SG SS Straßburg

The sports club SS Strasbourg was a guided by the SS sports club, who took part with football and basketball teams from 1940 to 1943 / 44 on the game mode in connected to the Greater German Reich Alsace.

Foundation

With the beginning of World War II football teams of the Armed Forces and other armed formations were established throughout the German Reich, including the SS in Alsace, which was connected to the Reich after the invasion of France by the summer of 1940, again, the previous football clubs had to give German names. These included the Red Star Strasbourg, who took its old name FC Franconia from the period before 1918, when Strasbourg was German again. In October 1940, the management of the association, however, was informed that it forms the football and basketball department of the sports club SS from now.

At the SG several former professional players of the previous top clubs Racing Strasbourg seconded, the now called turf sports club Strasbourg, including the goalkeeper Charles Hoffmann (Karl Hoffmann), the eight-time French international Frederic Keller ( Fritz Keller ) and the brothers Emile and Pierre Waechter None of the better known players belonged to the SS, most of them were Alsatians. Without qualifiers, the SG of the highest regional league, the Gauliga Alsace was allocated.

The club colors were black and white, the red star of the former club was replaced by a skull and SS runes on the jerseys. According to eyewitness reports, the now run by the SS club the Strasbourg crowd was very unpopular, this was in local derbies closed behind the lawn sports club.

Seasons 1940-1944

In the first year, the SG was number 3 ( among eight clubs ), but reached only the first time the finals of the German Cup.

The season 1941/42, became the most successful club of the short story. The first and only time, the SG Masters, by a narrow margin on the lawn sports club. In qualifying for the finals of the German Cup, he hit the Stuttgarter Kickers 2-0. In the second round he won against 1 FC Schweinfurt 05 2:1. In the quarterfinals, but he was defeated by FC Schalke 04 0:6.

In the same season the team also took part in the Tschammerpokal. After victories over Borussia Neunkirchen ( 5:4 ) and the SV Waldhof Mannheim ( 5:4 aet) subject to the SS club TSV 1860 Munich eventual winner with 1:15. In the game were high-ranking SS officers in the official gallery. Seven goals scored for the Munich of the former Polish and German national team now Ernst Willimowski, whose mother had been two years previously deported by the SS in the Auschwitz concentration camp. The consolation of the Strasbourg scored the later GDR selection player John Beautiful.

In the following two years, the SG no longer managed to qualify for the finals of the championship and the Cup. It was wound with the withdrawal of German troops from Alsace in the late autumn of 1944.

Placements in the Gauliga

Basketball as a figurehead

As in football, pass the basketball teams of players from the region, who were seconded to the center part of the Alsace Mulhouse, eg Terrillon and Schoeblin. They formed the figurehead of the Strasbourg basketball and belonged to the squad of the last international match in 1942 in Hungary. SG SS Strasbourg won in 1941 and 1942, a police tournament in Berlin. Even 1942/43, took part in the Strasbourg SG SS regional championship rounds.

Process of collaboration

In July 1945, re-founded the Association of Alsatian League LAFA decided ( Ligue d'Alsace de football association ) to investigate the collaboration of football players with the German occupiers. The re-founded Red Star Strasbourg was reset in the fourth league, although almost no connections to the SG SS Strasbourg passed. Frédéric Keller was initially banned for life, but the lock was released the following year. In contrast, the goalkeeper Charles Hoffmann was not reprimanded, nor the Waechter brothers, who again were allowed to play at Racing 1945. Also, Red Star was rehabilitated in the late summer of 1946 and was allowed to compete in the first regional league again.

Known player

• Frédéric Keller, French national team
• Beautiful John, later DDR - choice player