VfV Hildesheim
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| Surname | Association for Volkssport e. V. Hildesheim |
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| Club colors | Red White |
| Founded | September 22, 1945 |
| Place of foundation | Clubhouse on Johanniswiese , Hildesheim |
| Association headquarters | VfV-Sportpark An der Pottkuhle 1 31139 Hildesheim |
| Members | 943 (January 1, 2018) |
| Departments |
Gymnastics , swimming , cycling , athletics , hockey , tennis , badminton , volleyball , soccer , handball , marching band , bowling , American football , billiards |
| Chairman | Bernd Lücke |
| Homepage | vfv-hildesheim.com |
The Verein für Volkssport e. V. Hildesheim ( VfV Hildesheim for short ) is a traditional German sports club from Hildesheim . Founded after the Second World War , the VfV united numerous pre-war clubs under one roof. As in the early years, the individual departments are currently largely acting independently.
history
VfV Hildesheim was not rebuilt until 1945, but the club has a history that goes back to 1895. After the Second World War, the club's founders did not find a single intact sports facility. The area on the Johanniswiese was completely changed as a training center and deployment area for the associations of the Nazi regime in the period after 1933, the city of Hildesheim was completely destroyed by the bombing.
Under these conditions, nine "re-founders" met in May 1945. a. Ernst Kipker (last managing director of TuSS Hildesheim 07), Heinrich Krumsiek (VfB Hildesheim), Wilhelm Schröder (gymnastics and sports club “Vorwärts”), Alfred Hesse, Nikolaus Oppelt, Kurt Schmidt and Willi Unser (former soccer clubs). Despite great worries and hardships, they talked about the future of Hildesheim sport. They wanted to avoid the previously widespread fragmentation according to sports, parties, denominations, political parties and social groups. Heinrich Krumsiek was commissioned to have the government president and the military government approve the establishment of a new sports club and the use of the sports facilities built by the gymnastics workers on Johanniswiese before the war. Ernst Kipker should get in touch with the Lord Mayor of Hildesheim.
The following conversations, in which Gottfried von Cramm , who had good relations with the British occupying power, and publisher Dr. Hans Albert Gerstenberg were involved had success. With his letter of August 11, 1945, Lord Mayor Dr. Ernst Ehrlicher , countersigned by Captain Gordon (British city commander) Ernst Kipker, “to rebuild the sport of the clubs in Hildesheim according to the guidelines of the military government”
In September, the sports officer of the administrative district Heinrich Krumsiek invites you to a conference with the sports director Prof. Dr. Abmeier joined the government to discuss basic issues related to the construction of sports.
As early as September 22, 1945, 44 athletes from various “old clubs” came together in the clubhouse on Johanniswiese and founded the “Verein für Volkssport Hildesheim eV”. The newly founded club is made up of 18 previous clubs: Workers' gymnastics and sports club "Vorwärts" from 1895, Free Gymnastics Association Moritzberg from 1904, "Britannia" football club from 1904, "Prussia" football club from 1907 (later renamed "Hildesheim 07") , Free Swimmers from 1913, Free Sports Association from 1918, Association for Lawn Games from 1920, Hildesheim Sports Association from 1927, Gymnastics Club from 1930, "Hildesia" cycling club from 1932, "Jungborn" sports club (proven since 1919), "Fahr Wohl" cycling club ( 1925 *), cycling club "Schwalbe" (1925 *), free bowlers (1926 *), weight training club "Frisch Auf" (1926 *), boxing friends (1927 *), local workers' bowlers group Hildesheim (1927 *), canoe club "Möwe" (1928 *).
* First documentary mentions
Nikolaus Oppelt was the first chairman of VfV, followed by Heinrich Wolter in 1948 . In 1953 Ernst Kipker , who later became head of the Hildesheim district, became chairman of the association and held this position until 1990. Until his death on April 15, 1991, he remained VfV's president. Ernst Kipker shaped the VfV, under him the club developed into one of the few large clubs in the Hildesheim area.
The sporting offer of the new club initially comprised football , handball , swimming and gymnastics . These were the most important sports handed down from the dissolved clubs. From previous clubs, cycling was added in 1946 , athletics in 1948 , marching band in 1953 and bowling in 1976 . In the 1970s, VfV experienced a small boom in the establishment of new departments: Hockey (1971), tennis (1975) and badminton (1975) were founded. In 1985 the American football players "Invaders" (founded in 1983) were accepted into the club, in 1986 the volleyball division emerged from the gymnastics department as an independent department. At times, basketball was offered for gymnasts , triathlon , water polo and dancing for swimmers .
In 2002 parts of the board and the presidium announced that they wanted to merge Dieter Köpke and Gerd Rump with the Hildesheim association Eintracht Hildesheim . At the general assembly that followed, this request was rejected by the members with a large majority, whereupon Dieter Köpke and Gerd Rump resign.
In 2009 the pool players from PBC Hildesheim and the Karamboler from BSC Hildesheim joined VfV as a new billiards department.
sports
Soccer
VfV Hildesheim and its predecessor clubs played in the first-class football leagues for a total of 22 years and, especially in the 1920s and 1950s / 60s, created an almost forgotten enthusiasm for football in Hildesheim.
FV Britannia / SV Hohenzollern
The oldest predecessor club of VfV footballers is FV Britannia, which was founded in 1904 by some young Englishmen and like-minded people working in Hildesheim. In 1905 the club was one of the founding members of the North German Football Association . The Britannia was renamed Sportverein Hohenzollern in 1907 and after the First World War it was renamed VfB Hildesheim. In 1922, VfB merged with HSV 07 to form SpVgg Hildesheim from 1907.
SV Hohenzollern is the first club in the Hildesheim region to be promoted to the first division and played in the top division from 1911 to 1913. In 1913/14 the club played in the second division - because the NFV introduced the association league as the new first division in 1913 - and reached second place in the table at the end of the season. Due to the First World War, there were no more games from 1914, and the club was unable to build on its successes after the war.
Hildesheim 07
The most successful predecessor club of VfV is Hildesheim 07, most recently under the name Turn-, Spiel- und Schwimmverein (TuSS) Hildesheim 07, which emerged in 1942 from the forced merger of the Hildesheimer SV 07, Wasserfreunde from 1913 and the gymnastics club from 1930.
The Hildesheimer SV from 1907 was created in 1937 through the merger of the game association Hildesheim 07 and the VfR Hildesheim from 1920. The VfR Hildesheim is in the 1927/28 qualifying round for the district league South Hanover / Braunschweig (1st league).
SpVgg Hildesheim 07 was founded in 1922 through the merger of Hildesheimer SV 07 and VfB Hildesheim. Thus, the most successful and the oldest predecessor club of VfV have been playing in a syndicate since 1922. The 07 is taken over as a recognition symbol by HSV, after all, the club is playing in the top division at this time.
Hildesheimer SV 07 was founded in 1919 through the merger of FC Preußen 07 and the Jungborn sports club.
FC Preußen 07 itself was founded as FC Discordia in 1907, but was soon renamed FC Preußen 07 after the founding kickers were informed about the name Discordia (= discord). About 30 participants take part in the inaugural meeting and the first playground is played on the actually too small Schützenwiese. Just one year later, FC 07 joined the North German Football Association.
The third root of the VfV footballers is the sporting association from 1918 . The SpVgg was founded in 1918 as a football department in the workers gymnastics and sports club Vorwärts from 1895 and in 1922 independently, but dissolved by the National Socialists in 1933. Some of the members join the SpVgg Hildesheim 07 and the VfR Hildesheim.
The Hildesheim sports club from 1927 can still be named as the fourth forerunner of footballers . However, the club suffered the same fate in 1933 as the Sports Association of 1918.
Hildesheim 07 was represented in the top division for 13 years before 1945. Because the 1928/29 season is boycotted by some important football clubs, there is no regular game operation at this time and because the season cannot be ended in the war year 1944/45, “only” 11 years remain in the first class in football history.
Hildesheimer SV rose to the top division for the first time in 1921 and celebrated their greatest success with the runner-up in 1923/24. In Braunschweig, a historic game was won 4: 3. However, it is not enough for the final round of the North German championship, because this year only the season winner takes part in the association championship.
From the 1925/26 season onwards, SpVgg Hildesheim 07 played against relegation, but always successfully designed the play-offs and promotion and relegation rounds.
After the " football revolution " of 1928, initiated mainly by Hamburg clubs, the North German Sports Association carried out a league reform. The last 12 will eventually become 6 North German leagues. In 1927/28, SpVgg Hildesheim 07 retained its first class athleticism, but was moved to the second division through the reform in 1929/30.
As early as 1930/31, SpVgg Hildesheim 07 is about to be promoted to the upper house, but the kickers fail in the promotion games.
In 1939, Hildesheimer SV from 1907 succeeded in returning to the first class as a "replacement" for some military teams, but relegation to the second division followed in the 1940/41 season.
In 1942 it goes back to the upper house as TuSS Hildesheim 07, where from the 1943/44 season the game is played in a Hildesheim 06/07 war syndicate together with RSV Hildesheim 06.
VfV Hildesheim
After the Second World War, VfV Hildesheim had a total of six first division years, was a founding member of the Oberliga Süd-Niedersachsen (1st division) in 1946 and always played in the first or second division from 1946 to 1967. In the 1959/60 season, the 2nd team even managed to move up to the amateur league (2nd division) .
In the 1961/62 season, VfV was at its zenith, was the best Lower Saxony team in the Oberliga-Nord and fought an exciting fight for the runner- up with Werder Bremen . The local Friedrich-Ebert-Stadion became an “impregnable fortress”, and VfV became the best home team with 29: 1 points and 49:13 goals. After seven match days, VfV had only given up one point (3: 3 at FC St. Pauli ), won 3: 1 at Hannover 96 and Werder Bremen 1: 0 and were placed right behind Hamburger SV . After defeats at Altona 93 and in Neumünster, however, the club had lost some ground when the previously unbeaten Hamburger SV came on November 5, 1961. The stadium on the Johanniswiese (Friedrich-Ebert-Stadion), which was approved for 18,000 spectators, was bursting at the seams despite the additional grandstands. After another 3000 spectators had found a place, another 5000 fans (fences were trampled down) pushed into the completely overcrowded area. The 26,000 spectators witnessed how the irresistibly playing VfV took HSV apart with goals from Leo Zimmermann (12th and 61st minute) and Winkelmann (64th minute) as well as goalkeeper Gerstle, who could not be defeated. The so far undefeated Hamburg (German champion 1960) around Uwe Seeler sneaked past the enthusiastically celebrating spectators disappointedly into the dressing room. In the following months, VfV and Werder Bremen fought head-to-head for the runner-up and thus for participation in the final round of the German championship, which could also have meant the prospect of qualifying for the new 1st Bundesliga. When Bremen won 6-0 in Nordhorn three game days before the end and Hildesheim returned home from Kiel with a 3-0 defeat, a preliminary decision had been made. At the end of the season, VfV was only two points short of reaching the finals, but with third place he qualified for the Rappan Cup for the first time . In the DFB Cup , the quarter-finals were reached with a 3-2 win over Westfalia Herne , but the later cup winner 1. FC Nürnberg won 11-0.
In the season (1962/63) before the introduction of the Bundesliga , when football was becoming more and more commercialized, VfV simply couldn't keep up financially. It couldn't be prevented that important players kept migrating to the better-off clubs. At the end of the season, VfV was once again able to leave Hannover 96 behind, but the 1st Bundesliga was a long way off.
Internationally, VfV played six European Cup matches in the (IFC) International Football Cup in 1962/63 . In addition to VfV, FC Bayern Munich , Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and 1. FC Kaiserslautern also qualified. However, it wasn't a good season for the German representatives. Neither team survived the group stage, VfV only scored 2 points (1-0 win over Blauw Wit Amsterdam ), but were still more successful than 1. FC Kaiserslautern, who only scored one point.
When the Bundesliga was founded, VfV was only second rate and the subsequent downward trend could not be stopped again. The direct neighbor Hannover 96 could be relieved about this development, the direct league record with 16: 4 points and 20:10 goals clearly spoke for Hildesheim.
In 1967 the Regionalliga Nord could no longer be held and the slow decline continued. Hildesheim football once again made people sit up and take notice with a 3-0 win over the second division Alemannia Aachen in the 1977/78 DFB Cup . However, the team had to compete at Hamburger SV in the following round and lost 6-0.
The football department left the entire club under the name VfV Hildesheim FC at the end of the 2002/03 season and merged with Borussia Hildesheim to form VfV 06 Hildesheim , followed a year later by relegation from the 4th league (then Oberliga).
Greatest successes
SV Hohenzollern Hildesheim
in 1st class Hanover (1st league)
- 1910/11 3rd place
- 1911/12 place 6
- 1912/13 5th place
in 1st class Hanover (2nd league from 1913/14 season through the introduction of the association league)
- 1913/14 2nd place
Hildesheim 07
in the Südkreisliga, Bezirksliga, Oberliga and Gauliga (1st league)
- 1921/22 place 7
- 1922/23 place 6
- 1923/24 runner-up
- 1924/25 place 7
- 1925/26 place 7
- 1926/27 place 8
- 1927/28 place 7
- 1928/29 No league round - classified in the second division in 1929/30
- 1939/40 5th place
- 1940/41 6th place - relegation
- 1942/43 4th place
- 1943/44 3rd place
- 1944/45 season not ended
VfV Hildesheim
in the Oberliga Süd-Niedersachsen (1st league)
- 1946 10th place - relegation
in the association league (2nd division)
- 1947/48 place 7
- 1948/49 8th place - (1949 Association League renamed to Amateur Oberliga / 3rd division renamed Association League)
in the amateur league (2nd division)
- 1949/50 place 8
- 1950/51 place 7
- 1951/52 3rd place
- 1952/53 3rd place
- 1953/54 4th place
- 1954/55 1st place - master amateur league
- 1955/56 5th place
- 1956/57 4th place
- 1957/58 1st place - Amateur Oberliga champions, promotion to the Oberliga Nord and Lower Saxony champions
in the Oberliga Nord (1st division)
- 1958/59 13th place
- 1959/60 7th place - 2nd team champions in the amateur league (3rd division) and promoted to the amateur top division (2nd division)
- 1960/61 place 8
- 1961/62 3rd place
- 1962/63 8th place - foundation of the Bundesliga
in the Regionalliga Nord (2nd division)
- 1956 cup winner
- 1976 cup winner
- 1962/63 six encounters, a. a. 1-0 against Blauw Wit Amsterdam
Handball
With the first league games after the war, handball players started with eight teams as early as 1945 and VfV was there. Especially Siegfried Kopper senior, co-founder of the handball department, played a major role in the successful development of the division, from 1945 to 1970 he was on the board, and from 1956 on as chairman. The first and then only Hildesheim women's team played at TuSS 07 as early as 1941, and the women joined VfV after the war. The men's team was promoted to the district class as early as 1948, was one of the best in the district and won the city and district championships.
After a long dry spell, the handball players make a successful team again in the sixties. The team plays in the district league, at the time the second highest division in Germany. The greatest success was achieved in 1964, when local rivals Eintracht Hildesheim , in whose ranks national player Bernd Munck played , was defeated at 15:13.
A women's team can only be set up again at the end of the fifties, but the women have to play their games in the (then) district of Alfeld (Leine), as there are no other teams in Hildesheim. As a climber, the women are allowed to play in the Hanover district with a special permit.
The switch from large to small fields or to a hall did not have a positive impact on the development. The departure of experienced players can no longer be compensated for and revitalizing youth work only brings short-term success.
When a team took part in the league games for the last time in 1999, the season could not be played to the end, the board left the club before the end of its term of office and handball has since been suspended at VfV.
swim
The swimmers had a difficult start after the war, as the bathing hall was destroyed in the bombing in 1945 and the Johanniswiese (Jo-Wiese) was confiscated by the British. After the swimming pool on Speicherstrasse was rebuilt in 1948, an 18-meter pool was made available to swimmers. In 1957 the department founded an art swimmer group and in the early 1960s created the fourth team in the VfV handball department. In 1961 there was a dispute with the main club, whereupon many active members joined the Poseidon Hildesheim . In 1965 the deaf join the division. From a sporting point of view, the promotions of the men (1986 and 1995) and women (1987, 1994 and 2006) to the second Bundesliga, as well as the triathletes in 1995, are particularly noteworthy. But the athletes in the swimming department, such as Tim Strube, also achieve good individual performances who won the silver medal at the European Youth Championship in 1994 with the 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay. Steffen Smollich wins second place in the German sprint championships in 1994 in the 100 meter medley.
The multiple German junior champion Christin Zenner becomes junior European champion in 2006 and takes third place at the junior world championship.
In autumn 2007, numerous competitive swimmers, led by Katharina Schiller and Sara Harstick, moved from the former neighboring club EVI Hildesheim to VfV Hildesheim. The women's team is second in the 2nd Bundesliga North 2007, fourth in the promotion round to the 1st Bundesliga and the men's team is promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga. Katharina Schiller finished third twice at the German championships in 2007.
Christin Zenner and Katharina Schiller qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games. Zenner wins the German championships in the 50 and 100 meter medley in 2008, Schiller is champion in the 200 meter medley, she is also runner-up in the 400 meter medley.
In 2008 the women's team took 1st place in the 2nd Bundesliga and was promoted to the 1st Bundesliga.
do gymnastics
The predecessor club of the gymnastics department, the workers gymnastics club "Vorwärts" was founded in 1895. After the war, the gymnastics department concentrated on popular sport and offered gymnastics for the whole family. The many different groups cannot all be listed here, but the focus is certainly on the range of games for children. Various events such as hikes, bike tours, sports and games festivals are offered over and over again throughout the year. For years, the gymnasts have successfully organized the children's carnival, in which not only the department children like to take part. In the 1980s and 1990s, the u. a. Club soccer tournaments organized by the gymnastics department are a popular event, as the various departments of VfV compete against each other at this tournament.
Cycling
The Hildesia Hildesheim cycling club , founded in 1932, received a new license soon after the Second World War, but the military government decided to limit sporting activities to large clubs. For this reason and in the hope of a cycling track, the “Hildesia” cyclists joined VfV in 1946.
The first cycle race took place in 1947 on the cinder track at A-Platz (Friedrich-Ebert-Stadion), a year later the cinder track at B-Platz was opened again with a magnificent race. From 1950 onwards, the curves, which were still too flat, were increased by rubble, and a laborious four-year construction period resulted in a 400 meter long and 7 meter wide asphalt runway with 1.50 meter high curves.
Rudi Theissen drives street races as an amateur and professional, in 1955 he wins the Tour of Germany. In 1960 Horst Artmann undertook a trip around the Mediterranean on three continents, covering a distance of 14620 km. In the 80s the youngsters are successful and win several Lower Saxony championships on the track, road and cross. In the women's category, Martina Bewig wins several national championship titles and achieves good placements at the German championships.
Starting in 1979, the people's cycling “Around the Seven Mountains” is organized, in 1974 the VfV Easter race, which has already been held 31 times, is relocated to the city center. The “Hildesheim Summer Track Championship” and from 1992 the “Hildesheim Cycle Track Festival” are held on eight racing evenings from 1971 onwards.
athletics
The athletes were particularly successful in the early years. In the fifties, five German and 17 Lower Saxony championships were won. The best-known athletes were Kurt Ernst , Walter Müller and Dieter Schreiber , who won the German indoor title in the 3 × 1000 meter relay in 1956 and took second place outdoors after having been the Lower Saxony champions a year earlier.
Dieter Schreiber ran a German record in the 4 × 800 meter national relay in Brussels in 1956. In addition to Dieter Schreiber, Walter Müller was also part of the national team in the 1950s. In 1972, Sigrid Goydke competed on the women's sprint courses against the USA and Switzerland.
In the 1980s, the juniors provided numerous Lower Saxony and North German champions and achieved good results at the German championships.
marching band
When the Spielmannszug was founded in 1953, the training sessions initially took place on the VfV site. However, as more and more musicians join in, the practice lessons are moved to the Haus der Jugend. A male youth group was founded in 1960, followed by a female group in 1965. The Spielmannszug tries to establish its own clubhouse and Helmut Leszczak and Ernst Kipker are successful in negotiations with the city, and in 1980 they move into their own clubhouse on Lake Müggelsee. When the city sold the building, however, the marching band looked for and found a new home in a school pavilion of the Justus Jonas School. After the 40th anniversary was celebrated in 1993, the search for new accommodation began and was found in the basement of the Justus Jonas School. Helmut Leszczak, who was in charge of the marching band from 1953 until his death in 1993, has trained more than 1,000 miners in his 40-year career. The minstrels took part in the 1955 regional gymnastics festival in Göttingen, and many more were to follow. The marching band also takes part in valuation music again and again, in 1989 the train won first place in the upper school in Eschershausen. In 1997 the minstrels left the VfV and started as an independent Turnerspielmannszug Hildesheim e. V. on.
The seven departments (football, handball, swimming, gymnastics, cycling, athletics and marching band) have shaped the image of the club for many years. It was not until the early 1970s that new branches were added. However, it is much more difficult for these new departments to play their part in the sporting foreground compared to the founding branches. For example, a men's tennis team would have to advance twelve times in order to play in the regional league.
hockey
It is a little easier for the women to play in the upper divisions, who take part in the promotion round to the indoor Bundesliga in 1983 and 1984. The female A-youth won the North German championship and German runner-up in 1979 in the hall. The hockey department, founded in 1971 a. a. Founded by Hanna and Fritz Bayer, the first successes can be achieved after just a few months. With the women, the first team is registered in the league games, from this team a total of seven players are selected for the Lower Saxony selection. A men's team is also formed in November. The women achieved their first notable successes in 1975. Playing in the Oberliga, the second place in the table is achieved and thus qualification for the North German championship, where fourth place is occupied in the end. The good youth work is demonstrated in 1976 with the indoor runner-up championship of the female B youth at state level. At the beginning of the 1977 season, the women's first field point game was played on the company's own hockey field. In 1986 there was a wave of resignations as many active members did not recognize the newly elected board. Together with the previous department head, Klaus Gleitz, they found a new hockey department at MTV 48 Hildesheim . After the conversion of the C-course into an artificial turf field, the women can celebrate another success in 1991 with promotion to the top division. Since there have been less and less interested hockey players in Hildesheim in recent years, the hockey departments that still exist in Hildesheim have merged to form a game community. The hockey department has been inactive since 2012.
tennis
Many arduous years passed before the tennis department was founded. In August 1975 the founding meeting of the department finally took place, attended by 98 members and with Dr. Hermann Ehlert elect their first chairman. In the same month, games began on two hard tennis courts. A tennis hall, no longer required storage hall of the Senkingwerk, can be rebuilt in 1977/78 from and on the VfV premises. The third tennis court, a Rotgrand court, was inaugurated in April 1979, and in 1981 places 4 and 5 were added as additional venues. In the next few years, the two hard courts will be converted into Rotgrand courts, changing rooms will be created and sanitary facilities will be added, a lounge is inaugurated in 1989 and the outdoor area is redesigned.
The first club championships take place in 1976 and in 1980 a women’s and a men’s team successfully participated in the league game for the first time. In 1981 a second men's and a first junior team were reported. From the mid-1980s, not only women and men, but also various senior club championships are held, as well as competitions in doubles, mixed and youth. At the end of the 80s, there was a change in the men's area, so that the first men's team, after a transition period, was completely made up of youngsters. In the successful following years, with the relay victory in 1991, the team played in the district class for the first time, three promotions were celebrated in four years and at the end they reached the district league. Further senior teams are reported, there are changes and new registrations, the reporting of a second men's team was dispensed with in the mid-1990s, which means that the first team also got into difficulties at times. Women 40, men 30 and men 40 play at the district level, women 50 and men 60 reach the association class and can establish themselves in this division for years. In 2001 a total of 10 senior teams, more teams than ever before, were registered and the schedule was overcrowded. The open club championships - VfV-Open - were very popular from 1996 to 2000, and the proceeds are donated to a charitable cause.
In 1999 a fire destroyed the old tennis hall. This causes great consternation, as there are countless unpaid hours of work and the heart and soul of many members in the walls of this hall. Two years later a new hall, together with a gymnastics wing, is completed.
In the 2008 season, the tennis department, with two men's and one women's teams, provides three teams at association level. In the 2014 season, two men's teams (men 30 and men 40) played in the association league. In 2015, with the men’s 40, a VfV team rose to the state league (3rd division) for the first time.
badminton
In the same year as the tennis department, the badminton department saw the light of day, chaired by Jürgen Hagedorn. The sport, not offered by any other club in Hildesheim, found a steady increase in the first few years. The number rises to over 100 members in 1980. A first point game team is formed in 1976, initially from a purely hobby group. The team succeeds in advancing several times and in 1981 the soaring leads to the state league. In addition to other league teams, youth teams are also formed, the youngsters win the relay at the district level and 11 titles at the district championships are booked.
With the help of a large player potential and the connection of some well-known players, the continuous development and sporting success will continue in the following years.
In addition to the good team performance, Jörg Feldmann stands out in particular. Feldmann won the title 15 times at the state level between 1981 and 1988 and was on the podium 17 times at the northern German level. A third place in the participation in the German championships complete his impressive record.
Bowling
In 1976 the bowling department was founded under the chairmanship of Fritz Knackstedt, the "Freie Kegler" (1926) and the "Arbeiter-Kegler" (1927) are the predecessor clubs of the new division. The time of the VfV bowling department will only last 16 years, because when the 1st chairwoman Marlies Laschewski resigns from her position for health reasons, there is no successor.
In the first few years, internal competitions such as departmental championships and tournaments women against men are held. As early as 1977 the men took part in the league game and in 1980 they were promoted to the district league. But in 1981 the relegation follows, the team breaks up and the league game is stopped. At the tournaments of the Hildesheimer Kegler club, the women took first place on scissors in 1984 and first place on Bohle in 1986. In 1984 Rosemarie Mahn became the best single bowler on scissors. In addition to the bowling meetings, various trips and events developed into popular leisure activities, until the bowling troop finally disbanded in 1992.
American football
The Hildesheim Invaders , founded in 1983, had the problem of finding a training or playground in their early years. In 1985 VfV agreed to include the American Footballer as the twelfth division into the club. They play in the atypical blue and yellow shirts for VfV. In the early years, the new department, especially in the youth sector, can win many new members. The "new" sport, also from the USA, plus a lot of shows and the pretty girls of the cheerleaders encourage many people from Hildesheim to attend a game. Since most spectators are not or only little familiar with the rules, every move has to be commented out loudly. In 1986 the footballers are champions in the Regionalliga Nord, the second highest division in Germany. At the subsequent tournament of the regional league winners "Silver Bowl", the second place is occupied. American footballers celebrate their greatest success with promotion to the Bundesliga (1989). From now on, the footballers sometimes play their games alongside the footballers in the Friedrich-Ebert-Stadion and can welcome more spectators than the footballers. When, after a few years, interest in the new "exotic" sport wanes, relegations cannot be prevented. In 2003, many department members left the club and joined Eintracht Hildesheim , where they found a new venue on the orphaned hockey field.
volleyball
At the beginning of the 1980s, some gymnasts formed a volleyball group and started training in the Bromberger Strasse sports hall. In 1985, under Lothar Pollack's guidance, more than 40 active people were involved in a hobby team, a women's team that took part in point games and a junior team. The volleyball group finally expresses the desire to break away from the gymnastics department and to form its own division. The Turner responded to this request in 1986 and the independent volleyball department was founded. The training offer can be expanded with practice times in the newly built Stadtmitte sports hall, with young people between the ages of eight and twelve being added to the wide range.
For several years the volleyball players organized a tournament for mixed teams and in 1986 they achieved their best result with second place. The departure and illness of important players cannot be compensated for in 1990, so that the department is temporarily facing the end. The low point is exceeded and some time later a mixed group can again take part in tournaments for amateur teams.
billiards
VfV has been offering billiards since 2009 . In February 2009 the pool players from PBC Hildesheim and in May 2009 the Karamboler from BSC Hildesheim joined VfV. The new venue was the VfV-Smile Halle directly at the tennis hall. The hall was renovated and rebuilt, ideal training and competition conditions were created and the venue was named VfV Billardhalle. In the 2009 season, the first team succeeded in unbeaten promotion to the regional league.
coat of arms
The traditional coat of arms of VfV Hildesheim, with the distinctive three letters in the center, shows the shield of the coat of arms of the city of Hildesheim in the lower area. The divided shield with the imperial eagle, squared in yellow (gold) and red below, was awarded to the city by Emperor Charles V in 1528 .
A few years ago, in modified variants of the coat of arms, the word “Hildesheim” or the department name of the respective department was added.
literature
- Association for Volkssport e. V. Hildesheim: 100 years of the Association for Popular Sports in Hildesheim: From a workers' gymnastics club to a sports club for everyone.
Publisher: Verein für Volkssport e. V. Hildesheim (VfV).
Editor: Siegfried Josopait, Gerd Rump
Publisher: Gebrüder Gerstenberg, Hildesheim
ISBN 3-8067-8502-3