Football city selection Berlin

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The football city selection Berlin was the combination of football players from different football clubs in the city of Berlin and the surrounding area to host selection and city games. It was under the leadership of the Association of Berlin Ball Game Clubs (VBB) until 1911, and again from 1949 . In the meantime, the Association of Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs (until 1933), the Gau Berlin-Brandenburg (until 1945) and the municipal sports of the city administration (until 1949) were responsible. The national team has existed for more than seventy years and has played nearly 550 games.

Since the "city selection" represented their association (temporarily: Gau) in the games for the Crown Prince and Federal Cup and other competitions, and also often players from surrounding clubs such as Nowawes 03 or Amicitia Forst participated, the term "association selection" would be more correct in summary. It was more likely to operate as a city selection when it competed against other cities (not regional associations). After 1945, however, the association and city area were the same.

The centerpiece of the representative games was undoubtedly Berlin versus Hamburg with a total of 70 matches. In eleven draws, Berlin won 22 times, Hamburg 37 times. The start of the "official game traffic" is the game on June 4, 1899 on the Heiligengeistfeld in Hamburg against the Berlin selection, with a 6: 1 success of the Hamburg selection made up of players from SC Germania, FC Victoria and Altona 93 ended. In addition to Hamburg, the tradition of city games has also been maintained with Vienna for years. There were a total of 45 games with seven wins, four draws and 34 defeats. At the beginning of the 50s there was nothing to gain for Berlin against Vienna. Also on October 31, 1954, the Danube townspeople on the Spree dominated 4-0. The game traffic with Munich was also intense, with the balance remaining even in 23 games with nine wins, five draws and nine defeats. It was not until June 19, 1927 that the Munich city selection achieved its first victory over the capital with a 4-1 win.

Berlin city selection (East) against Torpedo Moscow
All of Berlin's footballers in the training camp before the city game against Prague

history

Beginnings

Most of the city selection games took place before the Second World War and after the Second World War until the start of the Bundesliga in 1963. Frequent opponents were, for example, the soccer city selection Hamburg or Vienna . The Berlin city selection made its first appearance in Vienna on October 29, 1899 and won the game with 2-0 goals. In 1900 they traveled to Budapest for two games in April (to play there against club teams) and in 1901 to England to play against Southampton , Aston Villa , Tottenham Hotspur , Millwall and Richmond in London. On December 11, 1904, a 6: 3 home win over Leipzig with Camillo Ugi from VfB Leipzig in their ranks. The first games were played against Copenhagen in 1906 and 1907. In April 1911 three games were played in Moscow and in May 1913 the trip led to Paris for the first time. On April 28, 1911, Hamburg prevailed 2-1 against the guest from Berlin. After the end of the First World War, Berlin played a game against Munich (3: 1) on September 14, 1919 and against Nuremberg / Fürth (1: 4) on December 14, 1919. There was a small anniversary on April 26, 1953 in the Olympic Stadium: Berlin and Paris met for the tenth time since the premiere on May 16, 1913.

During the war years from 1939 to 1944, numerous Berlin city selection games were held against German, but also international opponents. Internationally, Berlin met Bucharest (0: 1) from November 1939 to September 1941, played three times against Sofia (4: 2, 3: 0, 4: 0), twice against Bratislava / Preßburg (5: 2, 0: 0) and once against Posen (2: 4), whose team consisted of nine guest players as well as Friedrich Scherfke and another local Poznan. Twice they faced Milan (3: 2, 2: 2) and twice against Vienna (2: 3, 2: 5), which was not considered “international” at the time (three more meetings with Vienna followed by 1944 ). Goalkeeper Helmut Jahn was present in nine of the games under consideration here, including at the start of this series on November 19, 1939 in Bucharest and at the end (presumably set by the editorial deadline of the Almanac) on September 14, 1941 in Vienna at 2: 5 defeat. In the field, Jahn was surpassed by defender Hans Appel with ten missions.

After the Second World War

After the end of the Second World War, the city games were reopened with the meeting on April 19, 1946 in Berlin against Dessau (2: 1). In front of 30,000 spectators, the Berlin selection at Gesundbrunnen competed with the following players in the World Cup system : Karl-Heinz Steinbeck ; Rudolf Junik , Heinz Brand; Heinz Warstat , Rudolf Kippel , Walter Zunker ; Heinz Ritter, Hermann Paul , Bernd Nikolin, Willi Petrauschke , Karl Hientz. Well-known players of the team from Saxony-Anhalt were goalkeepers Karl-Heinz Höger , Walter Elze , Heinz Gehlert , Hans Manthey , Heinz Trenkel , Hellmut Schmeißer and Werner Welzel . This year there were two more games against Dresden (2: 6, 2: 1), the second leg in Dessau (5: 0) and the game against Zwickau (2: 4).

On November 19, 1947, the series of games against Hamburg was resumed in the Hanseatic city. In front of 40,000 spectators on Victoriaplatz, there was a significant defeat for Berlin with 7-0. The hosts were in a line-up with Ludwig Alm ; Heinz Hempel , Herbert Holdt ; Hans Appel , Walter Dzur , Harald Stender ; Erich Ebeling , Heinz Bung Bottle , Alfred Boller , Heinrich Schaffer and Rolf Börner all accrued. Center forward Boller distinguished himself as a five-time goalscorer. The Berlin selection with Reinhold Kebschull; Fritz Gärtner , Kurt Podratz ; Rudolf Kippel, Kurt Läßker, Heinz Brand; Bernd Nikolin, Gerhard Graf , Hermann Paul , Hans Baron and Heinz Ritter had no chance against the strong Hamburg team.

In the divided city

In 1951 the first international games against Zurich, Lausanne and London could be played again. When the first international post-war city game against Zurich was played in Berlin on February 11, 1951, 90,000 spectators were gathered in the Olympic Stadium in a 2-2 draw. The federal striker Alfred Bickel distinguished himself for both hits of the guests. The Berliners were in the line-up with Karl-Heinz Steinbeck; Rudolf Junik, Kurt Podratz; Hans Kreische (49th M. Helmut Jonas), Herbert Stelter, Erich Wittig ; Erwin Wax , Paul Salisch , Hans Berndt , Horst Schmutzler and Fritz Wilde came up and took the lead twice. On May 11, 1955, a "Greater Berlin team" with four West Berliners and seven East Berliners played a city game in the Ulbricht Stadium in front of 70,000 spectators against Prague and won 1-0 with a goal from East Berliners Lothar Meyer . The team consisted of the following players: Wolff (Union 06), Zöllner (BSV 92), Strehlow (Union 06), Maschke (Dynamo), Günter Schüler (Hertha BSC), Giersch (forward), Horst Assmy (forward) , Schröter (Dynamo), Rolf Fritzsche , Meyer, Wirth (all forward).

The city selection of Berlin also took part in the tournament of the Messestädte-Pokal 1961/62 . The interest in the trade fair trophy had increased before its fourth edition, so that the number of starters was increased from 16 to 28. Four city selection teams took part - Novi Sad, Leipzig, Berlin, Basel - and for the first time they broke with the principle that only one club from one city was allowed to start: Barcelona (CF and Espanol), Milan (AC and Inter ) and Edinburgh (Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian) were exceptionally represented twice.

The Berlin selection consisted of players from the clubs Hertha BSC , SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin and Tennis Borussia Berlin . The goalkeepers Hans-Joachim Posinski and Wolfgang Tillich , the defenders Rudolf Deinert and Hans-Günter Schimmöller , the runners Rudolf Zeiser , Günter Schüler and Hans Eder , as well as the attackers Wolfgang Neumann , Lutz Steinert , Wolfgang Rosenfeldt , Helmut Faeder , Erhard were deployed Foit and Peter Engler .

In the first round it was the end of the line for the Berliners. In the first leg on September 20, 1961, Lutz Steinert scored the goal for the 1-0 final against CF Barcelona . Two weeks later, they lost to Sándor Kocsis's team 3-0 at Camp Nou and were eliminated.

Loss of importance through Bundesliga

With the introduction of professional football by the DFB in the 1963/64 round, the importance of the city games inevitably decreased. The number of viewers sank drastically, and from then on Berlin was almost exclusively represented by amateur representatives.

Ranking of appointments in the city selection

Berlin's international city games 1939-41

  • November 19, 1939, Bucharest - Berlin, 1-0. Berlin: Helmut Jahn ; Appel, Krause; Buchmann, Bossmann, Goede; Engelbracht, Rudolf Gellesch , Berndt, Fabian, Paul Salisch .
  • November 5, 1939, Berlin - Sofia, 4: 2. Berlin: Jahn; Appel, Krause; Raddatz, Bossmann, Goede; Engelbracht, Dams, Berndt, Joraschkowitz, Salisch.
  • May 1, 1940, Berlin - Pressburg, 5: 2. Berlin: Jahn; Appel, Raddatz; Buchmann, Alfred Stahr , Hausmann; Meier, Mohr, Berndt, Kern, Salisch.
  • May 26, 1940, Sofia - Berlin, 0: 3. Berlin: Jahn; Appel, Krause; Buchmann, Tuschling, Raddatz; Ballendat, Graf, Berndt, Hausmann, Salisch.
  • July 7, 1940, Posen - Berlin, 4: 2. Berlin: Rudolf Schönbeck ; Raddatz, Krause; Buchmann, Tuschling, Stahr; Ballendat, Krebs (46th Lindecke), Berndt, Graf, Lukas Aurednik .
  • September 22, 1940, Berlin - Milan, 3-2. Berlin: Schönbeck; Appel, Krause; Buchmann (Stahr), Bossmann, Raddatz; Ernst Lehner , Schellhase, Berndt, Graf, Courths.
  • January 1, 1941, Milan - Berlin, 2-2. Berlin: Jahn; Appel, Engelbert Koch ; Raddatz, Boßmann, Goede (Stahr); Lehner, Joraschkowitz, Berndt, Elsholz (Graf), Stanislaus Kobierski .
  • March 30, 1941, Berlin - Sofia, 4-0. Berlin: Jahn; Appel, Krause; Bixemann, Bossmann, Seibert; Lehner, Graf, Berndt, E. Henning, Kobierski.
  • April 27, 1941, Pressburg - Berlin, 0-0. Berlin: Jahn; Appel (100th selection game), Krause; Raddatz, Bossmann, Goede; Ballendat, Joraschkowitz, Graf, Wilde, Kobierski.

literature

  • Wolfgang Hartwig, Günter Weise, Helmut Tietze: 100 years of football in Berlin. Sportverlag Berlin, 1997, ISBN 3-328-00734-2 , pp. 42-49, 238-244.
  • IFFHS (Ed.): LIBERO . No. 4, Aug. – Oct. 1989. and No. 5, April – June 1990. Wiesbaden.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the pioneering years of Berlin football, the German Football and Cricket Association and the Märkische Fußball-Bund had their own selection teams.
  2. ↑ According to statistics from the association, there were a total of 544 games from 1899 to 1972: 75 years of the Association of Berliner Ballspielvereine , edited and compiled by Lutz Rosenzweig , Berlin 1972, page 172.
  3. ↑ When Pomerania belonged to the VBB as a subdistrict at the beginning of the 1930s , a purely Pomeranian selection once played representative of “Berlin”.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Hartwig, Günter Weise, Helmut Tietze: 100 years of football in Berlin. Sportverlag Berlin, 1997, p. 43.
  5. ^ Andreas Meyer, Volker Stahl, Uwe Wetzner: Football Lexicon Hamburg . Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-477-1 , p. 288 (396 pages).
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Hartwig, Günter Weise, Helmut Tietze: 100 years of football in Berlin. Sportverlag Berlin, 1997, p. 44.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Hartwig, Günter Weise, Helmut Tietze: 100 years of football in Berlin. Sportverlag Berlin, 1997, p. 49.
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Hartwig, Günter Weise, Helmut Tietze: 100 years of football in Berlin. Sportverlag Berlin, 1997, p. 44.
  9. ^ Antonöffelmeier in: City Archives Munich (Ed.): Football in Munich. München Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-937090-12-6 , pp. 52/53.
  10. ↑ IFFHS (Ed.): LIBERO Special German. No. D3, Wiesbaden 1992. p. 14
  11. ↑ Der Kicker from July 9, 1940, pages 2 and 10
  12. ^ Gilbert Bringmann (ed.): Football Almanach 1900–1943. Kassel sports publisher. Kassel 1992. ISBN 3-928562-13-4 . P. 61, 64. A complete list of the games beyond 1941 was later presented by the anniversary volume 75 Years of the Association of Berliner Ballspiel-Vereine , Berlin 1972.
  13. ^ Wolfgang Hartwig, Günter Weise: 100 years of football in Berlin. Sports publishing house Berlin. 1997. ISBN 3-328-00734-2 . Pp. 48/49
  14. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. Volume 1: 1955 to 1974. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 116.
  15. ^ Matthias Kropp: Triumphs in the European Cup. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-75-4 , pp. 27/28.
  16. ↑ Match details on www.rsssf.com
  17. ↑ Wolfgang Hartwig, Günter Weise, Helmut Tietze: 100 years of football in Berlin. Sportverlag Berlin, 1997, p. 44.
  18. ^ Gilbert Bringmann (ed.): Football Almanach 1900–1943. 2nd Edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-928562-13-4 , p. 61.

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