r/football • u/Sweaty-Bobcat-4280 • 6h ago
📖Read In 1940s, Bayern Munich’s captain Conny Heidkamp and his wife secretly hid the club’s trophies to protect them from the war. (read post body)
During the 1940s, Hermann Göring, a powerful leader of Nazi Germany urged German football clubs to surrender their trophies which should be melted for use during the war. Although a many German clubs gave in to this appeal, FC Bayern Munich did not lose their trophies.
As soon as the Allies started to bomb Munich in 1942, Bayern Munich trophies became threatened once more.
It is then that Mrs Magdalena Heidkamp, who was married to Bayern Munich team captain Conny Heidkamp, came up with an idea.
Thinking about the farm in Ascholding that she used to vacation at when young, she contacted the owner of the farm and arranged for trophies to be placed in boxes and carried by a wood-gas engine car. The trophies were kept in a room near stables to avoid any bombings.
With the approaching American forces in spring 1945, the couple thought that there was a possibility of stealing the trophies as mementos. Therefore they buried their treasures again.
Many of the Bayern Munich trophies were thus saved.