Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs

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Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs
Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs.png
founding December 26, 1900
resolution 1933
region Free State of Saxony , Province of Saxony ,
Thuringia , Anhalt
(partly Bavaria , Province of Hanover , Sudetenland )
Clubs (approx.) 1,032
Members (approx.) 128,500
Competitions Central German Football Championship
Central German Football Cup

The Verband Mitteldeutscher Ballspiel-Vereine ( VMBV ) was a regional football association that roughly encompassed today's federal states of Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia , but also smaller areas in Bavaria , today's Brandenburg and Lower Saxony and the former Sudetenland . The VMBV was founded on December 26, 1900 in Leipzig and existed until 1933. The seat was always Leipzig.

history

Foundation and development

While in the city of Leipzig with the Leipziger Ballspiel-Vereine, a local football association had existed since 1896 and staged championships, football in the rest of Central Germany was still largely unorganized around 1900. After the establishment of the German Football Association as the nationwide umbrella organization of football in Leipzig on January 28, 1900 , the Leipzig-based Ernst Raydt , Theodor Schöffler (VfB Leipzig) and Bruno Moldenhauer (Wacker Leipzig) decided to establish an association for all Central Germans To found clubs. On Boxing Day 1900, the founding meeting of the new association took place in Leipzig's Mariengarten. It was convened by Johannes Kirmse , the chairman of the LBV, who was also involved in convening the DFB's foundation day at the beginning of the year.

The following twelve clubs from seven cities were involved:

The future football metropolis of Dresden was not represented when the VMBV was founded.

The most important goal of this association was to educate young people about physical performance and patriotic sentiments through the cultivation of various physical exercises, in particular football and athletics. The association grew slowly but steadily in the beginning. At the time of admission to the DFB on August 28, 1901, it had around 1000 members, the number of clubs rose to 15 in the first year of existence.

In the period before the First World War , the number of associated associations increased considerably, over 81 (1906), 115 (1908) and 315 with 18,600 members in 1910/11 to finally 414 associations with almost 27,000 members. At the time of its dissolution in 1933, the VBMV was the third largest association in the DFB both in terms of membership (1930: 128,500 members in 1,032 clubs) and spatial expansion. The association area extended from Wittenberge on the Mecklenburg border to Coburg on the Bavarian border , from Heiligenstadt in the west to Zittau in the east.

Game operation

VfB Leipzig:
11 times Central German champion
Dresdner SC:
6 times Central German champion

In the 1901/02 season, the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs organized a football championship round for the first time, in which 26 teams divided into four seasons took part. The first final of the Central German Championship between their two champions FC Wacker 1895 Leipzig and Dresdner SC 1898 took place, which Wacker won 6: 3. As more and more clubs joined, the teams were divided into districts, the boundaries of which had to be adjusted several times. The clubs from Halle, for example, first belonged to the Gau Nordwestsachsen (Leipzig and the surrounding area), but from the 1907/08 season they formed the Saalegau with clubs from the area.

In 1905, the Association of Magdeburger Ballspiel-Vereine , which previously had a participant in the German soccer championship, was included in the VMBV. Also in 1905, eleven Thuringian clubs joined the Association of Central German Ball Game Associations, which had previously played in the Association of Thuringian Football Associations . Furthermore, were the associations Association Dresdner ball game clubs , association Leipziger ballgame clubs and Chemnitzer football clubs this year now completed in VMBV on. On the 13th Association Day of the VMBV on August 18 and 19, 1906, it was decided to join the Plauener Ballspielvereine , which from then on formed the Vogtland district. The Harz Gau, founded in 1908, officially became a member of the VMBV a year later. The expansion continued in 1910, the Gaue Altmark, Central Saxony (entry of the Association of Central Saxon Ball Game Associations ), Upper Lusatia, South Thuringia (entry of the Association of Thuringian-Franconian Ball Game Associations to the VMBV) and West Thuringia (entry of the Association of Thuringian Ball Game Associations) Clubs from 1905 and the Thuringian Ball Game Clubs from 1909 ). In the 1911/12 season the area of ​​the VMBV was already divided into 17 districts. The introduction of a top football league for Central Germany was discussed on the 24th day of the association on February 24 and 25, 1912, but ultimately failed because of the rejection of the Leipzig clubs. In the last season before the First World War , there were 23 districts.

During the World War, the game took place in most of the Gauligen, which, with the exception of the 1914/15 season, also hosted the Central German football finals. After the Thuringian Gau merged during the war, the mode of staging was changed for the 1919/20 season . In place of the numerous Gauligen seven district leagues appeared as the top division, which included several Gaue. The final round was then held with the seven district champions in a round-robin tournament. This mode was retained until 1922/23, after which the numerous Gauligen were again the highest division. In the 1920s, the number of districts grew to 27, and in the 1927/28 season even to 28. The result was a complete dilution of the level of play. High, sometimes even double-digit results in the finals for the Central German Championship testified to the class differences in the various leagues.

The Gaumeister took part in the final round of the association championship, the association champion in turn qualified for the final round of the German championship. At the first German football championship in 1903 , VMBV also provided the German champions with VfB Leipzig, and the club was able to repeat this success twice, in 1906 and 1913 . From 1925 each association was allowed to send two teams to the German championships. Unlike other associations, the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs did not nominate the Central German runner-up, but played an extra tournament in 1925 and 1926, for which the runners-up from the individual districts were qualified. The winner of this tournament then played against the loser of the final of the Central German Championship for second place on the grid. From the 1926/27 season onwards, in addition to the championship, the Central German Football Cup was played, the winner of which qualified as the second Central German participant for the German Football Championship.

The selection team of the VMBV won the first played Crown Prince Cup in the 1908/09 season and was able to repeat the success in 1920/21 and 1926/27 in the competition renamed the Federal Cup .

resolution

In the course of the National Socialist " Gleichschaltung " of sport, the associations affiliated to the German Football Association, including the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs, were dissolved between 1933 and 1934. The football department of the Reichsbund for physical exercises took over the functions of the DFB, which formally continued to exist until 1940, the areas of the previous regional associations were divided into districts, each district into districts and these in turn divided into districts. The VMBV was divided into the Sportgaue V and VI, the former extending over the region of the Free State of Saxony and the latter over the province of Saxony with Anhalt and Thuringia (see Gauliga Sachsen and Gauliga Mitte ).

Master of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs

society title year
VfB Leipzig - 1902-1922.svg VfB Leipzig 11 1902/03, 1903/04, 1905/06, 1906/07, 1909/10, 1910/11, 1912/13, 1917/18, 1919/20, 1924/25, 1926/27
DSCFahneHistorisch.svg Dresdner SC 6th 1904/05, 1925/26, 1928/29, 1929/30, 1930/31, 1932/33
Spvgg-1899.gif SpVgg 1899 Leipzig-Lindenau 4th 1911/12, 1913/14, 1921/22, 1923/24
SC Wacker 1895 Leipzig.png Wacker Leipzig 2 1901/02, 1907/08
Hallescher FC 1896 2 1916/17, 1918/19
Hallescher FC Wacker.png FC Wacker Halle 2 1920/21, 1927/28
Scerfurt95sm.png SC Erfurt 1 1908/09
Eintracht Leipzig.svg FC Eintracht Leipzig 1 1915/16
Guts Muts Dresden 1920-45.png Guts Muts Dresden 1 1922/23
PSV Chemnitz Logo.svg PSV Chemnitz 1 1931/32

Cup winner of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs

society title year
DSCFahneHistorisch.svg Dresdner SC 2 1927/28, 1932/33
Chemnitzer BC.svg Chemnitz BC 1 1926/27
SC Wacker 1895 Leipzig.png Wacker Leipzig 1 1928/29
VfB Leipzig - 1902-1922.svg VfB Leipzig 1 1929/30
Spvgg-1899.gif SpVgg 1899 Leipzig-Lindenau 1 1930/31
Psubc22.png Plauen SuBC 1 1931/32

League structure

The VMBV divided its association area into several regionally limited areas, so-called Gaue. This classification was made mainly with regard to the existing railway connections, only then the political boundaries were taken into account. In the Gau there were in addition to the Gauliga (also called 1st class ) other lower divisions. Between 1919 and 1923 the district leagues were set up, which include several districts.

gau first-time
host		 last
event		 Record champions Remarks
Altmark 1910 1933 Viktoria Stendal (9)
Stop 1909 1933 SV Koethen 02 (9)
Eichsfeld 1927 1933 VfL 08 Duderstadt (6) Split from the Gau Kyffhäuser
Elbe / Bode 1923 1928 SV 09 Staßfurt (3)
Elbe Elster 1911 1930 FC Prussia Biehla (4) 1930 attached to the Gau Mulde
Ore Mountains 1912 1933 FC Viktoria Lauter (5) between 1923 and 1930 a part as Gau Obererzgebirge independent
Göltzschtal 1912 1930 SpVgg Falkenstein (6) Split from the Gau Vogtland
1930 rejoined the Gau Vogtland
Mansfeld County 1913 1917 VfB Eisleben (2) 1917 attached to the Gau Kyffhäuser
resin 1908 1933 FC Germania Halberstadt (15)
Jeetze 1923 1930 VfB 07 blocks (4) 1930 attached to the Gau Altmark
Kyffhauser 1911 1933 Wacker 05 Nordhausen (7) Separation from the Gau Nordthüringen
1917 Merger with Gau Grafschaft Mansfeld
from 1927 a part as Gau Eichsfeld independent
Middle Elbe 1905 1933 FuCC Cricket-Viktoria Magdeburg (9)
Central Saxony 1905 1933 Chemnitz BC (12) until 1919 Gau Southwest Saxony
trough 1923 1933 VfL 1911 Bitterfeld (7)
North Saxony 1910 1930 Riesaer SV (9) until 1919 Gau Central Saxony
Northern Thuringia 1909 1933 SC Erfurt (10) from the Gau Thuringia
a part emerged from 1911 as Gau Kyffhäuser independently
from 1914 a part as Gau Wartburg independently
Northwest Saxony 1901 1933 VfB Leipzig (12)
Upper Ore Mountains 1923 1930 VfB 1912 Geyer (3) Split from the Gau Erzgebirge in
1930 rejoined the Gau Erzgebirge
Upper Lusatia 1911 1933 SV Budissa Bautzen (8)
Osterland 1923 1933 FC Wacker Gera (6) Split from the East Thuringia Gau
Eastern Saxony 1902 1933 Dresdner SC (17)
East Thuringia 1909 1933 FC Carl Zeiss Jena /
1. SV Jena (12)
From 1923, parts of the Gau Thuringia emerged independently as Gau Kyffhäuser and Gaus Osterland
Saale 1902 1933 FC Wacker Hall (10) from 1912 a part as Gau Saale-Elster independent
Saale-Elster 1912 1933 Naumburger SV 05 (7) Split from the Saale district
South Thuringia 1910 1933 SC 06 Oberlind (4)
Thuringia 1905 1909 SC Erfurt (2) 1909 division into Gau Ostthüringen and Gau Nordthüringen
Vogtland 1914 1933 Plauen SuBC (5) between 1912 and 1930 a part as Gau Göltzschtal independent
Wartburg 1914 1933 SV Preußen Langensalza (6) Separation from the Gau North Thuringia
West Saxony 1912 1933 Zwickauer SC (5)
West Thuringia 1910 1933 SpVgg Zella-Mehlis 06 (3)

literature

  • Verband Mitteldeutscher Ballspielvereine (ed.): Annual report of the Association of Central German Ballspielvereine, Leipzig (published from 1925 to 1933).
  • Mitteldeutsche Sportzeitung - Official organ of the German Football Association; sole official body of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs and the Leipzig Hockey Association.
  • Udo Luy: Results and tables in the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs 1900 - 1914. , 2015.
  • Udo Luy: Results and tables in the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs 1914/15 - 1917/18. , 2016.

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