Hans Nöth

Hans Nöth (born December 25, 1925 in Erlangen ; † July 18, 1978 ibid) was a German football player who was an offensive player for SpVgg Fürth , 1.FC Schweinfurt 05 , SSV Jahn Regensburg and Swabia Augsburg in what was then first-class from 1946 to 1956 Football Oberliga Süd has played 163 games and scored 52 goals. In the 1949/50 season the attacker was Fürth champion of the Oberliga Süd and only failed in the semi-finals in the games of the German football championship .

career

Jugend and Fürth, until 1952

The fast and technically outstanding striker was in the 1946/47 season with his home club ATSV Erlangen in Middle Franconia and at the end of the season joined the green-whites of SpVgg Fürth in the Oberliga Süd. In the last three rounds of games in July 1947 against FC Schweinfurt 05 (1: 1), Karlsruher FV (5: 2) and VfL Neckarau (2: 0), he was still used as a center forward at the game association and scored against Neckarau Goal. In his first regular league round in 1947/48, the previous 20-man season was reduced to a 16-man season. Fürth was involved in the relegation battle and Nöth held up the offensive flag of the team from Ronhof almost alone in the first half of the season with Horst Hoffmann . From January 1948, center forward and striker Horst Schade was a significant reinforcement, with the end of captivity, Max Appis returned to the lawn in spring 1948 and in April Otto Brenzke also became active in the Green-Whites. In the 2: 3 away defeat on June 13, 1948 against VfB Mühlburg, Nöth was seriously injured and the round was over for him after 32 league appearances with 14 goals. As 15th in the final table, Fürth was relegated to the amateur camp, but with Hoffmann, Brenzke, Schade, Appis and Nöth, he had an attack available that justified high hopes. In the first year of the Bayern League, 1948/49, Fürth finished second with 50:10 points behind master SSV Jahn Regensburg. In 30 league games, the game association had scored 113 goals. In the following six promotion games to the Oberliga Süd against Kassel 03, 1. FC Pforzheim and FV Zuffenhausen, Fürth prevailed with 11: 1 points and immediately returned to the Oberliga. Nöth had played all six promotion round matches and scored one goal.

The high after the ascent also continued in the former first class in the south. The league returnees surprisingly won the southern German championship under coach Helmut Schneider in 1949/50 , relegating VfB Stuttgart to second place with a five-point lead. The league champions of the previous year, Kickers Offenbach , and the German champions 1949, VfR Mannheim followed in the places. The championship attack with right-winger Horst Hoffmann, half-right Otto Brenzke, center forward Horst Schade, half-left Max Appis and left-winger Hans Nöth, formed in the World Cup system at that time , scored its 77 goals forever in the Fürth Oberliga annals. Nöth, the right-footer on the left wing, had scored eleven goals in 29 league appearances. In the final round of the German championship , Nöth and colleagues failed in the semi-finals on June 11, 1950 against the South vice VfB Stuttgart. The Swabians then also prevailed in the final with 2-1 goals against the third third from Offenbach.

Before that, however, the Fürth left winger with his club colleagues Appis and Schade had entered the regional cup on March 19, 1950 - in 1949/50 the contract players from the first-class West German leagues and the national representatives from the eastern zone - with Bavaria against the Palatinate ( Rudi Fischer , Werner Baßler , Werner Kohlmeyer , Werner Liebrich , Georg Gawliczek , Ottmar Walter , Karl Blankenberger ; Fritz Walter was absent due to injury) in the Stuttgart Neckar Stadium in front of 89,000 spectators who won the final with 2-0 goals. In the 5-1 success on November 13, 1949 in the quarter-finals in Nuremberg against Saxony with their coach Helmut Schön , Nöth contributed a goal.

To defend the title in 1950/51 only two points were missing . The Franconian local rival 1. FC Nürnberg relegated Fürth to second place. Nöth had played an excellent round with 15 goals in 31 league games and contributed significantly to the runner-up. In the group games for the German championship , the team of coach Schneider could not prevail against the competition from Kaiserslautern, Schalke and St. Pauli. Nöth had played five group games and scored one goal. His last league game for Fürth was completed by Nöth, who can be used in all attacking positions, on April 6, 1952 in a 2-0 home win on half right against the Stuttgarter Kickers. After a total of 111 league appearances with 43 goals, he ended his activity with the game association in the summer of 1952 and joined the league competitor Schweinfurt 05.

Schweinfurt, Regensburg and Augsburg, until 1955

But Nöth was not happy with the zero five from the industrial city in Lower Franconia. The "Schnüdel" took fifth place, but the newcomer from Fürth only played eight league games. This was followed by two years in the Upper Palatinate episcopal city near Jahn Regensburg. In his first year at Jahn, 1953/54, he was one of the hard core performers alongside goal scorer Josef Hubeny with 29 league appearances and five goals, and Regensburg was in 6th place. In his second year in the Upper Palatinate, only eight more league appearances followed with three goals, before Nöth ended his career in the league after seven league appearances (1 goal) in the first half of 1955/56 at Schwaben Augsburg.

He returned to Erlangen and took over the coaching position at his hometown club ATSV, also fulfilled this function from 1955 to 12/1956 at Schwaben Augsburg, and from January 1957 again at ATSV Erlangen. The trained locksmith last worked in the heating area of ​​the Erlangen device factory.

literature

• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963 . Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963 . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .

Web links

• Biography on greuther-fürth.de