1943 German football championship

Football tournament season

1943 German championshipDeutsche Fußballmeisterschaft

Replica of the Viktoria trophy

Tournament details
Country| Germany
Dates| 11 April – 27 June
Teams| 29
Final positions
Champions| Dresdner SC
1st German title
Runner-up| FV Saarbrücken
Third place| Holstein Kiel
Fourth place| First Vienna
Tournament statistics
Matches played| 31
Goals scored| 139 (4.48 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)| Herbert Binkert
Ernst Kalwitzki
(5 goals each)

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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

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

Club | Qualified from

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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 Hamburg
Kickers 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 Moselland
Westende 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 Sachsen
Holstein Kiel | Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein
TSV 1860 München | Gauliga Südbayern
MSV Brünn | Gauliga Sudetenland
Eintracht Braunschweig | Gauliga Südhannover-Braunschweig
SDW Posen | Gauliga Wartheland
SpVgg Wilhelmshaven | Gauliga Weser-Ems
Schalke 04 | Gauliga Westfalen
FV Saarbrücken | Gauliga Westmark
VfB 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

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### Qualifying round

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Team 1  | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2  | 1st leg  | 2nd leg

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Holstein Kiel | 5–1  | TSG Rostock | 4–0 | 1–1

### First round

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

Team 1  |  Score | Team 2

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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
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

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Team 1  |  Score | Team 2

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9 May 1943
Berliner SV 92 | 2–0  | LSV Pütnitz

### Round of 16

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Team 1  |  Score | Team 2

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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  | 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

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30 May 1943

SV Neufahrwasser| 0 – 4| Dresdner SC

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|  | Kugler 25', 26'
Hofmann 63'
Schaffer 70'

Danziger Stadion, Gdańsk

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Kahaun

* * *

30 May 1943

Holstein Kiel| 4 – 1| Schalke 04

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Linken 9', 45'
Möschel  31'
Hain  89' |  | Tibulski 45' (pen.)

Holstein-Stadion, Kiel

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Janssen

* * *

30 May 1943

First Vienna| 2 – 0| TSV 1860 München

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Noack 38'
Decker 60' (pen.) |  |

Prater, Vienna

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Reinhardt

* * *

30 May 1943

FV Saarbrücken| 3 – 2| VfR Mannheim

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Balzert 6'
Dorn  62'
Baier  76' |  | Striebinger 25', 27' (pen.)

Kieselhumes, Saarbrücken

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Vogt

### Semi-finals

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13 June 1943

Dresdner SC| 3 – 1| Holstein Kiel

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Schön 10'
Kugler 46'
Erdl 88' |  | Boller  76' (pen.)

Hindenburg-Kampfbahn, Hannover

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Schmetzer

* * *

13 June 1943

FV Saarbrücken| 2 – 1| First Vienna

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Binkert 20'
Sold 75' |  | Strittich 81'

Adolf-Hitler-Kampfbahn, Stuttgart

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Trompetter

### Third place play-off

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26 June 1943

Holstein Kiel| 4 – 1| First Vienna

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Boller  26', 48'
Walter 73'
Möschel  74' |  | Strittich 27'

Olympiastadion, Berlin

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Schumann

### Final

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27 June 1943

Dresdner SC| 3 - 0| FV Saarbrücken

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Erdl 55'
Schubert 62'
Kugler 84' | Report |

Olympic Stadium (Berlin)

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Raspel (Düsseldorf)

| DRESDNER SC 1898:

GK |  |  Willibald Kreß
DF |  |  Herbert Pechan
DF |  |  Heinz Hempel
MF |  |  Herbert Pohl
MF |  |  Walter Dzur
MF |  |  Helmut Schubert
FW |  |  Heiner Kugler
FW |  |  Heinrich Schaffer
FW |  |  Richard Hofmann
FW |  |  Helmut Schön
FW |  |  Franz Erdl
Manager:
Georg Köhler
|  | FV SAARBRÜCKEN:

GK |  |  Karl Dalheimer
DF |  |  Heinrich Schmidt
DF |  |  Hugo Decker
MF |  |  Wilhelm Sold
MF |  |  Heinz Plückhahn
MF |  |  Johann Herberger
FW |  |  Heinz Kurtsiefer
FW |  |  Herbert Dorn
FW |  |  Herbert Binkert
FW |  |  Jakob Balzert
FW |  |  Herbert Baier
Manager:
Ernst Georg

## References

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1. ^ a b (West) Germany -List of champions rsssf.org, 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.org, 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

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

## External links

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* German Championship 1942–43 at weltfussball.de (in German)
* German Championship 1943 at RSSSF

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