VfB Einheit zu Pankow

VfB unit to Pankow 1893 ( officially: Association for Motion games / Unit to Pankow 1893 eV ) is a football club from the north- Berlin district of Pankow in the same district. It was created in 1991 from the merger of the two clubs SG unit Pankow and VfB Pankow to 1893, its roots go back to the 1893 founded VfB Pankow.

• 2.1 1950s
• 2.2 BSG Berlin Transport
• 2.3 BSG Einheit Pankow from 1957

History of VfB Pankow

1893-1945

VfB Pankow was founded on August 10, 1893 and was one of the founding clubs of the German Football Association (DFB). On September 28, 1899, the Pankow Lawn Tennis Association concluded in 1896 at VfB. In football, VfB belonged from 1918 to Oberliga Berlin. With a fourth place in the time last season, the one-track the League 1919/20, Pankow did very successfully. 1925 missed VfB in the playoffs against the BFC Preussen in the league and had in the second division, from VfB in 1930 returned again. The second place in the relay B 1932/33, was the hitherto best placement for VfB, who was therefore qualified for the new Gauliga Berlin -Brandenburg. However, for this VfB rose again after three years from 1936. The best-known member of the early years of VfB Pankow was Franz John. With Willy Schwedler the club had produced a national football team. After the end of World War II, VfB had to be resolved as all other Berlin clubs also at the end of 1945 due to the Directive No. 23 of the Allied Control Council of the occupying powers

1945-1951

Instead of dissolved VfB sporting community Pankow- Nord was founded in 1945. This played out in 1947 in the Berlin city league and was allowed to use the name VfB Pankow again from 1948. As of 1949, founded in West Berlin VBB in the following summer the contract player system introduced, it took the GDR sports leadership as an opportunity to withdraw the two East German teams VfB Pankow and Union Oberschoeneweide from the Berlin city league and the season 1950/51 in the highest East German football league to integrate the DDR Oberliga. In the also the actually risen in the Berlin City League SC Lichtenberg 47 found again as the third team in Berlin. VfB broke there almost all negative records: In 34 games, he took two wins and three draws. All away games were lost. He scored a goal ratio of 29:131, for 588 minutes remained the team without scoring. She was, however, weakened by the departure of six regular players who had become a contract player in West Berlin. One of them, Horst Spillecke, beginning in 1951 by Tennis Borussia Berlin returned to VfB, but could not save anything as player-coach.

Unit Pankow 1951 - 1954

1950s

The GDR sports leadership, however, was determined to continue to let them play a Berlin team in the highest soccer class after next VfB also Union Oberschoeneweide and Lichtenberg had 47 of the losers. On 13 August 1951, the football section of the GDR issued a communiqué in which it was informed that the BSG Einheit East Berlin is included in the Oberliga. The reason it was called, among other things: The Presidium of the football section was guided by the fact that Berlin has to be represented as the political, economic and cultural center of the GDR in the big leagues. Surprisingly occurred at the beginning of the league season 1951/52, a team called " BSG Einheit Pankow " with several players from the relegated VfB Pankow on, besides also again Oberschoeneweide as BSG Motor.

In the second year the Pankow Table of DDR - Oberliga were again and now had to descend irrevocable. Only an average of 2,400 spectators attended the games on the Paul Sable sports field. By further opaque maneuver unit Pankow still got the chance to meet in the final of the East German Cup competition on 14 September 1952 in Berlin. Sporty the Pankow were eliminated in the semifinals against Lok Stendal, but was found on the day before the final, that the Stendal had used an ineligible player and were therefore disqualified. Against the runner- People's Police Dresden Pankow had no chance despite the home advantage and were subject before only 18,000 spectators clearly with 0:3. Coach Kurt preemption sent the following team on the field:

In the past season preemption had been used in the 36 -point games 31 players. After initial experiments at different positions following starting eleven with a mean age of 27.9 years was only from about the 17th Round fixed:

After descending left numerous performers the team, including King ( Bremerhaven ), Ginzel and Zöller (1952 ), as well as compatriot and Hofmann ( 1953). According weak unit Pankow therefore played in the second-rate DDR -Liga. After a 10th place in 1953 unit 1954 rose as the 13th and second to last from the Berlin district league. Especially massive scale of this decline in viewership. During an average of 1949/50, in the Berlin city league 7182 and in the GDR Oberliga 1950/51 nor 2710 spectators arrived at VfB, viewed in the two years in the GDR league in average only 645 and 984 spectators.

BSG Berlin Transport

After descending the BSG Einheit Pankow was connected to the BSG Lok Lichtenberg in September 1954. The BSG Lok took over the district court League of BSG unit and increased after the 1957 season in the DDR II league. On September 1, 1958, the BSG was renamed Berlin public transport and increased after the 1959 season again in the fourth division at that time District League Berlin. In 1990, the SPA was converted to the SV Berlin Transport 49.

BSG Einheit Pankow from 1957

Since 1957, played a BSG Lok Pankow in the district league Berlin. On 1 January 1958 merged with the BSG Lok Lok Pankow Construction Union Buchholz to the new BSG Einheit Pankow. The roots of the Buchholz BSG are the sports group formed in 1946, Buchholz, had become of the 1949 BSG VEB Buchholz and 1950, the sports community Buchholz. The new BSG Einheit Pankow took over the place in the district league of Lok Pankow, but increased at the end of the season in 1958 in the Berlin district league. 1965 returned unit Pankow back to the District League and commuted from 1971 several times between District League and East League. In the GDR league played unit 1971/72, 1973/74 and 1975 / 76th

VfB Pankow (West Berlin )

During the VfB Pankow in the GDR lived through the above-described eventful history, in West Berlin was already on 19 July 1951, the VfB Pankow (West Berlin ), later been re-established to VfB Pankow. This was initially home to an urban sports field in Tegel and experienced in the 1960s, a short wedding, as he ascended into the third-rate amateur league Berlin in 1964 and remained there for two years until 1966.

From 1991

After elimination of the operating system sports community, due to the economic changes after the political changes of 1989, 1990 formed the BSG unit to unit in the sport club Pankow. On 14 May 1991, the East Berlin SV unit and the West Berlin VfB Pankow joined the new club VfB Pankow unit together. By 2003, the club played in the national league Berlin, then rose from the siebtklassige District League Berlin. 2011 successfully reproduced the rise in the national league.

The club has a total of 510 members in 14 junior and nine men's teams (as of November 2012). First Chairman Jörg Milack. 2010, the Youth Department was awarded under the leadership of Mario Honegger with the Eberhard- Bernatzki Prize for outstanding youth work. In this play of the G- to C -Jugend about 280 children in 14 teams (as of April 2012).

Football legends of Pankow

In addition to Willy Schwedler, who played as VfB players in 1921 one match for Germany, there have been several national player, played before or after their international career in Pankow.

• For Germany: Willi Knesebeckstraße, 2 games in 1911/12 for Viktoria 89 Berlin, later came to VfB
• Willi Worpitzky, 9 games from 1909 to 1912 for Viktoria 89 Berlin, later came to VfB
• As coach Josef Pöttinger, 14 games from 1926 to 1930 for Bayern Munich

• Horst Assmy, 12 games from 1954 to 1958 for Oberschoeneweide and ASK Berlin, began at unit Pankow
• Karl -Heinz Spickenagel, 1954 - 1964 for ASK Berlin, began at unit Pankow

Achievements

• Seasons in the GDR Oberliga: 1950/1951 and 1951/1952
• Seasons in the GDR - League: 1952/1953, 1953/1954, 1971/1972, 1973/1974 and 1975/1976
• Rise in the DDR -Liga: 1971, 1973 and 1975
• East Berlin Champion: 1973
• Fdgb District Cup Winners ( East Berlin): 1967
• Promotion to the national league in 2011