VfK Schifferstadt

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VfK Schifferstadt: German wrestling team champion, 1988

The VfK 07 Schifferstadt is a German wrestling club from Schifferstadt . It was re-founded in 2007 as the successor to VfK Schifferstadt, which went bankrupt in 2006 . In the 2012/13 season he made it to the 1st Bundesliga .

2006 financial crisis

In 2006 it became known that the multiple German champions VfK Schifferstadt could no longer raise enough money for the current season. The VfK then announced its team from the current Bundesliga round. The insolvency procedure meant the final end for the traditional Palatinate club; the association was dissolved.

Established in 2007

Wilfried-Dietrich-Halle, "home" of VfK Schifferstadt

After the liquidation of VfK Schifferstadt, the association was re-established in early 2007 under VfK 07 Schifferstadt . Many former VfKler, z. B. Claudio Passarelli as 2nd chairman and Markus Scherer as coach, remained loyal to the club and dared a new beginning with it. There was also a new beginning in the sporting field, here coach Markus Scherer started with a very young team, initially in the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz. At the end of a strong season there was promotion to the regional league.

The Schifferstadt audience had welcomed the young team, which consisted of athletes from Schifferstadt and the surrounding region. In the regular season, an average of 350 wrestling fans came to the home fights. 640 spectators saw the decisive fight for promotion against St. Ingbert.

Placements since the re-establishment in 2007
2007/08 4th league Oberliga Rhineland-Palatinate 1st place (of 0?) Ascent
2008/09 3rd league Regional league Rhineland-Palatinate-Saarland Place 2 (of 08) Ascent
2009/10 2nd league 2nd Bundesliga South 5th place (out of 10)
2010/11 2nd league 2nd Bundesliga South Rank 7 (of 09)
2011/12 2nd league 2nd Bundesliga South 5th place (out of 10)
2012/13 2 league 2nd Bundesliga South Rank 1 (of 09) Ascent
2013/14 1st League 1st Bundesliga South 5th place (of 8)
2014/15 1st League 1st Bundesliga South 5th place (of 7)
2015/16 1st League 1. Bundesliga North 5th place (of 6)
2016/17 1st League 1st National League Rank 8 (of 8)
2017/18 DRL German wrestling league

History of wrestling in Schifferstadt

With the establishment of the "Free Sports Club" Schifferstadt in 1896, heavy athletes came together to do wrestling, weightlifting and acrobatics. Georg Rückert became the first chairman. The sporting events were held outdoors as there were no gyms yet. In addition to the “Free Sports Club”, other weight training clubs were founded in the following years, such as “Siegfried Schifferstadt”, from which “Germania” emerged in 1909 and the “Catholic Workers' Association”. It was not until 1926 that parts of the predecessor clubs formed the “Association for Strength Sports and Body Care”, or VfK for short. In 1996 the club celebrated its 100th anniversary, before it was dissolved in 2006 after 110 years in order to be re-established as VfK 07 in 2007.

From 1909 the competitions took place in the club “Wilder Mann”. In the first verifiable team competition in wrestling in 1911, the Oggersheim relay was opponents of the Schifferstadter. Outstanding wrestlers in those early days were the German runner-up in the heavyweight division, Eduard Wißmann, and the German runner-up in the middleweight division, Josef Kolb . In 1919, 1000 spectators gathered in the “Wild Man” hall during the team fight against Friesenheim. More than 1000 athletes took part in wrestling, lifting, acrobatics and gymnastics in the 1921 anniversary tournament of the Free Sports Club for the 25th anniversary of the club. The schedule could not be adhered to, so that the final fights only came weeks later in the "Eckelschen Bierkeller".

With the engagement of the Pirmasens wrestler Fritz Schäfer in 1931, the club not only strengthened its squadron, but also gained national recognition. Schifferstadt wrestlers Ludwig Krause and Otto Heissler only narrowly missed qualification for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles . In 1935 the headline of the Reichssportblatt was : "A German wrestling village: Schifferstadt" . In 1936 the lightweight Fritz Schäfer won the silver medal at the Summer Olympics in Berlin . Before the beginning of the Second World War, Albert Ferber , Reinhold Kolb and Paul Wahl also made the leap into the national wrestling top.

From 1945 to 1949 heavy athletics in Schifferstadt was suspended due to a ban by the authorities in the French occupation zone . In 1949 there was the first post-war team fight in the "Ochsen" against the Ring-Sport-Verein Basel. Already in 1950 VfK intervened in the fight for the German team championship, but was defeated by SG Frankfurt-Eckenheim. In addition to Albert Ferber, Wilfried Dietrich , Paul Neff and Walter Kuhn first drew attention to themselves in the mid-1950s . Dietrich and Neff were also appointed to the German national team during this time. Wilfried Dietrich qualified for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne . Dietrich won 27 German championship titles in a row in both styles, Neff was German individual champion 18 times. In 1959, VfK Schifferstadt became German team champions for the first time. Wilfried Dietrich's Olympic victory in Rome in 1960 in free style and the silver medal in Greco-Roman style crowned his career. Paul Neff achieved an excellent fourth place in Rome. The two Olympians received 5000 fans in the Schifferstadt festival tent. In the years and decades that followed, the wrestlers of VfK Schifferstadt were extremely successful in the German team championships, in the individual championships of both styles as well as in European, world championships and the Olympic Games. For this the rubrics: Successes , well-known wrestlers and medalists at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships while being a member of the club .

successes

With ten team championships, VfK Schifferstadt is tied with ASV Heros Dortmund (10 team championships), first on the German record list in this category.

German team champion:

German Vice-Team Champion:

  • 1970/71 against KSV Witten 8: 9 and 10:10
  • 1972/73 against KSV Köllerbach 14:26 and 18.5: 21.5
  • 1977/78 against ASV Mainz 1888 24:18 and 19:26
  • 1978/79 against KSV Witten 14:22 and 24.5: 19.5
  • 1983/84 against KSV Witten 14: 24.5 and 16: 20.5
  • 1984/85 against KSV Germania Aalen 15:21 and 14:20
  • 1986/87 against KSV Witten 13.5: 22.5 and 19.5: 17.5
  • 1987/88 against AC Bavaria Goldbach 15.5: 24 and 22:16
  • 1992/93 against AC Bavaria Goldbach 7.5: 17.5 and 10.5: 14
  • 1993/94 against AC Bavaria Goldbach 11:14 and?
  • 1995/96 against AC Bavaria Goldbach 13:10 and?
  • 1996/97 against AC Bavaria Goldbach 12:13 and?
  • 2001/02 against KSV Germania Aalen 14.5: 10 and 9:14

Known wrestlers

Medalist at Olympic Games, World and European Championships while being a member of the club

Surname Olympia gold Olympic silver Olympia bronze World Champion World Cup second World Cup third European champion EM second EM third Junior World Championships (1st - 3rd) Junior European Championship (1st - 3rd)
Ralf Boehringer 1 ×
Wilfried Dietrich 1 × 2 × 2 × 1 × 2 × 1 × 1 ×
Marleen Gottschling 1 ×
Steven Gottschling 1 ×
Willi Heckmann 1 ×
Stanislaw Kacmarek 1 ×
Rolf Krauss 1 ×
Denis Kudla 1 × 1 × 1 × 1 × 2 ×
Alexander Leipold 1x * 1 × 1 ×
Laszlo Miklosch 1 ×
Paul Neff 2 ×
Claudio Passarelli 1 × 1 ×
Arawat Sabeyev 1 × 1 × 1 ×
Fritz Schäfer 1 × 2 ×
Markus Scherer 1 × 1 × 1 × 1 ×
Werner Schröter 1 × 1 ×
Etka Sever 1 ×
Fred Theobald 1 ×
Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan 1 × 2 × 1 × 2 ×
Hans-Jürgen Veil 1 ×
  • see. Leipold . Olympic champion, not gold medalist.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 100 years of VfK Schifferstadt, Waldsee 1996

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