HUS Marienwerder

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HUS Marienwerder was a German military sports club from Marienwerder in West Prussia during the Second World War .

Career

On January 1, 1941, a football team was formed at the Army NCO School (HUS) in Marienwerder. Sport was already on the curriculum and duty roster of the prospective infantry NCOs. After a short time it turned out that the soldiers in white and black were far superior in class to the opponents in the area. A real army sports club was founded with club leader Hauptmann Zander at the top and the team registered for the "proper game operation".

For the 1941/42 season the HUS-Elf played in the Gauliga Danzig-West Prussia . Here the “black and whites”, who played their home games on Schwemannplatz, which holds 4,000 spectators, proved to be vastly superior to their opponents. With 15 wins from 18 games, the non-commissioned officers' title, and thus the right to participate in the final round of the German championship in 1942 , could not be deprived. However, the team of trainer Feldwebel Hermann and captain Leutnant Kammler quickly discovered that higher-class football is being played outside of Gdansk-West Prussia : VfB Königsberg , which is not exactly one of the top German leagues , was eliminated in the elimination round for the German championship on 10. May 1942 in Danzig's Albert-Forster-Stadion after a steep 1: 7 defeat. In the Tschammer Cup , too, the first final round was the end of the line. Here they were defeated by the Stettin Air Force Sports Club from the Gauliga Pomerania with 1: 2.

The end of the infantry team from Marienwerder was approaching. Although they started in the 1942/43 season , the training of the non-commissioned officers ended soon afterwards - they were now needed at the front . There was no equivalent replacement, so the team was voluntarily withdrawn from the Gauliga in December 1942. It is uncertain whether the army sports club was then dissolved. By 1945 at the latest, the subject had already been dealt with with the German surrender.

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