Fighting Match Cup 1934

Kamfspiel Cup 1934
Cup Winner	Southwest (1st title)
Start	24. June 1934
End	29. July 1934
Finale	29. July 1934
Final Stadium	Nuremberg main arena
Teams	16
Games	16 ( of which 16 played)
Gates	77 (ø 4.81 per game)
Viewers	182.300 (ø 11,394 per game)
Top scorer	Georg Friedel (7)
	← Adolf Hitler Cup 1933 Reichsbund Cup 1935 → ← Adolf Hitler Cup

The Reichsbund Cup 1934 was the second held Gauauswahlwettbewerb. As the competition took place from the semi-final on during the German Kampfspiele 1934 in Nuremberg, it is called Kampfspiel-Pokal 1934. The winner was the selection team of the Gau Südwest, which defeated the defending champion Bavaria 5:3 in the final. On the way to the final, Southwest beat, among others, the favored selection team of Westphalia, which was equipped with eight players from the German football champion FC Schalke 04. Last year’s finalist Berlin-Brandenburg was eliminated in the first round.

Overview

Preliminary round		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Finale

Southwest	3
Westphalia	1
		Southwest	2

		Saxony	1
Saxony	7

Pomerania	0
				Southwest	2^a

				Lower Rhine	1
East Prussia	0

Lower Rhine	4
		Lower Rhine	1^a

		Baden	0
Baden	7

Lower Saxony	4
						Southwest	5

						Bavaria	3
Württemberg	1

Bavaria	4
		Bavaria	5

		North Hesse	1
North Hesse	4

Silesia	1
				Bavaria	2

				Nordmark	1
Middle	1

Nordmark	2
		Nordmark	5

		Middle Rhine	2
Middle Rhine	3

Berlin-Brandenburg	0

^a After extension.

Preliminary round

Date		Result		Stadium
24. June 1934	Saxony	7:0 (3:0)	Pomerania	Stadium at the Planitzstraße, Chemnitz
24. June 1934	East Prussia	0:4 (0:3)	Lower Rhine	Walter-Simon-Platz, Königsberg
24. June 1934	Baden	7:4 (3:0)	Lower Saxony	Wildpark Stadium, Karlsruhe
24. June 1934	North Hesse	4:1 (1:0)	Silesia	Hessenkampfbahn, Kassel
24. June 1934	Middle	1:2 (1:1)	Nordmark	Magdeburg
24. June 1934	Middle Rhine	3:0 (0:0)	Berlin-Brandenburg	Racecourse, Cologne
1. July 1934	Southwest	3:1 (2:0)	Westphalia	Stadium Kieselhumes, Saarbrücken
1. July 1934	Württemberg	1:4 (0:1)	Bavaria	Adolf-Hitler-Kampfbahn, Stuttgart

Quarterfinals

Date		Result		Stadium
8. July 1934	Southwest	2:1 (1:1)	Saxony	Waldstadion, Frankfurt am Main
8. July 1934	Lower Rhine	1:0 n. V. (0:0; 0:0)	Baden	Racecourse, Wuppertal
8. July 1934	Bavaria	5:1 (3:1)	North Hesse	Sports field at Haunstetter Str., Augsburg
8. July 1934	Nordmark	5:2 (1:1)	Middle Rhine	Stadium Hoheluft, Hamburg

Semifinals

From the semi-finals onwards, all matches were played in Nuremberg as part of the German Fighting Games.

Pairing	Southwest – Lower Rhine
Result	2:1 n. V. (0:1; 1:1)
Date	25. July 1934
Stadium	Main arena, Nuremberg
Viewers	25.000
Referee	Theodor Maul (Nuremberg)
Gates	0:1 Hohmann (15.) 1:1 Fath (53.) 2:1 Möbs (95.)
Southwest	Karl Müller (Borussia Neunkirchen) – Albert Conrad (1. FC Kaiserslautern), Bernhard Leis (Eintracht Frankfurt) – Rudolf Gramlich (Eintracht Frankfurt), Heinrich Hergert (FK Pirmasens), Willi Tiefel (Eintracht Frankfurt) – Wilhelm Schulmeyer (SV Wiesbaden), Adolf Grebe (Kickers Offenbach), Edmund Conen (FV Saarbrücken), August Möbs (Eintracht Frankfurt), Josef Fath (Wormatia Worms) Coach: Paul Oßwald
Lower Rhine	Fritz Buchloh (VfB Speldorf) – Paul Janes (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Willy Busch (TSV 1899 Duisburg) – Günther Stephan (Schwarz-Weiß Essen), Reinhold Münzenberg (Alemannia Aachen), Paul Zielinski (Union 02 Hamborn) – Ernst Albrecht (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Karl Hohmann (VfL Benrath), Walter Graf (TuRu Düsseldorf), Felix Zwolanowski (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Stanislaus Kobierski (Fortuna Düsseldorf)

Pairing	Bavaria – Nordmark
Result	2:1 (0:0)
Date	26. July 1934
Stadium	Main arena, Nuremberg
Viewers	25.000
Referee	Helmut Fink (Frankfurt am Main)
Gates	1:0 Friedel (80.) 2:0 Lehner (85.) 2:1 Rohwedder (88.)
Bavaria	Georg Köhl (1st FC Nuremberg) – Luitpold Popp (1st FC Nuremberg), Andreas Munkert (1st FC Nuremberg) – Josef Streb (FC Wacker Munich), Willi Billmann (1st FC Nuremberg), Richard Oehm (1st FC Nuremberg) – Ernst Lehner (SSV Schwaben Augsburg), Max Eiberger (1st FC Nuremberg), Georg Friedel (1st FC Nuremberg), Josef Schmitt (1st FC Nuremberg), Willi Kund (1st FC Nuremberg) Coach: Ludwig Leinberger
Nordmark	Hermann Kath (SpVgg St. Georg) – Erwin Stührk (Eimsbütteler TV), Ernst Timm (Eimsbütteler TV) – Walter Gloede (Hamburger SV), Peter Thiele (Union Altona), Heinrich Wolter (Eimsbütteler TV) – Hans Rohde (Eimsbütteler TV), Otto Henneberg (Hamburger SV), Otto Rohwedder (Eimsbütteler TV), Friedo Dörfel (Hamburger SV), Werwitzke (Rothenburgsorter FK 1908)

Match for 3rd place

Pairing	Lower Rhine – North Mark
Result	4:0 (2:0)
Date	29. July 1934
Stadium	Stadium Herrnhüttestraße, Nuremberg
Viewers	7.000
Referee	Hauger (Nuremberg)
Gates	1:0 Kobierski (7.) 2:0 Zwolanowski (13.) 3:0 Hohmann (50.) 4:0 Kobierski (58.)
Lower Rhine	Willy Jürissen (Rot-Weiß Oberhausen) – Paul Janes (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Willy Busch (TSV 1899 Duisburg) – Paul Mehl (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Reinhold Münzenberg (Alemannia Aachen), Paul Zielinski (Union 02 Hamborn) – Ernst Albrecht (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Karl Hohmann (VfL Benrath), Walter Graf (TuRu Düsseldorf), Felix Zwolanowski (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Stanislaus Kobierski (Fortuna Düsseldorf) Coach: Ludwig Leinberger
Nordmark	Karl Böhlke (Eimsbütteler TV) – Otto Henneberg (Hamburger SV), Förster^b (SpVgg Fürth) – Walter Gloede (Hamburger SV), Peter Thiele (Union Altona), Heinrich Wolter (Eimsbütteler TV) – Hans Rohde (Eimsbütteler TV), Heinrich Lienau (Altona 93), Jakob Becher^b (SpVgg Fürth), Friedrich Dörfel (Hamburger SV), Werwitzke (Rothenburgsorter FK 1908)

^b These players had to be loaned out for the match. Stürk and Rohwedder were not fit for duty and the selection team was short of substitutes.

Finale

After 28 minutes the Southwest team was already leading 4:0 through the goals of the national players Edmund Conen and Josef Fath. Bavaria could reduce the difference to two goals in the meantime, but Southwest defended conscientiously so that the victory was no longer in danger.

Pairing	Southwest – Bavaria
Result	5:3 (4:1)
Date	29. July 1934
Stadium	Main arena, Nuremberg
Viewers	50.000
Referee	Alfred Birlem (Berlin)
Gates	1:0 Fath (11th) 2:0 Conen (16th) 3:0 Conen (17th) 4:0 Conen (28th) 4:1 Friedel (39th) 4:2 Eiberger (52nd) 5:2 Fath (69th) 5:3 Friedel (74th)
Southwest	Karl Müller (Borussia Neunkirchen) – Albert Conrad (1. FC Kaiserslautern), Bernhard Leis (Eintracht Frankfurt) – Rudolf Gramlich (Eintracht Frankfurt), Heinrich Hergert ( C) (FK Pirmasens), Willi Tiefel (Eintracht Frankfurt) – Wilhelm Schulmeyer (SV Wiesbaden), Adolf Grebe (Kickers Offenbach), Edmund Conen (FV Saarbrücken), August Möbs (Eintracht Frankfurt), Josef Fath (Wormatia Worms) Coach: Paul Oßwald
Bavaria	Georg Köhl (1st FC Nuremberg) – Luitpold Popp ( C) (1st FC Nuremberg), Josef Wendl (TSV 1860 Munich) – Josef Streb (FC Wacker Munich), Willi Billmann (1st FC Nuremberg), Richard Oehm (1st FC Nuremberg) – Ernst Lehner (SSV Schwaben Augsburg), Max Eiberger (1st FC Nuremberg), Georg Friedel (1st FC Nuremberg), Josef Schmitt (1st FC Nuremberg), Willi Kund (1st FC Nuremberg) Coach: Ludwig Leinberger

Goal scorers

Below are the top scorers of the 1934 Kampfspiel Cup. They are sorted by the number of their goals, in case of a tie by match appearances.

Rank	Players	Selection team	Association	Gates
1	George Friedel	Bavaria	1. FC Nuremberg	7
2	Joseph Fath	Southwest	Wormatia Worms	5
3	Lothar Richter	Saxony	Chemnitz BC	4
4	Edmund Conen	Southwest	FV Saarbrücken	4
4	Georg Hochgesang	Lower Rhine	Fortuna Düsseldorf	4

Literature

Gau-Auswahl-Wettbewerbe (1933-1942) (= Dr. Alfredo Pöge [ed.]: Libero Spezial Deutsch. D 17). International Federation of Football History & Statistics, 1998, p. 12 ff.

Web links

Germany – Region XI Championship Fighting Match Cup 1934.Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, retrieved 26 March 2018.