German football championship 1912/13

German football championship 1912/13
master	VfB Leipzig
Teams	7th
Games	6th
Gates	26  (ø 4.33 per game)
Top scorer	Paul Pömpner (5 goals)
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The eleventh German football championship was held from April 13 to May 11, 1913. VfB Leipzig secured their third championship in the final in Munich-Sendling with a 3-1 win against Duisburg SpV .

VfB Leipzig became the sole record champions again. With Duisburger SpV, a team from the West German Association reached the final for the first time. It was the first finals in which there was no club that had never reached the finals before.

Attendees

Seven clubs, six champions from the regional associations and the defending champion were qualified for the final round. The games took place without the North German champions Eintracht Braunschweig . Due to problems in the determination of the Hamburg-Altona master with numerous protests and counter-protests, the North German championship finals could only start very late. The north German final only took place two weeks after the final for the German championship. Inevitably, the Braunschweig residents could not take part. After all, defending champion Holstein Kiel was a representative from North Germany.

society	Qualified as
SV Prussia-Samland Koenigsberg	Champion of the Baltic Lawn Sports Association
FC Askania Forst	Champion of the Southeast German Football Association
Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	Master of the Association of Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs
VfB Leipzig	Master of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs
FV Holstein Kiel	Defending champion
Duisburg SpV	Master of the West German Game Association
FC Stuttgarter Kickers	Master of the Association of South German Football Associations

Quarter finals

date		Result		Stadion
April 13, 1913	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	6: 1 (4: 0)	SV Prussia-Samland Koenigsberg	Berlin-Mariendorf , Union-Platz
April 20, 1913	FC Stuttgarter Kickers	1: 2 (0: 0)	Duisburg SpV	Frankfurt am Main , FFV-Platz Roseggerstraße
April 20, 1913	FC Askania Forst	0: 5 (0: 1)	VfB Leipzig	Forst , Askania-Platz Heidestrasse

The Berlin team led after half an hour with a goal by Willi Worpitzky and an own goal by goalkeeper Bruno Neumann 2-0. In the 42nd and 43rd minutes, Erich Arndt and Willi Worpitzky achieved the 4-0 halftime score with a double strike. After 53 minutes, Willi Worpitzky increased again with his third goal to 5: 0. After 67 minutes, the Königsberg striker Kluger scored the only goal for the Königsberg team to make it 5-1, before Erich Arndt scored the 6-1 goal three minutes later.

At the break it was still 0-0 between Stuttgart and Duisburg. In the 70th and 77th minutes, the Duisburg team took a 2-0 lead through Hermann Steinhauer and Walter Fischer. Thanks to Rudolf Ahorn, Stuttgart made it 1: 2 after 84 minutes.

Forst lost 5-0 to Leipzig. The four-time goal scorer was Paul Pömpner, who scored three goals up to the 72nd minute and scored the fifth in the 85th minute. Johannes Völkers made it 4-0 after 79 minutes.

The defending champion Holstein Kiel should play in the quarter-finals against the North German champions and moved into the semi-finals without a fight.

Semifinals

date		Result		Stadion
April 27, 1913	Duisburg SpV	2: 1 (1: 1)	FV Holstein Kiel	Essen , sports field on Meisenburgstrasse
April 27, 1913	VfB Leipzig	3: 1 (2: 1)	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	Leipzig , Olympia-Platz at the Marienbrücke

The Kielers took the lead in the 17th minute through Hugo Fick , which was equalized by Anton Bongartz from Duisburg after 35 minutes. After an hour of play, Heinrich Fischer scored the 2-1 winning goal.

Leipzig took a 2-0 lead in the 22nd minute through Hans Dolge and in the 26th minute through Georg Richter. The Berlin team shortened to 2: 1 after 40 minutes with a penalty converted by Helmut Röpnack . Hans Dolge scored the 3-1 final score with his second goal in the 71st minute.

final

pairing	VfB Leipzig - Duisburg SpV
Result	3: 1 (2: 0)
date	May 11, 1913
Stadion	MTV-Platz on Marbachstrasse , Munich-Sendling
spectator	5,000
referee	Robert Knab ( Stuttgart )
Gates	1: 0 Pendorf (9th, penalty) 2: 0 Pömpner (15th) 3: 0 Büscher (60th, own goal) 3: 1 H. Fischer (75th)
VfB Leipzig	Johannes Schneider - Willy Völker , Alfred Herrmann - Paul Michel , Eduard Pendorf , Curt Hesse  - Georg Richter , Paul Pömpner , Johannes Völckers , Hans Dolge , Adelbert Friedrich
Duisburg SpV	Otto Bruckschen - Hermann Klinkers , Adam Schäfer - Kornelius Büscher , Heinz Ludewig , Willi Schütten - Sebastian Quatram , Anton Bongartz , Heinrich Fischer  , Hermann Steinhauer , Walter Fischer

Match report

VfB Leipzig qualified for the final for the fifth time, and DSV was in the final for the first time. The weather was bad and it was raining heavily. After 9 minutes Eduard Pendorf converted a penalty to make it 1-0. After a quarter of an hour, Paul Pömpner increased to 2-0. With this result it went into halftime. Kornelius Büscher from Duisburg underwent an own goal to make it 3-0 for Leipzig after an hour. In the 75th minute Heinrich Fischer shortened to 3: 1 final score. This is the third time that VfB Leipzig has won the German championship.

The championship team of VfB Leipzig

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

VfB Leipzig
	Goal : Johannes Schneider (3 / -) Defense : Alfred Herrmann (3 / -), Willy Völker (3 / -) Midfield : Curt Hesse  (3 / -), Paul Michel (3 / -), Eduard Pendorf (3/1) Storm : Hans Dolge (3/2), Adelbert Friedrich (3 / -), Paul Pömpner (3/5), Georg Richter (3/1), Johannes Völckers (3/1) Trainer : -

List of goalscorers

player		society	Games	Gates
1.	Paul Pömpner	VfB Leipzig	3	5
2.	Willi Worpitzky	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	2	3
3.	Erich Arndt	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	2	2
	Heinrich Fischer	Duisburg SpV	2	2
5.	Hans Dolge	VfB Leipzig	3	2
6th	Rudolf Ahorn	FC Stuttgarter Kickers	1	1
	Hugo fuck	FV Holstein Kiel	1	1
	Smarter	SV Prussia-Samland Koenigsberg	1	1
9.	Anton Bongartz	Duisburg SpV	2	1
	Helmut Röpnack	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	2	1
11.	Walter Fischer	Duisburg SpV	3	1
	Eduard Pendorf	VfB Leipzig	3	1
	Georg Richter	VfB Leipzig	3	1
	Hermann Steinhauer	Duisburg SpV	3	1
	Johannes Völckers	VfB Leipzig	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.

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the Duisburger Spielverein