Helmut Schneider (soccer player)

Helmut Schneider
Personnel
birthday	July 13, 1913
place of birth	Altrip ,  German Empire
date of death	February 13, 1984
Place of death	Mannheim ,  Germany
position	Defense / midfield / storm
Juniors
Years	station
1924–	TuS Altrip
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1933	TuS Altrip
1933-1935	FC Bayern Munich	31 (23)
1935-1940	SV 07 Waldhof	102 (45)
1940-1945	SpVgg Fürth	46 0(0)
	Air Force Sports Club Berlin
1945-1946	SV 07 Waldhof	24 0(3)
1946-1948	1. FSV Mainz 05	33 0(4)
1948-1950	SpVgg Fürth	26 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1940	Germany	1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1946-1948	1. FSV Mainz 05
1948-1951	SpVgg Fürth
1951-1952	VfR Mannheim
1952-1953	1. FC Cologne
1953-1955	FK Pirmasens
1955-1957	Borussia Dortmund
1957-1961	FK Pirmasens
1961-1963	FC Bayern Munich
1963-1964	1. FC Saarbrücken
1965	Karlsruher SC
1966	Wormatia worms
1967-1968	FK Pirmasens
1968-1969	Borussia Dortmund
1 Only league games are given.

Helmut Schneider (born July 13, 1913 in Altrip ; † February 13, 1984 in Mannheim ) was a German football player and coach . Career highlights include an international match in 1940 and two German championships, which he won as a coach in 1956 and 1957 with Borussia Dortmund .

Player career

Club player, 1924 to 1945

At TuS Altrip (where Manfred Kaltz's career began decades later ) directly on the Rhine, the student Helmut Schneider learned to play football in the youth department from 1924. At the age of 20 he moved to Munich in 1933 for the German champions of the year 1932 , for FC Bayern Munich . With Bayern he finished third and fourth in the Gauliga Bayern in 1933/34 and 1934/35 . After that, at the age of 22, he moved to SV Waldhof Mannheim for whom he played in the storm together with Otto Siffling, who was one year older , and won the championship in the Gauliga Baden in 1936 and 1937 . In the cup final of 1939, which was played in April 1940, he and his team lost 2-0 against 1. FC Nürnberg in the right defensive position . In 1940 and 1942, two more titles in the Gauliga Baden followed.

In the war years from 1942 to 1945 he played due to Wehrmacht stationing with the SpVgg Fürth in the Gauliga Bayern and with the Luftwaffensportverein Berlin . The spirited all-round player celebrated his greatest successes as a defender, but made a good impression from the storm over the runner row in all positions.

Reichsbund Cup 1935 to 1940, national team 1940

On October 13, 1935, Helmut Schneider made his debut as a center forward in the Gau selection of Baden in the game in Mannheim against North Hesse. Otto Siffling conducted the 3-2 win and Karl Striebinger from VfR Mannheim stormed on the left wing. His tenth and last appointment in the Baden selection he denied in the 1939/40 season . Through the games in the Tschammer Cup and in the Gau selection, Helmut Schneider had played himself in the field of vision of the national coach. Reich trainer Sepp Herberger appointed him to the national team for the international match played in Leipzig on September 1, 1940 . He represented the injured regular defender Paul Janes and formed the defender couple with Alfons Moog . Another debutant was Walter Dzur from Dresdner SC . The showpiece of the 13-0 victorious team was the inner storm with Wilhelm Hahnemann (6 goals), Fritz Walter (2 goals) and Edmund Conen (4 goals). Further appointments to the national team did not follow, but from March 24 to 29, 1941, the Waldhof player took part in the preparatory course for the international match against the selection of Hungary on April 6, 1941 in Cologne.

Player / player-coach, 1945/46 to 1950

On September 9, 1945, the first derby between the VfR and Waldhof took place in the city of Mannheim, which was badly damaged by the war, after approval by the military government . Helmut Schneider played for Waldhof defender, Oskar Rohr for VfR center forward. On November 4, 1945, the first league season 1945/46 kicked off in the south . Waldhof was a guest at FSV Frankfurt . At the end of the round, Waldhof finished fourth and Helmut Schneider had played in 22 games and scored three goals. For southern Germany, he played two representative games against western Germany in March and June 1946. At the age of 33, Helmut Schneider took over the position of player-coach at 1. FSV Mainz 05 in the Oberliga Südwest, group north for the 1946/47 season . In two rounds he played 33 games and scored four goals. Sovereign dominated the 1. FC Kaiserslautern opponents in the southwest. His contacts in the war led him back to Fürth as a player-coach. In the 1948/49 season he directed the game association with 2nd place from the Bavarian regional league in the Oberliga Süd . The newcomer won the championship spectacularly in the 1949/50 season. Schneider was a player in seven league matches. In the final round of the German championship in 1950 , he was only used as a coach. In the semifinals , the southern champions failed on the second of the championship VfB Stuttgart with 1: 4 goals. The Swabians won the title against third in the championship Kickers Offenbach . Helmut Schneider's playing career ended with the 1949/50 season.

Coaching career, 1950 to 1969

Early years

In his first year as a pure football coach, the Altriper had acquired the football teacher license together with Fritz Langner , Hennes Weisweiler and Herbert Widmayer at the German Sport University Cologne under course leader Sepp Herberger in 1948 , he confirmed with the runner-up in 1950/51 the title win of the previous year. As a result, he moved into the finals again with SpVgg Fürth against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, FC Schalke 04 and FC St. Pauli . Outstanding Fürth players in the Schneider era were Max Appis , Herbert Erhardt , Richard Gottinger , Karl Mai and Horst Schade . The restless football hiker returned to Mannheim in 1951 and took over the coaching position at the local VfR, which had only finished 12th in the past season. Despite the 22 goals by newcomer Werner Baßler from 1. FC Kaiserslautern, coach Schneider could not seriously play for the championship. VfR Mannheim got off to a poor start with 14:16 points in the preliminary round. Although he improved in the second half of the season to 18:12, more than fifth place did not come about. Schneider signed after a year at VfR Mannheim as the successor to player-coach Hennes Weisweiler at 1. FC Cologne in the Oberliga West as coach for the 1952/53 season . The man from the Electoral Palatinate managed to lead the table fifth in the round 1951/52 straight away to the runner-up in the west and thus to reach the finals. In the games for the German soccer championship in 1953, the billy goats faced Eintracht Frankfurt , 1. FC Nürnberg and Holstein Kiel . The Walter-Elf prevailed in the group games and moved into the final. The pillars of the Cologne team were the players Frans de Munck , Paul Mebus , Georg Gawliczek , Josef Röhrig and Hans Schäfer .

At the beginning of the 1953/54 season he took over FK Pirmasens in the Oberliga Südwest . After a brilliant start, Pirmasens also won the autumn championship with a 2-1 win at home in front of 25,000 spectators against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . On the final day of the season on April 11, 1954, Kaiserslautern decided the championship in their favor at the last minute with a 4-0 home game against the previous leaders FKP with a one-point lead. Due to the 1954 World Cup tournament in Switzerland from June 16 to July 4, only a reduced German championship was held in 1954. Only the league champions and the runner-up from the south-west took part, who missed out on goalkeeper Heinz Kubsch and stopper Hermann Laag . In his second season in Pirmasens, Helmut Schneider and his team took 5th place and thus ended his collaboration; he had signed a new contract with Borussia Dortmund.

Borussia Dortmund, 1955 to 1957

With 30:30 points, the ball game club Borussia had to show in the 1954/55 season fifteen points behind the West Champion Rot-Weiss Essen . The trainer was changed and relied on the qualities of the successful Helmut Schneider. He had previously brought Fürth, Cologne and Pirmasens forward in the major leagues. The squad was supplemented with the returning Helmut "Jockel" Bracht from SpVgg Herten and the 20-year-old talent Aki Schmidt from SpVg Berghofen . Schmidt, who moved from the Dortmund suburban club to Borsigplatz, had to serve a one-year suspension and was only able to strengthen coach Helmut Schneider's new team in the 1956/57 season . The team from the Rote Erde stadium first won the championship in the Oberliga West ahead of Schalke and Aachen. The "three Alfredos" contributed 63 goals. The BVB internal trio with Alfred Preißler (17 goals), Alfred Kelbassa (22 goals) and Alfred Niepieklo (24 goals) harmonized well and was also extremely dangerous. Due to the better goal difference compared to the equal points Hamburger SV , Dortmund moved into the final of the 1956 German football championship against Karlsruher SC , which Helmut Schneider and his team won 4-2 in Berlin.

In the second season Aki Schmidt, who was now entitled to play, became a regular player (28 games - 13 goals) and ousted Niepieklo with 15 appearances and only one hit, mostly on the bench. When the playfully convincing half-forward was appointed to the national team by national coach Sepp Herberger in April 1957, the change in position was clearly completed. After defending the title in the Oberliga West, the final round was due in June 1957. Coach Schneider Aki Schmidt only used the first group game in the 2-1 win in Ludwigshafen against Kickers Offenbach (goal scorers Niepieklo and Schmidt). Against 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Hertha BSC (2-1 win by two Niepieklo goals), as on the day of the final against Hamburger SV, the entire championship team from last year played. The Schneider protégés won the final with 4-2 goals. Again, Niepieklo had scored two goals.

In October and November 1956 , Helmut Schneider and his team measured their strength against Manchester United in the European Cup . Matt Busby's team narrowly prevailed - 3-2 after the return leg. The master coach of the two-time title holder Borussia Dortmund, Helmut Schneider, left the place of his triumph, took Helmut Kapitulski with him and moved back to Pirmasens in the Oberliga Südwest.

FK Pirmasens and FC Bayern Munich, 1957 to 1963

In Pirmasens it was only eighth place in the 1956/57 season . The hope for improvement was clearly based on the person of the returnees Helmut Schneider. With three championship titles in 1958 , 1959 and 1960 , Helmut Schneider was able to fulfill the hopes placed in him in the southwest. The Helmut Kapitulski personality also turned out to be a hit. In the finals, however, the three-time southwest champion was shown the sporting limits. After finishing 5th in his fourth season in 1960/61 , Schneider signed a new contract with Bayern Munich and changed league and city.

At Bayern , the pressure situation had already taken hold due to the nomination for the Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season . With further eighth ranks as in the 1960/61 season , the goal of inclusion in this new top division could not be achieved. Helmut Schneider reached 3rd place in each of the two final league rounds, had led Bayern into the top five of the league and thus confirmed his reputation as a successful coach. However, the DFB nominated city rivals TSV 1860 Munich for the Bundesliga, which won the title in the south in the 1962/63 season. In terms of personnel, the talented strikers Dieter Brenninger and Rainer Ohlhauser as well as the defensive forces Adolf Kunstwadl and Peter Kupferschmidt made their way into the regular formation under the training direction of Helmut Schneider . FC Bayern Munich had to try the detour via the Regionalliga Süd , Helmut Schneider switched to 1. FC Saarbrücken and went straight to the Bundesliga with the team.

Bundesliga, 1963 to 1969

1. FC Saarbrücken was nominated fifth in the 1962/63 season in the Südwestoberliga behind 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Borussia Neunkirchen , FK Pirmasens and Wormatia Worms and together with Betzenbergelf for the Bundesliga. Heinz Steinmann from Schwarz-Weiß Essen , Werner Hölzenbein from TuS Neuendorf and Werner Rinas from Hamborn 07 came to the Ludwigsparkstadion as newcomers . The sporting concentration of German club football in the debut year of the Bundesliga 1963/64 proved to be too powerful for Helmut Schneider's new squad, the Saarbrücken relegated together with Preußen Münster . In January 1965, the call for help from the Karlsruhe Wildlife Park overtook the former successful coach of the league era. As the successor of Kurt Sommerlatt , he took over from January 27, 1965 after the 19th game day of Karlsruher SC in 16th place in the table with 13:25 points. At the end of the season, FC Schalke 04 and Karlsruher SC were only spared relegation by increasing the Bundesliga to 18 clubs. After the 2: 5 defeat at Hannover 96 on October 16, 1965, Helmut Schneider was dismissed in Karlsruhe with 2:14 points.

It was originally planned - this was announced in January 1965 - that he would take over Hertha BSC for the 1965/66 season, succeeding Josef "Jupp" Schneider . But that failed because of the forced relegation of Hertha due to financial irregularities at the end of the 1964/65 season.

The third and last opportunity to build on past league successes in the Bundesliga was through his commitment to Borussia Dortmund from December 17, 1968. However, he was released on March 17, 1969 after just eight games.

Others

Schneider was an advocate of the "sliding flat pass". By this he meant the exactness of the game, the fluid combination, paired with speed and elegance. He wasn't a fan of sophisticated tactical systems, however: “It's important that my players control the ball. Everything else is a question of time and training, ”he said.

Helmut Schneider retired in 1969 and spent his old age in Mannheim.

literature

• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The lexicon . Sportverlag Berlin, 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• Jürgen Bitter: The master makers . Wero press publishing house, Pfaffenweiler 2004, ISBN 3-937588-02-7 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor… New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
• 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 .
• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Web links

• Helmut Schneider in the weltfussball.de database
• Profile on kleeblatt-chronik.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: The Bavarians - The history of the record champion . Publishing house DIE WERKSTATT. 2009, ISBN 978-3-89533-669-0 - p. 663.