1941 German football championship

January 2018 German championship 1941 Deutsche Fussball Kriegsmeisterschaft Victoria Schalke-Museum.jpg 100px Replica of the Viktoria trophy Germany 6 April – 22 June 20 Rapid Wien1st German title Schalke 04 Dresdner SC VfL Köln 99 56 248 Hermann Eppenhoff (15 goals) 1940 1942 The 1941 German football championship, the 34th edition of the competition, was won by SK Rapid Wien, the club's sole German championship. Rapid, which had previously won twelve Austrian football championships between 1911 and 1938 as well as the 1938 German Cup, won the competition by defeating Schalke 04 4–3 in the final.(West) Germany -List of champions rsssf.org, accessed: 26 December 2015FC Schalke 04 » Steckbrief de Weltfussball.de – FC Schalke 04 honours, accessed: 26 December 2015Rapid Wien » Steckbrief de Weltfussball.de – Rapid Wien honours, accessed: 26 December 2015 The final was held on 22 June 1941, the same day Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.Der längste Tag – das Protokoll des Überfalls Die Welt, published: 22 June 2011, accessed: 26 December 2015 Overview 200px|thumb|right|The score board of the 1941 final FC Schalke 04, having won five of the previous seven finals, being the defending champions and aiming for an unprecedented third consecutive German championship, were the favourites and led the final 3–0 after 57 minutes but Rapid scored four unanswered goals, the last three of them by Franz Binder, to win the championship.Deutsche Meisterschaft 1940/1941 » Finale » Rapid Wien – FC Schalke 04 4:3 de Weltfussball.de, Game report, accessed: 26 December 2015 It marked the second of three occasions of a club from Vienna (German: Wien) in the final, Rapid becoming the only one to win the competition while Admira Wien had made a losing appearance in the 1939 final and First Vienna FC would do the same in 1942. Austrian clubs had played in the German league system from 1938, after the Anschluss, until the German surrender in 1945.Die deutsche Vergangenheit von Rapid Wien de sportal.de, The German history of Rapid Wien, accessed: 26 December 2015 Rapid's victory led to a number of conspiracy theories. On Schalke's side it was speculated that Rapid was allowed to win to award a national championship to a club from the Ostmark while, in Austria, the theory developed that Rapid players were punished after the final by being sent to the front line. Both theories were disproven when Rapid, in 2009, commissioned a study into the history of the club during the Nazi era and found no evidence for either.Deutscher Meister: Rapid 1, Leverkusen 0 de Kurier, published: 25 December 2012, accessed: 26 December 2015 Rapid continues to list both German titles, the 1941 championship and the 1938 cup win, in its honours.Erfolge https://web.archive.org/web/20160109004947/http://www.skrapid.at/de/startseite/verein/der-sk-rapid/erfolge/ 9 January 2016 de Rapid Wien website – honours, accessed: 27 December 2015 Schalke's Hermann Eppenhoff became the top scorer of the 1941 championship with 15 goals, the highest individual amount for 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 The twenty 1940–41 Gauliga champions, two more than in 1940 because of the addition of the Gauliga Elsaß and Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen,kicker Allmanach 1990, page: 243-245 competed in a group stage with the four group winners advancing to the semi-finals. The two semi-final winners then contested the 1941 championship final. The groups were divided into two with four clubs and two with six clubs with the latter, in turn, subdivided into two groups of three teams each and a final of these group winners to determine the overall group champions.German championship 1941 rsssf.org, accessed: 26 December 2015 In the following season, the German championship was played with twenty five clubs. From there it gradually expanded further through a combination of territorial expansion of Nazi Germany and the sub-dividing of the Gauligas in later years, reaching a strength of thirty-one in its last completed season, 1943–44. Qualified teams The teams qualified through the 1940–41 Gauliga season: Club Qualified from VfL Neckarau Gauliga Baden TSV 1860 München Gauliga Bayern Tennis Borussia Berlin Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg Preußen Danzig Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen FC Mühlhausen 93 Gauliga Elsaß Borussia Fulda Gauliga Hessen SV Jena Gauliga Mitte VfL 99 Köln Gauliga Mittelrhein TuS Helene Altenessen Gauliga Niederrhein Hannover 96 Gauliga Niedersachsen Hamburger SV Gauliga Nordmark SK Rapid Wien Gauliga Ostmark VfB Königsberg Gauliga Ostpreußen LSV Stettin Gauliga Pommern Dresdner SC Gauliga Sachsen Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz Gauliga Schlesien NSTG Prag Gauliga SudetenlandKickers Offenbach Gauliga SüdwestSchalke 04 Gauliga WestfalenStuttgarter Kickers Gauliga Württemberg Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz replaced Germania Königshütte for the finals. Competition Group 1 Group 1A Group 1A was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Danzig-Westpreußen, Pommern and Schlesien: main WDL Group 1A 210 35 2 yes yes 1) Points; 2) Goal ratio. complete RSSSF VRG LSV DAN 2 1 1 9 5 1 2 1 8 9 0 3 1 5 8 Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz LSV Stettin Preußen Danzig VRG LSV DAN Q GF green1 Advance to group final 3–1 4–1 3–2 1–1 0–0 3–3 Group 1B Group 1B was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Brandenburg, Sachsen and Sudetenland: main WDL Group 1B 210 35 2 yes yes 1) Points; 2) Goal ratio. complete RSSSF DRE TBB PRA 4 0 0 11 4 1 1 2 5 7 0 1 3 3 8 Dresdner SC Tennis Borussia Berlin NSTG Prag DRE TBB PRA Q GF green1 Advance to group final 5–2 4–2 0–1 3–1 0–1 0–0 Group 1 final Dresdner SC 6–0 Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz 3–0 3–0 |} Group 2 Group 2A Group 2A was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Mitte, Nordmark and Ostpreußen: main WDL Group 2A 210 35 2 yes yes 1) Points; 2) Goal ratio. complete RSSSF HSV SVJ KON 3 1 0 9 5 1 1 2 9 8 1 0 3 6 11 Hamburger SV 1. SV Jena VfB Königsberg HSV SVJ KON Q GF green1 Advance to group final 2–1 3–1 2–2 2–4 1–2 0–4 Group 2B Group 2B was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Hessen, Niedersachsen and Westfalen: main WDL Group 2B 210 35 2 yes yes 1) Points; 2) Goal ratio. complete RSSSF S04 H96 FUL 4 0 0 16 2 1 0 3 10 15 1 0 3 6 15 Schalke 04 Hannover 96 Borussia Fulda S04 H96 FUL Q GF green1 Advance to group final 4–0 4–0 1–6 6–1 1–2 4–3 Group 2 final Schalke 04 3–1 Hamburger SV 3–0 0–1 |} Group 3 Group 3 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Elsaß, Mittelrhein, Niederrhein and Südwest: main WDL Group 3 210 35 2 yes yes 1) Points; 2) Goal ratio. complete RSSSF K99 KOF HEA M93 4 1 1 19 12 3 2 1 19 9 2 2 2 15 13 0 1 5 9 28 VfL Köln Kickers Offenbach Helene Altenessen FC Mülhausen K99 KOF HEA M93 Q SF green1 Advance to semi-finals 3–1 3–1 6–1 2–2 1–1 5–1 6–1 0–4 5–2 1–4 2–6 2–2 Group 4 Group 4 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Bayern, Baden, Ostmark and Württemberg: main WDL Group 4 210 35 2 yes yes 1) Points; 2) Goal ratio. complete RSSSF RWI M60 SKI NEC 4 1 1 24 5 3 1 2 14 11 1 2 3 11 16 2 0 4 10 27 Rapid Wien 1860 Munich Stuttgarter Kickers VfL Neckarau RWI M60 SKI NEC Q SF green1 Advance to semi-finals 2–0 1–1 8–1 2–1 2–1 6–2 1–5 3–3 2–0 0–7 2–1 5–3 Semi-finals Three of the four clubs in the 1941 semi-finals had reached the same stage in the previous season, Rapid Wien, Dresdner SC and FC Schalke 04, while VfL Köln 99 replaced SV Waldhof Mannheim in comparison to 1940:German championship 1940 rsssf.org, accessed: 27 December 2015 |align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|8 June 1941German championship 1941 – Semifinals de Weltfussball.de, accessed: 26 December 2015 SK Rapid Wien 2–1 Dresdner SC Schalke 04 4–1 VfL Köln 99 |} Third place play-off |align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|22 June 1941German championship 1941 – Third place game de Weltfussball.de, accessed: 26 December 2015 Dresdner SC 4–1 VfL Köln 99 |} Final 22 June 1941 SK Rapid Wien 4–3 Schalke 04 Report Schors 60Binder 62 65 pen. 71 Hinz 5 58Eppenhoff 8 Olympia Stadium (Berlin) 95,000 Adolf Reinhardt (Stuttgart) SPORTKLUB RAPID: GK GER Nazi Rudolf Raftl DF GER Nazi Stefan Wagner DF GER Nazi Heribert Sperner MF GER Nazi Franz Wagner MF GER Nazi Leopold Gernhardt MF GER Nazi Stefan Skoumal FW GER Nazi Willy Fitz FW GER Nazi Georg Schors FW GER Nazi Franz Binder FW GER Nazi Hermann Dvoracek FW GER Nazi Hans PesserManager:GER Nazi Leopold NitschFC GELSENKIRCHEN-SCHALKE 04: GK GER Nazi Hans Klodt DF GER Nazi Hans Bornemann DF GER Nazi Otto Schweisfurth MF GER Nazi Bernhard Füller MF GER Nazi Otto Tibulski MF GER Nazi Rudolf Gellesch FW GER Nazi Herbert Burdenski FW GER Nazi Fritz Szepan FW GER Nazi Hermann Eppenhoff FW GER Nazi Ernst Kuzorra FW GER Nazi Heinz HinzManager:GER Nazi Otto Faist References 30em Sources kicker Allmanach 1990, by kicker, page 164 & 177 – German championship External links German Championship 1940–41 at weltfussball.de de German Championship 1941 at RSSSF News broadcast from 22 June 1941 with footage of the final de Die Deutsche Wochenschau 1 German Category:German football championship seasons