21 February 1962). The measure was repeated in May but with unwanted results. Clearly far from overcoming the hurdle, the pitch became a sandpit and object of ridicule. Unsurprisingly the joke on the terraces was that the team had become Sand Pauli. When player Heinz Deininger became injured – breaking his ankle during a friendly – due to the pitch’s poor state, the club’s directors reacted angrily, refusing to return to the venue unless the required drainage took place and the grass was in the required condition. For this reason, in June 1962, after reaching an agreement with the local authorities, St. Pauli moved its matches to the Hoheluftstadion – owned by SV Victoria – which was then the oldest ground still standing in the city. The brown-and-white team’s exile did not end until 10 November 1963. That day, the club’s players returned to the Millerntor Stadion to take on VfL Wolfsburg.
The new stadium’s inauguration coincided with a rise in crime in the district, which was linked to the growing prostitution and entertainment industries. It was then that some local gangsters became well known. One was Wilfrid ‘Frieda’ Shultz, the Godfather of St. Pauli, who went from being a warehouse assistant to owning restaurants in the Reeperbahn and being a partner in hotels and discotheques. In 1959 he took over gambling in the area after the US Mafia helped remove the Italians running a protection racket. In St. Pauli, Frieda’s word was gospel. He was tried on 25 occasions but was given only four minor convictions and had good relations with the city’s upper classes. In the 1980s, when drugs burst into the neighbourhood, he retired, dying of cancer in 1990. His criminal gang had to coexist with others. These included the GMBH cartel: a ring of pimps (Gerhard Glissmann, Michael ‘Mischa’ Luchting, Walter Beagle Vogeler and Harald Voerthman). They operated in St. Pauli in the 1970s and 1980s, controlling brothels, peepshow venues, restaurants, casinos and clubs. Other gangs were the Nutella Bande, led by ‘Tommy Karate’ Born, who took on the GMBH over controlling prostitution; Das Chicago, the third St. Pauli gang which became prominent in the 1980s due to the rise of cocaine; the gunmen ‘Wiener’ Peter and Werner Pinzer – the St. Pauli assassin; or bikers groups such as the Hamburg section of the Hell’s Angels (which was shut down by the police in the 1980s). These groups formed alliances or fought between them from the 1970s, and the gang warfare continued into the following decade over control of weapons and drugs such as cocaine.
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