Gauliga Generalgouvernement
The Gauliga General was one of the top leagues in the era of National Socialism. The regional champion of the General Government was determined in the existing 1941-1944 League, who represented the Sportgau in the final round of the German soccer championship.
History
In the Gauliga General Government (GG) played from 1941 German clubs from occupied Poland. Associations of the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and SS featured on own teams, as well as the German Order Police, the Eastern Railway and several under German control large farms, especially in the defense sector. A total of 80 German football clubs in the General Government of Poland were registered. Polish football players were not approved for the Gauliga.
In the four districts of Cracow, Radom, Warsaw and Lublin district of the General Government are each a masterpiece has been played. These four teams played in the Cup mode from the Gaumeister. Whether in the season 1944/45, still held gaming operations is not known. Among the venues included the stages of officially dissolved Polish top clubs, including the Krakow Wisla Stadium, which is now " German arena " was, and the Warsaw " Wehrmacht stadium " in which previously Legia Warsaw had discharged its home games. For the latter, Lieutenant Wilm Hosenfeld was responsible for the later Roman Polanski 's film The Pianist (2002) should build a monument.
The representatives of the Gauliga General had no chance to make their final appearances. Only SG order police Warsaw was in the finals in 1943 with a 3-1 success at BSG DWM poses survive the first round, but dropped out after a 1:5 home defeat against VfB Königsberg in the following round.
Moreover, it was held among the clubs of the "Amber Cup of the Governor General ". For this competition and the Cup Winners' Cup Ukrainian Premier League was qualified within the GG. The Nazi authorities had their own Ukrainian league with ten clubs in the area around Lviv admitted. The winner was allowed to take part in the qualifying matches of the Basic Law for the final round of the German Cup. There were also friendly matches between German and Ukrainian clubs instead; the German -speaking Besatzerpresse reported repeated victories Ukrainian teams.
For the operation of gambling was the sports coordinator, appointed by the Governor-General Hans Frank Georg Niffka, an SS officer responsible. Niffka made it clear that Poland not only did not play in the Gauliga, but also unable to attend " comradeship evenings " of the German clubs. But they were admitted as spectators in the stadiums, but where " the sector with the best seats reserved exclusively to the German " should be.
The Gauliga General also presented a selection team, which participated in the Reich Federation Cup, but each was eliminated immediately in the first round. She played in red and white, so reversing the Polish national flag. Temporarily for the GG- Eleven played originating from Upper Silesia former Polish national team Wilhelm Gora, Julius Joksch, Karl Pazurek and Erwin Nytz, all of whom had signed the German People's List.
Gaumeister and participants in the German championship
1In parentheses is the result in the final round of the German Cup