VfB Rot-Weiß Braunschweig
| VfB Rot-Weiß Braunschweig | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Surname | Association for movement games Rot-Weiß von 1904 eV Braunschweig |
| Seat | Braunschweig , Lower Saxony |
| founding | April 16, 1904 |
| Colours | Red White |
| 1. Chairman | Torsten Sümnich |
| Website | www.rot-weiss-braunschweig.com |
| First soccer team | |
| Head coach | Tolga Isigüzel |
| Venue | Georg Weber Stadium |
| Places | 1,500 |
| league | Braunschweig District League |
| 2019/20 | 2nd place |
The VfB Rot-Weiß Braunschweig is a sports club based in Braunschweig .
history
The VfB Rot-Weiß Braunschweig was founded on April 16, 1904 in Braunschweig under the name FC Einigkeit and was one of five verifiable clubs that founded the football association for the Duchy of Braunschweig on May 7, 1904 . In 1905 FC Einigkeit merged with FC Viktoria to form the Braunschweig football club . In 1912 FC Vorwärts joined the club, which then changed its name to Sportfreunde 04 . In 1918 there was a merger with the sports club from 1907 and the new name of the club, Association for Movement Games , or VfB for short , was decided. After 1920 international football matches took place on Madamenweg . B. a close connection with the Jewish sports club SC Hakoah Vienna . After the Nazis came to power in 1933, VfB's footballers were forcibly relegated to the second division. At the same time, many members of the forbidden workers' sports clubs found a new sporting home on Madamenweg. This is how the handball players from the Wacker game association and the boxers from VfV came to VfB . In the 1942/43 season, the footballers made it back to the top division and in the 1943/44 season occupied second place in the Gauliga Südhannover-Braunschweig behind Eintracht Braunschweig and ahead of SV Arminia Hannover .
After the British occupation forces temporarily banned the old club names after 1945, the club was renamed SV Rot-Weiß Braunschweig . At the same time, athletes from the former SV Brunswiek joined the club. As early as November 11, 1945, the Hamburger SV football team played a friendly match in Braunschweig and won 5-2 goals after the Red-Whites had led 2-0 for a long time. Around 1952, the club's final name VfB Rot-Weiß was adopted.
Since January 25, 1914, the club has had its sporting home on Madamenweg, in the Braunschweig district of Hohetor (western ring area). The stadium at Madamenweg was in the 80's by the former club chairman and honorary chairman Georg Weber (deceased 2001) Georg Weber Stadium renamed. Georg Weber was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, the Citizens Medal of the City of Braunschweig and the Sports Medal of the City of Braunschweig for his services to sport and the common good .
Sporting successes
The successes of the amateur boxers at VfB Rot-Weiß are outstanding: Otto Sonnenberg became the flyweight gaume master in 1939. At the German championships in 1939 he had Olympic champion Willy Kaiser (Gladbeck) on the ground three times, only to lose the fight after all. The amateur boxer Willi Hampel became German welterweight champion in 1948. Hans-Jürgen Böse won the title of German university champion in the heavyweight division in 1964 and 1965. Achim Thierbach became German junior middleweight champion in 1967. Numerous other boxers won junior and senior titles at the Lower Saxony and North German level: Hansi Wand became the North German youth paperweight champion in 1950 and the Lower Saxony middleweight champion in 1957, Heinz Bach won the Lower Saxony flyweight championship in 1950 and the bantamweight title in 1951 1955 and 1957 lightweight. He also boxed several times for the German national relay. Wolfgang Engelhardt was in 1957 Lower Saxony champion of the junior middleweight division and 1958 middleweight division. In the final fights, he beat Conny Velensek (Schöningen), who later became European light heavyweight professional champion. Claus Ziegenberg was Lower Saxony junior middleweight champion in 1964.
The footballers were first class champions in the Duchy / Free State of Braunschweig in 1919, champions of the regional league east in 1949, champions of the Braunschweig regional league in 1971, champions of regional class 3 in 1999 and champions of the regional league in mid-2000 and became Braunschweig city champions in 1985 and 2002. In 2017 and 2018 they won the Braunschweiger Kreispokal. The footballers played in the national league from 2000 to 2007. Currently (as of the 2017/18 season) they belong to the Braunschweig District League.
The field handball team belonged to the then Oberliga Nord and played in 1951 in the preliminary round of the German championship in front of 10,000 spectators against RSV Mülheim . In May 1950, the Red-Whites played the first international handball match after the war on Braunschweig soil. The top Swedish team from IFK Lidingö (Stockholm) had to admit defeat at 10:11 on Madamenweg. On August 17, 1958, the then German runner-up VfL Wolfsburg lost the league game in the handball league on Madamenweg with 11:12 against the VfB Rot-Weiß team. The daily press spoke of a handball sensation at the time. The indoor handball players made it to the 1st regional class in Braunschweig in the 2010/11 season. In 2012 they took 3rd place in the table and voluntarily returned to the 2nd regional class, but were able to achieve renewed promotion a year later.
Club offer
The 300 members (as of December 31, 2018) can play sports in the following departments: football, tennis, senior gymnastics, women's gymnastics, fitness for couples, men's gymnastics, table tennis, badminton and volleyball.
social commitment
In July 2008, VfB Rot-Weiß launched a nationwide unique model project »Life Chances through Sport«. Primarily children from socially disadvantaged families were given the opportunity to participate in sport. This project was implemented u. a. by the qualified sports teacher and former professional soccer player Torsten Sümnich . The model project was financed by the federal government, the city of Braunschweig and the association. In 2012 this project expired in accordance with the contract, but will be continued with the support of the city of Braunschweig. Torsten Sümnich offers sports lessons in kindergartens, schools and youth centers as part of this project.
Since the association is based in a socially deprived area of the city of Braunschweig (almost every second child lives here from Hartz IV), the club has been practicing a so-called sponsorship model since 2000 , in which internal and external sponsors pay the annual fee for one child. The aim is to enable children and young people from socially disadvantaged families to participate in club sports free of charge. In June 2012 80 children and young people benefited from this sponsorship.
On May 17, 2010, the association was honored with a certificate for its social commitment in Braunschweiger Dom as part of the joint price campaign of the Braunschweiger Zeitung. The Lower Saxony Prime Minister David McAllister honored the association with the Lower Saxony Prize for Civic Commitment on October 30, 2010 as part of the Unpaid and Voluntary Campaign .
On November 27, 2012, the association received the Braunschweig Prevention Prize for its model project and a few days later the Berlin Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance rated the VfB's sponsorship model as exemplary and awarded the club the Active for Democracy and Tolerance Prize 2012 . In 2013 the association was nominated for the nationwide German Engagement Prize competition .
Personalities
literature
- Kurt Hoffmeister: Time travel through Braunschweig's sports history . Braunschweig 2001.
- 25 years of the Association for Movement Games V. Braunschweig . Braunschweig 1929.
- 90 years of VfB Rot-Weiß 04 . Braunschweig 1994.
- Anniversary newspaper 100 years VfB Rot-Weiß 04 e. V. Braunschweig . Braunschweig 2004.
- On both sides of the Madamenweg. A tour of the western ring area . Published by the district management Plankontor. Braunschweig 2008.
- Klaus Hoffmann: Historic restaurants. A tour of the western ring area . Published by the district management Plankontor. Braunschweig 2009.
- Jennie Schmedt: About the implementation of the Socially Integrative City program in the western ring area of Braunschweig . Diploma thesis at the Institute for Political Science at Leibniz University Hannover 2011.
- Lorenz Pfeiffer, Henry Wahlig : Jews in Sport during National Socialism. A historical handbook for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Göttingen, 2012.