VfR Hansa Elbing
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Full name | Association for lawn games Hansa Elbing 1910 |
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place | Elblag | ||
Founded | 1910 | ||
Dissolved | 1945 | ||
Club colors | Black yellow | ||
Stadion | Municipal Jahnsportplatz | ||
Top league |
Gauliga East Prussia Gauliga Danzig-West Prussia |
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The VfR Hansa Elbing was a German sports club from the East Prussian town of Elbing (today Elbląg ). The club played two seasons each in the Gauliga East Prussia and in the Gauliga Danzig-West Prussia .
history
The club was founded in 1910 as SC Hansa 1910 Elbing and played in the league system of the Baltic Lawn and Winter Sports Association (BRWV). In 1912 the name was changed to VfR Hansa Elbing , the venue was the municipal Jahnsportplatz, which offered 8,000 spectators. In 1913/14 the Elbing District League could be won for the first time , but in the subsequent final round of District II Danzig / West Prussia the club clearly failed at SV Marienwerder with 1:14. From the 1920s played Hansa Elbing in the District League East Prussia West within the I Prussia circle , but was against the local rivals SV Viktoria Elblag and Elblag SV not prevail. After the introduction of the top East Prussian league in the 1926/27 season , for which no Elbingen club could qualify, Hansa Elbing continued to play in the, now second-rate, East Prussian West District League . By first place in the table in 1927/28, the club managed to qualify for the second-rate Staffelliga West, which was newly introduced for the coming season . In 1929/30 the league system was restructured again, the Elbinger clubs moved to the newly created District III West Prussia of District II Grenzmark . Associated with this restructuring was the automatic rise to excellence. 1929/30 reached Hansa Elbing second place in the table in the West Prussia district.
When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the football associations were dissolved and replaced by Sportgaue . Only the best clubs from the West Prussian regional league qualified for the first-class East Prussian Gauliga . With third place in the table, Hansa Elbing played from then on in the second-class district class IV Danzig-Marienwerder . For the 1936/37 season , the promotion to the Gauliga took place, in which the club in the Danzig district took seventh and last place, but was allowed to remain in the league - because of the promotion and instead of the second team. Due to the reduction of the Gauliga from 28 to ten teams after the 1937/38 season , Elbing had to relegate back to the second division. In 1939/40 the club formed a war game community with Viktoria Elbing and Elbinger SV 05 , which was also active in the East Prussian Gauliga. Due to the strong winter, the season was ended prematurely and the syndicate was dissolved after one season. In 1940 the teams from West Prussia and Danzig were assigned to the newly created Gauliga Danzig-West Prussia , including the VfR Hansa Elbing . In the premiere season , the club finished second in the table behind Prussia Danzig . In the following season he was the last to relegate behind Elbinger SV 05, and the club did not succeed in advancing to the top class.
After the Second World War, Elbing , which was part of the German Empire, was annexed by the Soviet Union and placed under Polish administration . The VfR Hansa Elbing was - like all other German clubs and institutions - forcibly dissolved.
successes
- Participation in the Gauliga East Prussia : 1936/37 , 1937/38 , 1939/40 (as a war syndicate)
- Participation in the Gauliga Danzig-West Prussia : 1940/41 , 1941/42
swell
- DSFS : Football in the Baltic Sports Association, Part 1: 1903/04 - 1932/33 . DSFS, 2018.
- Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
- Hardy Greens: The big book of German football clubs . Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 .
Web links
- The most important clubs in East Prussia on beepworld.de