SV Viktoria Preußen 07

The SV Viktoria Preußen 07 Frankfurt is a sports club from the neighborhood corner home located in the north of Frankfurt am Main. Germany -wide notoriety gained by the club its up in the 1950s extraordinarily successful wrestler department, from, among others, the five-time German champion Max Light came.

History

It was founded on May 6, 1907 SV Victoria 07, with the abbreviation SV at the time for " heavy athletics association" was. This is the ( now little more common ) generic term for the time in club sports played rings, chiselling and round weight squads. Under the leadership of the brothers Lorenz and Ferdinand Schaub wrestlers won considerable success. A football department was added in 1909.

It was not long until there were tensions between the footballers and dominated by heavy Athletics Department residual association. As a consequence, the football players left the club and headed as a football club in 1912 corner home independently. Weakened by the previous just to end the First World War, however, the two clubs joined already in the season 1918/19, under the name of SV Viktoria 07-1912 corner home together again.

In the following years the wrestlers won under the leadership of Adam Hommel a good reputation in the whole of Germany. The footballers have been relatively successful and played at times in the highest class of the South German Football Association.

After the Second World War, the wrestler could soon build on his earlier successes. So Adam Hommel won the German championship and Vice Max Light was champion in the light heavyweight and heavyweight.

For the footballer, the rebuilding designed far more difficult; mainly because they had no more private sports field and had to unsubscribe to foreign courts for seven years their home games. Under these conditions, many members joined other clubs what the membership decimated. A further decline in membership, there was after the death of Adam Hommel, as the wrestlers left the club completely, and made themselves independent.

From then on football the most important sport of Eckenheimer Association and the Youth Department to be figurehead. However, the SV Viktoria 07 a club that offered many sports, but his football team could not promote about education standards beyond, because he lacked the necessary financial resources was now.

Have sufficient financial resources, however, possessed the resulting 1951 from a company sports the Mitropa FC Prussia from the neighboring district Preungesheim, who was now advanced into the Hesse league. Because both clubs could benefit from the opportunities of others, they joined forces and joined 1965 SV Viktoria Preußen Frankfurt 07 together.

Departments

The merged club today consists of the departments soccer, gymnastics and gymnastics and table tennis, with the focus of the association's work in youth work is and have also formed personalities in football. With Armin Kraaz (123 Bundesliga games 3 goals for Eintracht Frankfurt) and Peter Cook (108 second division games 7 goals for FSV Frankfurt ), two players from the own rows professional footballer.

Meanwhile, known throughout the country and abroad are the traditional Pentecostal youth football tournaments in the department through which the club could draw attention to themselves. The first football team the men played since the season 2011/ 12 in the group league Frankfurt West.

The first men's team table tennis department in 2003 earned promotion to the Regionalliga West, the third- highest division, where she still plays today.

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