Gauliga General Government

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The Gauliga General was one of the top football time in the era of National Socialism . In the league, which existed between 1941 and 1944, the regional master of the general government was determined who represented the Sportgau at the final round of the German football championship.

history

From 1941, German clubs from occupied Poland played in the Gauliga Generalgouvernement (GG) . Associations of the Wehrmacht , Luftwaffe and SS set up their own teams, as did the German Ordnungspolizei , the Eastern Railway and several large companies under German control, especially in the armaments sector. A total of 80 German football clubs were registered in the General Government of Poland . Polish football players were not allowed to play in the Gauliga.

In each of the four districts of Cracow , Radom , Warsaw and Lublin of the Generalgouvernement a district master was played. These four teams played the Gaumeister in cup mode. It is not known whether the game was still open in the 1944/45 season. The venues included the stadiums of the officially dissolved top Polish clubs, including the Kraków Wisla Stadium , which was now called the "Deutsche Kampfbahn", and the Warsaw "Wehrmacht Stadium ", where Legia Warsaw had previously played its home games. The latter was the responsibility of Lieutenant Wilm Hosenfeld , to whom Roman Polański would later set a monument in his film The Pianist (2002).

The representatives of the Gauliga Generalgouvernement had no chance of participating in their finals. Only SG Ordnungspolizei Warsaw was able to survive the first round of the 1943 final with a 3-1 win at BSG DWM Posen , but retired after a 5-1 home defeat against VfB Königsberg in the following round.

In addition, the “Amber Cup of the Governor General” was held among the clubs. The cup winner of the Ukrainian league within the GG was also qualified for this competition. The NS authorities had approved a separate Ukrainian league with ten clubs in the area around Lviv . The winner was allowed to take part in the GG elimination games for the final round of the German championship. There were also friendly matches between German and Ukrainian clubs; the German-speaking occupation press repeatedly reported victories by Ukrainian teams.

The sports officer Georg Niffka , an SS officer appointed by Governor General Hans Frank , was responsible for the game. Niffka made it clear that Poles were not only not allowed to play in the Gauliga, but were also not allowed to take part in “comradeship evenings” organized by German clubs. But they were allowed to watch in the stadiums, although "the sector with the best seats should be reserved exclusively for Germans".

The Gauliga Generalgouvernement also set up a selection team that took part in the Reichsbund Cup, but was eliminated immediately in the first round. It played in red and white, so in reverse of the Polish national flag . For the GG-Elf the former Polish national players Wilhelm Góra , Julius Joksch , Karl Pazurek and Erwin Nytz from East Upper Silesia played for a while , all of whom had signed the German people's list .

Gaumeister 1942–1944

season Gaumeister
Generalgouvernement 		Cutting off
German championship 		German champions
1941/42 LSV Boelcke Krakow Qualifying round FC Schalke 04
1942/43 LSV Adler Deblin A Round of 16 A. Dresdner SC
1943/44 LSV Mölders Krakow 1 round Dresdner SC
A.The LSV Adler Deblin decided not to participate in the German football championship for unknown reasons. The SG Police in Warsaw moved up for him .

literature

  • Robert Gawkowski: Official and secret football games in the Generalgouvernement (1939-1944), in: From conflict to competition. German-Polish-Ukrainian football history. Edited by D. Blecking / L. Pfeiffer / R. Traba. Göttingen 2014, pp. 156–171, ISBN 978-3-7307-0083-9 .
  • Thomas Urban : Football “only for Germans”, in the underground and in Auschwitz . Championships in occupied Poland. In: European football in World War II. Edited by Markwart Herzog , Fabian Brändle. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 304-312.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Bogdan Tuszyński: Za cenę życia. Sport Polski Walczącej 1939–1945. Warszawa 2006, p. 26.
  2. ↑ Stanisław Chemicz: Piłka nożna w Krakowie okupowanym. Kraków 1982, p. 200.
  3. ↑ Der Kicker, November 19, 1940, p. 26
  4. ↑ Krakauer Zeitung, December 8, 1941, p. 13.
  5. ↑ Der Kicker, April 30, 1940, pp. 14–15.
  6. ↑ Krakauer Zeitung, August 19, 1941, p. 9.
  7. ↑ The General Government. Edited by M. du Prel. Würzburg 1942, p. 198.
  8. ↑ z. B. Krakauer Zeitung, June 13, 1941, p. 8.
  9. ↑ Der Kicker, April 30, 1940, pp. 14–15.
  10. ↑ Sports bulletin for the Krakow district. February 10, 1941, pp. 1/2.
  11. ↑ Kattowitzer Zeitung, August 5, 1940, p. 4.
  12. ↑ Kattowitzer Zeitung, August 5, 1940, p. 4.
  13. ^ Kattowitzer Zeitung, October 6, 1941, p. 3.
  14. ↑ Krakauer Zeitung, October 8, 1940, p. 14.
  15. ↑ Warschauer Zeitung, January 4, 1944, p. 6.