Stahl Brandenburg Rugby

The SG Stahl Brandenburg is a sports club in the city of Brandenburg an der Havel. The club was founded on 20 November 1950 as BSG Stahl Brandenburg. Significant sections of earlier decades were, for example, today as FC Stahl Brandenburg outsourced football and playing in the top division, the league and Bundesliga Handball. Today, the Departments disabled sports, bowling, billiards, table tennis, weight training, fin swimming, boxing, gymnastics and rugby the club are affiliated.

History

The BSG Stahl Brandenburg was one of the biggest company sports teams of the GDR. At times, over 2,000 members operating in the work of the club steel and rolling mill Brandenburg sport. So there were more than fifteen sections to weddings. These included football, handball, rugby, rowing, canoeing, athletics, volleyball, billiards, chess, table tennis, bowling, badminton, gymnastics, weight training, boxing and sailing. In addition, the BSG a marching band was attached. Many of the former sections were dissolved in the course of change in the former GDR or affiliated off. The athletes steel Brandenburg have won many national and international success. The canoeist Birgit Fischer won eight times, for example gold and four silver medals, making it the most successful German Olympic athlete in history at the Olympics. Nationally known were also the footballers who played seven years in the league and in 1986 even took part in the UEFA Cup. After the reunion we still played for one season in the 2nd Bundesliga, before the sporting decline and later the resolution and a start-up followed. The handball team played in the DDR - Oberliga and for one season in the Bundesliga. In 1992, the spin-off as HV 92 Brandenburg. In the further course and with continued athletic decline is also the handball section disbanded. Many of the newly initiated or departments that no longer belong to the SG, bear the name of steel today. To operate the soccer players as FC steel, the canoeists as WSV steel Beetzsee and the marching band as CTV steel because of their history under the old name.

Departments

Rugby

In the course of an international match between the former GDR and the Romanian national team on October 12, 1958 on the sports field of the BSC South 05 in Brandenburg district of North, the attended more than 3,000 spectators and in the GDR scored their only draw in their international match history against the Romanians, a section of rugby was established at the former shipyard Thalmann. In 1959, the newly established Department of BSG Motor Sports North, the Sports Association of the yard followed. Since the Thalmann shipyard was closed in 1962 and dissolved in this context, the BSG Motor North, the rugby players had to find a new home club and so joined the BSG Stahl Brandenburg at.

With the beginning of the 1980s medicine sports ground was rebuilt after the then District Mental Hospital to a rugby field and has been the home of the Department. The team played at this time in the first league of the GDR. Her biggest success came Stahl Brandenburg in the 1987/88 season under then coach Gerd Wendler, when you could be behind steel Hennigsdorf Second and thus DDR runners-up and established itself as the top team. During this period, five were members of the national team players. Two and a half years later, in 1990, the A- students were the last master of the GDR under the coaching team Holger Thomas and Reiner Hermann.

With the political changes many players left the club or ended their sports career. This became such a problem that you thought about the resolution of the Department of rugby. This was followed by a gradual consolidation, so in the season 1999/2000 after a second place in the Regional League East and a subsequent successful qualification round Eder jump to the 2nd Bundesliga succeeded. Brandenburg could hold two seasons in the league, before the descent followed back to the Regionalliga. 2004/2005 could decide the championship round of the regional leagues in the Northeast for themselves and thus celebrate the resurgence. In the following season Brandenburg by defeating the other Brandenburg second division clubs Hennig village, Potsdam and Hohen Neuendorf in the final and managed to secure fifth in the league. This was also the best placement of the period after that was able to achieve Brandenburg. A season later, in 2007 it was knocked off the last 2 Bundesliga Nord and got back into the regional league. Since this decline will Brandenburg deteriorated sporty from season to season and despite playing league reform which brought an increase in the national leagues and in this context, a withdrawal of opposing teams from the lower leagues in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga with it, the bottom of the Regionalia East.

Finswimming

The foundation of a Section diving in Brandenburg an der Havel goes back to the year 1960. At that time the present section ran as a basic organization of society for sport and technology. After the GST was disbanded in 1989, the diving and swimming fins had to re- orient. Instead of an independent association founded to, the then BSV closed one at Stahl Brandenburg. The section was a member of the Association of German Sports Divers and developed into a very good national and international scale club. So achieved Brandenburg divers and swimmers fins good rankings in the world, European and German championships. Due to the successful work of the Department, the State Sports Association in Brandenburg decided to establish a national power base. Due to the outstanding young talent, the division was awarded the 2000 Green Belt for exemplary talent at the club.

Table tennis

In early 1950, founded interested in sports workers of the steel plant and rolling mill Brandenburg the autopsy table tennis in the BSG Stahl Brandenburg. 1964 burned down the gymnasium of the department at the Gorden bridge completely. Three years later, after rebuilding rooms in the former Opel canteen, today's sports hall will be taken at the Gorden bridge in operation. As a result, the section and table tennis player from Stahl Brandenburg established among the best in the district of Potsdam. So you achieved the greatest success in the 1970s. In a season of BSG even managed to win all the individual and team titles of the district. In the junior level Stahl Brandenburg was one of the top national clubs. Before the political turning were also held regularly internationals, GDR championships, district championships and performance class tournaments in Brandenburg. With the political changes of 1989/1990 the department table tennis had about 85 members. In the following years this number grew to about 100, of which 40 percent in children and young people trained. 13 teams took part in the meantime active sporting competitions. Currently, there are ten teams.