1943 German football championship

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1943 German championship
Deutsche Fußballmeisterschaft
Victoria Schalke-Museum.jpg
Replica of the Viktoria trophy
CountryGermany
Dates11 April – 27 June
Teams29
ChampionsDresdner SC
1st German title
Runners-upFV Saarbrücken
Third placeHolstein Kiel
Fourth placeFirst Vienna
Matches played31
Goals scored139 (4.48 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)Herbert Binkert
Ernst Kalwitzki
(5 goals each)
← 1942
1944 →

The 1943 German football championship, the 36th edition of the competition, was won by Dresdner SC, the club's first-ever championship, won by defeating FV Saarbrücken in the final.[1][2]

The twenty-nine 1942–43 Gauliga champions, four more than in the previous season,[3] competed in a single-leg knock out competition to determine the national champion.[4] In the following season, the last completed one during the war, the German championship was played with thirty one clubs, expanded through a combination of territorial expansion of Nazi Germany and the sub-dividing of the Gauligas in later years.[3]

The 1943 championship marked the end of the golden era of Schalke 04 which had reached the semi-finals of each edition of the national championship from 1932 to 1942 and won the competition in 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1940 and 1942 while losing the final in 1933, 1938 and 1941. In 1943 defending champions Schalke was knocked out in the quarter finals by Holstein Kiel, thereby ending the clubs quest for a twelfth consecutive semi-finals appearance.[1][5]

Ernst Kalwitzki of FC Schalke 04 and Herbert Binkert of 1. FC Saarbrücken were the joint top scorers for the 1943 championship with five goals each, the lowest for any top scorer since 1925. For Kalwitzki it was the third and last time, after 1937 and 1939, to finish as top scorer.[6]

Dresdner SC became the last club to be awarded the Viktoria, the annual trophy for the German champions from 1903 to 1944. The trophy disappeared during the final stages of the war, did not resurface until after the German reunification and was put on display at the DFB headquarters in Frankfurt until 2015, when it was moved to the new Deutsches Fußballmuseum in Dortmund.[7]

Dresdner SC completed the 1942–43 season unbeaten, finishing the Gauliga Sachsen with 18 wins out of 18 games, and winning all five games in the championship to claim the title.[4][8]

Qualified teams[]

The teams qualified through the 1942–43 Gauliga season:[4]

Club Qualified from
VfR Mannheim Gauliga Baden
Berliner SV 92 Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg
Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen
FC Mühlhausen 93 Gauliga Elsaß
Gauliga Generalgouvernement
Victoria Hamburg Gauliga Hamburg
Kickers Offenbach Gauliga Hessen-Nassau
SV Victoria Köln Gauliga Köln-Aachen
Gauliga Kurhessen
Gauliga Mecklenburg
SV Dessau 05 Gauliga Mitte
TuS Neuendorf Gauliga Moselland
Westende Hamborn Gauliga Niederrhein
Gauliga Niederschlesien
1. FC Nürnberg Gauliga Nordbayern
Germania Königshütte Gauliga Oberschlesien
First Vienna Gauliga Ostmark
VfB Königsberg Gauliga Ostpreußen
LSV Pütnitz Gauliga Pommern
Dresdner SC Gauliga Sachsen
Holstein Kiel Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein
TSV 1860 München Gauliga Südbayern
Gauliga Sudetenland
Eintracht Braunschweig Gauliga Südhannover-Braunschweig
Gauliga Wartheland
SpVgg Wilhelmshaven Gauliga Weser-Ems
Schalke 04 Gauliga Westfalen
FV Saarbrücken Gauliga Westmark
VfB Stuttgart Gauliga Württemberg
  • Gauliga champions were replaced by .
  • Stuttgarter Kickers and VfB Stuttgart finished on equal points and the same goal average and were therefore declared joint champions but only VfB advanced to the German championship.

Competition[]

Qualifying round[]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Holstein Kiel 5–1 4–0 1–1

First round[]

Holstein Kiel, SpVgg Wilhelmshaven, Kickers Offenbach and Westende Hamborn received a bye for the first round.

Team 1  Score  Team 2
2 May 1943[9]
Berliner SV 92 2–2 LSV Pütnitz
Dresdner SC 2–1 SV Dessau 05
Eintracht Braunschweig 5–1 Victoria Hamburg
FV Saarbrücken 5–1 FC Mühlhausen 93
4–3 Germania Königshütte
Schalke 04 8–1
3–1
TSV 1860 München 3–0 VfB Stuttgart
VfB Königsberg 3–1
VfR Mannheim 3–1 1. FC Nürnberg
First Vienna 5–2
SV Victoria Köln 2–0 TuS Neuendorf

Replay[]

Team 1  Score  Team 2
9 May 1943
Berliner SV 92 2–0 LSV Pütnitz

Round of 16[]

Team 1  Score  Team 2
16 May 1943[10]
Dresdner SC 4–0 Eintracht Braunschweig
FV Saarbrücken 5–0 SV Victoria Köln
Holstein Kiel 2–0 Berliner SV 92
Schalke 04 4–1 SpVgg Wilhelmshaven
TSV 1860 München 2–0 Kickers Offenbach
VfB Königsberg 5–1
VfR Mannheim 8–1 Westende Hamborn
First Vienna 8–0

Quarter-finals[]

0 – 4Dresdner SC
25', 26'
Hofmann 63'
70'
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Kahaun
Holstein Kiel4 – 1Schalke 04
9', 45'
Möschel 31'
Hain 89'		 Tibulski 45' (pen.)
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Janssen
First Vienna2 – 0TSV 1860 München
Noack 38'
Decker 60' (pen.)
Prater, Vienna
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Reinhardt
FV Saarbrücken3 – 2VfR Mannheim
Balzert 6'
Dorn 62'
Baier 76'		 Striebinger 25', 27' (pen.)
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Vogt

Semi-finals[]

Dresdner SC3 – 1Holstein Kiel
Schön 10'
46'
Erdl 88'		 Boller 76' (pen.)
Hindenburg-Kampfbahn, Hannover
Attendance: 28,000
Referee: Schmetzer
FV Saarbrücken2 – 1First Vienna
Binkert 20'
Sold 75'		 Strittich 81'
Adolf-Hitler-Kampfbahn, Stuttgart
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Trompetter

Third place play-off[]

Holstein Kiel4 – 1First Vienna
Boller 26', 48'
Walter 73'
Möschel 74'		 Strittich 27'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Schumann

Final[]

Dresdner SC3 – 0FV Saarbrücken
Erdl 55'
Schubert 62'
84'		 Report
Olympic Stadium (Berlin)
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Raspel (Düsseldorf)
DRESDNER SC 1898:
GK Germany Willibald Kreß
DF Germany Herbert Pechan
DF Germany Heinz Hempel
MF Germany Herbert Pohl
MF Germany Walter Dzur
MF Germany Helmut Schubert
FW Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
FW Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
FW Germany Richard Hofmann
FW Germany Helmut Schön
FW Germany Franz Erdl
Manager:
Germany Georg Köhler
FV SAARBRÜCKEN:
GK Germany Karl Dalheimer
DF Germany Heinrich Schmidt
DF Germany Hugo Decker
MF Germany Wilhelm Sold
MF Germany Heinz Plückhahn
MF Germany Johann Herberger
FW Germany Heinz Kurtsiefer
FW Germany Herbert Dorn
FW Germany Herbert Binkert
FW Germany Jakob Balzert
FW Germany Herbert Baier
Manager:
Germany Ernst Georg

References[]

  1. ^ a b (West) Germany -List of champions rsssf.com, accessed: 26 December 2015
  2. ^ Dresdner SC » Steckbrief (in German) Weltfussball.de – Dresdner SC honours, accessed: 26 December 2015
  3. ^ a b kicker Allmanach 1990, page: 243-245
  4. ^ a b c German championship 1943 rsssf.com, accessed: 26 December 2015
  5. ^ FC Schalke 04 » Steckbrief (in German) Weltfussball.de – FC Schalke 04 honours, accessed: 26 December 2015
  6. ^ "Deutsche Meisterschaft » Torschützenkönige" [German championship: Top goal scorer]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  7. ^ POKALE AUF REISEN: VIKTORIA UND CO. WANDERN INS FUSSBALLMUSEUM (in German) DFB website, accessed: 27 December 2015
  8. ^ Das Deutsche Fussball-Archiv (in German) Historic German league tables, accessed: 29 December 2015
  9. ^ German championship 1943 – First round (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 26 December 2015
  10. ^ German championship 1943 – Round of sixteen (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 26 December 2015

Sources[]

  • kicker Allmanach 1990, by kicker, page 164 & 177 - German championship

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