LSV Mölders Krakow

LSV Mölders Krakow
Full name	Air Force Sports Club Mölders Krakow
place	Krakow
Founded	1940
Dissolved	1944
Club colors
Stadion
Top league	Gauliga General Government
successes	Gaumeister Generalgouvernement 1944
home Away

The Luftwaffensportverein Mölders Krakau ( LSV Mölders Krakau for short ) was a German football club from the city of Krakow in occupied Poland during the Second World War .

history

The air force sports club Mölders Krakow, named after the fatally injured Luftwaffe officer Werner Mölders , was founded in 1940.

The Krakow's most successful season was in 1943/44 after Otto Faist became their coach. In late autumn 1943, the national players Ernst Sabeditsch and Ernst Willimowski were temporarily seconded to the club. At that time, he was able to secure the district championship first and then, after games against Rembertow Warsaw and DTSG Czestochowa, the championship of the Gauliga Generalgouvernement . As a result, the LSV qualified for the final round of the German championship . There, however, the end took place in the first round with a 1: 4 in front of a home crowd against VfB Königsberg .

In both 1943 and 1944, the association won the Governor General Hans Frank's Cup of the General Government of Poland . On November 19, 1944, the club in Krakow lost in front of 3,000 spectators against the Red Hunters 0:14. In the game, Hermann Eppenhoff , previously a striker of the championship team of FC Schalke 04 , scored five goals. A little later, the club was dissolved due to the increased fighting.

player

Line-up for the final game of the German Championship against VfB Königsberg:

goal	Defense	midfield	attack
Johnsen	Boxleitner Eberhardt Johann Urbanek	Dampire Janoczek	Bixemann Sweep Ginzel Franz Grigutsch Mödel

successes

• Master of the Gauliga Generalgouvernement : 1944
• Cup of the Gauliga Generalgouvernement : 1943, 1944

Web links

• The German football archive
• deutschfussball.info

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der Kicker / Fußballwoche, August 1, 1944, p. 3; Warschauer Zeitung, November 7, 1944, p. 15.
2. ^ Warschauer Zeitung, December 14, 1943, p. 6.
3. ↑ Krakauer Zeitung, November 21, 1944, p. 11 .; see. Thomas Urban : Black eagle, white eagle. German and Polish footballers at the heart of politics. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89533-775-8 , p. 90.
4. ↑ Listing of the DM game at Spox.com , viewed June 20, 2010.
5. ↑ Squad for the 1943/44 season at weltfussball.de , viewed June 20, 2010.