The German Academic Championship was a competition organized for academics who did not only belong to academic sports clubs. To this end, the German Kaiser donated a challenge cup. The aim of the emperor was to raise the level and, above all, the reputation of German sport. The exemplary effectiveness of the academics should be used. Competitions were held in different sports, in football jointly by the German Football Association (DFB) and the German Academic Association . Two groups of people were eligible to participate:
All students duly enrolled at universities and colleges, as well as at academies in the rank of universities, who were mainly pursuing this degree.
All former academics who were enrolled at one of the institutions listed above for at least four semesters (later increased to six semesters).
1911: Final VfB Marburg against Holstein Kiel 1-0 (July 23 in Marburg ). The match with around 3000 spectators was led by the Münster referee Kerwer. The Marburg list has been handed down: Junghenn - Nicodemus, Claus - Veltjens, S. Lehnhardt, Eller - Riemann, Wiesner, W. Lehnhardt, Raßbach, Rödiger. List of Kiel: Kiehn - Krogmann, Werner - Freiburg, Wittich, Tinscheit - Plambeck, Dehning, Völckers, Schinke, Wiggert.
1912: Holstein Kiel final against VfB Marburg 2-0 (July 21, in Marburg ). Holstein Kiel played with: Kiehn - Alfred ("Fred") Werner, Reese - Krogmann, Wittich, Schulte - Schinke, Dehning, Plambeck, Wiggert, Hansen. A very powerful and, like the comparison with 1911, also shows a well-rehearsed team that makes the importance of this championship clear: With the national players Hans Reese and Georg Krogmann (both also Olympic participants in the same year!) And Hans Dehning, three players were there who had won the DFB championship with Holstein Kiel a few weeks earlier. In addition, with the NFV selection player Fred Werner (the brother of the national players Adolf and August) and Ali Plambeck, two long-time but now discarded veteran warriors of the first team were in the team, plus Wittich and Max Wiggert (1914 with Altona 93 NFV champions as well five-time NFV selection player) talented young players. Alfred Plambeck and Georg Krogmann scored the goals.
The championship took place from November 1912 to May 1913. Further dates are not known, only that Leipzig started with its student team. In the same year the men's team also became German champions .
1914: The final was scheduled for August 2nd. However, the First World War ended the game. Both clubs agreed to make up for this game immediately after the end of the war. On July 4, 1920, the champion of the year 1914 was determined in Stuttgart.
Karl-Heinz Heimann : Kicker Special November 1999: 100 Years of German Football , Olympia-Verlag, Nuremberg 1999, p. 188
Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
Alfredo Pöge, Gerhard Raschke: Libero - special German - No. D 3 , IFFHS , Wiesbaden 1992; P. 4 ff.
