International football match England - Germany 1935
The football match between England and Germany took place on December 4, 1935 between the national teams of both countries in London .
The encounter was the first official international match between the German national team and the English senior team in England and is considered the 200th international match for the English. The game took place on White Hart Lane in the London borough of Tottenham in front of 75,000 spectators. It ended 3-0 for the English. Two goals scored George Camsell from Middlesbrough to score Cliff Bastin from Arsenal . The referee was the Swede Otto Olsson .
The game
| pairing | England - Germany |
| Result | 3-0 |
| date | 4th December 1935 |
| Stadion |
White Hart Lane , London 75,000 spectators |
| referee | Otto Olsson (Sweden) |
| Gates | 1-0 George Camsell (35th) 2-0 George Camsell (65th) |
| England |
Harry Hibbs George Male Eddie Hapgood Jack Crayston Jack Barker Jackie Bray Stanley Matthews Raich Carter George Camsell Raymond Westwood Cliff Bastin Trainer: English Selection Committee |
|---|---|
| Germany |
Hans Jakob Sigmund Haringer Reinhold Munzenberg Paul Janes Ludwig Goldbrunner Rudolf Gramlich Ernst Lehner Fritz Szepan Karl Hohmann Josef Rasselnberg Josef Fath Trainer: Otto Nerz |
Political dimension
The soccer game is considered to be “the climax of a cultural and political offensive by the German Reich aimed at the British public, which began immediately after the conclusion of the German-British naval agreement of June 1935.” Parts of the British press had requested the game to be canceled. As a result, the cancellation of the game was considered in Germany. In the run-up to the 1936 Summer Olympics , however, they did not want to offer any additional breeding ground for a call to boycott the Games. At the return match in 1938, the English team greeted them with the Hitler salute .
The National Socialist Germany was given the opportunity by cheap offers 10,000 followers to see the game in London. Because of the high number, the Home Secretary John Simon had thought of canceling the game under pressure from the British trade unions , because a Nazi march through London on the day of the game was feared. But the German ambassador Leopold von Hoesch was able to convince the British government that the soccer game should not be a political statement, but that the game should be viewed as a purely sporting event.
Web links
- Match report in: Badische Presse from December 5, 1935.
- Match report & statistics at fussballdaten.de
- Listed at transfermarkt.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ Hans Joachim Teichler: International Sport Policy in the Third Reich , p. 156
- ↑ Poignant pictures and mementoes of a valued Jewish football journey The Guardian
- ↑ Globalizing Sport , p. 130 [3]
- ↑ When Nazi Germany Saluted England At Spurs' White Hart Lane: 1935
- ↑ Visit of German footballers The Guardian , report in The Observer newspaper on December 1, 1935