Georg Wurzer

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Georg "Schorsch" Wurzer (born January 31, 1907 in Fürth ; † August 8, 1982 ) was a German football coach . He won the German championship with VfB Stuttgart in 1950 and 1952 and the DFB Cup in 1954 and 1958 .

The successful coach of VfB Stuttgart

Georg Wurzer began his playing career at FC Wacker Munich . He then moved to FV 94 Ulm, one of the predecessor clubs of SSV Ulm in 1846 , where he was active as a player and from 1932 also as a coach. As an active player, he played 20 selection games for Württemberg . He was also in 1932 with the southern German national team in the final of the national cup , which was lost with a 1: 2 defeat against northern Germany . He had already gained coaching experience as a Gausport teacher in Saxony.

In the summer of 1947, Georg Wurzer took up the position of coach at VfB Stuttgart. From the Ulm “Spatzen”, with whom he had achieved promotion to the Oberliga Süd, the path led him to the Neckar. In order to be able to carry out his personal credo of wanting to train “young, unspoilt, local player material and no cracks” and thus to be successful in the long run, he combed the region for players who fit the team. He brought Robert Schlienz from Zuffenhausen, Rolf Blessing from Wendlingen, Erich Retter from Plüderhausen, Erwin Waldner from Neckarhausen, Karl Bögelein from Bamberg, later Rolf Geiger from the Stuttgarter Kickers and many others whom he convinced that he would offer him a home could - football as well as human.

With contract players who pursued a career, he formed a team in three evening training sessions a week that played for the German championship for years. This team established the good reputation of VfB Stuttgart in the 1950s and Georg Wurzer became the most successful VfB coach to date thanks to four title wins. His psychological and football-related reconstruction work on Robert Schlienz after his serious car accident on August 14, 1948 and the subsequent amputation of his left arm was also remarkable. Schlienz celebrated its comeback in October and steered the game of VfB out of midfield. Indeed, Wurzer was a doctor of souls and a self-taught wound nurse in one.

The sports journalist and novelist Hans Blickensdörfer writes in his book from the Stuttgart Union-Verlag “A ball flies around the world” in the section “Messiah and scapegoat” from 1965 the following:

“In general, someone whose business card says a German championship has a guarantee for a new, even more lucrative job. He already owns a small gold mine with two championships, but there are also exceptions here that confirm the rule. Georg Wurzer, who not only led VfB Stuttgart to two German championships, but also to two cup wins, is training the Swabian provincial club SSV Reutlingen at the time this book is being produced, which of course has a lot to do with the fact has that at the zenith of his successes he built a house in the beautiful surroundings of Stuttgart. "

This Bavarian, who settled down in Swabia and successfully completed the football teacher training course in 1952, was an actual master trainer, which pecuniary paid, however, comparatively little in the years before today's Bundesliga salaries. Time was given to develop his down-to-earth teams: he was thirteen years - from 1947 to 1960 - coach at VfB Stuttgart.

Coach in the Regionalliga Süd

In the last round of the Oberliga Süd, he took over SSV Reutlingen 05 in 1962/63 . From the first year of the Bundesliga (1963/64) he was a coach in the newly installed Regionalliga Süd. In the second season (1964/65) he led the club through the second place in the table behind FC Bayern Munich in the promotion round to the Bundesliga. Just one point behind the “foals” of Hennes Weisweiler , the team from Borussia Mönchengladbach , the SSV took the ungrateful second place and thus narrowly failed to advance. He stayed in the town at the foot of the Achalm until the 1965/66 season. Then he went back to Stuttgart, but now to the heights of Degerloch: the Stuttgarter Kickers waited under the television tower for the old VfB Stuttgart master coach . From 1966/67 to 1970/71 - with a short break in 1969/70 - he stayed with the Kickers and then ended his coaching career in paid football.

Georg Wurzer, who (like his “student” Schlienz) survived a life-threatening traffic accident, died at the age of 75 of heart failure.

successes

Coaching stations

literature

  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
  • Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
  • Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 2: 1948–1963 (= AGON-Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 29). AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hardy Greens: With the ring on the chest. The history of VfB Stuttgart. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-89533-593-8 . P. 59.

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personal data
SURNAME Wurzer, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wurzer, Schorsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1982