Horst Schmutzler

Horst Schmutzler (* 11. September 1924 , † 14. September 2008 ) was a German football player who in the season 1951/52 as a player of Tennis Borussia Berlin and 1955-56 Senior career of TuS Neuendorf scorer of that Oberligen seasons Berlin and Southwest was .

career

Tennis Borussia Berlin, until 1952

Horst Schmutzler went through all the junior teams of SV Konkordia 05 Plauen before and during the war . The war brought him to Seehausen / Börde, where he co-founded a soccer team (then SG Seehausen) in 1945. Back in Plauen, he joined the sports group Plauen-Süd, which emerged from the Konkordia. During his time there, it was renamed Sportgemeinschaft (SG) Plauen-Süd and later ZSG Zellwolle Plauen. "Schwatter" Schmutzler played from October 1949 for Tennis Borussia Berlin in the local city league. He came to the "Veilchen" at the mediation of trainer Fritz Maurischat from the Vogtland district class. At TeBe he mostly formed the left wing with Fritz Wilde as a half-forward and won the Berlin championship three times in a row from 1950 to 1952. In his second round with the Mommsenstadion team , TeBe also won the Berlin Cup with a 2-1 win after extra time against runner-up SC Union 06. In this round - 1950/51 - he scored 26 goals, but was surpassed with one goal by the ex-national player and club mate "Hanne" Berndt . He was Berlin's top scorer with 25 goals the following year, in the 1951/52 season. In the final round of the German soccer championship he played against Offenbach in 1950, against Hamburger SV, Preußen Münster and 1. FC Nürnberg in 1951 and against Rot-Weiss Essen, VfB Stuttgart and VfL Osnabrück in 1952. In eleven games, the dangerous striker scored six goals. Outstanding from Berlin's point of view were the two away wins at Preußen Münster (May 20, 1951) and at Rot-Weiss Essen on April 27, 1952, with Schmutzler each acting as a two-time goal scorer.

With the Berlin city selection he played the first international post-war city game in Berlin against Zurich on February 11, 1951. In front of 90,000 spectators in the Olympic Stadium, the game ended in a 2-2 draw. In September of the same year he was with the Berlin team in Zurich and Lausanne, competed against London on November 21 and was also in Berlin against Vienna on February 17, 1952, in the 4-5 defeat - Schmutzler was twice Goalscorer - against the Austria heroes Walter Zeman , Ernst Happel , Ernst Ocffekt , Gerhard Hanappi and Ernst Stojaspal in action. After the title hat trick in 1952, Schmutzler accepted the offer from TuS Neuendorf and moved to the Southwest Football League in Koblenz.

TuS Neuendorf, 1952 to 1956

On August 24, 1952, the newcomer from Berlin played the first league game for coach Jupp Gauchel's team . In the 7-1 home win against VfR Kirn, Schmutzler introduced himself as the hoped-for goalscorer with two goals. He contributed to the runner-up in the 1952/53 season with 23 goals in 28 league games. The "KICKER" nominated the attackers Erwin Scheffler (Lautern), Schmutzler, Ottmar and Fritz Walter (Lautern) for the "Eleven of the Season" in the southwest , as well as the Neuendorfer club mate Ferdinand Warth on the left wing .

In the next two rounds, Schmutzler scored 35 goals and Neuendorf was third and fourth. However, the man from Plauen presented himself most accurately in the 1955/56 season when he won the top scorer's crown in the southwest league with 30 goals. Coach Helmut Bolz led TuS Neuendorf with a goal difference of 74:36 goals to second place and Schmutzler had scored 30 times in 29 games. In the 5: 3 home win in front of 25,000 spectators on February 26, 1956 against the series champions 1. FC Kaiserslautern, he contributed four goals. In the three qualifying games for the German soccer championship in 1956 against VfB Stuttgart and Hannover 96, the striker scored three more goals. In four rounds, Schmutzler reached 88 goals in 112 top division matches in the southwest.

In his representative missions for the South West, the two successes on February 1, 1953 in Düsseldorf against West Germany and on February 28, 1954 in Hamburg against North Germany stand out. In the 5: 3 success in Düsseldorf he scored two goals and in the 4: 2 win against the north, together with the Walter brothers, formed the inner storm of the victorious southwest selection. The ex-sailor and striker employed in Neuendorf as an employee in a liquor factory moved back to Berlin for the 1956/57 round and he rejoined his ex-club Tennis Borussia.

Career end

The man for goals was again runner-up with TeBe in 1957 and won the fourth championship in Berlin with his teammates in 1958. The veteran again contributed 16 goals in 22 games. In the final round there was also an appearance in the 1-0 defeat against Karlsruher SC, so that Schmutzler made a total of twelve final round appearances for Tennis Borussia with six goals. He has played a total of 96 league games for TeBe and scored 81 goals. At SC Union 06 Berlin , he ended his career in the top division in 1959/60 with eight more games and one hit, but then played at Duisburg 48/99 in the 2nd division west. According to West Chronik, he played seven games in 1960/61 for Duisburg 48/99 under former national player and coach Willy Busch and goalkeeper talent Hermann Roß , in which he scored three goals. In total, Horst Schmutzler made 216 league games with 170 goals from 1949 to 1960. In the amateur area, he let his active time end with Prussia Wilmersdorf and ultimately with the BSG Berliner Stadtreinigung.

On July 2nd, 2005, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its founding, Horst Schmutzler was made an honorary member of his parent club SV Concordia Plauen .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Skrentny (Ed.): Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946-1963, p. 158.
2. ↑ see e.g. B. Kicker (West edition) of September 5, 1960, page 22
3. ^ DSFS: West Chronicle, Football in West Germany 1958-1963, Berlin 2013, page 116

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• 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 .
• LIBERO, No. 3, Oct./Nov. 1988, IFFHS, football in West Berlin, 1950-1952.
• LIBERO, No. 5, April – June 1990, IFFHS, Berlin City Games 1950-1954.