SG SS Straßburg

Football club infobox
clubname = SS SG Straßburg


fullname = Sportgemeinschaft Schutzstaffel Straßburg
nickname =
founded = 1 August 1900
ground = Am Wasserturm
capacity = 4,000
chairman =
manager =
league = Elsass
season = 2006-07
position = defunct
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SS Straßburg was a German football club from the city of Straßburg, Elsass (today Strasbourg, Alsace in France).

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The team was founded in 1900 as "Sport-Club Red-Star Straßburg" when the region was under German control. Following the end of World War I the territory of Alsace was returned to France and the team became part of that country's competition as "FC Frankonia 1900 Strasbourg". In August 1940, after the Nazi conquest of the province, "Frankonia" collapsed, but was immediately re-constituted out of its former membership as "Sportgemeinschaft Schutzstaffel Straßburg" in September. [Grüne, Hardy (1996). Vom Kronprinzen bis zur Bundesliga. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-928562-85-1]

The formation of military clubs was common in Germany at the time, but the creation of the an SS side required the permission of Schutzstaffel head Heinrich Himmler. "SG" became part of the Gauliga Unterelsass, a regional first division established in the territory of Elsass, without having to first qualify. The side was quickly strengthened by the addition of other SS members who were required to leave behind their original clubs to don the white and black kit bearing the SS rune as a crest.

In their second season, in what had since become the Gauliga Elsaß, "SG" easily won the division and advanced through the national playoffs to the quarterfinals, where they were put out by eventual champions "FC Schalke 04", who emerged as the dominant side of the era. They also took part in the 1942 Tschammerpokal tournament, predecessor to today's DFB-Pokal (German Cup), and went as far as the third round before being crushed 1:15 by "TSV 1860 München" on their way to a cup triumph. Their turn in the national playoffs was the highpoint of the Straßburg side's history; they could earn only third and second place results in their next two campaigns. Play in the Gauliga Unterelsass never got underway in the 1944-45 season as Allied armies began their advance through Europe and into Germany, with "SG" disappearing in 1944. [Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9]

Honours

* Gauliga Elsaß (I) champions: 1942

References

* [http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv] historical German domestic league tables (in German)