RC Graz RC Graz RC Graz is an Austrian rugby club in Graz that plays in the highest domestic division. The RC Graz Rugby Sevens team are the current Austrian 7s champions, as well as winning from 2013-2015 and finishing second in 2016. The club was founded in 1995 following a rise in interest in rugby due to the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa, which was the first rugby world cup to be shown on German-speaking free television. The same year, the club was initiated to the Austrian Rugby Federation (ÖRV) (now Rugby Österreich). While initially there were struggles to
Simmering-Graz-Pauker Simmering-Graz-Pauker Simmering-Graz-Pauker AG (SGP), founded as "Simmering-Graz-Pauker AG für Maschinen-, Kessel- und Waggonbau", was an important Austrian machine and engine factory, manufacturing: machinery, boilers and rail vehicles. It was established in 1941 through the merger of Simmering machinery and rolling stock company with the Graz machine and rolling stock company and the Paukerwerkstraße Corporation from Vienna. After the Second World War the company was majority owned by the state and had a wide network of international offices and subsidiaries in Asia, South America and Europe with several thousand employees. The company experienced rapid growth until the mid-1980s. In the early