The origin of the link with Hamburg?

[Dado 334]

Does anyone know what the background to our links with Hamburg are?

I'm aware there is a large RSC in Hamburg and the Albertz connection didn't do any harm, is there any more to it?

[mrmytto 220]

Thing it's to do with a group of Glasgow guys going to the games, Rangers banners, set up a RSC and then the Albertz transfer. Or atleast that's what I read, somewhere.

[mmrfc1873 48]

I thought it all started with Albertz.

[bombaybadboy08 15,660]

Ex-pats living over there i believe and started a supporters club.

Willing to be corrected though

edit - Pre Albertz i believe the link was formed before Albertz but he helped strengthen it.

[Clemdog 39,388]

Don't know if it's a huge reason, but because Celtic and St Pauli are such 'good buddies' it makes it easier for them to like us.

Definitely not how it started though.

[AMMS 27]

Shipbuilders and merchant seamen going over in the 60s began the link. The St Pauli thing with the Tims is relatively recent. Plus Northern Germany is reformed

[Thermopylae 15,286]

Now that's what you call cavitation

[bombaybadboy08 15,660]

Shipbuilders and merchant seamen going over in the 60s began the link. The St Pauli thing with the Tims is relatively recent. Plus Northern Germany is reformed

I knew it was pre Albertz but feck me that's far back

[GOAT 30,449]

It's to do with a group of ex-pats starting up a RSC in Hamburg.

[markybear 136]

Shipbuilders and merchant seamen going over in the 60s began the link. The St Pauli thing with the Tims is relatively recent. Plus Northern Germany is reformed

The sixties shipbuilding link is what I I've been told

[Carsons Dog 9,878]

Now that's what you call cavitation

He needs to alter the pitch of his engines that guy

[*Manticore* 1,893]

HSV have an affinity with Scottish Club Rangers F.C. HSV fans unfurl their club logo at Rangers away European matches. The link between Rangers FC and Hamburger SV dates back to the early seventies when the Hamburg Rangers Supporters Club was set up by Rangers FC fans who had relocated to the Hamburg area. The links were further strengthened when Rangers FC signed Jörg Albertz from Hamburger SV but this was not the start of it. A further point which reinforces the affinity is the link between FC St Pauli and Celtic FC, rivals of HSV and Rangers FC respectively

http://www.gfdb.com/Club.1217.Hamburger-SV.aspx

This is the story I've heard most often. I know for a fact that a good number of Brits worked in Hamburg in the 1970s. However I don't think it was huge until Albertz signed, and of course the era of cheap flights revolutionised air travel.

As AMMS points out the earls affinity with st pauli would help along with the area being dominated by the reformed churches.

Also being top Club in a port, with neighbours who are second rate and scummy would help.