1944 German football championship

1944 German championship final

Event

Dresdner SC	LSV Hamburg

4	0

Date

18 June 1944

Venue

Olympiastadion, Berlin

Referee

Trompetter

Attendance

70,000

The 1944 German football championship, the 37th edition of the competition, was won by Dresdner SC, the club defending its 1943 title by defeating Luftwaffe team LSV Hamburg in the final.^[1]^[2]

The final years of the German Championship during the war saw many military teams compete in the championship, Luftwaffe teams, Luftwaffensportvereine, short LSV, and, Wehrmacht teams, Wehrmachtssportvereine, short WSV, became very competitive.^[3]

Dresden's Helmut Schön who would later coach Germany to the 1974 FIFA World Cup, became the top scorer of the 1944 championship with 14 goals, the second-highest individual amount of any player in the history of the competition from 1903 to 1963.^[4]

It was the last edition of the tournament during the Second World War with the competition not held again until 1948. The thirty one 1943–44 Gauliga champions, two more than in the previous season,^[5] competed in a single-leg knock out competition to determine the national champion.^[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]

Qualified teams

The teams qualified through the 1943–44 Gauliga season:^[6]

Club	Qualified from
VfR Mannheim	Gauliga Baden
MSV Brünn	Gauliga Böhmen und Mähren
Hertha BSC	Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg
LSV Danzig	Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen
FC Mühlhausen 93	Gauliga Elsaß
LSV Mölders Krakau	Gauliga Generalgouvernement
LSV Hamburg	Gauliga Hamburg
Kickers Offenbach	Gauliga Hessen-Nassau
KSG VfL 99 Köln/SpVgg Sülz 07	Gauliga Köln-Aachen
Borussia Fulda	Gauliga Kurhessen
LSV Rerick	Gauliga Mecklenburg
SV Dessau 05	Gauliga Mitte
TuS Neuendorf	Gauliga Moselland
KSG Duisburg	Gauliga Niederrhein
STC Hirschberg	Gauliga Niederschlesien
1. FC Nuremberg	Gauliga Nordbayern
Germania Königshütte	Gauliga Oberschlesien
WSV Celle	Gauliga Osthannover
First Vienna	Gauliga Ostmark
VfB Königsberg	Gauliga Ostpreußen
HSV Groß-Born	Gauliga Pommern
Dresdner SC	Gauliga Sachsen
Holstein Kiel	Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein
FC Bayern Munich	Gauliga Südbayern
NSTG Brux	Gauliga Sudetenland
Eintracht Braunschweig	Gauliga Südhannover-Braunschweig
SDW Posen	Gauliga Wartheland
SpVgg Wilhelmshaven	Gauliga Weser-Ems
FC Schalke 04	Gauliga Westfalen
KSG Saarbrücken	Gauliga Westmark
SV Göppingen	Gauliga Württemberg

1st Preliminary

Team 1	Score	Team 2
16 April 1944^[8]
LSV Danzig	0–0	Hertha BSC
HSV Groß Born	6–4	LSV Rerick
STC Hirschberg	7–0	SDW Posen
Dresdner SC	9–2	Germania Königshütte
LSV Hamburg	4–0	WSV Celle
Eintracht Braunschweig	1–2	SpVgg Wilhelmshaven
FC Schalke 04	5–0	TuS Neuendorf
KSG Köln-Sülz	0–2	KSG Duisburg
FC Mühlhausen 93	4–2	Kickers Offenbach
SV Göppingen	3–5	KSG Saarbrücken
VfR Mannheim	2–1	FC Bayern Munich
NSTG Brüx	0–8	1. FC Nuremberg
MSV Brno	3–6	First Vienna
SV Dessau 05	2–3	Holstein Kiel
LSV Mölders Krakau	1–4	VfB Königsberg

Replay

Team 1	Score	Team 2
23 April 1944
Hertha BSC	7–1	LSV Danzig

Borussia Fulda received a bye for the first round.

2nd Preliminary

Team 1	Score	Team 2
7 May 1944^[9]
VfB Königsberg	3–10	HSV Groß Born
First Vienna	5–0	STC Hirschberg
Hertha BSC	4–2	Holstein Kiel
Borussia Fulda	2–9	Dresdner SC
SpVgg Wilhelmshaven	1–1	LSV Hamburg
KSG Duisburg	2–1	FC Schalke 04
KSG Saarbrücken	5–3	FC Mühlhausen 93
1. FC Nuremberg	3–2	VfR Mannheim

Replay

Team 1	Score	Team 2
14 May 1944
LSV Hamburg	4–2	SpVgg Wilhelmshaven

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
21 May 1944^[10]
Dresdner SC	3–2	First Vienna
KSG Saarbrücken	1–5	1. FC Nuremberg
HSV Groß Born	3–2	Hertha BSC
LSV Hamburg	3–0	KSG Duisburg

Semifinals

LSV Hamburg v HSV Groß Born

4 June 1944

LSV Hamburg	3 – 2	HSV Groß Born
Mühle 7', 30' Gornick 19'	Report	Plener 59' Sold 63' (pen.)

Hindenburg-Kampfbahn, Hannover
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Raspel

Dresdner SC v 1. FC Nuremberg

4 June 1944

Dresdner SC	3 – 1	1. FC Nuremberg
Voigtmann 4' Machate 26' Schön 73' (pen.)	Report	Hettner 44' (pen.)

Mitteldeutsche Landeskampfbahn, Erfurt
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Multer

3rd Place

1. FC Nuremberg v HSV Groß Born

17 June 1944

1. FC Nuremberg	not played	HSV Groß Born

Final

Dresdner SC v LSV Hamburg

18 June 1944

Dresdner SC	4 – 0	LSV Hamburg
Voigtmann 20' Schaffer 50', 85' Schön 60'	Report

Olympiastadion, Berlin
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Trompetter


DRESDNER SC
	'	Willibald Kreß
	'	Heinz Hempel
	'	Fritz Belger
	'	Helmut Schubert
	'	Walter Dzur
	'	Rudi Voigtmann
	'	Helmut Schön
	'	Heinrich Schaffer
	'	Herbert Pohl
	'	Fritz Machate
	'	Richard Hofmann
Manager:
Georg Köhler


LSV HAMBURG
	'	Willy Jürissen
	'	Reinhold Münzenberg
	'	Karl Miller
	'	Heinrich Gärtner
	'	Walter Ochs
	'	Heinz Mühle
	'	Robert Gebhardt
	'	Fritz Zahn
	'	Jakob Lotz
	'	Ludwig Janda
	'	Willi Gornick
Manager:
Karl Höger

References

↑ (West) Germany -List of champions rsssf.com, accessed: 22 December 2015
↑ Dresdner SC » Steckbrief (in German) Weltfussball.de – Dresdner SC honours, accessed: 22 December 2015
↑ Als Wien deutscher Meister wurde (in German) Augsburger Allgemeine – When Vienna became German champions, published: 3 September 2015, accessed: 26 December 2015
↑ "Deutsche Meisterschaft » Torschützenkönige" [German championship: Top goal scorer]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 2 January 2016.
↑ kicker Allmanach 1990, page: 243-245
1 2 German championship 1944 rsssf.com, accessed: 25 December 2015
↑ POKALE AUF REISEN: VIKTORIA UND CO. WANDERN INS FUSSBALLMUSEUM (in German) DFB website, accessed: 27 December 2015
↑ German championship 1944 – First round (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 25 December 2015
↑ German championship 1944 – Round of sixteen (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 25 December 2015
↑ German championship 1944 – Quarter finals (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 25 December 2015

Sources

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

External links

German Championship 1943–44 at weltfussball.de (in German)
German Championship 1944 at RSSSF

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