Germania Bochum

Germania Bochum ( officially: Sport Club Germania Bochum 06 eV) was a sports club based in Bochum. The football team played five years in the first class Gauliga Westphalia. In 1938 the Germania on the VfL ​​Bochum.

History

The club was founded in December 1906 as a football club Bochum and was later renamed Germania Bochum. In 1924 the club forward Bochum Germania joined. On April 15, 1938, the Germania had to merge to VfL Bochum forcibly with the TuS Bochum 08 and Bochum TV 1848.

The FC Bochum was initially a "wild club ", which did not participate in organized play mode. Only after in 1910 the textile entrepreneur Otto Wüst, father of the future president VfL Ottokar Wüst, the club was chaired by joined the club at the West German game association. The proletarian Germania was initially sporty in the shadow of civil associations such as the TuS 08 or MBV Linden 05 Only in 1926 came with the promotion to the 1st League Ruhr district made ​​it into the top division. The league has been achieved by a show of strength. First was avoided with a 3-2 playoff victory against the United Prussia Bochum direct descent. It was followed by a 4-1 win in the relegation game against second-bottom of the parallel group SV Langendreer 04

1929, the Germania runner-up in Group 2 behind FC Schalke, Bochum Ruhr district runner-up of 04 two years later were. Initially, the team secured a 2-1 victory in the decider against Westfalia Herne the relay victory, then subject but in the final of the Ruhr district championship Union Gelsenkirchen with 0:4. In the quarterfinal round of the Second Germania failed with 2:4 to Borussia Rheine. In 1932, the Germania had another chance at winning the Ruhr district championship, but in the final behind FC Schalke 04 and Schwarz-Weiß Essen third. A year later, the team qualified for the newly created Gauliga Westphalia.

In the Gauliga the Germania was initially overshadowed by the SV Höntrop from the then independent town Wattenscheid. The biggest success was the runner-up behind FC Schalke 04 in the 1935/36 season. A year later, the club participated for the first and only time on Tschammerpokal, the forerunner of the DFB Cup part. After a 6-5 victory over Cologne VfR 04 rrh. came off in the second round after a 0-3 defeat at the Berliner SV 92, 1938 it came to forced merger. The National Socialist regime wanted to make a big-club Bochum and was responsible for the debt of the three participating clubs. The club members were strongly opposed to the merger. Years later, should have sat strictly at separate tables at meetings the members of the three parent clubs.