FC St. Pauli: Stadium anthem comes from the Nazi propagandist-and now?

FC St. Pauli: Stadium anthem comes from the Nazi propagandist-and now?

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Stadium anthem comes from Nazi propaganda: How does FC St. Pauli deal with it?


Before the games of FC St. Pauli, “The Heart of St. Pauli” sounds at the Millerntor. The copywriter was a war rapporteur in World War II. Now a discussion has flared up.

Football Bundesliga club FC St. Pauli wants to inform about the further use of his stadium anthem “Das Heart of St. Pauli” on Friday. A discussion had recently flared up around the song. The reason is the past of the copywriter Josef Ollig in World War II and during the rule of the National Socialists. Ollig is said to have been a combat pilot and war rapporteurs for the Nazi propaganda.

The song “The Heart of St. Pauli” was sung by Hans Albers in the film of the same name published in 1957. Employees of the FC St. Pauli Museum, who had previously dealt with the biography of Hans Albers in detail, did this with Ollig and the composer Michael Jary.

“Differentiated discussion” within FC St. Pauli

Ollig’s reports appeared “in various Nazi propaganda mandates, including the Hamburg Foreign Gazette”, said in a club notification: “In 1944, Ollig was praised by his superiors in the Wehrmacht High Command for his work and received further high military awards. In the last weeks of the war he was now promoted to the lieutenant and stationed on the western front.

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FC St. Pauli wants to take a critical examination with its past and accordingly also want to examine and discuss the history of the creation of the song “The Heart of St. Pauli”. “We are experiencing a predominantly differentiated discussion about dealing with the song based on well -founded research. We notice how important many fans the song is, but also how responsibly they deal with the situation,” the club in the “Hamburger Abendblatt” became cited.

Before the home games, the song is played in the rocky version of the band “Phantastix & Elf”. After the end, the fans continue the chants without the well -rehearsed music. Dealing with one’s own history has caused consequences at FC St. Pauli in the past. The Wilhelm-Koch Stadium named after the former club president was renamed Millerntor Stadium in 1998. Previously, it became known that Wilhelm Koch was a member of the NSDAP.

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