Southeast German Football Association

Southeast German Football Association

Founded	March 18, 1906 (dissolved July 15, 1933 )
president	Oskar Langner
address	Piastenstrasse 31 Wroclaw
Parent association	German Football Association (DFB)
Subordinate Associations	Upper Silesian Football Association ( Oberschlesien District )
region
Clubs (approx.)	431 *
Members (approx.)	59353 * * as of December 31, 1931

The Southeast German Football Association (SOFV) was a regional football association for Lower Lusatia , Silesia in the form at that time with its share in Upper Lusatia and for the administrative district of Posen . 431 football clubs with 59,353 members were organized in the SOFV (as of December 31, 1931).

founding

Hotel and restaurant "White Taube" in Cottbus

Former office of the Southeast German Football Association in Breslau.

Old logo of the SOFV

On the joint initiative of the Niederlausitzer Ballspiel-Vereinigung and the Breslauer Ballspiel-Vereinigung , the SOFV was founded on March 18, 1906 in Cottbus with its seat in Wroclaw . In early March 1906, the following appeal appeared in contemporary sports newspapers:

"Call to all associations that are based in Niederlausitz, the province of Silesia and in the administrative district of Posen. The undersigned associations hereby invite all associations based in the above-mentioned districts to the on March 18, 1906. 9 a.m. in Cottbus, Hotel zur Weiße Taube , the 1st Association Days of the South-East German Football Association. Daily order: Foundation of the SOFV based on the draft statutes drawn up by the two signing associations. Each association has one vote for every 50 members who have started. The list of members must be submitted. Draft articles of association can be obtained from the undersigned and is ready for any further information.
Verband Breslauer BV Verband Niederlausitzer BV
IA Oscar Seimiger, Cottbus, Burgstr. 47 "

The foundation of the association was decided unanimously on the 1st association day. Mr. FA Wegener (Breslau) was elected to the board as 1st chairman, FH Schubert (Cottbus) as 2nd chairman, Mr. O. Lehniger (Cottbus) as secretary and FC Kunert (Breslau) as cashier. It was also determined that all clubs in the association area must join the SOFV by June 1, 1906, or otherwise be disqualified. In addition, it was determined that the winner of the preliminary round game for the German championship between the champions of the Niederlausitzer Ballspiel-Vereine and the Breslauer Ballspiel-Vereine may not yet hold the title of Southeast German Master . The cost estimate for the first financial year was put at 350 marks in income and expenditure. At the Bundestag of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1906 , the association was to send two representatives, one each from Breslau and Cottbus. The Southeast German Football Association had a total of eleven votes in the Bundestag. O. Lehniger was the representative in the federal committee of the DFB; the Southeast received two votes in this body.

On August 12, 1906, the Niederlausitz Ballspiel-Vereine association decided to drop its name and to merge with the SOFV as the Niederlausitz district . On August 26, 1906, the Association of Breslau Ball Game Clubs followed and was henceforth called the Breslau District in the SOFV. At the end of August or beginning of September, the Katowice Ballspiel-Verband joined the SOFV with its three clubs and formed the Upper Silesia district with FC 1903 Ratibor, which joined in June . The district itself was only recognized as such by the SOFV in January 1907. In September 1906, also decided to Lower Silesia and Poznan to form two districts. The district of Lower Silesia was founded at its constituent meeting on November 4th of that year and immediately afterwards started its game play. In the beginning the clubs ATV Liegnitz , FC Blitz Liegnitz , FC Viktoria Liegnitz, SC Germania Vereinigung 1905 Liegnitz and FC 1904 Freiburg belonged to him. In Posen there were probably only the two clubs DSV Posen and 1. FC Britannia Posen, which joined the Southeast German Football Association in the summer of 1906 . A game operation in the Poznan district class has only been handed down from the 1908/09 season.

The first final round of the Southeast German Championship took place in March 1907. The first Southeast German championship title won the SC Schlesien 1901 Breslau . In 1910, the sixth district in the SOFV was formed with the district of Oberlausitz . The center of the district were the cities of Görlitz and Sagan . After the First World War , Poznan became Polish, as a result of which the Poznan District also ceased to exist within the SOFV. In 1925, the Southeast German Football Association formed the new Bergland district , which included clubs from the Waldenburger Bergland that had previously played mainly in the Lower Silesia district class.

Dissolution of the SOFV

Former Hotel "Preußenhof" in Warmbrunn

When the Nazis brought sport into line, the regional associations of the DFB disbanded, and the southeast German association resolved to dissolve itself on July 15, 1933.

The vast majority of the clubs were assigned to the Gauliga Schlesien and the associated lower-class leagues after 1933 , only the clubs from Forst , Cottbus and Guben from the Niederlausitz district class were assigned to the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg or the associated lower leagues.

The last day of the association in Warmbrunn

Upon arrival in Warmbrunn, a happy reunion was celebrated with the old friends from all over the association area, who have not been absent from any association day for years. A short board meeting took place at 6 o'clock, at 7 o'clock the association chairman opened the association day of 1933 in the large hall of the Hotel Preußenhof History of the SOFV. From the national chairman Linnemann an application for approval was present, had the following wording:

“The Association Day authorized Messrs. Beinlich (Breslau), Hilbig (Breslau) and Prottag (Sagan) to change the association. These gentlemen also have the right to dispose of the property of the association and the districts. "

The proposal was accepted unanimously without further debate. The Southeast German Football Association ceased to exist.

District division

Overview map of the SOFV districts (1929–1933)

In order to keep the costs of travel and overnight stays as well as lost work (football was an amateur sport at the time and almost all football players also had a regular job) as low as possible, the districts were formed. The winners of the individual district classes were qualified for the south-east German final round, in which the champions were played. At the beginning of the SOFV, attention was paid to spatial proximity in the first pairings in the final round, so Niederlausitz clubs generally played in the first round against winners from the district of Lower Silesia or Upper Lusatia, but never against the winner from Upper Silesia or Poznan. Over the years, some districts were divided up again by the addition of new clubs. Upper Silesia, for example, was divided into a Gau Kattowitz and a Gau Ratibor in 1908 . The districts of Beuthen and Gleiwitz were added later. The individual Gaumeister then played the Upper Silesian Championship. In the early and mid-1920s, when interest in football also increased in Silesia and, as a result, the strength of the teams also increased considerably, the subdivision of the districts reached its peak when many districts were divided into four or five districts and these districts even again were divided. For example, so that a Breslau club could take part in the south-east German finals in 1923, it first had to be first or second in a round-robin tournament in its district , then win the Gau Breslau and ultimately prevail in the Middle Silesian championship. Towards the end of the 1920s it was decided to join forces to play with an upper league again in most of the district classes; only the district of Central Silesia and the Bergland district remained subdivided until the end.

season	Lower Lusatia district	District of Upper Lusatia	District of Lower Silesia	Wroclaw District / Central Silesia	District of Upper Silesia	Bergland district	Poznan District
1906/07	District class Niederlausitz		District class Lower Silesia	District class Wroclaw	District class Upper Silesia
1907/08					District class Upper Silesia
1908/09					District class Upper Silesia		District class Poznan
1909/10
1910/11		District class Upper Lusatia
1911/12					League class Upper Silesia
1912/13			District class Lower Silesia		League class Upper Silesia
1913/14		District class Upper Lusatia			District class Upper Silesia
1919/20				District class Middle Silesia-Wroclaw
1920/21				District class Middle Silesia
1921/22		District class Upper Lusatia
1922/23	District class Niederlausitz
1923/24
1924/25
1925/26	District class Niederlausitz		District class Lower Silesia			District class mountain country
1926/27			District class Lower Silesia		District class Upper Silesia
1927/28			District class Lower Silesia
1928/29
1929/30
1930/31
1931/32
1932/33

	Single track top division
	Multi-track upper leagues with regional finals
	no league operation

Champion of the Southeast German Football Association

A total of 10 different teams were able to achieve the championship title in the 22 seasons of the southeast German finals. The record champions are the United Wroclaw Sports Friends with 6 titles. Teams from Breslau and Niederlausitz dominated the championship until the end of the 1920s. Usually clubs from the two districts faced each other in the final. With the Breslauer Sportfreunde , the first championship winner SC Schlesien Breslau , the VfR 1897 Breslau and the Breslauer SC 08 , four teams from the Wroclaw district were able to win the southeast German championship a total of 11 times. The 3 title winners from the Niederlausitz district were SC Alemannia Cottbus , FC Askania Forst and FC Viktoria Forst , who were able to bring the title to Niederlausitz a total of 5 times. Towards the end of the 1920s, the playing strength in Upper Silesia increased significantly, so that this district was now dominant in the SOFV and was able to win 5 championships. The Beuthener SuSV 09 won the championship title four times in a row from 1930 to 1933, before that it was the SC Preußen Zaborze that won the first southeast German championship for a club from Upper Silesia in 1929. The district of Lower Silesia experienced its greatest triumph when it won the ATV Liegnitz title in 1912. Before and afterwards, however, there was no further championship title. Clubs from the Bergland, Oberlausitz and Posen districts were never able to advance to the finals of the southeast German finals, let alone win a title.

district	Number of masters SOFV	year	Record champions
Wroclaw - Central Silesia	11	1907, 1908, 1910, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928	United Wroclaw Sports Friends (6)
Lower Lusatia	5	1909, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1925	FC Askania Forst (3)
Upper Silesia	5	1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933	Beuthener SuSV 09 (4)
Lower Silesia	1	1912	ATV Liegnitz (1)
Mountain country	0
Upper Lusatia	0
Poses	0

Final round of the German championship

No club of the Southeast German Football Association was ever able to qualify for the final of the German championship. Most of the time, the Southeast German champions were eliminated in the first round (quarter-finals until 1924, then round of 16), but the results were often close. In 1906/07 the SC Schlesien Breslau only narrowly lost 1: 2 against the BTuFC Viktoria 89 . Two years later, SC Alemannia Cottbus failed in the preliminary round after two extra times, also only very narrowly in a neutral place in Leipzig with 3: 4 at SC Erfurt 1895 . Also in the 1909/10 season, the south-east German champions, this time VfR 1897 Breslau, only narrowly eliminated 1: 2 in Berlin from FC Tasmania 1900 Rixdorf . This series also continued in the following two years, when only the Askania Forst the VfB Leipzig in 1893 with 2: 3 and then the ATV Legnica of SpVgg. 1899 Leipzig lost with the same result. At the German football championship in 1920 a SOFV club survived the quarter-finals for the first time, the United Breslauer Sportfreunde reached the semi-finals with a 3-2 win against defending champions SC Union 1906 Oberschöneweide . There they had no chance against SpVgg Fürth and lost 4-0 in Leipzig. The quarter-final match of the 1923/24 season between the United Breslauer Sportfreunde and Hamburger SV 1887 set a new audience record for Breslau . The sports fans lost 3-0, but 8,500 spectators were on the VfB Platz Grüneiche.

From the 1924/25 season both the master and the runner-up of the individual regional associations took part in the German championship. By doubling the number of participants, there was now one more round to pass and you started in the round of 16. While FC Viktoria Forst only narrowly eliminated 1: 2 at home against ETB Schwarz Weiß 1900 Essen , Breslauer SC 08 won against VfB 1893 Leipzig with the same result in neutral Dresden . In the quarter-finals, the Breslau team faced 1. FC Nürnberg at VfB Platz Grüneiche . After a break of 0: 1, the SC had to bend 1: 4 in the end, but with over 12,000 spectators a new attendance record was set for Wroclaw. Also in 1925/26, the Breslauer SC 08 survived the round of 16 with a 1-0 victory over the Dresdner SC 1898 . In the quarter-finals against the eventual German champions SpVgg Fürth on a neutral place in Leipzig, the Franks showed their superiority in a 4-0 win. At the German championship in 1929 , a club from the Southeast German Football Association achieved the greatest success. After a 2-1 win against VfB Königsberg away , the Breslauer SC 08 reached the quarter-finals. There they met the southern German runner-up FC Bayern Munich and surprisingly won the game 4-3 after extra time. The striker Fritz Blaschke , who scored all three goals for the Silesians in regular time, played a key role in this success for the Breslau team. In the semifinals, however, it was over, again the future German champions, SpVgg Fürth , presented an insurmountable obstacle in the 1: 6 defeat in Frankfurt am Main . In 1932/33 the SuSV from Beuthen made it through the round of 16 in 1909 with a clear 7: 1 - Victory over the SportVgg. Prussia Samland 1904 Königsberg , but the quarter-final match against TSV 1860 Munich was lost in Nuremberg 3-0.

Crown Prince Cup

The Southeast German Football Association also took part in the Cup of Regional Associations donated by the Crown Prince. In the first season 1908/09, the SOFV was eliminated in the preliminary round on neutral territory in Berlin just 0: 1 against northeast Germany. A year later, both national teams faced each other again, this time in Poznan and the Southeast turned the tables with a 4-0 victory. In the semifinals against the Association of Berliner Ballspielvereine in Wroclaw, the SOFV clearly went under with 1: 9.

In 1910/11 a replay was needed to defeat the representation of the Northeast after a 1-1 draw in Danzig 6-2 in Cottbus. In the semifinals against the north in Hamburg , the southeast selection received a bitter 0:11 defeat. In the 1911/12 season, the SOFV was able to keep the game open in front of only 822 spectators against Central Germany in Cottbus after regular playing time at 1: 1, but went 1: 5 in extra time.

The 1917/18 season brought the southeast an unexpected 3-1 victory in Leipzig against the selection of Central Germany. The semifinals against Brandenburg in Berlin held up the SOFV very well after 90 minutes with a score of 2: 2, but had to take four more goals in extra time and were eliminated with 2: 6.

Federal Cup

Southeast Germany cup football team 1926/27

In the competition, which was renamed the Federal Cup after the fall of the monarchy , the SOFV proved its playing strength in the 1919/20 season. After a 2-1 half-time lead, the game against Brandenburg in Berlin ended 4: 4 after regular time. In the due extra time, Brandenburg pulled away to 6: 5, but due to falling darkness, the encounter was canceled after 115 minutes. The repetition also went into overtime, in which the Southeast had the upper hand with 4: 3. The semi-final against Central Germany also took place in Wroclaw. In front of around 8,000 spectators, the Southeast lost 3: 5.

In the 1922/23 season, the selection team of the Southeast failed in the quarter-finals only 4: 5 to West Germany . A year later came the end in the same round, this time with 2: 3 in Breslau against Central Germany .

In the 1926/27 season, the Southeast achieved a real sensation with their 2-0 victory over southern Germany in Breslau. In the semifinals in Berlin against Brandenburg , the team had no chance at 1: 4. In the following season the Southeast took revenge in Breslau and sent Brandenburg home defeated 2-0. After the 3-2 success in the Chemnitz semifinals against Central Germany , the SOFV team reached the final for the first time. This took place on April 19, 1928 in Breslau against northern Germany . In front of 35,000 spectators, the southeast was able to defeat the north 2-0 with two goals after the break and thus win the national cup.

In the 1930/31 season, the Southeast survived the quarter-finals with a 4: 3 won in extra time over the representation of the Baltic States . In the semifinals followed with the 1: 5 in Beuthen against Central Germany but the end. In the following season the SOFV in Wroclaw managed a clear 3-0 over the representation of the West , but in the semifinals the Southeast German selection lost just 3-2 in Hamburg against the north .

In 1932/33, the SOFV again reached the final of the national cup. In the quarter-finals, the West was surprisingly beaten 3: 2 in Gladbeck and in the Breslau semifinals, the North drew the shorter with 1: 3. In the final against southern Germany in Mannheim , the southeast suffered a heavy defeat with 1: 6.

Fighting Game Cup

In the fighting game cup, which is only held every four years, the SOFV was eliminated in the quarterfinals with 0: 2 against southern Germany in 1922. In 1926, the Southeast created a big surprise with their 4-1 victory in Berlin against Brandenburg. In the following semifinals against West Germany in Rheydt , the SOFV led 2: 1 at the break and were able to make the match 3: 3 by the end of regular time. In the extension that followed, the southeast broke down 3: 7. In 1930 only the winners of the national cup of the previous two seasons took part in the fighting game cup. The southeast was defeated by Brandenburg 1: 2 despite their home advantage.

swell

Mario Tomao (German Sports Club for Football Statistics eV): Football in Silesia 1900/01 - 1932/33. (Published December 2007)
Till Scholtz-Knobloch: Exhibition panels What remains of the fame [1]
Final round: 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 , pp. 111-114.
Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
Regional: webalice.it - GERMANY - LEAGUE FINAL TABLES

Web links

Commons : Südostdeutscher Fußball-Verband - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Over 100 years of SOFV

Individual evidence

↑ Der Oberschlesischer Wanderer, March 8, 1933, No. 56, p. 7 - "Numbers from the SOFV"
↑ Der Oberschlesischer Wanderer, March 8, 1933, No. 56, p. 7 - "Numbers from the SOFV"
↑ Football Chronicle, Football in Silesia 1900 / 01-1932 / 33, results and tables from the highest leagues of the Southeast German Football Association and the individual associations in the region, publisher: DSfFS e. V., Berlin 2007.
↑ Der Oberschlesischer Wanderer, July 13, 1933, No. 162, p. 10 - "Dissolution of the SOFV"
↑ Der Oberschlesischer Wanderer, July 17, 1933, No. 165, p. 8 - "The Southeast German Football Association has been dissolved"

[1] Der Oberschlesischer Wanderer, March 8, 1933, No. 56, p. 7 - "Numbers from the SOFV"

[2] Der Oberschlesischer Wanderer, March 8, 1933, No. 56, p. 7 - "Numbers from the SOFV"

[3] Football Chronicle, Football in Silesia 1900 / 01-1932 / 33, results and tables from the highest leagues of the Southeast German Football Association and the individual associations in the region, publisher: DSfFS e. V., Berlin 2007.

[4] Der Oberschlesischer Wanderer, July 13, 1933, No. 162, p. 10 - "Dissolution of the SOFV"

[5] Der Oberschlesischer Wanderer, July 17, 1933, No. 165, p. 8 - "The Southeast German Football Association has been dissolved"