Gauliga middle

Gauliga middle
Association	Football department
First edition	1933
Last event	1945
hierarchy	1st League
Teams	10 (1933/34 to 1938/39, 1941/42 to 1943/44) 8 (1939/40 and 1940/41)
Record champions	SV Dessau 05 (6)
Qualification for	German soccer championship
region	Province of Saxony / State of Anhalt / State of Thuringia
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The Gauliga middle was from 1933 a top of 16 football Gauligen that after the Nazi seizure of power were established in Germany. With their playout, the Central German participant in the final round of the German Championship was determined. The Gauliga Mitte essentially comprised the current area of ​​the federal states of Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia , as well as small peripheral areas of northern Saxony and southwest Brandenburg .

history

The Gau division from 1933/34
No. 6 = Sportgau Mitte

The Gauliga Mitte started its opening season with ten clubs from 1933 and kept this structure constant until 1944 , with the exception of a temporary reduction due to the resetting of SV 08 Steinach and 1. FC Lauscha . At the sporting level, the league was impressively determined by SV Dessau 05 and 1. SV 03 Jena , which together won ten championships. During the associated participation in the German championships, the representatives of the Gauliga Mitte did not achieve any successes worth mentioning.

In the 1944/45 season, the Gauliga Mitte was then only played regionally. The league was divided into five seasons: (1) Magdeburg-Schönebeck , (2) Anhalt , (3) Köthen-Bernburg , (4) Jahn and (5) Erfurt . Game operations in the region came to a complete standstill after just a few game days due to the rapidly developing chaos of war.

Gaumeister 1934-1944

season	Gaumeister Gau Mitte	Cut off German championship	German champions
1933/34	Hallescher FC Wacker	Group fourth / Group D	FC Schalke 04
1934/35	1. SV 03 Jena	Group fourth / Group D	FC Schalke 04
1935/36	1. SV 03 Jena	Group third / group C	1. FC Nuremberg
1936/37	SV Dessau 05	Group third / group C	FC Schalke 04
1937/38	SV Dessau 05	Group fourth / Group B	Hannover 96
1938/39	SV Dessau 05	Group fourth / group 3	FC Schalke 04
1939/40	1. SV 03 Jena	Group fourth / group 2	FC Schalke 04
1940/41	1. SV 03 Jena	Group second / Group 2a	SK Rapid Vienna
1941/42	SV Dessau 05	Round of 16	FC Schalke 04
1942/43	SV Dessau 05	1 round	Dresdner SC
1943/44	SV Dessau 05	1 round	Dresdner SC
1944/45	canceled due to the war

Record champions

SV Dessau 05 (6) 1. SV Jena (4) Hallescher FC Wacker (1)

Masters overview of the Gauliga Mitte ( 11 years )

The record champions of the Gauliga Mitte are SV Dessau 05 , which won the Gau championship six times.

	society	title	year
	SV Dessau 05	6th	1937, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1944
	1. SV 03 Jena	4th	1935, 1936, 1940, 1941
	Hallescher FC Wacker	1	1934

Eternal table

All seasons of the Gauliga Mitte from 1933/34 to 1943/44 are taken into account .
[The discontinued season 1944/45 was not statistically included.]

Pl.	society	Years	Sp.	S.	U	N	T +	T-	Diff.	Points	Ø pt.	title	Season-year seasons
1.	1. SV 03 Jena	11	190	115	21st	54	468	308	+160	251: 129	1.32	4th	1934-44
2.	SV Dessau 05	9	152	112	17th	23	603	184	+419	241: 63	1.59	6th	1936-44
3.	FuCC Cricket-Viktoria Magdeburg	8th	136	58	22nd	56	290	275	+15	138: 134	1.01	-	1935-42
4th	SpVgg 02 Erfurt	8th	144	54	30th	60	260	306	−46	138: 150	0.96	-	1934-39, 1943-44
5.	FC Wacker Halle 1900	7th	126	54	22nd	50	274	248	+26	130: 122	1.03	1	1934-37, 1942-44
6th	SC Erfurt 1895	7th	126	46	23	57	216	263	−47	115: 137	0.91	-	1934-36, 1938, 1942-44
7th	FV Sportfreunde Halle	7th	122	44	23	55	227	294	−67	111: 133	0.91	-	1935-38, 1940, 1943-44
8th.	VfL Halle 1896	7th	118	41	22nd	55	242	297	−55	104: 132	0.88	-	1938-44
9.	FC Thuringia Weida	6th	100	42	17th	41	208	191	+17	101: 99	1.01	-	1937-42
10.	SV 08 Steinach	4th	72	37	11	24	164	116	+48	85:59	1.18	-	1934-36, 1939
11.	SV Merseburg 99	6th	104	30th	20th	54	166	238	−72	80: 128	0.77	-	1934-35, 1937-40
12.	Magdeburg FC Viktoria 1896	4th	72	20th	18th	34	126	168	−42	58:86	0.81	-	1934-37
13.	1. FC 07 Lauscha	4th	72	24	10	38	132	187	−55	58:86	0.81	-	1936-39
14th	SV Dessau 98	3	54	18th	12	24	122	171	−49	48:60	0.89	-	1942-44
15th	1. SV Gera	4th	64	19th	9	36	125	198	−73	47:81	0.73	-	1940-43
16.	SpVg Zeitz 1910	3	50	18th	3	29	88	132	−44	39:61	0.78	-	1941-43
17th	VfL 1911 Bitterfeld	2	36	15th	6th	15th	66	74	−8	36:36	1	-	1934-35
18th	KSG Reichsbahn SG / VfL Merseburg	1	18th	9	3	6th	58	38	+20	21:15	1.17	-	1944
19th	FV Fortuna Magdeburg	2	36	6th	8th	22nd	60	127	−67	20:52	0.56	-	1934, 1939
20th	FC Prussia 02 Burg	1	18th	4th	0	14th	25th	39	−14	8:28	0.44	-	1944
21st	MSC Prussia 1899	1	18th	2	2	14th	24	59	−35	6:30	0.33	-	1934
22nd	SC Apolda	1	14th	2	1	11	20th	51	−31	5:23	0.36	-	1941

League system

After the Gauliga was founded in mid-1933, the following league system resulted.
The regional divisions of the lower classes were subject to some changes in the course of the existence of the structures.

level	Divisions of the Gau mid-1933/34
1	Gauliga Mitte 10 clubs 1st place: qualification German football championship 9-10th place: relegated
2	District class Halle-Merseburg 12 clubs 1st place: Promotion round 11-12: relegated	District class Magdeburg-Anhalt 12 clubs 1st place: Promotion round 11-12th place: relegated	District class Thuringia 12 clubs 1st place: Promotion round 11-12: relegated
3	1. District class Kyffhäuser 1. District class Saale 1. District class Saale-Elster 1. District class Mulde 1. District class Elbe-Elster 1st place each: Promotion round	1. District class Altmark 1. District class Magdeburg 1. District class Harz 1. District class Anhalt 1st place each: Promotion round	1st district class Wartburg 1st district class West Thuringia 1st district class South Thuringia 1st district class Northern Thuringia 1st district class East Thuringia 1st district class Osterland 1st place each: Promotion round
4th	2. District classes	2. District classes	2. District classes

District classes

The district classes Halle-Merseburg , Magdeburg-Anhalt and Erfurt-Thuringia formed the second-class substructure of the Gauliga Mitte . The three district champions then played the two promoted players in the Gauliga in a promotion round. From 1940/41 the district classes were renamed 1st class . Below is an overview of the respective winners.
[Bold = first and second placed clubs, which thus achieved promotion to next year's Gauliga season.]

season	Master Halle-Merseburg	Master Magdeburg-Anhalt	Master Erfurt-Thuringia
1933/34	FV Sportfreunde Halle	Cricket Viktoria Magdeburg	1. FC 07 Lauscha
1934/35	VfL Hall 96	SV Dessau 05	1. FC 07 Lauscha
1935/36	SV Merseburg 99	FC Viktoria Stendal	FC Thuringia Weida
1936/37	VfL Hall 96	Saxonia 07 Tangermünde	SC Erfurt 1895
1937/38	VfL 1911 Bitterfeld	FV Fortuna Magdeburg	SV 08 Steinach
1938/39	FV Sportfreunde Halle	FC Prussia 02 Burg	1. SV Gera
1939/40	SpVgg Zeitz 1910	FV Fortuna Magdeburg	SC Apolda
1940/41 a	Hallescher FC Wacker	SV Dessau 98	SC Erfurt 1895
1941/42	FV Sportfreunde Halle	FV Fortuna Magdeburg	SpVgg 02 Erfurt
1942/43	KSG RB / VfL Merseburg	FC Prussia 02 Burg	LSV Nordhausen

^a Since Gauliga was increased to 10 clubs for the 1941/42 season, all three participants rose to the promotion round.

swell

• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
• Final tables Germany
• Final tables on oberberg-fussball.de
• Thuringian Football Association (Ed.) “100 Years of Football in Thuringia”. Verlag Frankenschwelle KG, Hildburghausen 2001. ISBN 3-86180-122-1
• www.f-archiv.de The German football archive