Red hunters

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Rote Jäger was a soccer team founded by the Luftwaffe officer Hermann Graf during the Third Reich . It consisted of members of his respective commanded the squadron , at times and ever changing from zuversetzten or abkommandierten to the squadron war guest players , including well-known national team .

background

Graf, himself an enthusiastic football player who also worked as a goalkeeper on the team , offered football players who had to accept detachments due to the course of the war, regardless of the location of his squadron, the opportunity in his team (if not in the clubs to which they already belonged) to be able to play.

In this team, which only played friendly games during the war, the national players Hermann Eppenhoff , Franz Hanreiter , Alfons Moog , Josef Stroh and Fritz Walter were active, who were temporarily spared from the front line , although it could happen that players were short-term were posted.

Even Reich coach Sepp Herberger , some trainers this military team that mediated players for Graf's Red Hunter , keep away from these to the front. However, since the squadron itself was relocated to the Eastern Front, after it had previously been stationed in the Lüneburg Heath and then in Jever , the Red Fighters were not spared from the war either.

player

Goal : Wilhelm Thiele ( OrPo Chemnitz ), Hermann Graf (FC Hewen Engen / Baden ), Karl-Heinz Höger ( Hamburger SV / SV Dessau 05 ), Karl Flinner ( Wilhelmshaven 05 ), Karl Köhler ( FC Hanau 93 ).

Defense : Siegfried "Friedel" Klagges ( SG Wattenscheid 09 ), Hermann Koch ( Swabian Augsburg ), Walter Zwickhofer ( FC Schalke 04 ).

Midfield : Alfons Moog ( VfL Cologne 1899 ), Bruno Klaffke ( Duisburger FV 08 ), Friedrich Hack ( TSV 1860 Munich ), Gredel ( VfR Mannheim ), Alfred Oberst ( 1. FC Nürnberg / SV 06 Kassel), Werner Humpert ( Sportfreunde Dresden ).

Storm : Friedrich "Fritz" Walter ( 1. FC Kaiserslautern ), Franz Hanreiter ( SK Admira Vienna ), Hermann Eppenhoff (FC Schalke 04), Walter Bammes ( SpVgg Fürth ), Richard Leonhardt ( Planitzer SC ), Josef Stroh ( FK Austria Vienna ).

Trainer : Sepp Herberger .

Games during World War II

  • 4th August 1943: Eintracht Frankfurt - Rote Jäger 1: 5
  • August 11, 1943: SpVgg Neu-Isenburg - Rote Jäger 1: 3
  • August 12, 1943: Combination FC Konstanz-SpV Gottmadingen-Radolfzell - Rote Jäger 0: 7
  • September 25, 1943: Luftwaffe SV Berlin - Red Jäger 0-3
  • September 26, 1943: Oase Berlin ( artist team ) - Rote Jäger 3: 3
  • December 12, 1943: TuS Aurich ( Kriegsmarine ) - Rote Jäger 0: 5
  • December 19, 1943: SV Wilhelmshaven ( Kriegsmarine ) - Rote Jäger 3:10
  • December 26, 1943: City selection Stuttgart - Rote Jäger 6: 3 (5,000 spectators)
  • January 1, 1944: FC Mulhouse (Alsace) - Rote Jäger 3:10
  • January 16, 1944: Luftwaffen-SV Hamburg - Rote Jäger 2: 3 (12,000 spectators)
  • January 22, 1944: Holstein Kiel - Rote Jäger 1: 8
  • February 13, 1944: Luftwaffe SV Pütnitz - Rote Jäger 2: 3 (in Rostock)
  • February 20, 1944: SC Sparta Wesermünde ( Air Force ) - Red Jäger 0: 8
  • March 4, 1944: LSV Ahlhorn / Reichsbahn Cloppenburg - Rote Jäger 0: 6
  • March 5, 1944: Eintracht Braunschweig - Rote Jäger 2: 6 (in Hanover)
  • March 12, 1944: City selection Cologne - Rote Jäger 1: 5 (12,000 spectators)
  • March 19, 1944: Luftwaffen-SV Hamburg - Rote Jäger 5: 1 (12,000 spectators)
  • March 26, 1944: FC Bayern Munich - Rote Jäger 1: 1 (10,000 spectators)
  • March 31, 1944: 1. FC Nürnberg - Rote Jäger 0: 7
  • April 2, 1944: VfR Mannheim - Rote Jäger 1: 8
  • May 7, 1944: Hungary national team - Rote Jäger 5-2 (in Budapest)
  • May 14, 1944: KSG Stuttgarter Kickers / Sportfreunde Stuttgart - Rote Jäger 2: 3 (in Singen)
  • May 21, 1944: Military SV Jäger Bückeburg - Rote Jäger 6: 8
  • May 29, 1944: Hamburger SV - Rote Jäger 1: 3 (6,000 spectators)
  • August 6, 1944: City selection Dortmund - Rote Jäger 1:11
  • August 13, 1944: Combination SV Röhlinghausen / SG Wattenscheid - Rote Jäger 2: 3
  • August 19, 1944: Westfalia Herne - Rote Jäger 3: 2
  • November 19, 1944: Luftwaffe SV Mölders Krakow - Rote Jäger 0:14 (in Krakow - 3,000 spectators)

Notes / individual evidence

  1. ^ "In the spring of 1942 ... we were initially in Kharkov . Kharkov had a beautiful stadium. ... A short time later I managed to get a selection of us to fight a selection of the Panzer Army. Everything went wonderfully. No less than 30,000 soldiers came to watch. ... But I was unlucky. Shortly before the start of the game, I received the telephone order to fly escort for Hitler's Condor together with three other pilots, all of them bearers of the Knight's Cross. ”Hermann Graf in Fritz Walter, p. 74
  2. ↑ "Red hunters successfully hunt goals" on nwzonline.de (by Stephan Tönnies)

literature

  • Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football 1. From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga 1890 to 1963. Agon, Kassel 1996 ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
  • Fritz Walter: 11 red hunters. Copress, Munich 1959