DFC Germania Prag

The German football club Germania Prague ( DFC Germania ) was a football club of the German community in Prague, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the founding years of the association as well as the whole of Bohemia.

Club history

Germania was one of many clubs in the later Czechoslovakia - now the Czech Republic - which were founded by German footballers origin and early history of football there, but also in Germany, should play a role. In addition to local rivals DFC Prague Germania was on 28 January 1900 in Leipzig founding member of the German Football Association.

The association founded in 1898, grew out of two "wild" student clubs called " Unitas " and " Urania ", who together formed the DFC Germania Prague on 22 June 1899. As an application previously on June 9, 1899 had been set to permit the activity, which was also approved, the Germania was an officially registered, ie "official " club. Main initiators of this created " on a national basis " Association were Josef Sedlak and Heinrich Nonner.

The club colors were black and white, the Club restaurant was Café vineyard in the district of Royal Vineyards ( Royal Vinohrady ), which also housed the sports field of the Germans: On a terraced terrain called " channel Garden " ( " Kanalka " ), also other clubs the football game allowed the DFC Germania had one of the terraces with fitting occupied and created with the help of a friendly master carpenter a fenced football field with a spacious clubhouse.

Footballing the new club quickly closed on the leading teams of the DFC Prague and the regatta football department. After November 7, 1900, the Association of Prague German football clubs had been founded, the " Germanic " joined shortly thereafter, a league championship was possible under the German clubs in Prague. At least once, in 1901, to Germania secured the title of the Vltava river city, which was in 1902, is quite confusing: As a master of the DFC Prague participated in the final round of the German Cup, in which he reached the final; However, he is said to have played in the 1901/02 season a single game in the Prague game mode. A master did not exist in the year, it is clear from the few scanty sources, at the top would have three teams on equal points, stood, including the DFC Germania, but not the DFC Prague.

On 15 March 1903, the DFC Germania Prague disappeared from the football map. Financial problems were the cause of the dissolution of the association, caused by the loss of the sports field, on the St. George's Church was built. But was probably also partly responsible turnover in the top management of the club, which consisted of officials of postal and railroad, which were often added. The players were distributed among the other clubs in Prague, including Ladislaus Kurpiel, in the period before the First World War as a member of the DFC Prague one of the best " Central and Centrehalves " of the monarchy and the eightfold Austrian national team - participation in the Olympic games in Stockholm in 1912 - became.