German football championship 1911/12

German football championship 1911/12
master	FV Holstein Kiel
Teams	8th
Games	7th
Gates	32  (ø 4.57 per game)
Top scorer	Fritz Förderer (6 goals)
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The tenth German football championship was held from May 5 to May 26, 1912. Holstein Kiel secured the championship with a 1-0 win against Karlsruher FV in his second final appearance in Hamburg-Lokstedt .

For the first time there was a new edition of a final at this championship. Two years after the first duel, Holstein Kiel and the Karlsruher FV met again. This time the North Germans won and won the first championship title for the North German Football Association.

Attendees

Eight clubs, the seven champions of the regional associations and the defending champions were qualified for the final round. On April 29, 1911, under pressure from the DFB , the three remaining and rival Berlin-Brandenburg football associations, the VBB, the MFB and the VBAV, merged to form the Association of Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs (again VBB). With that the confusion of associations in Berlin and Brandenburg that had lasted for more than twenty years finally came to an end. Nevertheless, the region started again with two representatives; In addition to the champions BFC Preussen , defending champion Viktoria 89 Berlin also took part in the finals.

society	Qualified as
BuEV Danzig	Champion of the Baltic Lawn Sports Association
ATV Liegnitz	Champion of the Southeast German Football Association
Berlin FC Preussen	Master of the Association of Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs
Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	Defending champion
SpVgg 1899 Leipzig-Lindenau	Master of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs
Holstein Kiel	Champion of the North German Football Association
Cölner BC 01	Master of the West German Game Association
Karlsruhe FV	Master of the Association of South German Football Associations

Quarter finals

date		Result		Stadion
May 5, 1912	BuEV Danzig	0: 7 (0: 3)	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	Gdansk , Heinrich-Ehlers-Platz
May 5, 1912	SpVgg 1899 Leipzig-Lindenau	3: 2 (1: 0)	ATV 1896 Liegnitz	Dresden , Güntzwiesen
May 5, 1912	FV Holstein Kiel	2: 1 (0: 1)	Berlin FC Preussen	Hamburg , Hoheluft sports ground
May 12, 1912	Cölner BC 01	1: 8 (0: 3)	Karlsruhe FV	Mönchengladbach , Kampfbahn Am Alten Wasserturm

Thanks to a flawless hat trick by Erich Arndt, Viktoria already led 3-0. In the second half, Paul Kugler , Schiepe and two Willi Worpitzky increased to 7-0. At Danzig, Paul Lenhardt played as the right runner, who was in the final with Holstein Kiel in 1910.

Leipzig took the lead in the 28th minute through Ernst Dathe, Liegnitz equalized through Verwerd in the 47th minute. After 53 minutes, Ferdinand Mückenheim shot Leipzig in the lead, who increased them to 3-1 in the 69th minute thanks to a penalty from Otto Hofmann . After 84 minutes, Liegnitz made it 3-2.

After half an hour, Berlin led 1-0 through a goal by Robert Krüger . Only in the final phase did the Kielers turn the game over with Willi Fick in the 84th minute and David Binder three minutes later to make it 2-1.

The Cölner BC 01 suffered a clear defeat against the Karlsruhe FV. The goal scorers in the 8-1 victory were Fritz Förderer (3), Gottfried Fuchs (2) as well as Fritz Tscherter , Max Breunig and Julius Hirsch. Even the only goal of the Cölner - to 1: 4 in the 69th minute - was scored by Hermann Bosch with an own goal .

Semifinals

date		Result		Stadion
May 19, 1912	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	1: 2 a.d. (1: 1, 0: 0)	FV Holstein Kiel	Berlin-Mariendorf , Union-Platz
May 19, 1912	Karlsruhe FV	3: 1 (2: 0)	SpVgg 1899 Leipzig-Lindenau	Frankfurt am Main , FFV-Platz Roseggerstraße

The Kielers succeeded in narrowing the circle of striker Willi Worpitzky decisively. But since her attack repeatedly got stuck in the Berlin defense, it was 0-0 after 90 minutes. It was only through David Binder that Kiel managed to take the lead in the 106th minute. But Berlin came immediately, a minute later through an own goal by goalkeeper Adolf Werner to make it 1-1. In the second extension, David Binder scored 1: 2 for Kiel after 129 minutes.

Karlsruhe played without the injured Gottfried Fuchs, but already led 2-0 at half time with two goals from Fritz Förderer. A penalty from Otto Hofmann reduced Leipzig to 2: 1. In the 70th minute, Fritz Förderer scored the 3-1 final score with his third goal.

final

pairing	FV Holstein Kiel - Karlsruhe FV
Result	1: 0 (0: 0)
date	May 26, 1912
Stadion	Victoria-Platz , Hamburg-Lokstedt
spectator	9,000
referee	Paul Schröder ( Munich-Gladbach )
Gates	1: 0 Möller (52nd, penalty)
FV Holstein Kiel	Adolf Werner - Heinrich Homeister , Hans Reese - Georg Krogmann , Willi Zincke  , Hans Dehning - Helmut Bork , Hugo Fick , David Binder , Willi Fick , Ernst Möller Trainers: -
Karlsruhe FV	Franz Burger - Kurt Hüber , Ernst Hollstein - Wilhelm Gros , Max Breunig , Hermann Bosch - Fritz Tscherter , Fritz Förderer  , Gottfried Fuchs , Julius Hirsch , Hermann Kächele Trainer: William Townley

Match report

Both clubs faced each other in the final in 1910. No goals were scored in the even game until half-time. In the 52nd minute, Willi Fick falls in the Karlsruhe penalty area, Ernst Möller converts the decisive penalty to 1-0. After the lead, the Kielers defended their narrow lead. At KFV, the famous inner storm disappointed, center forward Gottfried Fuchs played with a plaster bandage in the first half. This was removed during the break, but he still suffered from the knee injury and was therefore only able to participate to a limited extent. The coach of the Karlsruher FV, William Townley, was loaned out by SpVgg Fürth especially for this final .

The championship team of FV Holstein Kiel

The Holstein Kiel championship team in the Hoheluft Stadium in Hamburg

Below is the championship team with the players' stakes and goals.

FV Holstein Kiel
	Goal : Adolf Werner (3 / -) Defense : Heinrich Homeister (3 / -), Hans Reese (3 / -) Midfield : Hans Dehning (3 / -), Georg Krogmann (3 / -), Willi Zincke  (3 / -) Sturm : David Binder (3/3), Helmut Bork (3 / -), Hugo Fick (3/1), Willi Fick (3 / -), Ernst Möller (3/1) Trainer : -

List of goalscorers

There is also an unknown goalscorer from ATV Liegnitz.

player		society	Games	Gates
1.	Fritz sponsor	Karlsruhe FV	3	6th
2.	Erich Arndt	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	2	3
3.	David Binder	FV Holstein Kiel	3	3
4th	Gottfried Fuchs	Karlsruhe FV	2	2
	Otto Hofmann	SpVgg 1899 Leipzig	2	2
	Willi Worpitzky	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	2	2
7th	Robert Kruger	Berlin FC Preussen	1	1
	Discard	ATV Liegnitz	1	1
9.	Ernst Dathe	SpVgg 1899 Leipzig	2	1
	Paul Kugler	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	2	1
	Ferdinand Mückenheim	SpVgg 1899 Leipzig	2	1
	Schiepe	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	2	1
13.	Max Breunig	Karlsruhe FV	3	1
	Hugo fuck	FV Holstein Kiel	3	1
	Julius Hirsch	Karlsruhe FV	3	1
	Ernst Möller	FV Holstein Kiel	3	1
	Fritz Tscherter	Karlsruhe FV	3	1

literature

• History of German football. Volume III of the series of publications of the German Football Association. Carl Koppehel, Verlag Wilhelm Limpert, Frankfurt 1954, 4th expanded edition without a year.
• German Championship (1903-1923) , IFFHS magazine Libero No. 36. International Federation of Football History & Statistics , Wiesbaden, 2nd quarter 2002.
• The Golden Book of German Football. Hardy Grüne , Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling, Die Werkstatt publishing house, Göttingen 2015.
• Karlsruher Fußballverein eV (Ed., 2016), A Piece of German Football History - 125 Years of the Karlsruher Fußballverein eV, Karlsruhe, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Heinrich-Ehlers-Platz in Danzig