FG Salzburg

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The football community Salzburg was a war-related game community of several football clubs in the city of Salzburg , Austria (then Ostmark ) during the Second World War and existed from April 1943 to April 1945.

history

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, clubs in the Salzburg 1st class and the Western Division were entitled to take part in the promotion rounds to what was then the Gauliga . However, the political conditions as well as the service obligations, drafts into the German armed forces or the Reich Labor Service brought the game of football in Salzburg almost completely to a standstill. SV Austria Salzburg grew, reinforced by German guest players who were stationed here, to become the strongest club in Salzburg's 1st class and won the championship in the 1939/40 and 1940/41 seasons . In 1941, after defeating the SK Amateure Steyr , the master of the Upper Danube 1st class, they made it into the promotion round to the Ostmark division . In the promotion games, however, Salzburg fail due to the overpowering opponents SK Sturm Graz , Post SV Wien and BSG Traisen .

After this season, the game operations in the Salzburg class could only be maintained with difficulty and were carried out more and more irregularly. With the proclamation of “ total war ” and the associated calling up of almost all capable players, the casting problems of all clubs became insurmountable. In April 1943, the traditional clubs Salzburger AK 1914 , SV Austria Salzburg and 1. Salzburger SK 1919 decided to merge to form the Salzburg football community in order to be able to continue playing at least in a makeshift manner.

The management of the association was divided between the functionaries of the individual clubs (Kaser from SSK 1919, Karl Sachs from Austria Salzburg and Tyraj and Mühlbacher from SAK). When the new club started out for the first time, Habermüller, Tatzl and Josef “Sepp” Schwanzer only had three established players from Austria Salzburg in the squad, which was supplemented by young players from the other two clubs. The current 1942/43 season had to be canceled, however, because the new syndicate with the Reichsbahn SG Salzburg only had one competitor available. Salzburg Austria, leading after three games, was declared champion, the place in the promotion round to Gauliga Donau Alpenland was taken over by the new football community. All promotion games against the competitors SK Amateure Steyr and 1. FFC Vorwärts 06 Vienna were clearly lost. The Salzburg youth team scored only three goals and were hopelessly inferior to their opponents.

In the 1943/44 season, the soccer community was the only Salzburg representative to play in the Oberdonau-Salzburg league and was eighth among eleven teams. Master this league was likewise out of the war-related merger of Steyr clubs amateurs and forward resulting FG Steyr .

In the canceled and not rated season 1944/45, the game operation was denied exclusively by youth players. On April 8, 1945, shortly before the capitulation of the German Reich, the FG Salzburg was dissolved. As early as autumn 1945 the three traditional clubs SAK, SSK and Austria formed their own teams again and occupied the first three places in the revived Salzburg 1st class.

successes

  • Participation in the promotion rounds to the Gauliga: 1943
  • Participation in the Upper Danube-Salzburg League: 1944