SG SS Strasbourg

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The SS Strasbourg sports association was a sports club run by the SS , which participated with football and basketball teams from 1940 to 1943/44 in Alsace, which was part of the Greater German Reich .

founding

With the beginning of the Second World War , football teams of the Wehrmacht and other armed formations were founded throughout the German Reich , including the SS. In Alsace, which was rejoined to the Reich after the French campaign in summer 1940, the previous football clubs had to give themselves German names. This included the Red Star Strasbourg , which took its old name FC Frankonia back from before 1918 when Strasbourg was German. In October 1940, however, the management of the club was informed that from now on it would form the football and basketball department of the SS Sports Association .

Several former professional players from the former top club Racing Strasbourg , which was now called Lawn Sports Club Strasbourg , were seconded to the SG , including goalkeeper Charles Hoffmann (Karl Hoffmann), eight-time French national player Frédéric Keller (Fritz Keller) and the brothers Emile and Pierre Waechter. None of the better-known players belonged to the SS, most of them were Alsatians. Without qualifying games, the SG was assigned to the highest regional division, the Gauliga Alsace .

The club colors were black and white, the red star of the previous club was replaced by a skull and SS runes on the jerseys. According to contemporary witness reports, the club, now run by the SS, was very unpopular with the Strasbourg public, which stood behind the lawn sports club during local derbies .

1940–1944 seasons

In the first year, the SG took 3rd place (among eight clubs), but only the first reached the finals of the German championship.

The 1941/42 season was the most successful in the club's short history. The SG became champions for the first and only time, with a narrow lead over the lawn sport club . In qualifying for the final round of the German championship, he beat the Stuttgarter Kickers 2-0. In the round of 16 he won against 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 2-1. In the quarter-finals, however, he was defeated by FC Schalke 04 6-0.

In the same season, the team also took part in the Tschammer Cup. After victories over Borussia Neunkirchen (5: 4) and SV Waldhof Mannheim (5: 4 a.d.), the SS-Club lost to the eventual winner TSV 1860 Munich with 1:15. At the game, high-ranking SS officers sat in the official gallery. The former Polish and now German international Ernst Willimowski , whose mother had been deported by the SS to Auschwitz two years earlier , scored seven goals for Munich . The later GDR selection player Johannes Schöne scored the consolation goal for Strasbourg .

In the following two years the SG failed to qualify for the finals of the championship and the cup. It was dissolved with the withdrawal of German troops from Alsace in late autumn 1944.

Placements in the Gauliga

season League name placement
1940/41 Gauliga Alsace , Season 1 3.
1941/42 Gauliga Alsace 1.
1942/43 Gauliga Alsace 3.
1943/44 Gauliga Alsace 2.

Basketball as a figurehead

As in football, the basketball teams consisted of players from the region, some of whom were seconded from the Alsatian center in Mulhouse. B. Terrillon and Schoeblin. They formed the figurehead of Strasbourg basketball and were part of the squad for the last international match in Hungary in 1942. SG SS Strasbourg won a police tournament in Berlin in 1941 and 1942. In 1942/43, the SG SS Strasbourg took part in the regional championship rounds.

Collaboration proceedings

In July 1945 the re-established association of the Alsatian league LAFA ( Ligue d'Alsace de football association ) decided to investigate the collaboration between football players and the German occupiers. The re-established Red Star Strasbourg was put back in the fourth division, although there were almost no connections to the SG SS Strasbourg . Frédéric Keller was initially banned for life, but the ban was lifted the following year. On the other hand, the goalkeeper Charles Hoffmann was not reprimanded, nor were the Waechter brothers, who were allowed to play in Racing again in 1945 . Also Red Star was rehabilitated in the late summer of 1946 and was allowed to compete in the first regional league.

Known players

literature

  • Bernd Reichelt: Staged memory. Alsatian football and its confrontation with the National Socialist past 1945–1950. In: M. Herzog (Hrsg.): Memorial culture in football. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 372-383.
  • Gerhard Fischer, Ulrich Lindner: Striker for Hitler. On the interplay between football and National Socialism. The workshop, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89533-241-0
  • Christian Eichler : Lexicon of football myths. Pieper, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-492-24021-6

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Bernd Reichelt: Staged memory. Alsatian football and its confrontation with the National Socialist past 1945–1950. In: M. Herzog (Hrsg.): Memorial culture in football. Stuttgart 2012, p. 373.
  2. ↑ http://www.racingstub.com/fiche/pe/193-charles-hoffmann/fiche
  3. ↑ http://www.racingstub.com/fiche/pe/99-frederic-keller/fiche
  4. ↑ http://www.footballdatabase.eu/football.joueurs.pierre.waechter.67859.fr.html
  5. ^ Alfred Wahl : Archives du football. Sport et société en France (1880-1980) . Paris 1989, p. 89.
  6. ↑ Bernd Reichelt: Staged memory. Alsatian football and its confrontation with the National Socialist past 1945–1950. In: M. Herzog (Hrsg.): Memorial culture in football. Stuttgart 2012, p. 374.
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mcsinfo.u-strasbg.fr
  8. ↑ Munich Latest News, 29./30. June 1942, p. 6.
  9. ↑ Thomas Urban : Black eagles, white eagles. German and Polish footballers at the heart of politics. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89533-775-8 , pp. 41–42.
  10. ↑ Der Kicker, September 1, 1942, p. 3.
  11. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lafa.fff.fr
  12. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mcsinfo.u-strasbg.fr
  13. ↑ Bernd Reichelt: Staged memory. Alsatian football and its confrontation with the National Socialist past 1945–1950. In: M. Herzog (Hrsg.): Memorial culture in football. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 379-380.