Air Force Sports Club Hamburg

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LSV Hamburg
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Full name Great Hamburg Air Force Sports Club
place Hamburg
Founded 1942
Dissolved 1944
Club colors Black-and-white
Stadion Hoheluft Stadium
Top league Gauliga Hamburg
successes German vice cup winner 1943 (soccer)
German vice champion 1944 (soccer)
German champion 1944 (hockey)
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The Luftwaffe Sports Club Hamburg ( LSV Hamburg for short ) was a successful German military sports club during the Second World War .

Two notable seasons

The LSV Hamburg was set up on December 8, 1942 on the initiative of Air Force Colonel Fritz Laicher, who commanded the anti-aircraft cartillery stationed in the Hanseatic city . Organizationally, the LSV was affiliated with the Hamburg anti-aircraft cartillery. For football matters he had appointed Lieutenant Colonel Willy Psyk and won Otto Faist , the coach who led FC Schalke 04 to the German championship title after a memorable final win (9-0 against Admira Vienna ) in 1939 . The team played their home games mostly on the grounds of SC Victoria Hamburg ( Hoheluft Stadium ), some also on a pitch on Hemmingstedter Weg in Klein-Flottbek .

German cup finalist

In the 1942/43 season , the Luftwaffe SV competed in the Tschammer Cup , the forerunner of the DFB Cup . After victories over SpVgg Wilhelmshaven 05 (1: 0), Luftwaffe SV Pütnitz (3: 2), Holstein Kiel (4: 2) and Dresdner SC (2: 1), Hamburg reached the final in Stuttgart. In this, however, Vienna Vienna retained the upper hand 3-2 after extra time and won the last competition held until the end of the war. On the side of the Viennese, Richard Dörfel and Rudi Noack played two Hamburgers, and Noack made a significant contribution to the defeat of the Hamburg Air Force athletes with his two goals.

German runner-up

At the start of the 1943/44 season , the LSV was accepted into the Gauliga Hamburg without qualification and immediately became a sovereign champion; In 18 games, the military footballers only gave one point, literally outclassing a number of opponents (goal difference: 117: 13) and relegating HSV , Victoria , Altona 93 and FC St. Pauli to their places. The unrivaled team (see below) due to numerous player commitments from the entire Reich territory in Hamburg defeated the Wehrmacht-SV Celle (4: 0), the SpVgg Wilhelmshaven 05 (1: 1 after extra time and 4: 1 ) in the final round of the German championship . 2), the war syndicate Duisburger SpV and TuS 48/99 Duisburg (3: 0) and the Heeres-SV Groß Born (3: 2) and thus stood again in a final after the cup final of the previous year. On June 18, 1944 in Berlin in front of 70,000 spectators, however, it was not enough to win the title this year: the Dresdner SC took revenge for the semi-final defeat in the Tschammerpokal and clearly beat LSV Hamburg 4-0.

In the 1944/45 season , the LSV played three Gauliga games from September 10th, all of which he won (14-2 goals in total). As of September 19, 1944 , the Luftwaffe sports club (like all military teams) had to stop playing on the instructions of the army command .

Player squad

The LSV squad contained a number of top-class (including national) players; If known, the previous club is given in brackets. The list may not be complete.

The fact that LSV Hamburg also strengthened itself in the final round of the German championship with the two HSV players Erwin Seeler and Heinz Spundzeile is misinformation.

In the championship finals in 1943/44 , held between April 16 and June 18, the regular formation in the six games of LSV Hamburg was as follows (in brackets: number of appearances / goals):

Juerissen (6)

Miller (6) Münzenberg (6) Ochs (6) Gärtner (5) or Gizzi (2) Lipke (3) or Gebhardt (2)00000000000
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Zahn (6/2) Mühle (6/3) Gornick (6/4) Janda (6/5) J. Lotz (6/1)0000000000000000000000000000

That the LSV in a time in which it "burned" on virtually all fronts, (1) for two months no one park got along had with 13 players, shows that involvement in a military team player protected often before the transfer to the front .

(1) In Italy, the German units gave up Rome at the beginning of June and withdrew the troops to the Apennine defense line, while the Allies landed in Normandy (" Operation Overlord "). In the East, urged Red Army , the Wehrmacht across the board back (Entkesselung Leningrad, the Crimea, destruction of Army Group Center). See also World War II .

Championship in hockey

In 1944, the LSV Hamburg was German champion in field hockey . In the final held in Magdeburg, LSV defeated last year's champions TSV Sachsenhausen 1857 in extra time 1-0.

Web links

literature

  • Gerhard Fischer, Ulrich Lindner: Striker for Hitler. On the interplay between football and National Socialism. The workshop, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89533-241-0
  • 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 .
  • Bernd Jankowski, Harald Pistorius, Jens Reimer Prüß : Football in the North. 100 years of the North German Football Association. History, chronicle, names, dates, facts, figures. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-270-X .
  • Florian Wittmann: Military sports clubs under the Nazi regime, in: Stadium. International Journal for the History of Sports 43 (2019), pp. 270–302.
  • Hamburger Mittagsblatt , Monday editions of the years 1943 and 1944 (location: Hamburg State and University Library)