1943 German football championship

June 2017 German championship 1943 Deutsche Fußballmeisterschaft Victoria Schalke-Museum.jpg 100px Replica of the Viktoria trophy Germany 11 April – 27 June 29 Dresdner SC1st German title FV Saarbrücken Holstein Kiel First Vienna 31 139 Herbert BinkertErnst 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.(West) Germany -List of champions rsssf.org, accessed: 26 December 2015Dresdner SC » Steckbrief de Weltfussball.de – Dresdner SC honours, accessed: 26 December 2015 The twenty-nine 1942–43 Gauliga champions, four 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 1943 rsssf.org, accessed: 26 December 2015 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. 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.FC Schalke 04 » Steckbrief de Weltfussball.de – FC Schalke 04 honours, accessed: 26 December 2015 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.http://www.weltfussball.de/torschuetzenkoenige/deutsche-meisterschaft/ Deutsche Meisterschaft » Torschützenkönige Weltfussball.de 2 January 2016 de German championship: Top goal scorer 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 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.Das Deutsche Fussball-Archiv de Historic German league tables, accessed: 29 December 2015 Qualified teams The teams qualified through the 1942–43 Gauliga season: Club Qualified from VfR Mannheim Gauliga Baden Berliner SV 92 Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg SV Neufahrwasser Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen FC Mühlhausen 93 Gauliga Elsaß SG Warschau Gauliga Generalgouvernement Victoria Hamburg Gauliga HamburgKickers Offenbach Gauliga Hessen-Nassau SV Victoria Köln Gauliga Köln-Aachen SV 06 Kassel Gauliga Kurhessen TSG Rostock Gauliga Mecklenburg SV Dessau 05 Gauliga Mitte TuS Neuendorf Gauliga MosellandWestende Hamborn Gauliga Niederrhein LSV Reinicke Brieg 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 SachsenHolstein Kiel Gauliga Schleswig-HolsteinTSV 1860 München Gauliga Südbayern MSV Brünn Gauliga Sudetenland Eintracht Braunschweig Gauliga Südhannover-Braunschweig SDW Posen Gauliga Wartheland SpVgg Wilhelmshaven Gauliga Weser-EmsSchalke 04 Gauliga WestfalenFV Saarbrücken Gauliga WestmarkVfB Stuttgart Gauliga Württemberg Gauliga champions LSV Adler Deblin were replaced by SG Warschau. 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 Holstein Kiel 5–1 TSG Rostock 4–0 1–1 |} First round Holstein Kiel, SpVgg Wilhelmshaven, Kickers Offenbach and Westende Hamborn received a bye for the first round. |align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|2 May 1943German championship 1943 – First round de Weltfussball.de, accessed: 26 December 2015 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 LSV Reinecke Brieg 4–3 Germania Königshütte Schalke 04 8–1 SV 06 Kassel SG Warschau 3–1 DWM Posen TSV 1860 München 3–0 VfB Stuttgart VfB Königsberg 3–1 SV Neufahrwasser VfR Mannheim 3–1 1. FC Nürnberg First Vienna 5–2 MSV Brünn SV Victoria Köln 2–0 TuS Neuendorf |} Replay |align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|9 May 1943 Berliner SV 92 2–0 LSV Pütnitz |} Round of 16 |align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|16 May 1943German championship 1943 – Round of sixteen de Weltfussball.de, accessed: 26 December 2015 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 SG Warschau VfR Mannheim 8–1 Westende Hamborn First Vienna 8–0 LSV Reinecke Brieg |} VfB Königsberg was disqualified and replaced by SV Neufahrwasser in the quarter-finals. Quarter-finals 30 May 1943 SV Neufahrwasser 0 – 4 Dresdner SC Kugler 25 26 Hofmann 63 Schaffer 70 Danziger Stadion, Gdańsk 20,000 Kahaun 30 May 1943 Holstein Kiel 4 – 1 Schalke 04 Linken 9 45 Möschel 31 Hain 89 Tibulski 45 pen. Holstein-Stadion, Kiel 18,000 Janssen 30 May 1943 First Vienna 2 – 0 TSV 1860 München Noack 38 Decker 60 pen. Prater, Vienna 60,000 Reinhardt 30 May 1943 FV Saarbrücken 3 – 2 VfR Mannheim Balzert 6 Dorn 62 Baier 76 Striebinger 25 27 pen. Kieselhumes, Saarbrücken 25,000 Vogt Semi-finals 13 June 1943 Dresdner SC 3 – 1 Holstein Kiel Schön 10 Kugler 46 Erdl 88 Boller 76 pen. Hindenburg-Kampfbahn, Hannover 28,000 Schmetzer 13 June 1943 FV Saarbrücken 2 – 1 First Vienna Binkert 20 Sold 75 Strittich 81 Adolf-Hitler-Kampfbahn, Stuttgart 22,000 Trompetter Third place play-off 26 June 1943 Holstein Kiel 4 – 1 First Vienna Boller 26 48 Walter 73 Möschel 74 Strittich 27 Olympiastadion, Berlin 30,000 Schumann Final 27 June 1943 Dresdner SC 3 – 0 FV Saarbrücken Report Erdl 55Schubert 62Kugler 84 Olympic Stadium (Berlin) 80,000 Raspel (Düsseldorf) DRESDNER SC 1898: GK GER Nazi Willibald Kreß DF GER Nazi Herbert Pechan DF GER Nazi Heinz Hempel MF GER Nazi Herbert Pohl MF GER Nazi Walter Dzur MF GER Nazi Helmut Schubert FW Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Heiner Kugler FW Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Heinrich Schaffer FW GER Nazi Richard Hofmann FW GER Nazi Helmut Schön FW GER Nazi Franz ErdlManager: GER Nazi Georg KöhlerFV SAARBRÜCKEN: GK GER Nazi Karl Dalheimer DF GER Nazi Heinrich Schmidt DF GER Nazi Hugo Decker MF GER Nazi Wilhelm Sold MF GER Nazi Heinz Plückhahn MF GER Nazi Johann Herberger FW GER Nazi Heinz Kurtsiefer FW GER Nazi Herbert Dorn FW GER Nazi Herbert Binkert FW GER Nazi Jakob Balzert FW GER Nazi Herbert BaierManager:GER Nazi Ernst Georg References Sources kicker Allmanach 1990, by kicker, page 164 & 177 - German championship External links German Championship 1942–43 at weltfussball.de de German Championship 1943 at RSSSF 1 German Category:German football championship seasons