1933 German football championship
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The 26th German football championship ended with the first national title for Fortuna Düsseldorf
. The title was won with a 3–0 win over FC Schalke 04
. It was a replay of the Western German championship final, in which Schalke had defeated Fortuna 1-0 on 30 April 1933. Fortuna was the first team to win the title without conceding a goal in the final rounds of the tournament.
For both clubs it was their first appearance in the German final. While Fortuna only played one more after this, in 1936, for Schalke it was the first in its golden era, playing in every final until 1942, except the 1936 one.
The 1933 final was played after the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany
. After this season, the German league system was overhauled and instead of the regional championships as qualifying competitions, the 16 Gauliga
s were introduced.
To qualify for the national championship, a team needed to win or finish runners-up in one of the seven regional championships. On top of those 14 clubs, the two strongest regions, West and South were allowed to send a third team each. In the West, this was the local cup winner while in the South, the third placed team of the championship received this place.
It was the third time that the final was held in Cologne, after 1912 and 1931 and had the second-best attendance until then, only surpassed by the 1923 final, held in Hamburg in front of 64,000.
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FC Schalke 04:
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1
Hermann Mellage
2
Ferdinand Zajons
3
Fritz Wohlgemuth
4
Ötte Tibulsky
5
Hermann Nattkämper
6
Hans Bornemann
7
Valentin Przybylski
8
Emil Czerwinski
9
Fritz Szepan
10
Hans Rosen
11
Ernst Kuzorra
Manager:
Kurt Otto
Fortuna Düsseldorf
' is a German association football club based in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, currently playing in the second tier of German league football, the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga...
. The title was won with a 3–0 win over FC Schalke 04
FC Schalke 04
Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, commonly known as simply FC Schalke 04 or Schalke , is a German, association-football club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Schalke has long been one of the most popular football teams in Germany, even though major...
. It was a replay of the Western German championship final, in which Schalke had defeated Fortuna 1-0 on 30 April 1933. Fortuna was the first team to win the title without conceding a goal in the final rounds of the tournament.
For both clubs it was their first appearance in the German final. While Fortuna only played one more after this, in 1936, for Schalke it was the first in its golden era, playing in every final until 1942, except the 1936 one.
The 1933 final was played after the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. After this season, the German league system was overhauled and instead of the regional championships as qualifying competitions, the 16 Gauliga
Gauliga
A Gauliga was the highest level of play in German football from 1934-45. The leagues were introduced in 1933, after the Nazi takeover of power by the Sports office of the Third Reich.-Name:...
s were introduced.
To qualify for the national championship, a team needed to win or finish runners-up in one of the seven regional championships. On top of those 14 clubs, the two strongest regions, West and South were allowed to send a third team each. In the West, this was the local cup winner while in the South, the third placed team of the championship received this place.
Qualified teams
| Club | Qualified from |
| SV Prussia-Samland Königsberg SV Prussia-Samland Königsberg SV Prussia-Samland Königsberg was a German association football club from the city of Königsberg, East Prussia .The club was founded in early 1904 as Fußball-Club Prussia Königsberg and in 1908 merged with Sportzirkel Samland Königsberg 1904 to form Sportvereinigung Prussia-Samland Königsberg... |
Baltic champions Baltic football championship The Baltic football championship was the highest association football competition in the Prussian provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and West Prussia. The competition was disbanded in 1933.... |
| SV Hindenburg Allenstein SV Hindenburg Allenstein SV Hindenburg Allenstein was a German football club from the city of Allenstein, East Prussia .The club was formed in 1921 as Sportvereinigung Hindenburg Allenstein and was named for German Field Marshal and Reichs President Paul von Hindenburg. Sometime in 1935 it became a military side and played... |
Baltic runners-up |
| Beuthener SuSV | South Eastern German champions South Eastern German football championship The South Eastern German football championship was the highest association football competition in the Prussian provinces of Silesia, which was divided into the Province of Lower Silesia and the Province of Upper Silesia after 1919, and Posen, which mostly became part of Poland in 1919... |
| Vorwärts RaSpo Gleiwitz Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz was a German association football club from the city of Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, today Gliwice, Poland.-History:... |
South Eastern German runners-up |
| Hertha BSC | Brandenburg champions Brandenburg football championship The Brandenburg football championship was the highest association football competition in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, including Berlin, established in 1898... |
| BFC Viktoria 89 | Brandenburg runners-up |
| Dresdner SC Dresdner SC Dresdner SC is a German multisport club playing in Dresden, Saxony. Founded on 30 April 1898, the club was a founding member of the German Football Association in 1900... |
Central German champions Central German football championship The Central German football championship was the highest association football competition in Central Germany, in what is now the federal states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, established in 1902... |
| PSV Chemnitz | Central German runners-up |
| Hamburger SV Hamburger SV Hamburger Sport-Verein, usually referred to as HSV in Germany and Hamburg in international parlance, is a German multi-sport club based in Hamburg, its largest branch being its football department... |
Northern German champions Northern German football championship The Northern German football championship , operated by Norddeutscher Fußball-Verband , was the highest association football competition in Northern Germany, in the Prussian provinces of Schleswig-Holstein and Hanover and the German states of Hamburg, Lübeck, Mecklenburg-Schwerin,... |
| SV Arminia Hannover | Northern German runners-up |
| FC Schalke 04 FC Schalke 04 Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, commonly known as simply FC Schalke 04 or Schalke , is a German, association-football club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Schalke has long been one of the most popular football teams in Germany, even though major... |
Western German champions Western German football championship The Western German football championship was the highest association football competition in Western Germany, in the Prussian Province of Westphalia, the Rhine Province, the northern parts of the province of Hesse-Nassau as well as the Principality of Lippe, later to become the Free State of Lippe... |
| Fortuna Düsseldorf Fortuna Düsseldorf ' is a German association football club based in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, currently playing in the second tier of German league football, the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga... |
Western German runners-up |
| VfL Benrath | Western German Cup winner |
| FSV Frankfurt FSV Frankfurt FSV Frankfurt is a German association football club based in the Bornheim district of Frankfurt am Main, Hesse and founded in 1899. The club plays in the shadow of larger and much more successful Eintracht Frankfurt, which has recently returned to 2nd tier football... |
Southern German champions |
| TSV 1860 München TSV 1860 München Turn- und Sportverein München von 1860, commonly known as TSV 1860 München or 1860 Munich, is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. The club's football team plays in the Second Bundesliga, after relegation from the Bundesliga following the 2003–04 season... |
Southern German runners-up |
| SG Eintracht Frankfurt | Southern German 3rd placed team |
First round
| Date | Match | Result | Stadium | ||
| 7 May 1933 | Hamburger SV | – | Eintracht Frankfurt | 1–4 (0–2) | Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808... , Stadion Hoheluft |
| 7 May 1933 | VfL Benrath | – | TSV 1860 München | 0–2 (0–2) | Köln KOLN KOLN, digital channel 10, is the CBS affiliate in Lincoln, Nebraska. It operates a satellite station, KGIN, on digital channel 11 in Grand Island. KGIN repeats all KOLN programming, but airs separate commercials... , Müngersdorfer Stadion RheinEnergieStadion The RheinEnergieStadion is a football stadium in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was built on the site of the two previous Müngersdorfer stadiums. It is the home of the local Bundesliga team, 1. FC Köln. The stadium was one of the 12 hosting the 2006 FIFA World Cup... |
| 7 May 1933 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | – | Vorwärts RaSpo Gleiwitz | 9–0 (3–0) | Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the... , Rheinstadion Rheinstadion The Rheinstadion was a multi-purpose stadium, in Düsseldorf, Germany. The stadium was built, near the Rhine, in 1926 and held 55,900 people, at the end of its life.... |
| 7 May 1933 | Dresdner SC | – | SV Arminia Hannover | 1–2 aet (0–1, 1–1) | Dresden Dresden Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area.... , Stadion am Ostragehege Heinz-Steyer-Stadion The Heinz-Steyer-Stadion is a Football and athletics stadium in Dresden, which is currently used by the Dresdner SC. It has a capacity of about 30.000, but is currently restricted to about 5.000 for soccer matches . It was also the first stadium of Dynamo Dresden... |
| 7 May 1933 | Beuthener SuSV | – | SV Prussia-Samland Königsberg | 7–1 (3–1) | Beuthen Bytom Bytom is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. The central-western district of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - metropolis with the population of 2 millions. Bytom is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Bytomka river .The city belongs to the Silesian Voivodeship since... , Hindenburg-Stadion |
| 7 May 1933 | FSV Frankfurt | – | PSV Chemnitz | 6–1 (1–1) | Frankfurt am Main, Riederwaldstadion |
| 7 May 1933 | Hindenburg Allenstein | – | Hertha BSC | 4–1 (2–0) | Allenstein Olsztyn Olsztyn is a city in northeastern Poland, on the Łyna River. Olsztyn has been the capital of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship since 1999. It was previously in the Olsztyn Voivodeship... , Waldstadion |
| 14 May 1933 | FC Schalke 04 | – | BFC Viktoria 1889 | 4–1 (1–0) | Dortmund Dortmund Dortmund is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 585,045 makes it the 7th largest city in Germany and the 34th largest in the European Union.... , Kampfbahn Rothe Erde Stadion Rote Erde Stadion Rote Erde is a 25,000 capacity football and athletics stadium in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It serves as home to Borussia Dortmund II.... |
Quarter finals
| Date | Match | Result | Stadium | ||
| 21 May 1933 | SV Arminia Hannover | – | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 0–3 (0–2) | Hannover, Hindenburg-Kampfbahn |
| 21 May 1933 | Eintracht Frankfurt | – | Hindenburg Allenstein | 12–2 (7–0) | Frankfurt am Main, Riederwald-Stadion |
| 21 May 1933 | FC Schalke 04 | – | FSV Frankfurt | 1–0 (0–0) | Essen Essen - Origin of the name :In German-speaking countries, the name of the city Essen often causes confusion as to its origins, because it is commonly known as the German infinitive of the verb for the act of eating, and/or the German noun for food. Although scholars still dispute the interpretation of... , Stadion Uhlenkrug |
| 21 May 1933 | TSV 1860 München | – | Beuthener SuSV | 3–0 (2–0) | Nuremberg Nuremberg Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664... , Städtisches Stadion |
Semi finals
| Date | Match | Result | Stadium | ||
| 28 May 1933 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | – | Eintracht Frankfurt | 4–0 (1–0) | Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union... , Platz des BFC Preussen |
| 28 May 1933 | FC Schalke 04 | – | TSV 1860 München | 4–0 (1–0) | Leipzig Leipzig Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing... , Stadion Probstheida |
Final
The 1933 final saw Schalke as the favorite for the title, having already beaten Fortuna in the Western German championship in late April. In front of 60,000, 20,000 of those Fortuna supporters, the club, who had not conceded a goal in the previous three rounds and scored 16, scored the first goal in the tenth minute. Schalke never got into their rhythm and when Fortuna scored the third goal five minutes from the end, the game was decided.It was the third time that the final was held in Cologne, after 1912 and 1931 and had the second-best attendance until then, only surpassed by the 1923 final, held in Hamburg in front of 64,000.
| Date | Match | Result | Stadium | Attendance | ||
| 11 June 1933 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | – | FC Schalke 04 | 3-0 (1–0) | Cologne Cologne Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the... , Müngersdorfer Stadion |
60,000 |
Teams
| style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> | Fortuna Düsseldorf: | ||
| 1 | Willi Pesch | ||
| 2 | Kurt Trautwein | ||
| 3 | Paul Janes Paul Janes Paul Janes was a German football player. He earned 71 caps and scored 7 goals for the Germany national football team from 1932 to 1942, and played in two World Cups: 1934 and 1938... |
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| 4 | Paul Bornefeld | ||
| 5 | Jakob Bender Jakob Bender Jakob Bender was a German footballer. In the 1930s, Bender was a squad member of Fortuna Düsseldorf, who in 1933 became German League champions.... |
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| 6 | Paul Mehl | ||
| 7 | Georg Hochgesang | ||
| 8 | Theo Breuer Theo Breuer Theo Breuer is a German poet, essayist, editor, translator and publisher.-Life and work:... |
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| 9 | Felix Zwolanowski | ||
| 10 | Willi Wigold | ||
| 11 | Stanislaus Kobierski Stanislaus Kobierski Stanislaus "Tau" Kobierski was a German football player.Between 1931 and 1941, he played 26 times and scored 9 goals for the Germany national football team. He participated in the 1934 FIFA World Cup, and scored Germany's first ever World Cup goal, in the first round 5-2 win over Belgium. His... |
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| Manager: | |||
| Heinz Körner | |||
Hermann Nattkämper
Herman Nattkämper was a German football player and was German champions in 1934 and 1935.Born in Gladbeck, he became member of a local football club when he was 14. Being criticized due to a failed penalty, he left his club and joined the FC Schalke 04. After 76 games and 27 goals he stopped...
Fritz Szepan
Friedrich "Fritz" Szepan was a German footballer in the period leading up to and including World War II. He spent his entire career with Schalke 04 where he won six national championships and one German Cup. He is commonly regarded as one of the greatest Schalke players of all time...
Ernst Kuzorra
Ernst Kuzorra was a German footballer of the pre-war era. During his entire career, he played for Schalke 04, whom he led to six national championships and one national cup...
Top scorers
| Name | Club | Goals | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Karl Ehmer | Eintracht Frankfurt | 6 |
| 2nd | Georg Hochgesang | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 5 |
| Paul Mehl | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 5 | |
| Felix Zwolanowski | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 5 | |
| 5th | August Möbs August Möbs August Möbs was a German footballer.He came to Eintracht Frankfurt from VfB Friedberg. For the Eagles Möbs scored loads of goals and reached with Eintracht the final rounds for the German championship in 1932 and 1933. In 1932 he lost with his club in the final match to Bayern Munich.- External... |
Eintracht Frankfurt | 4 |
Sources
- Süddeutschlands Fussball in Tabellenform 1897 - 1988, by Ludolf Hyll, page 98 - German championship 1933
- kicker Allmanach 1990, by kickerKicker (sports magazine)kicker Sportmagazin is Germany's leading sports magazine and is focused primarily on football. The magazine was founded in 1920 by German football pioneer Walther Bensemann and is published twice a week, usually Monday and Thursday, in Nuremberg...
, page 162 & 171 - German championship 1933 - Weltfussball.de: German championship 1933