FC St. Pauli 3-4 Hamborn 07 (lost footage of DFB-Pokal football match; 1952)

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Revision as of 11:05, 29 November 2022 by SpaceManiac888 (talk | contribs) (Firstly, happy 10th anniversary to the Lost Media Wiki. Anyhow, this was the first football match publicly televised in Germany following the Second World War. Another 4-3 encounter! That said, I came across a source just now that claimed an international match may have been televised in Germany back in November 1936... really confusing stuff, since no sources are consistent in defining the "true" first broadcast.)
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A television set transmitting the match.

Status: Lost

On Boxing Day 1952, FC St. Pauli hosted Hamborn 07 for a DFB-Pokal last 16 replay match. Occurring at St. Pauli's ground within Heiligengeistfeld, the visitors would progress after winning 4-3. Aside from being the first known DFB-Pokal game to be televised live, the encounter is also historic for being the first football match to be broadcast live in Germany following the official public re-launch of television in the country.

Background

Heading into their original last 16 tie, FC St. Pauli had defeated 1. FC Saarbrücken 2-1, while Hamborn 07 overcame I. SC Göttingen 05 4-1.[1] Hamborn originally hosted St. Pauli on 9th November 1952.[2] The hosts took the lead after 12 minutes courtesy of a Helmut Sadlowski goal, but Alfons Heitmann levelled proceedings 36 minutes into the encounter.[2] Neither side broke the deadlock despite extra time being played, forcing a replay to be held on Boxing Day at St. Pauli's ground the Millerntor-Stadion.[2][1]

Meanwhile, the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR) had been conducting test broadcasts in West Germany since 1948.[3] On 24th August 1952, the NWDR had broken new ground when it televised an Oberliga Nord game between Hamburger SV and Altona 93.[4][5] On Christmas Day that same year, it had officially re-launched public television in Germany following the Second World War, and was now seeking to publicly broadcast a football match for the first time since the War occurred.[6][4] The St. Pauli-Hamborn encounter was selected, most likely for geographical purposes as both the NWDR and St. Pauli's original ground were based in Hamburg.[7][4][3] It is unknown who provided commentary for the match.[4]

The encounter itself occurred on Boxing Day in front of about 6,000 in-attendance.[8][4] Sadlowski took the lead for the visitors after seven minutes, but Alfred Boller equalised a minute later.[8] Sadlowski put Hamborn ahead again after 35 minutes, with Pluskwik doubling the club's lead 69 minutes in.[8] St. Pauli fought back during the late stages, with a second goal from Boller and an 84th minute strike by Alfred Beck levelling proceedings.[8] However, Sadlowski again came to Hamborn's rescue, scoring in the 88th minute to achieve a hat-trick.[8] 07 held on to claim victory, progressing to the quarter-finals.[8][1] Ultimately, the club would be knocked out at this stage on 1st March 1953, after losing 3-1 to eventual runners-up Alemannia Aachen.[1] Following the broadcast, Oberliga and regional matches would be regularly aired in 1953, with about 24 known to have been broadcast by March 1954.[6][5]

Availability

Ultimately, the match was televised privately in an era where recordings were rare until videotape was perfected in the late-1950s.[9] Because of this, as well as considering the low viewership considering the expense of television sets in the country back then,[5] the broadcast has not resurfaced, and no footage the encounter itself is known to have survived.[4]

See Also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Playmaker detailing the road to the 1953 DFB Pokal Final. Retrieved 29th Nov '22
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Be Soccer detailing the result of the original encounter. Retrieved 29th Nov '22
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Transnational Television History: A Comparative Approach detailing the NWDR's influence in re-launching West German television. Retrieved 29th Nov '22
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 ESPN detailing NWDR's televising games in Germany, and its launch on Christmas Day 1952. Retrieved 29th Nov '22
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sportmanagement detailing NWDR televising the match in full and 24 further matches by March 1954 (book in German). Retrieved 29th Nov '22
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Impact of Digitalization on Sports Broadcasting detailing NWDR broadcasting the match and the expansion of televised German football from 1953 onwards. Retrieved 29th Nov '22
  7. ↑ Place and See detailing St. Pauli's original ground (not the Millerntor Stadion). Retrieved 29th Nov '22
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 Be Soccer detailing the result of the match and other statistics. Retrieved 29th Nov '22
  9. ↑ Web Archive article discussing how most early television is missing due to a lack of directly recording television. Retrieved 29th Nov '22
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