KSG Bielefeld

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The KSG Bielefeld was a war game community of Bielefeld football clubs Arminia and VfB 03 . The team played in the Gauliga Westfalen , at that time the top division.

history

The parent clubs

Arminia Bielefeld was one of the founding members of the Gauliga in 1933, but had to be relegated in the first season. After the rise again in 1938, the biggest success of the era was celebrated in the 1939/40 season with the runner-up behind FC Schalke 04 . Arminia's local rival VfB 03 made it to the Gauliga in 1939. The greatest success was third place in the 1940/41 . In the following season , the "Hüpker" had to relegate.

Due to the Second World War , the personal situation of both clubs became more and more precarious. More and more often, the teams had to be composed of young people, war guests , vacationers from the front and veterans. There was also a shortage of equipment. Despite the rivalry between the clubs - Arminia has bourgeois roots while VfB was more of a workers' club - the clubs decided on July 25, 1943 to form a war syndicate.

Sporting development

The 1943/44 Gauliga season was unsatisfactory for the Bielefeld war gaming community. In the 18 championship games of the season only two wins and six draws. The Bielefeld team could win at home. Alemannia Dortmund were beaten 2-1, Alemannia Gelsenkirchen 3-2. The draws were against VfL Altenbögge , SpVgg Erkenschwick and SpVgg Röhlinghausen (each 2: 2) and against Borussia Dortmund and Westfalia Herne (each 1: 1). The Bielefeld team won the only away point at SpVgg Röhlinghausen (2: 2). KSG Bielefeld took the last place in the table.

In the 1944/45 season , the single-track Gauliga was made into a three-track Gauliga. Due to the war, the team could only play one game, which ended 2-2 against SpVgg Union Herford . After that, the game was canceled. The other opponents would have been the Sportfreunde Rot-Weiß Paderborn , the Wehrmacht SG Minden , the military SV Lemgo , Teutonia Lippstadt and SV 07 Neuhaus .

End of the KSG

The local press wrote that the KSG should "save the city's honor". In a commemorative publication for the 60th anniversary of Arminia, it was said that the supporters of the clubs “found it perfectly okay that the Bielefeld football remnants defended themselves against anything that wanted to threaten the football fame of the people of Linenstadt”. With the end of the Second World War, the KSG was dissolved again. Shortly after the end of the war, negotiations were held to merge the two parent associations, but the talks were broken off again.

Individual evidence

  • 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 .
  1. ↑ See Grüne, page 248
  2. ↑ See Grüne, page 262
  • Kirschneck, Uhlig u. a .: DSC Arminia Bielefeld. 100 years of passion . The workshop, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-479-0 .
  1. ↑ See Kirschneck, Uhlig and others. a., page 43
  2. ↑ See Kirschneck, Uhlig and others. a., page 35
  3. ↑ See Kirschneck, Uhlig and others. a., page 49

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 55.3 "  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 59.5"  E