Gauliga Wartheland

Gauliga Wartheland
Association	Football department
First edition	1940
Last event	1945
hierarchy	1st League
Teams	4 (1940/41) 12 (1941/42) 10 (1942/43 - 1943/44)
Record champions	BSG DWM Poznan (2)
Qualification for	German soccer championship
region	Wartheland
↓ District classes

The Gauliga Wartheland was one of the top football time in the era of National Socialism . In the league, which existed between 1940 and 1944, the regional champions of the Wartheland were determined, who represented the Sportgau in the final round of the German football championship.

history

From 1940, German teams from occupied western Poland played in the Gauliga Wartheland, which had been annexed by the German Reich in violation of international law as Reichsgau Wartheland after the attack on Poland . All Polish clubs in the region were banned with the establishment of the German administration, only Germans were allowed to participate in organized sports.

In the first season, only one cup round could be held, in which the ad hoc founded völkisch clubs took part. In the second season the clubs were represented in two groups with six teams each in the league, with SG SS Posen and TSG Litzmannstadt from each group being eliminated from the game during the course of the season . At the end of the season, the group winners played the Gaumeister in a two-legged manner. For the 1942/43 season, the two groups were combined, so that from now on ten teams competed in a single relay for the Gaume Championship. In the following season, however, the SG Freihaus was again eliminated from the competition during the season.

A game operation in the 1944/45 season was no longer started, instead there was a city championship in Litzmannstadt , where the Reichsbahn SG Litzmannstadt prevailed. Furthermore, there were various friendlies, due to a lack of players, sometimes against teams whose players did not know each other before and who got together especially for such games. After the Wartheland was taken by the Red Army and the subsequent expulsion of the German population, the German associations were dissolved.

At the German football championships, the representatives of the Gauliga Wartheland had no chance and were eliminated in their first round.

Gaumeister 1942–1944

season	Gaumeister Wartheland	Cutting off German championship	German champions
1940/41	LSV Poznan	Qualification Ostland	SK Rapid Vienna
1941/42	SG Ordnungspolizei Litzmannstadt	Round of 16	FC Schalke 04
1942/43	BSG DWM Poznan	1 round	Dresdner SC
1943/44	BSG SDW Poznan	1 round	Dresdner SC

swell

• 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 .
• www.claudionicoletti.eu All final tables Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der LZ.-Sportspiegel des Sonntag (in: Litzmannstadter Zeitung, date: August 22, 1944, page: 4)
2. ↑ Der LZ.-Sportspiegel des Sonntag (in: Litzmannstadter Zeitung, date: December 19, 1944, page: 4)