Football department

The (Reich) Fachamt football (actually Fachamt 2: football , rugby , cricket ) replaced the German Football Association (DFB) from 1933 onwards with regard to operational tasks during the time of National Socialism . This initially concerned the implementation of the championship and club cup games and, after the dissolution of the DFB, the implementation of the international games.

history

In the course of the " synchronization " of the social organizations, the sports associations were also reorganized by the National Socialists from mid-1933 . The overwhelming majority of the existing organizations were urged to dissolve themselves; as early as May 1933, the previous umbrella organization for German sport, the German Reich Committee for Physical Exercise (DRA), was dissolved.

In football, the DFB remained in existence until 1940, but in fact only played a role for participation in international competitions. The seven regional associations of the DFB disbanded in the course of 1933. The organization of the sport was transferred to a centralized structure in the sense of “conformity”. As recently as 1933, so-called “specialist pillars” were introduced for the various sports branches, the tasks of the DFB, for example, were taken over at the national level by the “specialist pillar football”. In 1934, after the establishment of the German Reich Association for Physical Exercise (from 1938: National Socialist Reich Association for Physical Exercise ) as a new umbrella organization for sports, the specialist pillars were renamed and each of the 15 specialist departments was now called “Fachamt”. The area of gymnastics was covered by “ Fachamt 1 ”, while “Fachamt 2” was responsible for football and the associated sports rugby and cricket.

The Football Department was headed by the former DFB President Felix Linnemann . Subordinate to him was the professional trainer (i.e. the Reich trainer ) Otto Nerz . The game operation was initially divided into 16 districts, the champions of the Gauligen took part in the final round of the German championship . Selection teams of the Gaue took part in the Reichsbund Cup (formerly Crown Prince Cup , later Federal Cup).

In 1936 and 1938 there were disputes between Sepp Herberger, who was appointed Reich trainer, and Otto Nerz about the competencies of the national team . In 1937 Otto Nerz became a football specialist for the national team. In 1938 he resigned.

In 1938, the football clubs from Austria and the Sudetenland were incorporated into the specialist office.

On April 27, 1940, a general meeting of the DFB decided to dissolve the DFB by July 1, 1940. The assets went to the Reichsbund für physical exercises.

After the end of the Third Reich , the Reichsbund für physical exercises with its affiliated specialist offices - like all organizations of the NSDAP - was dissolved in May 1945. In the post-war years, the regional football associations gradually emerged again, and in 1950 the German Football Association was re-established in the Federal Republic of Germany. In the same year a "Technical Committee for Football" of the German Sports Committee was established in the GDR as a forerunner of the later DFV .

literature

German Football Association ( Ed. ): 100 Years of the DFB - The History of the German Football Association . Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-328-00850-0

Individual evidence

↑ "The most important tasks in the management and administration of football have been transferred from the federal government to the specialist office, such as the implementation of championships and club cup games with all the necessary technical and administrative work" (jurisdiction, training work and financing are expressly mentioned, JC) " (...) The German Football Association has survived as a comradely association. In addition to managing the assets he has taken over, he has retained the management and implementation of international traffic. “- Felix Linnemann: The new regulations for football, in: Deutscher Fußball-Sport No. 13 of June 28, 1935, page 293 (start of a multi-part series ).

[1] "The most important tasks in the management and administration of football have been transferred from the federal government to the specialist office, such as the implementation of championships and club cup games with all the necessary technical and administrative work" (jurisdiction, training work and financing are expressly mentioned, JC) " (...) The German Football Association has survived as a comradely association. In addition to managing the assets he has taken over, he has retained the management and implementation of international traffic. “- Felix Linnemann: The new regulations for football, in: Deutscher Fußball-Sport No. 13 of June 28, 1935, page 293 (start of a multi-part series ).