Horst Szymaniak

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Horst Szymaniak
Personnel
birthday August 29, 1934
place of birth Oer-Erkenschwick ,  German Empire
date of death October 9, 2009
Place of death Melle ,  Germany
size 178 cm
position Outrunner
Juniors
Years station
1943-1952 SpVgg Erkenschwick
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1952-1955 SpVgg Erkenschwick 50 (11)
1955-1959 Wuppertal SV 91 (12)
1959-1961 Karlsruher SC 53 0(2)
1961-1963 CC Catania 62 0(8)
1963-1964 Inter Milan 6 0(0)
1964-1965 FC Varese 23 0(0)
1965-1966 Tasmania Berlin 29 0(1)
1966-1967 FC Biel 13 0(0)
1967 Chicago Spurs 12 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1956-1965 Germany B 2 0(0)
1956-1966 Germany 43 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1968-1970 SV 21 Steinheim ( player-coach )
SV Ennigloh 09
TBV Lemgo
0000-1973 TuRa Melle
1 Only league games are given.

Horst Szymaniak , called "Schimmi" (born August 29, 1934 in Oer-Erkenschwick , † October 9, 2009 in Melle ), was a German football player . He was mostly used as a left runner or half- forward and was considered one of the outstanding European midfielders in his prime. In the election for European Footballer of the Year Szymaniak was able to place every year from 1957 to 1961; his best classification was the eighth place in 1958, in which he had finished fourth with the national team .

He had very good ball technique, had an overview and was able to bring long passes to the teammate with precision. At the same time, he was distinguished by strength in combat, and the tackle became his trademark. National coach Sepp Herberger judged early on that Horst Szymaniak was “a first-class man [and] an instinctive footballer [who] feels how a game is going”, and compared him appreciatively with Andreas Kupfer , the outside runner of the legendary “ Breslau-Elf ” from the Pre-war period .

During his 15-year career, he played in the top leagues in Germany, Italy , Switzerland and the USA . He wore the national dress in 43 international A matches and took part in two World Cup finals. He was in the same team with world-class players such as Fritz Walter , Franz Beckenbauer , Luis Suárez and Sandro Mazzola , but apart from the European Cup in 1963/64 he was never able to win a national or international title - and with this only success he came in the final not used.

Horst Szymaniak was one of the last - and one of the most successful - footballers from the mining community in Germany to pursue their sport at a high level. After the end of his career, he almost disappeared into anonymity, but was never completely forgotten by former teammates and football fans in some places of his work. He spent the last phase of his life in extremely modest financial circumstances. Szymaniak is said to have judged young Franz Beckenbauer, his roommate in the 1965/66 national team, about the football of his time: “We are the last heroes of the 20th century; after us there are only plastic players. "

Player career

In his clubs

In Erkenschwick, Wuppertal and Karlsruhe

Horst Szymaniak, who after completing the elementary school as his father and his brother as a miner at the local coal mine Ewald continued underground work, played as a child first on backyards and football fields near the parental Zechenhaus at the Ahsener street in the district of Klein-Erkenschwick and on the Leisure meadow near Mother Wehner on the southern edge of Haard Fußball, before he joined SpVgg Erkenschwick . There the talent called "Schorse" at that time was discovered by the Erkenschwicker "veteran" Julius Ludorf and at times also trained. In 1949 Szymaniak was cup winners with the B- and 1951 with the A-youth of the club, in 1950 also champion of the A-youth performance class of the Recklinghausen district . Although he was the smallest and skimpiest in his team, he was already playing the "dominant role" on the pitch during this time. From the 1952/53 season he was part of the first team that was relegated from the Oberliga West to the second division at the end of the season . The contract provided for a monthly salary of 80 DM - a good quarter of what an average four-person household spent on consumption at the time. His first appearance in the men's team took place on May 17, 1953 at Stimberg on the occasion of a friendly against 1. FC Saarbrücken . 1954 the SpVgg Erkenschwick finished the season as eleventh in the table; the following year she missed promotion again in fifth place - if she was only two points short this time.

Then Szymaniak moved in 1955 for a transfer fee of 15,000 DM to Wuppertaler SV , who had just been promoted to the league under coach Raymond Schwab , and made a big impression on those responsible in the spring on the occasion of the Erkenschwicker 5-2 victory. The Bergische had strengthened themselves with “Coppi” Beck from FC St. Pauli and Theo Kolkenbrock ( VfB Bottrop ), had two players in goalkeeper Klaus Wilhelm and the young center forward Günter “Fifa” Augustat who had already found their way into the national coach's famous notebook the following year, Erich Haase from Werder Bremen and the Austrian Erich Probst joined the team. Nevertheless, the WSV in 1956 and 1957 did not get beyond midfield positions. For Horst Szymaniak, however, this time meant the start of an international career, because Sepp Herberger appointed him to the German selection for the first time in 1956. After the WSV was relegated back to the second division in the summer of 1958, he remained loyal to the club for another year. It also contributed to the fact that he personally felt very comfortable in Wuppertal , because his parents and siblings now also lived there; In addition to his contract player salary, he was able to earn an additional income through his occupation - from 1955 as a stadium worker employed by the sports department, from 1957 as an employee of the highest bath tub and shower head run by his father. For the Bild newspaper he was the “most popular German football player” at the time.

When the WSV failed to return to the first division immediately, he left Wuppertal in 1959. While taking a short vacation to Mallorca , Real Madrid's interest in his signing was rumored; and the FC Barcelona should have "stretched out its feelers" already. In football these messages found an on-site correspondents during the summer break in several "exclusive reports" wide rainfall. The chairman of the sports journalists' association, Ernst Werner , criticized this early " media hype " with the words that the theater disgusts him, because "the best player on earth is not worth such belly dances". However, Szymaniak ended the topic abruptly at the beginning of July with his declaration that he was looking forward to his new club: the southern German top division club Karlsruher SC . In the " official city ", the Erkenschwicker met a number of players from the Ruhr area ( Berni Termath from Essen , Klaus Matischak from Bottrop and Reinhold Wischnowsky from Horst ), so that he could feel at home there. He is said to have illegally received DM 30,000 "hand money" for signing the contract, a small fortune at the time, because an average West German 4-person employee household spent DM 7,700 per year in 1960 on its entire standard of living.

Szymaniak stops the Dutchman Faas Wilkes (1959)

In its first season with Baden, the KSC dominated the league and won the southern championship with six points ahead of Kickers Offenbach ; He also distanced Bayern Munich and Frankfurter Eintracht , which at the same time had "made great advertising for national football" in the European Cup . In the final round of the German championship , however, the Karlsruhe team failed at the eventual title winner Hamburger SV , although they had the upper hand in a direct comparison with the team around Uwe Seeler with 3: 3 in the Volks- and 4: 3 in the Wildpark Stadium. In the home game against Borussia Neunkirchen , Szymaniak managed to shorten it to 2: 3 - his only final goal - but that could no longer avert the defeat (final score 2: 4). In the cup final in 1960 , the team trained by Eduard Frühwirth also lost out and lost to Borussia Mönchengladbach 2: 3. Horst Szymaniak leased a petrol station in Karlsruhe, but he no longer worked at it himself, and in the summer of 1961 he bought a rental house, the purchase price of which he paid to a large extent from the hand money that an Italian association paid him for the change he had agreed at the time .

Italian years

After Ludwig Janda in 1949, Horst Buhtz in 1952, Karl-Heinz Spikofski and Kurt Zaro, Szymaniak was the fifth German player to go to an Italian club as a professional footballer, at the same time as Erwin Waldner and Rudi Kölbl . With Helmut Haller , Albert Brülls and Rolf Geiger (1962) and, a year later, Karl-Heinz Schnellinger and Jürgen Schütz , other national team colleagues should soon follow him. From 1961 to 1963 Szymaniak was under contract with the first division club CC Catania , from which he had received 100,000 DM for his move. The Sicilians were not strong enough to play at the top; an 11th and a 14th place in the final table as well as two round of 16 participations in the state cup competition were the sporty modest result. Nevertheless, Szymaniak is counted in the club's history alongside the Brazilian national player Chinesinho as one of the outstanding players of the era that is considered the golden age of the Red-Blue. The Gazzetta dello Sport called him back then as "The Irresistible" and "the miracle". He himself later repeatedly emphasized that the time in Catania was one of his most positive memories and that he enjoyed life there.

In the 1963/64 season he wore the black and blue colors of the reigning Italian champions Inter Milan . Due to the foreigner regulation in the Italian league at the time - the two permitted places were usually occupied by the Brazilian Jair and the Spaniard Luis Suárez  - "Inter's Edelreservist" was only rarely considered under coach Helenio Herrera . The "inventor of concrete football " used Szymaniak "only when he wanted to 'wall up' a result away". This season Inter ended as Italian runner-up, although the German had only come in six league games.

He made his season debut for the Lombards in the European Cup in a 0-0 draw against English champions Everton . On the way to the final he played four more games against AS Monaco , Partizan Belgrade and Borussia Dortmund , but had no place in the final when Internazionale defeated Real Madrid 3-1 in Vienna at the end of May 1964 and won the title for the first time secured. Against Dortmund, Herrera set up Szymaniak as an additional defensive runner and assigned him the task of narrowing Aki Schmidt's circles , among other things . In order not to endanger the friendship with "Aki" Schmidt, with whom he enjoyed a beer after international matches, he avoided him whenever possible during the 2-2 game at the Rote Erde stadium , and later explained with a wink, “both could have shone”. Szymaniak gave his farewell performance for the Milanese fourteen days after the final in their 4-1 defeat in the quarter-finals of the national cup against AC Torino .

In 1964, Inter's President Angelo Moratti nevertheless offered him a contract extension without compromising his fixed salary - the equivalent of around 13,000 DM per month. Horst Szymaniak preferred to be able to play football regularly again; therefore he moved to FC Varese . But his third Italian club, like Catania, was only mediocre and only finished eleventh at the end of the season; therefore he only stayed there for a year.

Career finale in Berlin, Biel and Chicago

Horst Szymaniak returned to Germany in 1965 and played for Tasmania Berlin for the first time in his career in the 1963 Bundesliga in 1965/66 . Although in the previous season only third in the table of the Regionalliga Berlin , Tasmania was subsequently included in the top division in order to demonstrate the role of West Berlin as part of the Federal Republic under international law. Although the team won 2-0 at the start of the season in front of 81,000 spectators in the Olympic Stadium against Karlsruher SC, they rose at the end of the season with a bleak record - only two wins and four draws in 34 matches - and went in as the weakest team the Bundesliga history. This series of defeats could not prevent “the elegant ball artist” who was “completely out of place in a team of craftsmen”.

Szymaniak then went abroad again, initially through the mediation of Dettmar Cramer for the Swiss national division FC Biel . At the beginning, he planned to acquire his sports teacher diploma at the then Federal Gymnastics and Sports School in Magglingen . Affected by an injury during the season, however, he was then prematurely transferred to the United States for allegedly 80,000 Swiss francs . Of "Georges" Sobotka trained Zealanders then finished the season in eleventh place and escaped relegation only just. Szymaniak's teammate at the time, the defender Ambros Leu , rated him in retrospect with the words: “He never had any airs about us amateurs. For our team he was very valuable with [his ...] eye ​​for the precise through pass at the right moment. "

In 1967 he let the Chicago Spurs , who co-founded the National Professional Soccer League , which was not recognized by FIFA , end his playing career at the age of 33. With Wolfgang Glock and Heinz Banschewitz , who both came from Eintracht Gelsenkirchen , he met soccer players from the Ruhr area again in the USA. He himself acted in the team as a sweeper and later remembered the particularities of football there: “At regular intervals a man stood outside with a flag. Then I had to shoot the ball straight out [because of] the TV commercial ”. More detailed information on Szymaniak's twelve missions cannot yet be determined; the Spurs finished the year as third of the five-team western group (Western Conference) of the NPSL.

In the national team

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"All-Star-Team" of the 1958 World Cup

After his international debut as the right winger of the German B-Elf (May 1956, 5-2 in Spain) Szymaniak was promoted to national team player in November 1956 . Despite a 3-1 defeat against Switzerland and his early injury, he delivered a performance that prompted Sepp Herberger to say "I'll make an educational film about his tackle". By June 1966 (1-0 win over Romania ) he played 43 times for Germany and scored two goals. At the World Championships in Sweden in 1958 and Chile in 1962 , he played all ten matches of the German team.

1958, when the German team was welcomed by the Swedish King Gustav VI. Adolf before the World Cup semi-final against the host , Szymaniak looked the monarch in the eye when he shook hands and then justified it in front of the national coach with the miner's slogan "No kneeling, not even in front of crowned heads". In the game for third place, in which the Germans lost 3: 6 against France , there was a confrontation with Raymond Kopa , typical for Szymaniak's attitude on the field , to whose man he had been released by Herberger at half-time. When he fouled the French playmaker at the beginning of the second half and he ignored the hand outstretched to apologize and instead, unnoticed by the referee , committed an assault against the Wuppertal, Szymaniak fell to the ground, but did not "lie down, lamenting ... [but ] quickly jumped up again to address the referee ”. Immediately after the competition was over, European and South American journalists chose him as the only German player in the - at the time only unofficial - "All-Star Team" of this tournament (see illustration on the right). When he returned to Wuppertal from Sweden, thousands gave him an enthusiastic reception at Elberfeld station ; In the neighboring Hotel Kaiserhof , he signed the city's Golden Book . Later that year he was the model for a bust that the Arno Breker student Harald Schmahl made under Breker's supervision and which Szymaniak was given as a gift. He gave them away in 2003 to sports photographer Otto Krschak, who was looking for a public exhibition space in Wuppertal at the end of 2014.

Despite his move to Italy, the national coach continued to hold on to Szymaniak and campaigned against the German Football Association in 1961 to ensure that the latter gave him permission to do so; In 1962 he even forgave the player to drive while drunk (see following chapter). Before the 1962 World Cup finals, the kicker readers voted him into the German “People's Team”, and the specialist journalists also gave him good marks in the last preparatory game against Uruguay . In Chile, on the other hand, his performances were lined up in a personal constellation in which too many players “did not come close to their best form”. Against Italy he made "astonishingly many bad passes", against Switzerland he was particularly noticeable for his unfairness - from which Eschmann and Vonlanthen suffered in particular - and in the quarter-finals against Yugoslavia , this time in the half-left storm position, he could hardly give the German attacking game any impetus. Only in the last group game against Chile was Szymaniak able to distinguish himself positively: His penalty , which was sure to make it 1-0, brought Herberger's men onto the winning road, and he then contributed a lot to the "tactical masterpiece" that made Germany survive the preliminary round in the first place. In contrast to this contemporary assessment, however, his performance in Chile was later counted as "one of the bright spots in an otherwise mostly disappointing DFB team". At the end of 1962, “Schimmi” achieved seventh place in the election for Germany's Footballer of the Year, which had only been taking place since 1960 .

From June 1962 Horst Szymaniak - like the other German foreign professionals - was initially no longer considered. Herberger advocated the repeal of this regulation towards the DFB because he wanted to "leave his successor a powerful team". In his farewell game in May 1964 against Scotland he was able to use Szymaniak again. Then Helmut Schön also called him for the home game against Sweden as part of the World Cup qualification . After the 1-1 draw, Szymaniak was ten months away before the national coach brought him back in September 1965, first in the B-team (3-0 against the USSR ) and at the end of the month for the all-important qualifying second leg in Sweden (German 2: 1 win at Råsundastadion ). At the end of 1965, Schön even made the outside runner captain of the senior national team. He had also planned him for the DFB squad for the World Cup finals in England , but shortly before the start of the tournament he excluded him from the final line-up of 22: During a pub crawl on the occasion of a preparatory course in Augsburg , Szymaniak - unlike the accompanying, local Helmut Haller - get caught. There is a certain contradiction between Schön's much later statement that “Horst Szymaniak's time was up, partly through his own fault” and the fact that he had placed him at the side of the debutant Franz Beckenbauer in the important Swedish game. Even the thesis, which is sometimes to be read in a similar way, that the “upper-class Dresden culture lover” never developed a positive relationship with the “proletarian simple man from the Ruhr area” seems to be too bold in appreciation of the overall circumstances. Likewise, the theory inevitably remains as to whether the established "hole" between Germany's defense and attack at the World Cup final in Wembley could have been closed with Szymaniak. Even decades later, Szymaniak regarded the letter in which Schön told him that he had not been considered for the World Cup as the "greatest defeat" of his career.

The German Football Association ignored Szymaniak's achievements for a long time after the end of his career: he was never invited to anniversary events or the like. It was not until his 70th birthday that he received a short letter of congratulations from the DFB with a facsimile signature from President Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder and even a new television set for the 2006 World Cup . In contrast, former national players such as Max Lorenz , Hans Tilkowski and Uwe Seeler kept in touch over the years, as did several players from Wuppertaler SV (including Erich Ribbeck and Erich Haase) and his first Erkenschwicker sponsor “Jule” Ludorf.

Coaching and life after the active period

Between 1968 and 1970 Szymaniak coached SV 21 Steinheim, for which he also played himself . The district class team only lost their 36th point game under his direction. His commitment there was made possible by the financial commitment of two local furniture companies. This was followed by activities at SV Ennigloh 09 , then for half a year at TBV Lemgo and finally until 1973 at TuRa Melle .

From 1973 to 1977 Horst Szymaniak, to whom the phrase “A Pilsken gives a shallow shot” is ascribed, ran the “House of 7 Beers” in Melle with his wife Elfriede (married in 1962). In the 1980s, his health deteriorated; Andreas Boller, head of sports at the Wuppertaler Westdeutsche Zeitung , blames alcohol consumption and an "unsound lifestyle" even during his playing days. As early as 1962, during a stay in Wuppertal, he was stopped at the wheel of his car with 2.6 ‰ ; the following sentence to ten days in prison meant that he could only return to CC Catania after the start of the season.

His financial situation also deteriorated; Szymaniak, who had always been generous and generous in better days and "always believed himself to be surrounded by real friends", had to sell his apartment building in Karlsruhe and later even some of his trophies and albums with newspaper articles in 1983 and take a job as a truck driver. At this time he divorced his wife Elfriede. In 1989 Horst Szymaniak remarried; this marriage with Marga was just as childless as his first and lasted until 2002. At the turn of the millennium, before Günter Pröpper , he was voted Wuppertal's footballer of the century. He had already withdrawn to Wuppertal when his player contracts in Karlsruhe and Catania had expired; Until 2004 he visited this city again and again and until the 1990s he also played frequently in alumni, celebrity and journalist teams. On weekends he used to regularly attend several amateur and youth games throughout the city. Szymaniak also returned to his birthplace in Oer-Erkenschwick in 2002: for the recordings of Wolfgang Ettlich's documentary In the West, the Sun went up. Little stories of coal and football. together with "Jule" Ludorf he visited his now closed colliery Ewald.

In 2005 he suffered a stroke . He spent his last years in a retirement home in the Wellingholzhausen district of Mell , where he was looked after by his sister and a couple who were friends. For his eight years of underground work, he received a small miner's pension . Despite all subsequent setbacks, he always emphasized over his playing time and his life that he had enjoyed them. He remained “always an upright guy [and] buddy who always made for a good mood”, as Uwe Seeler described it, who played 26 international matches with Szymaniak.

Szymaniak was buried in the municipal cemetery in Melle-Mitte. In the former stadium restaurant, which overlooks the north curve of the Wuppertal stadium at the zoo , the room he lived in in 1955 still bears the official name "Szymaniak-Zimmer". The place of his first marriage on Elberfelder Neumarkt is now a station on the German Football Route NRW .

Legends about Szymaniak

Probably the best known and most persistent story about Horst Szymaniak is the one about his contract negotiations. His club president is said to have offered to increase his salary significantly, to which the player allegedly replied: "I want a quarter, not just a third more". Depending on the source, this statement is also rumored with “an eighth / a quarter” or “half / two thirds”. Once it should have fallen in his Wuppertal, then again in his Karlsruhe and also in his time in Berlin, alternatively, it happened when he bought his apartment building. And in Wuppertal the interlocutor is said to have been Wolfgang Entner, then again Walter Kühlthau , the latter only becoming WSV President when the player was no longer under contract there for a long time. Apart from these contradictions, there were upper income limits in Germany during the upper league times and also in the early years of the Bundesliga (as a contract player 320, in the Bundesliga a good 1,100 DM), which had already been agreed in his first contract. In the mid-1960s, Szymaniak successfully sued a publisher for failure to disseminate this claim; Later, however, he did not always proceed with ultimate consistency against the numerous violations of this judgment. The poet Eckhard Henscheid had this alleged contract talk back in 1988 in his book Standard Situations. Football dramas. literarily processed. Julius Ludorf, on the other hand, said of him: “The Schorse ... was just indifferent - football was his life. He wasn't educated, but by no means stupid. "

With regard to his professional activities, it has been repeatedly but incorrectly alleged that he worked as a lifeguard ; The offer of such a position is said to have been one of the main reasons for moving to Wuppertal several times. In fact, it wasn't until the end of June 1955, when Szymaniak had already signed the contract, that the WSV even looked after a "second pillar" for its new player - but that became (and very quickly) the above-mentioned position as a stadium worker at the municipal sports department. In addition to the fact that he worked in his father's bath and shower from 1957 to 1959 - where there were no swimming instructors - a mix-up with his teammate from Erkenschwicker and Wuppertal days, the goalkeeper Helmut Domagalla , could be responsible for this persistent error which this actually was in the Barmer spa .

Even in a "world eleven" Szymaniak never played, despite claims to the contrary. He was only once in the squad of a European team supervised by Helmut Schön , which played a charity game in Belgrade in 1964 for the benefit of the Skopje earthquake victims . Due to an injury, however, he was not used.

On the other hand, the story shows that Horst Szymaniak shared a chop in the Wuppertal club restaurant with the shepherd dog Rex owned by the stadium manager Fritz Kremer, "because he looked so sad": He had been in Erkenschwick as a child and also in the following decades he always has a particularly close relationship with dogs; he ate "generally not until [his dog] was fed." For a long time he also kept his own pet; He even took his boxer Billy to Chicago in 1967 .

Szymaniak's popularity and the tonal proximity of his name to Götz George's Tatort role name Schimanski (who is also often called "Schimmi" in the individual episodes) are said to be partly responsible for the fact that the screenwriter Martin Gies gave this film character, created in 1981, the first name Horst. Little is known about the fact that the soccer player was not only a member of the SPD from the mid-1950s until his death , but also regularly followed current social developments in Germany and discussed them privately “almost as often as about soccer”.

Appearances, successes and awards

  • 43 A- (2 goals) and 2 B-internationals
  • World championship participant 1958, 1962 (total of 10 games, 1 goal)
  • Winner of the European Cup of National Champions 1964 (not used in the final)
  • DFB Cup finalist 1960
  • Champion of the Oberliga Süd 1960
  • Italian runner-up in 1964
  • 6 final round games (1 goal) for the German championship, 128 top division games (10 goals), 29 Bundesliga games (1 goal)
  • 91 games (8 goals) in Serie A
  • Election to the "team of the 1958 World Cup"
  • Placements in the election for "European Footballer of the Year": 20th (1957), 8th (1958), 10th (1959), 9th (1960), 17th (1961)
  • Election to "Wuppertal's footballers of the 20th century"
  • Classification as world class in the ranking of German football : summer 1957 , winter 1957/58 , 1958 , summer 1959 , winter 1959/60 , 1960 , summer 1961

literature

Web links

Wikiquote: Horst Szymaniak  - Quotes

References and comments

  1. ↑ In 1957 to 1961 Szymaniak was this source at BigSoccer ( Memento of 14 March 2012 at the Internet Archive ) According, in the semi-annual kicker - ranking of German football into the category of "world class" classified (1961 only in the first half, because players working abroad were not rated), also in 1956 and 1965 in the "International Class".
  2. ↑ Ballon d'Or 1958 (French); Rob Moore, Karel Stokkermans: European Footballer of the Year (Ballon d'Or) , Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, August 27, 2010
  3. ↑ a b c d Lorenz Knieriem / Hardy Grüner: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2006], ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 387.
  4. ↑ Goch / Piorr, p. 248f.
  5. ↑ Keller / Krschak, back cover; Leinemann, p. 402
  6. ↑ a b Goch / Piorr, p. 249
  7. ↑ a b c d e Greens, p. 366
  8. ↑ a b c from Gerd Böttcher: Erkenschwicker youth memories. , in Keller / Krschak, p. 110f.
  9. ^ Keller / Krschak, pp. 11 and 13
  10. ↑ Keller / Krschak, p. 14; in Goch / Piorr, p. 248, there is the figure 185 DM - the difference may be due to the fact that the latter added the additional payments, which were then very limited, to the fixed salary. The consumption expenditure of a middle-income employee household named for comparison according to Dieter Claessens, Arno Klönne, Armin Tschoepe: Social Studies of the Federal Republic of Germany. Diederichs, Düsseldorf / Cologne 1981 (new edition), ISBN 3-424-00724-2 , p. 321.
  11. ↑ Harald Landefeld / Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me about the gate. New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 , p. 124.
  12. ↑ Osenberg, p. 22
  13. ↑ Keller / Krschak, pp. 19 and 32
  14. ↑ Article “From Spain greets Szymaniak” and “Szymaniak signed for the KSC!”, Der Kicker, June 29, p. 12/13, and July 6, 1959, p. 20/21; that there had been serious contract negotiations with Madrid, claim, decades later, 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 , p. 99 (there also the Ernst Werner quote), and Matthias Kropp: Karlsruher SC. AGON, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89609-115-8 , p. 53.
  15. ↑ cf. the cover story “Money in the Shoe” from Der Spiegel from August 28, 1963
  16. ^ Dieter Claessens, Arno Klönne, Armin Tschoepe: Social studies of the Federal Republic of Germany. Diederichs, Düsseldorf / Cologne 1981 (new edition), ISBN 3-424-00724-2 , p. 321.
  17. ^ Greens, pp. 387 and 390
  18. ^ Klaus Querengässer: The German Football Championship. Part 2: 1948-1963. AGON, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 , p. 119.
  19. ↑ Keller / Krschak, p. 44; Leinemann, p. 400
  20. ↑ Only according to Peuckmann, p. 54, it should have been as much as 200,000 DM.
  21. ↑ Marco Sappino: Dictionnaire biografico enciclopedico di un secolo del calcio italiano. Baldini & Castoldi, Milan 2000, ISBN 88-8089-862-0 , Vol. 2, p. 970.
  22. ^ "Szymaniak l'Irresistibile" or "Il portento Szymaniak" (after Keller / Krschak, p. 45)
  23. ↑ Hans Blickensdörfer : A ball flies around the world. Union, Stuttgart 1969³, p. 93; the designation as "Edelreservist" from Klaus Leger: Just like Real Madrid once did. The history of the European Cup 1955–1964. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2003], ISBN 3-89784-211-4 , p. 114; See also Szymaniak's data sheet ( Memento from May 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on Inter's club website.
  24. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2007], ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , pp. 153-158.
  25. ↑ a b Peuckmann, p. 55
  26. ↑ a b Osenberg, p. 24
  27. ↑ Information about the time in Switzerland after a written communication from FC Biel to the main authors of this article
  28. ↑ Team squad of the Chicago Spurs 1967 according to this page of the NASL Jerseys , table according to rsssf.com
  29. ↑ Information on Szymaniak's B international matches from Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 , pp. 104-106.
  30. ↑ see the list of his international matches on the DFB website
  31. ↑ a b c after Hans Dieter Baroth , "No kneeling, not even before crowned heads" from Friday of August 27, 2004
  32. ↑ after the kicker of June 30, 1958, facsimile in Frank Steffan (ed.): So ein Tag. The match reports of all World Cup games of the German national soccer team. Ed. Steffan, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-923838-04-2 , p. 88; Friedebert Becker (Ed.): Football World Cup 1958. Copress, Munich 1958 (license edition for Bertelsmann Lesering), p. 284f.
  33. ↑ Friedebert Becker (ed.): Football World Cup 1958. Copress, Munich 1958 (license edition for Bertelsmann Lesering), p. 13f.
  34. ^ Photo on the front cover by Keller / Krschak
  35. ↑ Keller / Krschak, p. 4 and 34 (there a photo with Breker and Szymaniak working on the bust). Keller / Krschak wrongly call the sculptor Hans-Günther Schmahl; this name can not be verified in Udo Garweg: Wuppertaler Künstlerverzeichnis , Wuppertal 2000, ISBN 3-89202-042-6 .
  36. ↑ see the articles "Where to put the bust of WSV hero Horst Szymaniak?" And "Szymaniak bust belongs in the stadium at the zoo" in the Westdeutsche Zeitung on December 10, 2014
  37. ↑ Leinemann, pp. 400-402
  38. ^ Matthias Voigt: Football World Cup 1962 Chile. AGON, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-89784-200-9 , p. 109f.
  39. ^ Friedrich Hack / Richard Kirn: VII. Soccer World Cup Chile 1962. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1962, pp. 157, 189, 198 and 237ff .; similar to Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling / Hubert Dahlkamp: The history of the soccer world championships. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89533-336-0 , p. 164, who formulate that Szymaniak was "just a shadow of himself".
  40. ↑ according to kicker die sportrevue of October 29, 1962, p. 3f.
  41. ↑ Leinemann, p. 426f.
  42. ^ SZ WM library: England 1966. Munich 2005, ISBN 3-86615-155-1 , p. 22.
  43. ↑ see for example "I could play football a little better than others" on the Deutschlandfunk website
  44. ↑ Helmut Schön: Football. Memories. Ullstein, Berlin 1978, p. 192
  45. ↑ For Goch / Piorr, p. 248f., Between Schön “and the proletarian from the district the chemistry was not right”.
  46. ^ Olaf Edig / Daniel Meuren / Nicole Selmer: Football World Cup 1966 England. AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-208-4 , p. 145.
  47. ↑ Peuckmann, p. 56
  48. ↑ In Goch / Piorr, p. 249, it says literally: "Functionaries of the German Football Association treated him like an outcast."
  49. ↑ This seems to have happened not only to Szymaniak; however - contrary to what Hans Schäfer remembered in 2004 regarding his own treatment by the DFB (see this interview) ( memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) - he did not even get "every few years ... a pea soup without a roll" .
  50. ↑ according to this article from August 28, 2009 on the portal of the WAZ media group
  51. ^ Keller / Krschak, pp. 110, 119, 123 and 127
  52. ^ Keller / Krschak, p. 85
  53. ^ Keller / Krschak, p. 139
  54. ↑ Keller / Krschak, p. 114 (Boller quote) and p. 40 (conviction 1962)
  55. ↑ Osenberg, p. 28; similar to Keller / Krschak, p. 114
  56. ↑ Keller / Krschak, p. 89 (second marriage) and p. 113 (election as footballer of the century)
  57. ↑ Keller / Krschak devote a separate chapter to his ongoing relationship with Wuppertal (pp. 91-102), give numerous examples of the celebrity games (e.g. BS 113, 117 and 137) and also an early photo by Szymaniak from 1955, which “especially young fans were close to their hearts ”on Heckinghauser Widukindstrasse (p. 20).
  58. ↑ Keller / Krschak, pp. 106 and 142f.
  59. ^ After "Former national player Szymaniak died" from October 9th, 2009 on the portal of the WAZ media group
  60. ↑ Uwe Seeler, greeting to the book by Keller / Krschak
  61. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Horst Szymaniak
  62. ↑ to Wuppertal.de ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.5 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wuppertal.de
  63. ↑ see the description with photo of the bride and groom on dfr-nrw.de
  64. ↑ This chapter after Keller / Krschak, p. 89, unless otherwise stated
  65. ↑ Ulrich Homann / Ernst Thoman: When the duck ran amok. Stories from the first ten years of the Bundesliga 1963–1973. Klartext, Essen 1989, ISBN 3-88474-443-7 , p. 26.
  66. ↑ Goch / Piorr, p. 250
  67. ↑ Osenberg, p. 14
  68. ↑ See Axel vom Schemm: Dichter am Ball. Studies on the poetics of sport using the example of German-language “football literature”. Acta Universitatis Ouluensis, B 75, 2006, p. 200, here as PDF
  69. ↑ According to Peuckmann, p. 56f., Horst Szymaniak had only paid the rent for the bathtub and shower, but "Father Szymaniak was lifeguard, not ... son Horst"; analogously also in Keller / Krschak, p. 89.
  70. ↑ for example in Goch / Piorr, p. 248 ("With a post as lifeguard ... the Wuppertaler SV lured him"); Hartmut Hering (Ed.): In the land of 1000 derbies. The football history of the Ruhr area. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89533-372-7 , p. 262 (“moved to Wuppertal because of a job as a lifeguard…”); Hans Dieter Baroth: Boys, heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 , p. 45 ("Initially, it was enough for Szymaniak to be a lifeguard in Wuppertal")
  71. ↑ In Keller / Krschak, p. 18/19, there are two related letters from the executive board of the association to the sports department dated June 24th (request for employment, "if possible as a field worker") and dated July 1st, 1955 (thanks for those already mentioned under confirmation of employment on June 27).
  72. ↑ Osenberg, p. 27
  73. ^ Keller / Krschak, pp. 10, 57 and 86
  74. ↑ Torsten Körner: Götz George. Played with life. Scherz, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-502-15029-9 , p. 318.
  75. ↑ Keller / Krschak, p. 29; "I also really enjoyed hitting it" (Szymaniak portrait in Spiegel from October 14, 2004)
  76. ↑ Peuckmann, p. 57
  77. ^ Prize winners on the France Football website
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personal data
SURNAME Szymaniak, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Oer-Erkenschwick , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2009
Place of death Melle , Germany