SV Stern Breslau
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Stern Breslau was a German association football club
from the city of Breslau, Lower Silesia (today Wrocław, Poland
). It was established in 1920 as the workers' club BSG Großmarkhalle Breslau and by 1921 was playing as Sportverein Stern Breslau. It was part of the Arbeiter-Turn- und Sportbund
, (ATSB or en:Workers Gymnastics and Sports Federation), a leftist national sports organization which organized a football competition and championship separate from that of the DFB (Deutscher Fußball Bund, en:German Football Association). Stern is notable as the losing side in the 1924 league final where they were beaten by Dresdner SV 10 6:1. This was the first of four consecutive titles for the Dresden club.
In 1933, workers' and faith-based teams were banned by the Nazis as politically undesireable. The membership of Stern reorganized itself as 1. Fußball Club Breslau
which went on to play a single season in the top-flight regional Gauliga Niederschlesien in 1938-39. 1. FC disappeared following World War II
when the city became part of Poland.
Football in Germany
Association football is the most popular sport in Germany. The German Football Association is the sport's national governing body, with 6.6 million members organized in over 26,000 football clubs. There is a league system, with the 1. and 2. Bundesliga on top, and the winner of the first...
from the city of Breslau, Lower Silesia (today Wrocław, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
). It was established in 1920 as the workers' club BSG Großmarkhalle Breslau and by 1921 was playing as Sportverein Stern Breslau. It was part of the Arbeiter-Turn- und Sportbund
Arbeiter-Turn- und Sportbund
The Arbeiter-Turn- und Sportbund was a national German sports organization active between 1893-1933...
, (ATSB or en:Workers Gymnastics and Sports Federation), a leftist national sports organization which organized a football competition and championship separate from that of the DFB (Deutscher Fußball Bund, en:German Football Association). Stern is notable as the losing side in the 1924 league final where they were beaten by Dresdner SV 10 6:1. This was the first of four consecutive titles for the Dresden club.
In 1933, workers' and faith-based teams were banned by the Nazis as politically undesireable. The membership of Stern reorganized itself as 1. Fußball Club Breslau
1. FC Breslau
1. FC Breslau was a German association football club from the city of Breslau, Lower Silesia . It was established by the former membership of SV Stern Breslau, a workers' club that had been banned by the Nazis in 1933 alongside other left-leaning and faith-based clubs...
which went on to play a single season in the top-flight regional Gauliga Niederschlesien in 1938-39. 1. FC disappeared following World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
when the city became part of Poland.