Gauliga East Hanover

Gauliga East Hanover
Association	Football department
First edition	1943
Last event	1945
Teams	8 (1943/44) 13 (1944/45)
Record champions	Wehrmacht Sports Club Celle (1)
Qualification for	German soccer championship
region	Free State of Prussia , Bremen
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The Gauliga Osthannover was one of the highest leagues in German football during the National Socialist era .

history

The league was created in 1943 as one of the successors to the Lower Saxony Gauliga , when it was the third successor league to join the Gauligen Südhannover-Braunschweig and Weser-Ems teams. Only the Wehrmacht-Sportverein Celle and MSV Lüneburg came from the other Gauligen when the league was founded, the league was otherwise filled with six second division clubs.

In the Gauliga Osthannover, a Gaume Championship was played only within a full season, the second season had to be canceled in October 1944 due to the war.

Gaumeister 1944-1945

season	Gaumeister Osthannover	Cutting off German championship	German champions
1943/44	Wehrmacht sports club Celle	1 round	Dresdner SC
1944/45	canceled due to the war

literature

• 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 .
• Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .