Josef Marx (soccer player)

Josef Marx , called "Jupp" (born November 20, 1934 in Geseke / Soest district in North Rhine-Westphalia; † August 24, 2008 in Karlsruhe ) was a German football player who played in the Oberliga and Bundesliga for SV between 1956 and 1969 Sodingen and Karlsruher SC and was used once in the German national team in 1960 .

career

In the West, 1948 to 1961

VfL 09 Geseke, 1948 to 1956

The football player Josef Marx's career began in 1948 in the youth department of the local VfL Geseke . Football did not play a major role in the Marx family. In the lean years after the Second World War, however, it was made clear to him not only through verbal references that his son's footwear suffered from playing football . However, when the son moved up to the first team in the small town near Lippstadt at the age of 17, the father's previous skepticism turned into understanding benevolence. The young striker "Jupp" Marx was also regularly among the top scorers in the senior team. As a result, the former youth coach of VfL Geseke, Dettmar Cramer , now an association trainer in the Kaiserau sports school of the West German Football Association, called on the talent for various selection courses and the 21-year-old became a contract player for the league in 1956/57 from the Landesliga Westfalen of SV Sodingen West committed.

SV Sodingen, 1956 to 1961

The district club from Herne , which played in the shadow of the Mont Cenis colliery , rose to the Oberliga West in 1952. Outstanding was Sodingen's entry into the finals of the 1955 German championship as runner-up in the West. On August 18, 1956, in the opening game of the 1956/57 round, the 21-year-old debuted in the home game against German champions Borussia Dortmund with his goal to make it 1-1 -Compensation. When "Jupp" Marx made his debut with the Green-Whites, the human resources and financial resources of the "Miners' Association" were no longer sufficient to belong to the top of the table in the Oberliga West. He played permanently with his teammates from 1956 to 1961 to stay up in the league, and in 1959 he was relegated to the 2nd division for a year. In his debut year 1956/57 he completed all 30 competitive games and scored 13 goals; thus he was unrivaled as the top scorer in Sodingen. In the year of the soccer world championship 1958 in Sweden, Hans Cieslarczyk competed within the club with “Jupp” for the top scorer's crown. "Cissi" prevailed with just 13 against twelve hits by the man from Geseke. Cieslarczyk was nominated for the World Cup and moved to Borussia Dortmund for the 1958/59 round. The 14 goals scored by Marx in the 1958/59 round could not prevent the relegation of Sodingen. Marx, who had meanwhile moved from the locksmith's shop to the payroll office of the colliery through the mediation of trainer Robert Gebhardt , remained loyal to the "Green-Whites" in the 2nd League West and contributed significantly to the immediate promotion of the season with his 16 goals 1959/60 at. But even in his fourth league year 1960/61 he fought in the "Glück-Auf-Stadion" in Sodingen again only against relegation. In 30 missions he contributed 13 goals to keep the league. The local derbies against Westfalia Herne were a specialty in his active time in Sodingen . In four league years he was only missing in one game. He played 119 games with 52 goals for Sodingen in the Oberliga West. Max Merkel , who had switched from Borussia Dortmund to TSV 1860 Munich as a coach, negotiated with Marx in the spring of 1961 about his transfer to the "Löwen". Franz Kremer , the president of 1. FC Köln , also tried to make the humble man from Geseke attractive to move to the cathedral city. The race for the signature of the contract then made the league club from the south, the Karlsruher SC . The positive statements from Horst Szymaniak - the ex-Erkenschwicker had found words of praise for the club from Baden and its surroundings on the Iceland tour in 1960 with the national team - contributed not insignificantly to the move of "Jupp" Marx to the Karlsruhe Wildpark Stadium . Managing director Erich Fehlberg had actively led the negotiations for Karlsruhe. The financial remuneration as a contract player, which according to the contract of July 14, 1960 was still fixed with a basic salary of 160 DM and a game allowance of 10 DM, could certainly be increased in Baden. "Jupp" got serious: on July 12, 1961, he married his childhood friend Erika from Geseke, left the "Pütt" and his Westphalian homeland and moved to Karlsruhe with his wife. A new phase of life began.

In the south, 1961 to 1969

Karlsruher SC, 1961 to 1969

In Karlsruhe he experienced the coaching work of the Austrian Eduard Frühwirth , who won the German championship in 1958 with FC Schalke 04 and in 1960 celebrated the title in the Oberliga Süd with the Baden team. He came into a phase of team upheaval. Horst Szymaniak moved to Italy to Catania and Friedl Späth to FSV Frankfurt. The warriors of the cup triumphs in 1955 and 1956 were no longer available. Heinz Beck and Bernhard Termath ended their successful careers in the summer of 1961, leaving only Heinz Ruppenstein from that era. After 15 games in the preliminary round, the KSC was on the disappointing 14th place with 10:20 points and the newcomer from Westphalia raised doubts about the correctness of his club choice. At the latest with his hat trick in the game on February 18, 1962 against the reigning German champions, 1. FC Nürnberg , which meant KSC's 3-0 victory, he had really arrived in his new home. The Wildpark-Elf came in ninth place in the final table and "Jupp" Marx had contributed 12 goals in 26 games. Since the new Bundesliga was to start in the 1963/64 round, the placement of the top division season 1962/63 was of great importance for the nomination. Those responsible for KSC relied on Kurt Sommerlatt from Baden , the 1952 Olympic participant, the driver of their own cup winning teams, the active players in FC Bayern Munich and the cup winner with FC La Chaux-de-Fonds as player-coach in Switzerland in 1961. He became the new player Coach for the senior year of the league. The new trainer was already there on the extended trip to South America from April 29 to May 24, 1962. For “Jupp” Marx and his teammates, the trip should leave a wealth of unforgettable impressions. At the end there was a reunion in Santiago de Chile with the ex-teammate Horst Szymaniak and the KSC playmaker Günther Herrmann, who were already in Chile with the DFB for the 1962 World Cup . Together with the two UEFA youth internationals Rolf Kahn and Horst Wild from their own A-youth team and Otto Geisert from Eintracht Nordhorn - he was KSC's top scorer with 15 goals - the Karlsruhe team came in fifth in the 1962/63 round Oberliga Süd and were then nominated for the Bundesliga. Marx, who was led into the half-forward position by coach Sommerlatt during the round, played 29 games with eight goals.

In the Bundesliga, Josef Marx played 139 games in five rounds for KSC and scored two goals. He experienced disappointments in terms of player commitments, aimlessness in the selection of trainers and a permanent battle for relegation, but also sociability, camaraderie, friendship and a bond with the people of the city and the region. Karlsruhe became his new home for "Jupp" Marx. From 1963 to 1968, seven trainers - Kurt Sommerlatt, Helmut Schneider, Werner Roth, Paul Frantz, Georg Gawliczek , Herbert Widmayer and Berni Termath - tried their hand at the "ejection seat" of the KSC coaching chair - mostly with little success. The 13th place in the table in the 1966/67 season was the best placement. The undisputed top performer among all head coaches was the more and more backward - almost both-footed right-footer - "Jupp" Marx. In the series “Bundesliga Chronik” by AGON Verlag from Kassel, the KSC's head of defense was ranked first in the 1966 world championship with a grade of 2.24; Franz Beckenbauer follows in second place with a grade of 2.45. In five rounds of the Bundesliga, he got an average grade of 2.57. In the year of the Bundesliga relegation 1967/68 , the 33-year-old veteran was ranked eighth after 34 games with a grade of 2.71. This despite a desolate lap balance of the KSC with 17:51 points and thus the well-deserved “red lantern”. The man from Geseke was fully up to the demands of the Bundesliga, quite a few teammates, coaches and the club certainly not in sufficient measure. It is difficult to judge whether his basic salary at the time of 1500 DM plus performance bonuses (contract dated November 30, 1967) was realistically remunerated in accordance with the financial conditions of the Bundesliga at the time.

With coach Kurt Baluses together the captain "Jupp" Marx led the Bundesliga relegated 1968/69 to the championship in the regional soccer league south . The team senior played 33 games. In the promotion round, the KSC failed to Rot-Weiss Essen . At the end of the promotion round in June 1969, "Jupp" Marx ended his playing career at the age of 34 after 13 years in the Oberliga, Bundesliga and Regionaliga.

National team, 1960

In his first season Oberliga West - 1956/57 - the new hopeful striker of SV Sodingen, "Jupp" Marx, was appointed to the junior national team of the DFB. In the third and fourth game of this selection, on March 27, 1957 in Essen against Belgium and on May 26, 1957 in Bayreuth against Czechoslovakia, he was used as a center forward by national coach Sepp Herberger . On June 20, 1957, he took part in a screening game in Schweinfurt as part of an encounter between the A against a B selection. In April 1958, two more test matches for the nomination of the World Cup squad for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden took place, on April 23 in Kassel and on April 29 in Essen. “Jupp” Marx was used on both dates. He was nominated for the 40s squad by the DFB, but only his club colleague Hans Cieslarczyk from SV Sodingen made it into the final World Cup squad . At the end of the round in 1959/60 he was in the squad for the international match against Ireland on May 11, 1960 in Düsseldorf. On the match day, after breakfast, national coach Sepp Herberger told him in a personal conversation that he would let the local hero of Fortuna Düsseldorf, Bernhard Steffen , play in his place, contrary to the statement from the previous evening. "Jupp" Marx was very disappointed about this, but in retrospect he rates the personality of the former national trainer very highly as a person of absolute respect. For the first international match of the 1960/61 season, Sodinger took Sodinger with him on the trip to Iceland: On August 3, 1960 in Reykjavík, Marx came on for Albert Brülls in the 57th minute and scored the 5th with a header in the 86th minute: 0 final result. Before the return flight, there were two training games against Icelandic club teams. In both matches, Marx stormed into the German teams. This season, the Westphalian was also called to two representative games for West Germany against North Germany and Berlin. After moving to Karlsruher SC, he was no longer nominated for a DFB team.

After the playing career

In the 1969/70 season, "Jupp" Marx assisted head coach Kurt Baluses in the Regionalliga Süd. From 1970 to 1976 he was the coach of the clubs FC Neureut and FC Rastatt 04 . Then he followed the renewed call of the KSC and was active in the creative phase of coaches Rolf Schafstall (1977/78) and Manfred Krafft (1978-81) in the game committee.

Life after football

During his playing career at Karlsruher SC, he was employed by what was then Badische Bank (2006: BW-Bank) and retired in 1999 at the age of 65 as the main cashier. In this function, too, his correct behavior, coupled with friendliness in dealing with customers and staff, was a predicate that generally belonged to Marx as a person. With his friend Gustav Witlatschil - 149 Oberliga and 71 Bundesliga games for KSC - he played tennis for years. After two hip operations, cozy chats among old friends had to replace the sporting activities. The photography and the fascinating testimonies of the Tutankhamun era were much more in the foreground in the "post-sports" phase. For the 90th anniversary of the SV Sodingen club, “Jupp” Marx was in Herne for the festive days from June 19 to 21, 2002, with many old companions. On November 16, 2002, through Gerhard Seiler, the Karlsruher SC honored Marx's 40-year membership with a gala evening. “Jupp” Marx also took part in the ceremony for the cup winners of the 1950s on May 21, 2005. The married couple spent their harmonious retirement in the Durlach district, on the Geigersberg there, in a pleasant residential area.

At the age of 73, Josef "Jupp" Marx died on August 24, 2008 after a long and serious illness.

swell

• Conversation with “Jupp” Marx on May 31, 2006 and inspection of documents.
• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• 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 .
• Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .
• Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1965/66. Volume 3: Newcomers cause a sensation. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-085-5 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• Matthias Kropp: Germany's big soccer teams, part 11: Karlsruher SC. AGON Sportverlag. Kassel, 1998, ISBN 3-89609-115-8 .
• Karlsruher Sport-Club (Ed.): 100 years of the Karlsruhe Sport-Club. Bath pressure Karlsruhe, 1994.
• Hartmut Hering (Ed.): In the land of a thousand derbies. The football history of the Ruhr area . The workshop, Göttingen, 2002; ISBN 3-89533-372-7
• 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 .
• Günter Mydlak: Boy, those were little torches . 75 years SV Sodingen. Verlag Gronenberg, 1987, ISBN 3-88265-143-1 .

Web links

• "Jupp" Marx passed away , report on ksc.de