- BC Hartha
Football club infobox
clubname = BC Hartha
fullname = Ballspiel-Club Hartha e.V.
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founded = 1913
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league = Berzirksklasse Leipzig-Staffel 1 (VIII)
season = 2007-08
position = 7th
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leftarm2=0000FF|body2=0000FF|rightarm2=0000FF|shorts2=0000FF|socks2=0000FFBC Hartha is a German football club from the town of
Hartha ,Saxony .__TOC__
History
The club was established 13 July 1913 and first emerged out of local level competition in the mid-30s by capturing the Bezirksklasse Mittelsachsen (II) title in 1935 and then winning a promotion playoff to advance to the
Gauliga Sachsen , one of sixteen regional top-flight divisions established in the 1933 re-organization of German football under theThird Reich . "Hartha" fielded competitive sides through the balance of the decade and on to the end ofWorld War II in 1945. The team captured division titles in 1937 and 1938 and delivered a number of top three finishes. Those titles earned "BC" a place in the national playoffs, but they were unable to progress beyond the opening group stage. They also made appearances in play for the Tschammerpokal, predecessor to today'sDFB-Pokal (German Cup), in 1935-39 and 1941, and sent a representative to the national team in 1939.They slipped briefly from first division competition in 1941 but returned after just a single season absence. As the war overtook the country, play became more local in character and in 1944 "BC" became part of the
Gauliga Chemnitz which collapsed early in the 1944-45 season.Following the war the former membership of "BC" was re-formed as "Sportgemeinde Hartha" which became part of the separate football competition that emerged in
East Germany . The team was renamed "BSG Industrie Hartha" in 1949 and again in 1952 as "BSG Fortschritt Hartha". From 1953 until 1958, "BSG" was part of the second tierDDR-Liga before slipping to the Bezirksliga Leipzig, where they played as an anonymous lower division side over the next three decades. On 18 August 1990, as the reunification of Germany approached, the club reassumed its traditional identity as "BC Hartha".Honours
*Gauliga Sachsen (I) champions: 1937, 1938
Notable players
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Walter Fritzsch
*Erich Gleixner
*Erich Hänel External links
* [http://www.bc-hartha.de/ Official team site]
References
*Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9
* [http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv] historical German domestic league tables (in German)
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