1944 German football championship

Football tournament season

1944 German championshipDeutsche Fußballmeisterschaft

Replica of the Viktoria trophy

Tournament details
Country| Germany
Dates| 16 April – 18 June
Teams| 31
Final positions
Champions| Dresdner SC
2nd German title
Runner-up| LSV Hamburg
Tournament statistics
Matches played| 32
Goals scored| 185 (5.78 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)| Helmut Schön (14 goals)

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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 being 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

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

Club | Qualified from

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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 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 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
Schalke 04 | Gauliga Westfalen
KSG Saarbrücken | Gauliga Westmark
SV Göppingen | Gauliga Württemberg

## Competition

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### First round

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Borussia Fulda received a bye for the first round.

Team 1  |  Score | Team 2

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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
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

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Team 1  |  Score | Team 2

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23 April 1944
Hertha BSC | 7–1  | LSV Danzig

### Round of 16

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Team 1  |  Score | Team 2

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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  | Schalke 04
KSG Saarbrücken | 5–3  | FC Mühlhausen 93
1\. FC Nürnberg | 3–2  | VfR Mannheim

#### Replay

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Team 1  |  Score | Team 2

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14 May 1944
LSV Hamburg | 4–2  | SpVgg Wilhelmshaven

### Quarter-finals

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Team 1  |  Score | Team 2

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21 May 1944[10]
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

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4 June 1944

LSV Hamburg| 3 – 2| HSV Groß Born

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Mühle  7', 30'
Gornick  19' | Report | Plener 59'
Sold 63' (pen.)

Hindenburg-Kampfbahn, Hannover

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Raspel

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4 June 1944

Dresdner SC| 3 – 1| 1\. FC Nürnberg

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Voigtmann  4'
Machate  26'
Schön 73' (pen.) | Report | Hettner  44' (pen.)

Mitteldeutsche Landeskampfbahn, Erfurt

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Multer

### Third place play-off

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17 June 1944

1\. FC Nürnberg| not played| HSV Groß Born

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### Final

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18 June 1944

Dresdner SC| 4 - 0| LSV Hamburg

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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

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## References

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1. ^ (West) Germany -List of champions rsssf.org, accessed: 22 December 2015
2. ^ Dresdner SC » Steckbrief (in German) Weltfussball.de – Dresdner SC honours, accessed: 22 December 2015
3. ^ Als Wien deutscher Meister wurde (in German) Augsburger Allgemeine – When Vienna became German champions, published: 3 September 2015, accessed: 26 December 2015
4. ^ "Deutsche Meisterschaft » Torschützenkönige" [German championship: Top goal scorer]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 2 January 2016.
5. ^ kicker Allmanach 1990, page: 243-245
6. ^ a b German championship 1944 rsssf.org, accessed: 25 December 2015
7. ^ POKALE AUF REISEN: VIKTORIA UND CO. WANDERN INS FUSSBALLMUSEUM (in German) DFB website, accessed: 27 December 2015
8. ^ German championship 1944 – First round (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 25 December 2015
9. ^ German championship 1944 – Round of sixteen (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 25 December 2015
10. ^ German championship 1944 – Quarter finals (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 25 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 1943–44 at weltfussball.de (in German)
* German Championship 1944 at RSSSF

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