LSV Adler Tarnowitz

The Air Force Sports Club Eagle Tarnowitz was during the Second World War, a German military sports club from the Upper Silesian Tarnowskie Góry (dt. Tarnowitz ) in occupied Poland .

history

At the beginning of the Second World War , the Wehrmacht occupied Poland . In October 1939, East Upper Silesia , which had been Polish since 1922, was re-attached to the Reich .

The LSV Frankfurt (Oder) club, which was founded in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1939 , was given the name LSV Adler Tarnowitz in 1942 when the air force unit was relocated to the Tarnowitz site, an important railway junction in Upper Silesia , and consequently also took part in the promotion round for the ten-team top division , the Gauliga Oberschlesien , participated and qualified as runner-up for this.

In the ranks of the "eagles" some players from well-known clubs who did military service competed . Before the opening of the 1942/43 season, the Upper Silesian press presented the main eleven, whose average age was given as 21: Kersten ( Schultheiss Berlin); Göbel ( VfL Bochum ), Uhlig ( Blau-Weiß Berlin ); Papen (VfL Bochum), Walter ( VfB Auerbach ), Wiesener (DSK Wittkowitz ); Gulatz ( 07 Gelsenkirchen ), Mai ( Kray 04 ), Baum ( Minerva 93 Berlin ), Appel ( Berliner SV 92 ), Ziekow ( Concordia Berlin ).

The team led by the Berlin National player John "Johnny" Appel made the opening day of high wins in the Gauliga sensation and immediately took over the top spot: With 10: 0 was TuS Hindenburg 09 , with 17: 1 of 1. FC Katowice and defeated with 3-0 forward lawn sport Gleiwitz . After seven game days, the "Adler" led unbeaten and clearly the table with 12: 2 points and 48: 5 goals.

On November 18, 1942, a press release about a “sensational turn” in the league appeared completely surprising under the heading “The eagles are no longer there” : The club had “withdrawn its team from the championship”. The following day, citing the football department , the press announced that all of the club's games would not be counted.

None of the newspapers gave information about the reasons for the withdrawal. The football historian Hardy Grüne writes in his “club encyclopedia” of a withdrawal caused by the war. In fact, the regiment was moved to Rippin in West Prussia . It is unknown whether the club continued to exist there under a new name or whether a new club was founded.

literature

Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .

Individual evidence

↑ slask.sport.pl ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Polish) @1@ 2

^ Oberschlesischer Kurier, September 8, 1942, p. 4.

^ Oberschlesischer Kurier, September 29, 1942, p. 6.

↑ Oberschlesischer Kurier, October 5, 1942, p. 6.

↑ Oberschlesischer Kurier, October 12, 1942, p. 6.

↑ Oberschlesischer Kurier, November 18, 1942, p. 6.

^ Ostdeutsche Morgenpost, November 19, 1942, p. 10; Oberschlesische Zeitung, November 19, 1942, p. 8.

[1] slask.sport.pl ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Polish) @1@ 2

[2] Oberschlesischer Kurier, September 8, 1942, p. 4.

[3] Oberschlesischer Kurier, September 29, 1942, p. 6.

[4] Oberschlesischer Kurier, October 5, 1942, p. 6.

[5] Oberschlesischer Kurier, October 12, 1942, p. 6.

[6] Oberschlesischer Kurier, November 18, 1942, p. 6.

[7] Ostdeutsche Morgenpost, November 19, 1942, p. 10; Oberschlesische Zeitung, November 19, 1942, p. 8.