War syndicate
War gaming community (KSG) is a term from the final phase of the First and Second World Wars . In many places neighboring sports clubs joined their teams to form syndicates because they no longer had enough players on their own. In exceptional cases there were also other reasons for the formation of a KSG: The KSG Kiel of Kilia Kiel and Union-Teutonia Kiel , for example, was not entered into by UT because of a lack of players, but because of a lack of sports fields. In a war syndicate, the clubs usually did not merge.
In many cases, rival clubs played games as a war syndicate. In Frankfurt am Main, for example, the city's two largest football clubs, Eintracht and FSV , played five games together between November 1944 and January 1945. Some of these alliances were quite successful: In Hamburg , Sperber / St.Georg won the district championship in 1918, and Victoria / HFC 88 in 1919 even the North German championship.
During the Second World War, the KSGs, as they were mostly abbreviated, like all other clubs, were also able to use the war guest player rule and deploy military footballers from foreign clubs. The Gauklasse Hamburg consisted of ten teams in its last season in 1944/45, including four war syndicates. In the KSG Alsterdorf four clubs had teamed up.
In ice hockey , KSG Berlin - consisting of the Berliner SC and the SC Brandenburg - became German ice hockey champions in 1944 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The own venue, Professor-Peters-Platz, resembled “a lunar crater landscape due to several bombs” . ( Club chronicle ).
- ↑ Jankowski / Pistorius / Prüß , Fußball im Norden , Bremen and Barsinghausen 2005, p. 279