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EARLY YEARS

It all began with a letter to the board of directors of Bayer's works, then called the "Paint Factory formerly known as Friedrich Bayer & Co." In February 1903, Wilhelm Hausild, former secretary-general of the Wuppertal Gymnastics Association, and August Kuhlmann, secretary-general of the "Male Factory and Officer," asked for support to establish a work gymnastics club. Toward the turn of the century, there were three informal gymnastics clubs in Vistorf that did not belong to the German Gymnastics Association. Housechild and Koehmann wanted to make gymnastics socially acceptable in Leverkusen because the area around the factory was called and pointed out the advantages of gymnastics. They asked management to "register to support providing opportunities for gymnastics and sports at Leberkusen." The appeal was a success. 170 men responded with signatures expressing interest.

In November 1903, Housechild, with his signature, sent a circular to "the excellent directors of Friedrich Bayer & Corporation."The response to 'Please answer me' came quickly. Friedrich Bayer Jr. and Karl Duisburg informed Wilhelm Hausild that they would be "absolutely pleased" if a gymnastics club was established in Leberkusen. They proposed building a gym and the engineering department was tasked with finding a suitable playground.

Gymnastics and sports clubs in the paint factory are known as Friedrich Buyers & Co., or TuS 04, short for July 1, 1904.

There was no actual gym until it was expanded to the building of medical product warehouse R 657 (LaterE 26) on the south side of Gate 1 or on the next vacant lot.

Next to the women's workers' rest room, a "study room" was set up as a warehouse, and the entire medicine section mainly employed female workers.

It is possible that the "study room" was included in the plan to give female workers who sat for 10 hours to move when they built the building in 1903.

Gymnastics were highly disciplined and militaristic and proved unattractive to most young people. As a result, gymnasts Ferdinand Stader, Gustav, Billy Luch, Ernst and Lorentz Meuret were the first to roll the ball at Leverkusen.

Friday, 31st, May, May 1, 1907 with the consent of the gymnasts, five men with 11 comrades demanded the establishment of a football team for TuS 04. The prerequisite set for the approval of gymnasts to play football was regular attendance by footballers every gymnastics evening. The origin of our club was Vistorf Hope as the restaurant owned by Fritz Luchenkirchen was called. The building existed at the corner of Titanstrade and Friedrich Ebertstrade until the end of World War II. The adjacent room, Germania Saal, served as a practice ground for all departments after World War II until it was demolished from the bottom of the A9 building.

The Works Club football team played its first game today behind Bisdorfer Hope on the empty grounds of the F block, until today, when the company's titanium dioxide plant, "Cronos Titan," or behind Bisdorf Hope on the other side of the rural side of the former brickworks and residential area. Starting in 1958, the vehicle section will be operated. In addition, matches were also held in the grass vacant lot south of Botingurststrasse at the opposite end of the Welfare Park (now a resort park) behind a local science school, approaching from Carl-Lebercus-Straze. All the games were friendly. Today the beautiful lawn of Carl Duisburg Park (called Kaiser Wilhelm Park until Doisberg's death) was also used in football, but it was not approved by Hur Duisburg and the game was soon banned. It probably happened around the time of World War I in the area where the Carl Duisburg swimming pool was built in 1933.

The event room in Nobelstra's large, multifunctional building with restaurants, bowling halls, billiards halls, reading rooms, etc. was also available to gymnasts (including the stage), finally opening up a new and comfortable option for the club to do gymnastics. When officially opened on September 13, 1908, Dr. Carl Dusberg, general manager of the paint factory, donated flags to the club that still existed.