1944 German football championship

June 2017 German championship 1944 Deutsche Fußballmeisterschaft Victoria Schalke-Museum.jpg 100px Replica of the Viktoria trophy Germany 16 April – 18 June 31 Dresdner SC2nd German title LSV Hamburg 32 185 Helmut Schön (14 goals) 1943 1948 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.(West) Germany -List of champions rsssf.org, accessed: 22 December 2015Dresdner SC » Steckbrief de Weltfussball.de – Dresdner SC honours, accessed: 22 December 2015 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.Als Wien deutscher Meister wurde de Augsburger Allgemeine – When Vienna became German champions, published: 3 September 2015, accessed: 26 December 2015 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.http://www.weltfussball.de/torschuetzenkoenige/deutsche-meisterschaft/ Deutsche Meisterschaft » Torschützenkönige Weltfussball.de 2 January 2016 de German championship: Top goal scorer It was the last edition of the tournament during the Second World War, with the competition not being held again until 1948. The thirty-one 1943–44 Gauliga champions, two more than in the previous season,kicker Allmanach 1990, page: 243-245 competed in a single-leg knock out competition to determine the national champion.German championship 1944 rsssf.org, accessed: 25 December 2015 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.POKALE AUF REISEN: VIKTORIA UND CO. WANDERN INS FUSSBALLMUSEUM de DFB website, accessed: 27 December 2015 Qualified teams The teams qualified through the 1943–44 Gauliga season: 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 HamburgKickers 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 MosellandKSG Duisburg Gauliga Niederrhein STC Hirschberg Gauliga Niederschlesien 1. FC Nürnberg 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 SachsenHolstein Kiel Gauliga Schleswig-HolsteinFC Bayern Munich Gauliga Südbayern NSTG Brux Gauliga Sudetenland Eintracht Braunschweig Gauliga Südhannover-Braunschweig SDW Posen Gauliga Wartheland SpVgg Wilhelmshaven Gauliga Weser-EmsSchalke 04 Gauliga WestfalenKSG Saarbrücken Gauliga WestmarkSV Göppingen Gauliga Württemberg Competition First round Borussia Fulda received a bye for the first round. |align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|16 April 1944German championship 1944 – First round de Weltfussball.de, accessed: 25 December 2015 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 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 Nürnberg MSV Brno 3–6 First Vienna SV Dessau 05 2–3 Holstein Kiel LSV Mölders Krakau 1–4 VfB Königsberg |} Replay |align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|23 April 1944 Hertha BSC 7–1 LSV Danzig |} Round of 16 |align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|7 May 1944German championship 1944 – Round of sixteen de Weltfussball.de, accessed: 25 December 2015 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 Schalke 04 KSG Saarbrücken 5–3 FC Mühlhausen 93 1. FC Nürnberg 3–2 VfR Mannheim |} Replay |align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|14 May 1944 LSV Hamburg 4–2 SpVgg Wilhelmshaven |} Quarter-finals |align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|21 May 1944German championship 1944 – Quarter finals de Weltfussball.de, accessed: 25 December 2015 Dresdner SC 3–2 First Vienna KSG Saarbrücken 1–5 1. FC Nürnberg HSV Groß Born 3–2 Hertha BSC LSV Hamburg 3–0 KSG Duisburg |} Semi-finals 4 June 1944 LSV Hamburg 3 – 2 HSV Groß Born Report Mühle 7 30 Gornick 19 Plener 59 Sold 63 pen. Hindenburg-Kampfbahn, Hannover 20,000 Raspel 4 June 1944 Dresdner SC 3 – 1 1. FC Nürnberg Report Voigtmann 4 Machate 26 Schön 73 pen. Hettner 44 pen. Mitteldeutsche Landeskampfbahn, Erfurt 35,000 Multer Third place play-off 17 June 1944 1. FC Nürnberg not played HSV Groß Born Final 18 June 1944 Dresdner SC 4 – 0 LSV Hamburg Report Voigtmann 20 Schaffer 50 85 Schön 60 Olympiastadion, Berlin 70,000 Trompetter DRESDNER SC GER Nazi Willibald Kreß GER Nazi Heinz Hempel GER Nazi Fritz Belger GER Nazi Helmut Schubert GER Nazi Walter Dzur GER Nazi Rudi Voigtmann GER Nazi Helmut Schön Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Heinrich Schaffer GER Nazi Herbert Pohl GER Nazi Fritz Machate GER Nazi Richard HofmannManager: GER Nazi Georg KöhlerLSV HAMBURG GER Nazi Willy Jürissen GER Nazi Reinhold Münzenberg GER Nazi Karl Miller GER Nazi Heinrich Gärtner GER Nazi Walter Ochs GER Nazi Heinz Mühle GER Nazi Robert Gebhardt GER Nazi Fritz Zahn GER Nazi Jakob Lotz GER Nazi Ludwig Janda GER Nazi Willi GornickManager: GER Nazi Karl Höger References Sources kicker Allmanach 1990, by kicker, page 164 & 177 - German championship External links German Championship 1943–44 at weltfussball.de de German Championship 1944 at RSSSF 1 German Category:German football championship seasons