Karl Demberg

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Karl Demberg (born December 30, 1905 ; † unknown) was a German football player .

Career

Demberg played for Arminia Bielefeld in the 1930s and won the Westphalia Cup with his team in 1932. His main job was as a lawyer . In 1934 he became the club's president and then enforced the leadership principle in the club. Demberg appointed the board members himself and ordered that the Horst Wessel song be sung at the end of each general meeting . Under Demberg's leadership, Jewish members were excluded from the association and were banned from entering the Bielefelder Alm . In 1940 he resigned from his position as club leader because he was called up to serve in the war. For many years after the end of the Second World War , Demberg was named by some older club members as one of the best club chairmen.

After his career as a functionary, Demberg started a career with the Schutzstaffel (SS) and was trained in the elite unit SS Division Totenkopf and had the rank of Hauptsturmführer . He later worked as an SS and police judge and sentenced other SS members. According to the historian Friedhelm Schäffer, Demberg was responsible for morality in immorality. Towards the end of the Second World War , Demberg was captured. After the end of the war he returned to Bielefeld and would have been "welcomed with open arms" by Arminia Bielefeld.

Karl Demberg is occasionally made responsible for the fact that Arminia Bielefeld's stadium is called "Alm". The quote from Demberg "Just let them come, we will bend them on our alpine pasture." However, it is not known whether the naming was really based on Demberg's quote. In other variants, the naming is dated to the 1920s and attributed to the association member Heinrich Pehle. The former handball department also claimed the name for itself.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jens Kirschneck, Marcus Uhlig , Volker Backes, Olaf Bentkämper, Julien Lecoeur: Arminia Bielefeld - 100 years of passion . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-479-0 , p. 30, 42, 44 .
  2. ↑ Vivien Nogaj: Stumbling blocks for former Arminia functionary. Neue Westfälische , accessed on September 6, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Jan Ahlers: Historian works on the Nazi past of Arminia Bielefeld. Neue Westfälische, accessed on December 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Demberg, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and official
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1905
DATE OF DEATH 20th century