Burgstern Noris

Burgstern Noris was a German military football team that took part in the soldiers' championship in France during World War II .

After the German Wehrmacht had largely occupied France in the spring of 1940, several officers who were enthusiastic about German football, including the commander of the 17th Infantry Division Herbert Loch , formed military teams. They were mostly recruited from well-known players in German football clubs. In 1941 and 1942, the military teams in France held their own "Championship of the West", which was carried out in the knockout system .

The news department 17 of the 17th Infantry Division Nuremberg stationed in Brittany had founded the military team "Burgstern Noris". "Burgstern" resulted from the two company commanders in the department First Lieutenant Georg Lichtenstern and First Lieutenant Wolfgang Oldenbourg. "Noris" is an allegorical name for Nuremberg , where the department was stationed.

The team mainly consisted of players from 1. FC Nürnberg and SpVgg Fürth . In November 1942, Burgstern Noris reached the final of the so-called Championship of the West. In the game against the Paris soldier eleven , the Nuremberg master players from 1936 Heinz Carolin and Hans Uebelein , his brother Julius Uebelein , cup winner in 1939 and the 20-year-old Nuremberg goalkeeper Eduard Schaffer on the side of the Noris-Elf. The game was played in the Prinzenparkstadion in Paris in front of around 40,000 spectators. Up to the 85th minute, Burgstern Noris led 2-1, but then lost 4-2 after three goals from nine-time national player Albert Sing .

When at the end of 1942 the German Wehrmacht got more and more distressed, the military teams were disbanded. Burgstern Noris was relocated to the Eastern Front and played the last game in the summer of 1943 in Kiev .

literature

• Gerhard Fischer, Ulrich Lindner: Striker for Hitler. On the interplay between football and National Socialism. 3. Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89533-241-0 , p. 227ff.