Reichsbahn SG Katowice

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RSG Katowice
Full name Reichsbahn Sports Association Katowice
place Katowice
Founded November 9, 1939
Dissolved 1945
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Top league Gauliga Upper Silesia
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The Reichsbahn Sportgemeinschaft Kattowitz was a German football club from the Upper Silesian Katowice in occupied Poland during the Second World War .

history

In the presence of over 300 participants, the Reichsbahn sports community was founded on Thursday (November 9, 1939) in the Katowice “Christian Hospice”. The SG occurred in the season 1940/41 in the first class Silesia East to. At this time still appearing under the name Kattowitz-Idaweiche , the team achieved third place within Division 2 with 20:12 points . From the 1941/42 season onwards , 1st class was combined and divided into four departments. Grouped in Division 1, the club reached fifth place with 20:20 points at the end of the season. For the 1942/43 season , the four departments then became a total of seven and the SG ended up in department 7 . By taking first place at the end of the season, the team was able to participate in the promotion round in the East Upper Silesia group . With 9: 3 points the first place was achieved and thus the club was allowed to move up to the Gauliga Oberschlesien next season .

The first season in the Gauliga could then be finished with 17:19 points in fifth place. The next season was still started, but then canceled on January 14, 1945. At that time, the team was in second place with 11: 3 points after seven games. With the capitulation of the German Reich at the end of the Second World War and the annexation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet Union , the association was also dissolved.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Oberschlesischer Kurier, November 13, 1939, No. 301

swell

  • 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 .