Association of South German Football Associations

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Logo of the Association of South German Football Associations until 1914
Logo of the South German Football Association from 1914 to 1927

The Association of South German Football Associations (VSFV, its own spelling also " Süddeutscher ...", VsFV) was founded in Karlsruhe in 1897 as the regional umbrella organization for football clubs in southern Germany. It was the first regional football association in Germany to exist for a long time. In 1914 it took on its current name, the South German Football Association , from 1927 until it was temporarily dissolved in 1933, it was called the South German Football and Athletics Association .

history

The founding meeting of the association took place on October 17, 1897 in the Karlsruhe restaurant "Zum Landsknecht". The eight founding members were:

A chairman has not yet been elected at this meeting, initially a committee, headed first by Richard Drach, then by Fritz Seidenfaden, was acting on a temporary basis. At the first football day in southern Germany at Easter 1898, the KFV chairman Friedrich Wilhelm Nohe was elected first chairman, who held this office until 1907. Walther Bensemann was second chairman until the VsFV expelled him in November 1899. The reason for this was contradicting viewpoints to the “ original international matches ” of German selection teams that Bensemann had organized against the will of the association.

In 1900 the VsFV took part in the establishment of the DFB . In the summer of the same year, the number of its member clubs, after various joining and leaving, rose to eleven and in October to 13. Only four of the original eight founding clubs were there, namely the KFV, 1. FC Pforzheim, Hanau 93 and Germania.

The development of football was very slow throughout southern Germany during the 1890s. Except in the former stronghold of Karlsruhe, there were only a few clubs, there were no local championships and therefore only friendly games were played at first. In the 1898/99 season the VSFV organized the first South German championship. First master was Freiburger FC , who in the final on January 8, 1899 in Karlsruhe the 1. FC Pforzheim suggested one: by 6.

Only a few teams took part in the first championships, which were held in the knockout system, a league system in the current sense had not yet established itself in southern Germany. It was not until the 1903/04 season that the Association of South German Football Associations organized a point game operation in its association area, which was divided into circles for this purpose. The northern district comprised the Westmaingau with a squadron (Frankfurt / Wiesbaden and surroundings), Ostmaingau squadron (Hanau, Offenbach, Darmstadt, Aschaffenburg and surroundings) and the Pfalzgau squadron (Mannheim, Heidelberg and surroundings). The southern district was divided into the seasons of Middle Baden (Karlsruhe and the surrounding area), Upper Rhine (Freiburg, Strasbourg, Mulhouse and surrounding area) and Swabia (Stuttgart and the surrounding area). The game was played in two or three classes, depending on the number of clubs and teams. In Bavaria, a district was not formed until the following 1904/05 season , which initially also belonged to the southern district.

In the first decade of the 20th century, the development of football accelerated in southern Germany. Within just a few years, not only had the gap to the other regions and associations been made up, but the Association of South German Football Associations had grown into the largest and therefore most powerful regional association in the German Football Association . Since the claim to power was in no way inferior to the size of the VSFV, personified in its long-term chairman Friedrich Wilhelm Nohe , this led to serious conflicts with the DFB and the other regional associations. As early as the end of the 1890s, Nohe, both as chairman of the VSFV and the Karlsruhe Football Association , was looking for any possible conflict with those who think differently and people who criticized him and his dictatorial leadership and stereotypical way of thinking, which among other things led to the exclusion of Walther Bensemann from the VSFV and the withdrawal of several clubs from the KFB. After being voted out of office as DFB President, Nohe tried to lead the VSFV out of the DFB after only one year in office and thus split it. After two years of struggle, in 1907 the majority of the delegates present at the Association Day of the Association of South German Football Clubs refused to follow him and voted against leaving the DFB. Nohe then had to face the consequences and resigned.

Until the end of the First World War, the association area of ​​the VSFV comprised southern Hesse , Alsace-Lorraine , the Rhenish administrative district of Trier (including today's Saarland), Baden , Württemberg , Hohenzollern and Bavaria (including the Palatinate). Due to the rapidly growing number of member clubs and thus also playing teams, the districts and districts had to be redistributed several times, which meant that a number of clubs had to play in different seasons over the years.

On the Association Day in July 1914, the VSFV was renamed the South German Football Association , and in 1927 again the South German Football and Athletics Association. When the Nazis brought sport into line, the regional associations of the DFB dissolved, and the southern German association resolved to dissolve itself on August 6, 1933.

Master of the Association of South German Football Associations

society title year
Karlsruher FV Logo.svg Karlsruhe FV 8th 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1910, 1911, 1912
FCN Logo 1918 - 1945.svg 1. FC Nuremberg 7th 1916, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1924, 1927, 1929
Stuttgarter Kickers Logo.svg Stuttgart Kickers 3 1908, 1913, 1917
SpVgg Fürth - "ancient" emblem.gif SpVgg Fürth 3 1914, 1923, 1931
Old logo of Freiburg FC.png Freiburg FC 2 1899, 1907
FC Bayern Munich logo (1923-1954) .svg FC Bayern Munich 2 1926, 1928
Logo Eintrach Frankfurt 1945-1951.gif Eintracht Frankfurt 2 1930, 1932
Strasbourg FV 1 1900
1 fc pforzheim.svg 1. FC Pforzheim 1 1906
Phoenix Karlsruhe Wappen.svg FC Phoenix Karlsruhe 1 1909
Wacker munich.png FC Wacker Munich 1 1922
Dfs wl d mannheim vfr1911 1945.gif VfR Mannheim 1 1925
FSV - Frankfurt - old coat of arms.gif FSV Frankfurt 1 1933

literature

  • 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 .
  • Sixty years of the South German Football Association (author: Paul Flierl). South German Football Association (Ed.), Nuremberg 1957
  • 100 years of the South German Football Association (Festschrift). South German Football Association (Ed.), Vindelica-Verlag, Gersthofen 1997, p. 8ff.
  • German football (1900 - 1920) (= Libero. Special German, No. D3, 1992). IFFHS, Wiesbaden 1992, pp. 84ff.
  • Gerhard Zeilinger: The pioneering days of the soccer game in Mannheim from 1894 to 1919, there in 1992

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ for example in Sport im Wort of November 10, 1899, page 254, "Bensemann excluded from the Association of South German Football Associations"
  2. ↑ after Paul Flierl: 100 Years of the South German Football Association (published by the SFV), Stuttgart 1957, page 8
  3. ^ Founded in 1895 in the student environment of the TH Karlsruhe, it disappeared after only a few years, the reason for this is unknown. If necessary, it is also about FC Frankonia Karlsruhe , see z. B. Ernst Otto Bräunche: Football stronghold Karlsruhe , In: Sport in Karlsruhe. From the beginning until today , Info-Verlag, Karlsruhe 2006, p. 199
  4. ↑ Sport im Wort, November 10, 1899, p. 254
  5. ↑ Sport im Wort No. 36/1900, last page
  6. ↑ Sport im Wort No. 42/1900, last page, all clubs are listed
  7. ↑ Match report in Sport im Bild No. 3/1899