in 1936. The best-known member in the early years of VfB Pankow was Franz John . With Willy Schwedler , the club had produced a national soccer player . After the end of the Second World War , the VfB, like all other Berlin associations, had to be dissolved at the end of 1945 due to Directive No. 23 of the Allied Control Council of the Occupying Powers .

1945 to 1951

Instead of the dissolved VfB, the Pankow-Nord sports community was founded in 1945. This played from 1947 in the Berlin City League and was allowed to use the name VfB Pankow again from 1948. When the VBB, which was re-established in West Berlin in 1949, introduced the contract player system the following summer , the GDR sports management took this as an opportunity to withdraw the two East Berlin teams VfB Pankow and Union Oberschöneweide from the Berlin city league and into the top division for the 1950/51 season GDR soccer league to incorporate the GDR Oberliga . The SC Lichtenberg 47 , which had actually been promoted to the Berlin City League, was also the third Berlin team. VfB broke almost all of the negative records there: in 34 games, they scored two wins and three draws. All away games were lost. He scored a goal difference of 29: 131, for 588 minutes the team remained without a goal. However, it was also weakened by the departure of six regular players who had become contract players in West Berlin. One of them, Horst Spillecke, returned from Tennis Borussia Berlin to VfB at the beginning of 1951 , but was unable to save anything as a player- coach .

Pankow unit 1951–1954

1950s

Logo of Einheit Pankow (1951–1990)

However, the GDR sports management was determined to keep a Berlin team playing in the top football class after Union Oberschöneweide and Lichtenberg 47 were among the relegated teams in addition to VfB. On August 13, 1951, the soccer section of the GDR published a communiqué in which it was announced that the BSG unit North East Berlin will be included in the upper league. Among other things, the reasons given were: The Presidium of the Football Section was guided by the fact that Berlin, as the political, economic and cultural center of the GDR, must be represented in the top division. Surprisingly, at the beginning of the 1951/52 league season, a team called "BSG Einheit Pankow" with a number of players from the relegated VfB Pankow, and Oberschöneweide again as a BSG engine.

Trainer Kurt Vorkauf 1954

In the second year, the Pankower were again bottom of the table in the GDR Oberliga and now had to relegate irrevocably. Only an average of 2,400 spectators attended the games on the Paul-Zobel sports field. Another opaque maneuver gave unit Pankow the opportunity to contest the final of the GDR Cup competition on September 14, 1952 in Berlin. In terms of sport, the Pankower were eliminated in the semifinals against Lok Stendal, but it was discovered the day before the final that the Stendal team had used a player who was not eligible to play and were therefore disqualified. Despite the home advantage, the Pankower had no chance against the runner-up Volkspolizei Dresden and lost 3-0 in front of only 18,000 spectators. Trainer Kurt Vorkauf sent the following team onto the field:

Karl-Heinz Spickenagel
Walter Schmidt , Walter Radunski
Walter Braun , Gerhard Landmann , Walter Schulz
Martin Zöller *, Werner Hofmann , Willi Ginzel , Egon Jokel , Arndt Grille
(* from 70 min. Horst Assmy )

In the past season, Vorauf had used 31 players in the 36 league games. After initial experiments in various positions, the following team with an average age of 27.9 was not established until matchday 17:

Gottfried Weber
(21 games / 37 years)
Walter Schmidt (32/31), Walter Radunski (33/27)
Walter Braun (28/26), Walter Schulz (36/26), Helmut Jacob (28/30)
Martin Zöller (28/30), Gerhard Landmann (18/18), Willi Ginzel (23/28), Max König (30/23), Arndt Grille (19/31)

After relegation, numerous top performers left the team, including a. König (to Bremerhaven), Ginzel and Zöller (1952), as well as Landmann and Hofmann (1953). Unity Pankow therefore played correspondingly weakly in the second-rate GDR league . After a 10th place in 1953, unity rose in 1954 as 13th and penultimate in the Berlin district league . The decline in audience numbers was particularly massive. While an average of 7,182 spectators in the Berlin city league in 1949/50 and 2,710 spectators in the GDR Oberliga in 1950/51, only 645 and 984 spectators were interested in the two years in the GDR league.

BSG Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe

After the descent, the BSG unit Pankow was connected to the BSG Lok Lichtenberg in September 1954. The BSG locomotive took over the BSG unit's regional league space and rose to the 2nd GDR league after the 1957 season . On September 1, 1958, the football section of the BSG Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe was affiliated and after the 1959 season rose again to the then fourth-class Berlin district league. In 1990 the BSG was converted into the association SV Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe 49 .

BSG unit Pankow from 1957

Since 1957 a BSG Lok Pankow played in the Berlin district league. On January 1, 1958, Lok Pankow merged with the BSG Lok Bau Union Buchholz to form the new BSG unit Pankow. The roots of the Buchholzer BSG lie in the sports group Buchholz, which was founded in 1946 and which became the BSG VEB Buchholz in 1949 and the Buchholz sports club in 1950. The new BSG unit Pankow took over the place in the district league from Lok Pankow, but rose at the end of the 1958 season in the district class Berlin. In 1965, unit Pankow returned to the district league and from 1971 commuted several times between the district league and the GDR league. Unity played in the GDR league in 1971/72, 1973/74 and 1975/76.

VfB Pankow (West Berlin)

While VfB Pankow in the GDR went through the eventful history described above, VfB Pankow (West Berlin), later: VfB zu Pankow, had already been re-established in West Berlin on July 19, 1951 . This first became at home on a municipal sports field in Tegel and experienced a brief high in the 1960s when it was promoted to the third-class amateur league in Berlin in 1964 and was able to stay there for two years until 1966.

From 1991

After the discontinuation of the company sports community system, due to the economic changes after the political change in 1989 , the BSG Einheit was transformed into the sports club Einheit Pankow in 1990. On May 14, 1991, the East Berlin SV unit and the West Berlin VfB Pankow merged to form the new association VfB Einheit zu Pankow. After several years in the Berlin regional league, the club was relegated from the eight-class Berlin regional league in 2015. Since 2016/17 VfB has been competing with two men's teams in the district league A and district league B.

The youth department of the association was awarded the Eberhard Bernatzki Prize for outstanding youth work in 2010, then under the direction of Mario Honegger .

National football player from Pankow

In addition to Willy Schwedler , who played an international match for Germany as a VfB player in 1921, there were several national players who played in Pankow before or after their international appearances.

  • For Germany:
  • For the GDR:
    • Horst Assmy , 12 games 1954–1958 for Oberschöneweide and ASK Berlin, started at Einheit Pankow
    • Karl-Heinz Spickenagel , 1954–1964 for ASK Berlin, started at Einheit Pankow

successes

Web links

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