German football championship 1904/05

German football championship 1904/05
master	Berlin TuFC Union 92
Teams	11
Games	8th
Gates	37  (ø 4.63 per game)
Top scorer	Paul Herzog Reinhard Richter (4 each)
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The third German soccer championship took place from April 9th ​​to June 11th, 1905. After the broken championship last year, Union 92 Berlin was the first time in two years that a new champion was chosen. The final against the Karlsruher FV in Cologne was won 2-0.

The financial difficulties from which the football clubs were suffering became visible this year. Two teams (Schlesien Breslau and surprisingly the reigning champions VfB Leipzig since 1903 ) waived their encounters due to high travel costs. The game committee of the German Football Association was not prepared for such a thing and reacted with new appointments, which made the process confusing and led to only three clubs in the semifinals instead of four. The costs of the final round, previously financed by the DFB, were transferred to the associations and ultimately had to be financed by the clubs or the pitch owners themselves.

Attendees

On May 21, 1905, only 262 clubs were members of the DFB. The round brought a new attendance record; ten regional associations registered their masters to participate. As in the previous two years, the champion of the local and regional associations affiliated to the DFB was eligible to participate. The defending champion was supposed to be the eleventh club, but he waived. This high number of participants and the large differences in performance prompted the DFB to hold a round of elimination for the supposedly weaker association representatives before the quarter-finals. This season, following the scandal last year, the venue's neutrality requirement was complied with for the first time.

society	Qualified as
SC Silesia Wroclaw	Master of the Association of Wroclaw Ball Game Clubs
SC Alemannia Cottbus	Master of the Niederlausitzer Ballspiel-Vereinigung
Berlin TuFC Union 92	Master of the Association of Berlin Ball Game Clubs
Dresdner SC	Master of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs
VfB Leipzig	Defending champion
Magdeburg FC Viktoria 96	Master of the Association of Magdeburg Ball Game Clubs
FC Victoria Hamburg	Master of the Hamburg-Altona Football Association
FuCC Eintracht Braunschweig	Master of the Football Association for the Duchy of Braunschweig
Hannoverscher FC 1896	Master of the Association of Hanover Ball Game Clubs
Duisburg SpV	Master of the Rheinisch-Westfälischer Spielverband
Karlsruhe FV	Master of the Association of South German Football Associations

Elimination round

1 round

date		Result		Stadion
April 9, 1905	SC Silesia Wroclaw	5: 1 (0: 0)	SC Alemannia Cottbus	Dresden , DSC-Platz at the Nossener Bridge
April 9, 1905	FuCC Eintracht Braunschweig	3: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 2: 0)	Hannoverscher FC 1896	Magdeburg , Platz von Viktoria 96

After a sovereign victory against Alemannia Cottbus, in which the goals were not recorded, Schlesien Breslau waived a week later because of too high travel costs to participate in the game against Viktoria 96 in the second round.

Eintracht Braunschweig took the lead in the 15th minute through Rudolf Detmar in the first national championship game against future arch rivals Hannover 96 , and it was 2-0 thanks to Wilhelm Kämpfer until the break . But in the second half the Hanoverians came back with goals from Stanley Dobinson and Wilhelm Bühring and forced the extension. In this, Eintracht won with another goal from Detmar in the 110th minute.

2nd round

date		Result		Stadion
April 16, 1905	Magdeburg FC Viktoria 96	failed	SC Silesia Wroclaw	Leipzig , Leipzig sports field
April 30, 1905	FuCC Eintracht Braunschweig	2: 1 a.d. (1: 1, 0: 0)	Magdeburg FC Viktoria 96	Berlin-Tempelhof , Germania-Platz

With the second round waiver by Schlesien Breslau, the teams from Magdeburg and Braunschweig would have already made it to the quarter-finals, but the game committee now had them compete against each other in a new qualification, so that Eintracht had to play an additional game three weeks later:

Hans Adam brought Magdeburg in the 61st minute against Eintracht from Braunschweig in the lead. But seven minutes later, a controversial penalty, transformed by Kurt Hagemann , equalized. Around the 80th minute, Geyer from Magdeburg was sent off. This was followed by an extension in which Wilhelm Kämpfer scored the winning goal for the quarter-finals in the 106th minute.

Quarter finals

date		Result		Stadion
May 7, 1905	FuCC Eintracht Braunschweig	failed	VfB Leipzig
May 14, 1905	Berlin TuFC Union 92	4: 1 (0: 1)	FuCC Eintracht Braunschweig	Magdeburg , Platz von Viktoria 96
May 28, 1905	Karlsruhe FV	1: 0 (1: 0)	Duisburg SpV	Hanau , Hanau parade ground
May 28, 1905	Dresdner SC	5: 3 (2: 2)	FC Victoria Hamburg	Tempelhof near Berlin , Germania-Platz

The reigning champions VfB Leipzig withdrew and waived their game for cost reasons. The Braunschweig team was then assigned by the DFB for the following week the Union 92 team, who had so far drawn a bye for the quarter-finals.

Eintracht was initially able to take the lead surprisingly through Wilhelm Kämpfer and hold it until half-time, but only two minutes after the restart, the Berliners equalized with Alfred Wagenseil. This was followed by two goals by Willi Pisara in the 56th and 66th minute. Finally, Reinhold Bock scored the 4: 1.

In a close game two weeks later, the favorite Karlsruher FV decided the second quarter-finals against Duisburg SpV for themselves. After two years it was the first championship win for the previously hapless Karlsruhe team, who then even got a bye for the final. Julius Zinser scored the winning goal in the first half.

In the last quarter-finals, Victoria Hamburg led against Dresdner SC after just four minutes thanks to Hermann Garrn . However, this turned the game around a quarter of an hour later with a double strike from Arno Neumann within five minutes. Shortly before the end of the first half, Hamburg equalized by Berthold Hagenah; but after the break, Reinhard Richter from Dresden scored two quick goals for his club again in the 48th and 50th minute. Ten minutes later, Max Fricke shortened to 3: 4 for Hamburg. In the final phase, however, the decision was made in favor of Dresden with Arno Große's 5-3.

Semifinals

date		Result		Stadion
June 4, 1905	Dresdner SC	2: 5 (0: 3)	Berlin TuFC Union 92	Leipzig , Leipzig sports field
	Karlsruhe FV	bye

The Dresdner SC was clearly inferior to the favorites of the Union. In the 20th minute, Paul Herzog put Berlin in the lead. After further goals from Herzog and Fröhde, it was 3-0 after the first half. Herzog also scored a goal in the second half, completing his three-pack. Reinhard Richter was able to score two consolation goals in this defeat , which made him the top scorer in the finals. In the meantime, Willi Pisara had also scored 4-1 with his third goal in the final.

final

pairing	Berlin TuFC Union 92 - Karlsruher FV
Result	2: 0 (1: 0)
date	Sun, June 11, 1905
Stadion	Weidenpescher Park , Cologne
spectator	3,500
referee	Reginald Westendarp ( Hamburg )
Gates	1: 0 Wagenseil (10th) 2: 0 Herzog (50th)
Berlin TuFC Union 92	Willy Krüger - Otto Kähne , Alexander Bock I - Felix Jurga , Kurt Heinrich  , Emil Reinke - Reinhold Bock II, Alfred Wagenseil , O. Fröhde , Paul Herzog , Willi Pisara
Karlsruhe FV	Willem Christiaan Schierbeek - Fritz Gutsch , Jacques Johannes Bouvy - Wilhelm Langer I, Ivo Schricker  , Max Schwarze - Hans Ruzek , Louis Heck , Rudolf Wetzler , Julius Zinser , A. Holdermann

Match report

The Karlsruher FV, whose ranks included two Dutchmen as well as the later Vice-President and General Secretary of FIFA Ivo Schricker , had no chance against the Berlin TuFC Union 92. The upcoming champions had already won the previous games with a difference of three goals. Although the regular goalkeeper Paul Eichelmann , who had drunk the night before, was voluntarily suspended for disciplinary reasons and Thiel was not given a vacation, a sovereign victory was achieved.

Alfred Wagenseil took the lead after just ten minutes. Shortly after the break, top scorer Paul Herzog scored the 2-0 with his fourth goal in the final. After a Berlin team had already reached the final a year earlier, the dominance of Berlin teams, which continued until the early 1920s, began, even if this was to remain the only title for the Union.

The master team of the Berlin TuFC Union 92

Master team of the Berlin TuFC Union 92.
Heinrich, Reinke, Kähne, Wagenseil, Herzog, Girulatis, A. Bock, Thiel, Pisara, Jurga; front: Kruger

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

Berlin TuFC Union 92
	Goal : Willy Krüger (2 / -), Paul Eichelmann (1 / -) Defense : Alexander Bock I (3 / -), Otto Kähne (3 / -) Midfield : Kurt Heinrich  (3 / -), Felix Jurga (3 / -), Emil Reinke (2 / -), Reinhard Thiel (1 / -) Sturm : Reinhold Bock II (3/1), O. Fröhde (3/1), Richard Girulatis (1 / -), Paul Herzog (3/4), Willi Pisara (3/3), Alfred Wagenseil (2/2 ) Trainer : -

List of goalscorers

A total of 6 goalscorers from Schlesien Breslau (5) and Alemannia Cottbus (1) are unknown.

player		society	Games	Gates
1.	Reinhard Richter	Dresdner SC	2	4th
2.	Paul Duke	Berlin TuFC Union 92	3	4th
3.	Wilhelm fighter	FuCC Eintracht Braunschweig	3	3
	Willi Pisara	Berlin TuFC Union 92	3	3
5.	Arno Neumann	Dresdner SC	2	2
	Alfred Wagenseil	Berlin TuFC Union 92	2	2
7th	Rudolf Detmar	FuCC Eintracht Braunschweig	3	2
8th.	Hans Adam	Magdeburg FC Victoria 96	1	1
	Wilhelm Buhring	Hannoverscher FC 96	1	1
	Stanley Raine Dobinson	Hannoverscher FC 96	1	1
	Max Fricke	FC Victoria Hamburg	1	1
	Hermann Garrn	FC Victoria Hamburg	1	1
	Berthold Hagenah	FC Victoria Hamburg	1	1
14th	Arno Große	Dresdner SC	2	1
	Julius Zinser	Karlsruhe FV	2	1
16.	Reinhold Bock	Berlin TuFC Union 92	3	1
	O. Merry	Berlin TuFC Union 92	3	1
	Kurt Hagemann	FuCC Eintracht Braunschweig	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.

Web links

• Articles and statistics on iffhs.de
• Game details and statistics on weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlsruher Fußballverein eV (Ed., 2016), A Piece of German Football History - 125 Years of the Karlsruher Fußballverein, Karlsruhe, 2016, p. 54.