District football class (1933-1945)

Football district class was the name for the second-rate football leagues during the National Socialist era.

After the regional associations were dissolved in 1933 as a result of the synchronization , the teams were initially divided into 16 sports districts. A Gauliga acted as the top division , including several spatially smaller district classes . The district classes followed under the district classes. Between 1939 and 1940, the district classes were renamed 1st class , and the district classes were henceforth called 2nd class .

The continuity of the regional division of the district class was different from Gau to Gau. So passed in Fußballgau middle of the Bezirksklasse Halle-Merseburg that Bezirksklasse Magdeburg-Anhalt and the Bezirksklasse Thuringia from 1933 to 1944, while including in Fußballgau Pomerania regional classification and designation of the district classes changed almost every year.

The champions of the district classes had the opportunity to advance to the respective first-class Gauliga via a promotion round.

Overview 1933

In the first season after the National Socialists came to power, the following district classes were set up:

• East Prussia
  • Regional football class in Koenigsberg
  • Football district class Gumbinnen
  • Olsztyn district football class
  • Regional soccer class Danzig-Marienwerder
• Pomerania
  • Football district class Pomerania East Department
  • Football district class Pomerania South Department
  • Football district class Pomerania Department West
• Berlin-Brandenburg
  • Football district class Berlin-Potsdam
  • Football district class Frankfurt (Oder) / Lausitz
• Silesia
  • Lower Silesia football district class
  • Central Silesia regional football class
  • Regional football class Upper Silesia
• Saxony
  • Football district class Chemnitz
  • District soccer class Dresden
  • Football district class Leipzig
  • Football district class Zwickau
• center
  • Football district class Halle-Merseburg
  • Football district class Magdeburg-Anhalt
  • Football district class Thuringia
• Nordmark
  • n / A
• Lower Saxony
  • n / A
• Westphalia
  • n / A
• Lower Rhine
  • n / A
• Middle Rhine
  • n / A
• Hesse
  • n / A
• southwest
  • n / A
• to bathe
  • Regional football class Mannheim
  • Football district class Karlsruhe
  • Football district class Freiburg
• Württemberg
  • n / A
• Bavaria
  • n / A

Literature (selection)

• Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .