Gauliga East Prussia

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Gauliga East Prussia
Logo of the GauligaTemplate: Infobox football competition / maintenance / logo format
Association Football department
First edition 1933
Last event 1944
Teams 14 (1933/34 - 1934/35)
8 (1935/36 - 1937/38)
10 (1938/39)
8 (1939/40 - 1942/43)
7 (1943/44)
Record champions VfB Koenigsberg (5)
Qualification for German soccer championship
region East PrussiaTemplate: Infobox football competition / maintenance / card format

The Gauliga East Prussia was one of 16 top football leagues that were founded in Germany after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. In it, the East Prussian participant in the final round of the German championship was determined.

history

The Gau classification 1933,
No. 1 = East Prussia

After the DC circuit of the Nazis in 1933, all previous football associations were dissolved. The game was now organized in 16 football districts for the time being and a Gauliga was set up as the top division. The 16 Gauliga champions were qualified for the final round of the German championship. The Gauliga East Prussia consisted of clubs from the former Baltic Lawn and Winter Sports Association .

When it was introduced in 1933, the Gauliga East Prussia consisted of two seasons in which seven teams played for the East Prussian championship and thus the participants in the final round of the German championship. The season winners played the Gaumeister in the first and second leg. On June 30, 1935, at a meeting of the football district leaders, it was decided to introduce a changed game system in the East Prussia-Danzig district. The game operation took place first in the existing four second-rate district classes, with the Gauligists from the previous season also now playing in the district classes. The two best teams per district class then qualified for the actual Gauliga, which was held in two groups of four teams each. The two group winners then met in two playoffs for the Gaume Championship. This system was carried out for three seasons, with each year having to be qualified for the Gauliga by a front placement in the district class.

Not until the 1938/39 season was a fixed Gauliga installed again, for which the two best clubs from the four district classes of the previous season and two representatives from the qualifying round of the district thirds qualified. The following season suffered from bad weather and the influence of the world war . Due to persistent frost and scheduling difficulties, the hosting of the Gaume Championship was limited to the clubs VfB Königsberg , SC Preußen Danzig , BuEV Danzig and SV Prussia-Samland Königsberg from April 1940 , the games that had taken place between these teams remained valid. In 1940 the teams of the Marienwerder administrative district (until 1939 Reg.bez. West Prussia) and Danzig were assigned to the new Gauliga Danzig-West Prussia . Therefore, the season in East Prussia began with eight teams, after the withdrawal of Lawn Sports Prussia Königsberg during the season, however, the season ended with only seven clubs. The following two seasons ran analogously, when Preußen Insterburg withdrew after the fourth game day and a year later SV Preußen Mielau after the second game day. Due to the war, the 1944/45 season only took place in Königsberg.

In the finals of the German football championship, the representatives of the Gauliga East Prussia were qualitatively inferior to the clubs from the rest of Germany. Until the outbreak of the Second World War, the group phase could never be survived, mostly the Gaumeister from East Prussia were last or penultimate of their respective group. At the beginning of the Second World War , when many clubs lost players due to war missions, the playing strength leveled off again a little. So could VfB Königsberg in German football championship 1941-42 to advance to the quarterfinals and lost there with 1: 2 against Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin . Also in the following season Königsberg reached the quarter-finals, but due to the use of an ineligible player in the first round match, Königsberg was excluded.

Gaumeister 1934-1945

season Gaumeister
East Prussia 		Cutting off
German championship 		German champions
1933/34 SC Prussia Danzig Fourth group group A FC Schalke 04
1934/35 Yorck Boyen Insterburg Fourth group group A FC Schalke 04
1935/36 SV Hindenburg Allenstein Fourth group group A 1. FC Nuremberg
1936/37 SV Hindenburg Allenstein Third group group A FC Schalke 04
1937/38 Yorck Boyen Insterburg Fourth group group A Hannover 96
1938/39 SV Hindenburg Allenstein Third group group 1 FC Schalke 04
1939/40 VfB Koenigsberg Group second group 1a FC Schalke 04
1940/41 VfB Koenigsberg Third group group 2a SK Rapid Vienna
1941/42 VfB Koenigsberg Quarter finals FC Schalke 04
1942/43 VfB Koenigsberg excluded A Dresdner SC
1943/44 VfB Koenigsberg Round of 16 Dresdner SC
1944/45 canceled no German soccer championship
A. VfB Königsberg was subsequently excluded due to the use of an ineligible player in the first round match.

Record champions

Overview Master Gauliga East Prussia

The record champions of the Gauliga East Prussia are VfB Königsberg , who have won the Gauliga championship five times.

society title year
VfB Königsberg.png VfB Koenigsberg 5 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944
Hindenburg Allenstein.png SV Hindenburg Allenstein 3 1936, 1937, 1939
SV Yorck Boyen Insterburg 2 1935, 1938
Prussia Danzig KM.png SC Prussia Danzig 1 1934

Eternal table

All group and final games of the Gauliga East Prussia between the seasons 1933/34 and 1943/44 are taken into account. Between the 1935/36 and 1937/38 seasons only the actual Gauliga games are taken into account. In the 1939/40 season only the final group is taken into account, the interrupted game round 1944/45 is not shown in the table. The table is based on the two-point rule customary at the time .

Pl. society Years Sp. S. U N T + T- Diff. Points Ø pt. title Playing times by calendar year
 1. VfB Koenigsberg 11  114  72  13  29 454 183 +271 157: 71 1.38 5 1933-44
 2. Hindenburg Allenstein 6th  66  53  7th  6th 268 86 +182 113: 19 1.71 3 1933-39
 3. SV Prussia-Samland Koenigsberg 10  112  50  11  51 225 270 −45 111: 113 0.99 0 1933-36, 1937-44
 4th Yorck Boyen Insterburg 6th  66  35  13  18th 208 119 +89 83:49 1.26 2 1933-39
 5. SVgg Masovia Lyck 6th  60  31  8th  21st 179 146 +33 70:50 1.17 0 1933-39
 6th BuEV Danzig 6th  62  27  12  23 121 123  −2 66:58 1.06 0 1933-36, 1937-40
 7th SC Prussia Danzig 5  44  20th  5  19th 117 95 +22 45:43 1.02 1 1933-37, 1939/40
 8th. SC Gedania Danzig 5  54  17th  10  27 113 158 −45 44:64 0.81 0 1933-35, 1936-39
 9. Reichsbahn SG Koenigsberg 4th  48  18th  3  27 104 141 −37 39:57 0.81 0 1940-44
10. SV Prussia Mielau a 2  24  18th  1  5 111 28 +83 37:11 1.54 0 1940-42
11. SV Insterburg 5  60  14th  9  37 118 257 −139 37:83 0.62 0 1934/35, 1940-44
12. SV Lawn Sports Prussia Königsberg b 4th  48  15th  6th  27 107 135 −28 36:60 0.75 0 1933-35, 1936/37, 1938/39
13. Police SV Danzig 2  30th  14th  4th  12 78 82  −4 32:28 1.07 0 1934/35, 1938/39
14th LSV Richthofen Neukuhren 2  24  12  4th  8th 84 65 +19 28:20 1.17 0 1940/41, 1942/43
15th MTV Ponarth 2  24  10  2  12 72 93 −21 22:26 0.92 0 1942-44
16. SV Viktoria Allenstein 2  24  8th  4th  12 61 93 −32 20:28 0.83 0 1933-35
17th MSV from Goltz Tilsit 3  30th  8th  2  20th 46 82 −36 18:42 0.6 0 1935-37, 1938/39
18th Tilsiter SC 2  24  6th  4th  14th 55 80 −25 16:32 0.67 0 1933-35
19th Rastenburger SV 2  24  6th  4th  14th 44 88 −44 16:32 0.67 0 1933-35
20th Königsberger STV 2  24  5  5  14th 45 95 −50 15:33 0.63 0 1942-44
21st SV Allenstein 1  12  6th  2  4th 29 33  −4 14:10 1.17 0 1943/44
22nd LSV Heiligenbeil 1  12  5  0  7th 33 33  ± 0 10:14 0.83 0 1941/42
23. SV Viktoria Elbing 1  12  2  2  8th 19th 43 −24 6:18 0.5 0 1933/34
24. VfB Osterode 1  12  1  1  10 13 56 −43 3:21 0.25 0 1941/42
25th FC Preußen Gumbinnen 1  12  0  2  10 15th 56 −41 2:22 0.17 0 1933/34
26th SV Goldap 1  6th  0  0  6th 8th 30th −22 0:12 0 0 1936/37
27. Freya-VfR Memel 1  12  0  0  12 6th 63 −57 0:24 0 0 1940/41
a Retired in the 1942/43 season, games that had already been played in this season were canceled and did not flow into the all-time table.
b Retired in the 1940/41 season, games that had already been played in that season were canceled and did not flow into the all-time table.

League system

The league system in the East Prussian football district was subject to some changes in the course of its existence. Under the Gauliga, the East Prussia soccer district class was set up as the second league stage, which was played in several districts. The winners of the departments qualified for the promotion round to the Gauliga, the two best-placed teams in this round rose to the Gauliga. The 1st and 2nd district classes were arranged under the district class. From 1939/40 the Gauliga was renamed the area class and the district class into 1st class, including the 2nd, 3rd and 4th classes.

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