TSG Litzmannstadt

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TSG Litzmannstadt
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Club coat of arms from TSG Litzmannstadt
Full name Gymnastics and sports community Litzmannstadt
place Lodz
Founded January 7, 1911
Dissolved 1945
Club colors Black-and-white
Stadion
Top league Ekstraklasa
successes 12th place in the Ekstraklasa 1930
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The Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft (TSG) Litzmannstadt / Łódzkie Towarzystwo Sportowo-Gimnastyczne (ŁTS-G) was a German sports club from what is now Polish Łódź , which changed its name and nationality several times in the course of TSG's history.

Club history

Until the end of the First World War there was no Polish nation-state. The country was divided into three parts: an Austrian, a Prussian and a Russian part - called the Kingdom of Poland . The degree of repression of the respective occupying powers against the native Polish population varied. The Poles suffered most from the Russians, where they were more or less without rights.

This is also evident in the development of sports. Lodz was the second largest city in the Russian area after Warsaw . In the textile workers' city, the “Polish Manchester”, the Polish population practiced practically no club sport, especially as difficult socio-economic conditions prevailed. From the 19th century only the tourism association "Klub Turystow Lodz" (later: Union Litzmannstadt ), founded in 1899, is known.

Foreigners are different: Germans and English, who were employed as specialists in the textile factories of Lodz (also known as Lodsch) and were subject to different laws than the down-to-earth Polish population, founded their national sports clubs before 1900, in which they mainly do gymnastics, cycling and Played tennis, but also played football sporadically. From the middle of the 19th century, this included the forerunner gymnastics clubs of the TSG and in 1897 the game and sports club Union Lodz , about which no information is available.

The TSG's founding phase is mainly played by gymnasts. The TG Achilles was launched in 1907, and the Jahn gymnastics club from Lodz was officially founded in the same year. On April 7, 1910, the two clubs initially merged as the “United Gymnastics Clubs Achilles-Jahn” and finally merged in 1911 to form the “Lodzer Sport and Gymnastics Club”. The year 1911 is also considered the official year of foundation. The main occupation of this STV was gymnastics, but the TG Achilles had already owned a football department, which was continued in the STV. They took part in the city championships of Lodz, which were held annually from 1911 onwards.

After the end of the First World War, a Polish nation-state emerged again. The previously “German” clubs became Polish ones, which took part in Polish gaming operations and also had to take on Polish names. The Lodz STV was now called Łódzkie Towarzystwo Sportowo-Gimnastyczne (ŁTS-G). The club also achieved its greatest football success as ŁTS-G: In 1929/30 it made it into the top Polish league for one year.

After the beginning of the Second World War and the occupation of Poland by the German troops, the association was given a German name again: ŁTS-G became the STV again. In 1940 Lodz became " Litzmannstadt ", named after the "war hero" of the First World War and NSDAP party member Karl Litzmann . The STV Lodz (Lodsch) has now become TSG Litzmannstadt, which has been incorporated into the new Gauliga Wartheland . In the first season of 1940/41 , which was played as a cup round, the club reached the final and had to admit defeat to LSV Posen 3: 4 after extra time. During the 1941/42 season, the club withdrew voluntarily - probably due to the war-related lack of players. At the end of the war the association went out.

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