German football championship 1949/50

Final round of the German soccer championship 1950
master	VfB Stuttgart
Teams	16
Games	17th
Gates	66  (ø 3.88 per game)
Top scorer	Herbert Wojtkowiak
← German football championship 1948/49 German football championship 1950/51 →
Football Oberliga 1949/50 ↓

The final round of the DFB football championship in 1950 was the only one after the end of the war in which 16 clubs took part (instead of the usual eight). The reason was the envisaged participation of teams from the GDR . In fact, the modalities were negotiated between the DFB and the German Sports Committee of the GDR in May 1950 . The two sides gave different reasons for why no agreement was reached in the end. The seats reserved for GDR representatives in the final round were then distributed to the other regional associations.

Because of the expansion to 16 participants, the Berlin runner-up was also qualified as an exception . This was Union Oberschöneweide from the eastern sector, which raised new problems. The club ultimately did not receive a travel permit for its preliminary round match against HSV (the game took place in Kiel in the Waldwiese stadium there), whereupon a large part of the team went to the west zone on their own responsibility to play against HSV. Shortly afterwards, the former Oberschöneweider founded the SC Union 06 Berlin in West Berlin .

Participants in the final round

Hamburger SV	→ Champion of the Oberliga Nord 1949/50
FC St. Pauli	→ Second in the Oberliga Nord 1949/50
VfL Osnabrück	→ Third in the Oberliga Nord 1949/50
Borussia Dortmund	→ Champion of the Oberliga West 1949/50
Prussia Dellbrück	→ Second in the Oberliga West 1949/50
Red and white food	→ Third in the Oberliga West 1949/50
STV Horst-Emscher	→ Fourth in the Oberliga West 1949/50
1. FC Kaiserslautern	→ Champion of the Oberliga Südwest 1949/50
SSV Reutlingen 05	→ Second in the Oberliga Südwest 1949/50
TuS Neuendorf	→ Third in the Oberliga Südwest 1949/50
SpVgg Fürth	→ Champion of the Oberliga Süd 1949/50
VfB Stuttgart	→ Second in the Oberliga Süd 1949/50
Kickers Offenbach	→ Third in the Oberliga Süd 1949/50
VfR Mannheim	→ Fourth in the Oberliga Süd 1949/50
Tennis Borussia Berlin	→ Champion of the Berlin City League 1949/50
Union Oberschöneweide	→ Second in the Berlin City League

Finals

Round of 16

date		Result
Sun 21.05.	1. FC Kaiserslautern	2: 2 a.d.	Rot-Weiss Essen ( in Karlsruhe )
Sun 21.05.	SpVgg Fürth	3: 2 (1: 2)	STV Horst-Emscher ( in Worms )
Sun 21.05.	Prussia Dellbrück	1: 0 a.d.	SSV Reutlingen 05 ( in Koblenz )
Sun 21.05.	Borussia Dortmund	1: 3 (1: 1)	VfR Mannheim ( in Gladbeck )
Sun 21.05.	VfB Stuttgart	2: 1 (1: 1)	VfL Osnabrück ( in Cologne )
Sun 21.05.	Kickers Offenbach	3: 1 (1: 0)	Tennis Borussia Berlin ( in Munich )
Sun 21.05.	FC St. Pauli	4: 0 (1: 0)	TuS Neuendorf ( in Hanover )
Sun 28.05.	Hamburger SV	7: 0 (4: 0)	SC Union 06 Berlin ( in Kiel )

Replay

date		Result
Mon 29.05.	1. FC Kaiserslautern	3: 2 a.d.	Rot-Weiss Essen ( in Cologne )

Quarter finals

date		Result
Sun 04.06.	VfB Stuttgart	5: 2 (2: 0)	1. FC Kaiserslautern ( in Nuremberg )
Sun 04.06.	SpVgg Fürth	2: 1 (2: 0)	FC St. Pauli ( in Gelsenkirchen )
Sun 04.06.	Kickers Offenbach	3: 2 (0: 2)	Hamburger SV ( in Düsseldorf )
Sun 04.06.	Prussia Dellbrück	2: 1 (0: 0)	VfR Mannheim ( in Frankfurt am Main )

Semifinals

date		Result
Sun 11.06.	VfB Stuttgart	4: 1 (2: 1)	SpVgg Fürth ( in Frankfurt am Main )
Sun 11.06.	Prussia Dellbrück	0: 0 a.d.	Kickers Offenbach ( in Stuttgart )

Replay

date		Result
Sun 18.06.	Prussia Dellbrück	0: 3 (0: 1)	Kickers Offenbach ( in Oberhausen )

Endgame

pairing	VfB Stuttgart - Kickers Offenbach
Result	2: 1 (2: 0)
date	June 25, 1950
Stadion	Olympic Stadium , Berlin
spectator	95,000
referee	Erich Kormannshaus ( wages )
Gates	1-0 Erwin Läpple (17th) 2-0 Walter Bühler (27th) 2-1 Horst Buhtz (47th)
VfB Stuttgart	Otto Schmid - Erich Retter , Richard Steimle - Ernst Otterbach , Josef Ledl , Karl Barufka - Erwin Läpple , Robert Schlienz , Walter Bühler , Otto Baitinger , Rolf Blessing Trainer: Georg Wurzer
Kickers Offenbach	Josef Schepper - Ferdinand Emberger , Willi Magel - Kurt Schreiner , Anton Picard , Willi Keim - Gerhard Kaufhold , Albert Wirsching , Horst Buhtz , Wilhelm Weber , Heinz Baas Trainer: Paul Oßwald

literature

• Goergen, Jeanpaul: Football on a big screen. The German football championship of 1950 in newsreel and documentary film. In: Filmblatt, Volume 17, No. 49 Summer 2012, 61–73.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Berliner Zeitung announced after the end of the GDR championship that Horch Zwickau, Tabak Dresden and Waggonbau Dessau “will represent our republic in the German championship”. Tabak Dresden would have taken the place of the dissolved runner-up SG Friedrichstadt .
2. ↑ "... we are of the opinion that the staging of all-German championships must be characterized by the common struggle of the athletes of West Germany and the athletes of the German Democratic Republic to achieve a unified German Democratic Republic. This means that all Germans will unite in a large national front to eliminate those forces that consciously maintain the division of Germany and thus the division of sport. We see these forces in the representatives of the Anglo-American and French occupying powers. ”Open letter from DS to the DFB, in: New Football Week No. 20/1950, page 3:“ Why it didn't come to the ´German´ ”.