Concordia Koenigsberg

Concordia Koenigsberg
Full name	Gaming Association Concordia 1911 Koenigsberg
place	Koenigsberg
Founded	1911 (as SC Concordia Königsberg)
Dissolved	1945
Club colors	Green-black-white
Stadion	Herzogsacker
Top league	Gauliga East Prussia
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The SV Concordia Königsberg was a football club from the East Prussian capital Königsberg . The highlight of the club's history was the two-year membership in the Gauliga East Prussia , the top division in Germany from 1933 to 1945.

history

1911 to 1933

Among the numerous teams in the East Prussian Hanseatic city , the club founded in 1911 under the name SC " Concordia " ( Latin for " harmony ") did not play a prominent role and was at best mediocre. Only in youth football were the Concordes, who competed in their green and black jerseys, able to convince at the district championships in East Prussia.

In comparison to the other associations in the German Reich, football in north-east Germany was one of the weakest football regions, teams from East Prussia rarely made people sit up and take notice across the Reich. Even under this weak competition, Concordia Königsberg could not stand out.

Concordia played for the first time ten years after it was founded in a first division, the Königsberg district league . The second place behind series champion VfB Königsberg was also the best placement. However, this "top division" consisted of only seven teams from Koenigsberg and Ponarth , with two teams from Prussia-Samland Koenigsberg in competition. Significantly, Concordia had conceded more goals as runner-up than scored themselves.

In 1922, SC Germania Königsberg merged with SC Concordia Königsberg to form SV Concordia Königsberg . In the following season Concordia was third, but in 1923/24 they ended up being beaten in eighth and thus last place. Although the district league was retained, at the end of the 1924/25 season, after a disappointing seventh place, disappeared for a few years from the upper football league in East Prussia.

It was not until 1930, when the top division was now called the Königsberg district league , that they returned to the upper house. The debut season in the district league ended with 4th place in a six-man competition, and Concordia secured relegation by five points.

In 1931/32 the league was only played in a simple round of points. Concordia could only record one victory against the Königsberger STV and otherwise went off as a loser. Only in a relegation round with the KSTV and the two district class representatives Police SV Koenigsberg and RSV Braunsberg was it secured to remain in the district league.

Once again, the green-blacks booked 4th place in the 1932/33 season, but became second class again with the introduction of the Gauliga East Prussia .

1933 to 1945

Concordia struggled with variable success in the district class and rose in 1935 to the Gauliga. The top division in East Prussia, however, was split up into four seasons, so that in principle the conditions from before 1933 prevailed again.

After two fourth places in 1937 and 1938 Concordia Königsberg finally disappeared in the lower divisions after the Gauliga East Prussia was held again in a season for the 1938/39 season. The Concordes lacked eight points in their league season so that they could at least participate in the qualifying games for the Gauliga.

Concordia Königsberg also fell by the wayside in the regional qualifying matches in the Tschammer Cup . Only in the Tschammer Cup in 1943 did the team from Roßgarten reach the semi-finals in East Prussia, but lost to the overpowering VfB Königsberg with 0:10.

In August 1944, with the start of the Allied air raids, club life in Königsberg came to a standstill. With the occupation of Königsberg in April 1945 by the Red Army and the subsequent flight and expulsion of the remaining German population, the association ceased to exist.

Venue

Concordia Königsberg played on the Herzogsacker on Wallstrasse in Lithuania before 1919 . Concordia shared the former parade ground in the Roßgarten district with other football and handball clubs .

Well-known names

• Helmut Behrendt (1904–1985), General Secretary of the National Olympic Committee of the GDR , 1919–1922 football player with Concordia.

literature

• DSFS : Football in the Baltic Sports Association, Part 1: 1903/04 - 1932/33 . DSFS, 2018.
• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
• German Sports Club for Football Statistics (Ed.): " Football Yearbook Germany 1930/31 - 1932/33 ", Bünde 2004.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SpVgg ASCO Königsberg (ed.): “ Chronicle of the ASCO-Königsberg Association with its original sports club East Prussia 1902, Academic Sports Club 1905” , Hamburg, August 1952
2. ↑ Volker Kluge, Olaf W. Reimann:  Behrendt, Helmut . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .