Paul Mebus

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Paul Mebus
Personnel
birthday June 9, 1920
place of birth Rheine ,  German Empire
date of death December 8, 1993
Place of death Cologne ,  Germany
size 168 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
0000-1939 Benrather FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1939-1951 VfL Benrath 57 (11)
1951-1956 1. FC Cologne 91 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1951-1954 Germany 6 0(0)
1953-1954 Germany B 2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Paul Mebus (born June 9, 1920 in Rheine , † December 8, 1993 in Cologne ) was a German football player . The player, who was mostly used as an outside runner in the World Cup system at the time, played six international A matches in the national soccer team in 1951 and 1954 and also took part in the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland. The defensive player, who came to 1. FC Köln from VfL Benrath from 2. Liga West in 1951, played 91 league games (1 goal) in the Oberliga West until 1956 and won the championship in the Oberliga West in 1954 .

Player career

societies

Mebus came to Düsseldorf-Benrath as a toddler, where he spent his youth and attended elementary school. He then went through a commercial apprenticeship and played football in the youth of VfL Benrath. His role model and teacher was national player Karl Hohmann . If he was a first-class striker as a youth, he was later drawn back to the runners' row. At the age of 17 he made his debut in the first team of the Gauliga Niederrhein in the black and white division .

On August 20, 1939, he was a member of the team that was defeated in the first final round of the Tschammerpokal Borussia Neunkirchen with 1: 4. After two years in the district league, he rose to the 1941/42 season with the club in the Gauliga Niederrhein - which the club had previously belonged to from 1933 to 1939 and had twice completed as champions - and was able to climb the class one point ahead of Fortuna Düsseldorf hold. With rank 5 in the 1943/44 season , the club achieved the best placement. In the 1944/45 season , the last in the Gauliga - due to the effects of the Second World War - after the first match day at the end of September 1944, it was canceled. Mebus was stationed in Norway as a member of the Wehrmacht and fell ill with rheumatism, which accompanied him all his life. Via Brandenburg he came to the “Frontkessel” around Berlin and suffered an upper arm injury shortly before the end of the war and was taken to a hospital in Luckenwalde , where he met his future wife. After the end of the Second World War he returned to Düsseldorf-Benrath.

In the 1946/47 season he finished third with the black and whites in the Berg / Mark district behind Fortuna Düsseldorf and TSG Vohwinkel 80, one point behind. From 1947/48 he entered the Lower Rhine regional league with his home club and repeated third place in Group 1. The game year 1948/49 turned into a mammoth season: First Mebus won the national league championship in Group 2 with VfL, then he landed in the Lower Rhine championship behind the two Duisburg representatives DSV and FV 08 in 3rd place and then took on your relegation round to play two more teams for the Oberliga West. He finished third behind FC Schalke 04 and SV Bayer Leverkusen, but was qualified for the new 2nd League West for the following season. There he finished 13th with Benrath in Group 2 in 1949/50 and, alongside teammate Jakob Wimmer , had scored six goals in 28 league games. In the second year in the 2nd division, 1950/51 , Mebus exercised the position of player-coach and led his team to 5th place. In 29 second division appearances he had scored five goals; A total of 57 games with 11 goals played in two rounds of 2nd League West. His time in Benrath was crowned by his international match on April 15, 1951 in Zurich against Switzerland. Two months before his 31st birthday, he made his debut in a 3-2 win in the team of national coach Sepp Herberger . Together with Gunther Baumann and Karl Barufka , the second division player formed the German runner series.

Mebus, who belonged to VfL Benrath 06 until 1951 after the end of the Second World War , had become an indispensable top performer among the black and whites and went through all the selection teams in the district, the Lower Rhine and West Germany. In 1948 he had completed his training as a football teacher under Sepp Herberger at the Cologne Sports University as the best in his year and then worked as a lecturer. At the age of 31, the veteran with a strong header and fighting skills, moved to 1. FC Köln in the Oberliga West for the 1951/52 season . He was immediately a top reinforcement and immediately captured a regular place. He could be used flexibly in the runner row, both right and left and as a center runner. He was particularly valuable on the defensive and in the development game. Two seasons later, he won the West German Championship with the Cologne team , after having finished second with the team, behind Borussia Dortmund . He played a decisive role in the rapid upswing of FC with reaching the 1954 cup final and the West German championship in the same year.

It was tragic that the gifted footballer had to struggle with serious alcohol problems for almost his entire life. During the 1952/53 season he was therefore banned from 1. FC Cologne for two months because of "some slips in the nightlife". Regardless of his qualities, Mebus is one of the most capable FC players in the club's history, but he did not fully exploit his huge potential. Willi Gierlich about his former teammate: “Paul was a phenomenon. Skinny, too much alcohol, too many cigarettes and accordingly in poor condition. But he always made up for it with his tenacity and instinct. He smelled the opponent's cross passes, ran in and immediately started the attacking game. "

At the end of the season 1955/56 he ended his active football career after a total of 91 league games. He was under the returning coach Hennes Weisweiler again in the first three rounds against SV Sodingen (1: 3), Schwarz-Weiß Essen (4: 1) and Preußen Münster (1: 3) at the side of the defensive players Günter Jansen , Hans Graf , Herbert Dörner , Georg Stollenwerk and Martin Hirche came here; thereafter no use in the league followed. In addition to Weisweiler, he had also seen the work of other coaches Helmut Schneider , Karl Winkler and Kurt Baluses at FC . For the Cologne team he also played four games for the West German Cup , six in 1952/53 and two in the final round of the German championship in 1953/54 . In the DFB Cup competition he was used in all three games in 1953/54, including the 1-0 final against VfB Stuttgart . In 1954/55 he retired after the 2-1 win against STV Horst-Emscher in the preliminary round in the 7-0 defeat at 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the round of 16 from the competition.

Paul Mebus fell ill with leukemia in the late 1980s and died in 1993.

National team

Mebus played five of his six international matches in 1951 and made his debut on April 15, 1951 in Zurich in the 3-2 victory of the senior national team over the Swiss national team . With the senior national team he took part in the 1954 World Cup , which was held in Switzerland from June 16 to July 4, 1954 , and played his only tournament game on June 20 in the second group game , which was in Basel with the 8-3 loss to the Hungary national team ended.

The selection appointments began with the nomination for the representative game on May 8, 1949 in Bremen between northern Germany and western Germany. The selection teams parted 1: 1 in front of 40,000 spectators and the second division player from VfL Benrath played in the runner row alongside Paul Matzkowski and Erich Schanko . In the regional cup of 1949/50 Mebus represented the colors of the Lower Rhine on September 14, 1949 in Leipzig in front of 50,000 spectators in the game against Saxony. In addition to teammates like Werner Göbel , Kurt Borkenhagen , Kurt Neumann , Clemens Wientjes , Karl Klug , Karl Hetzel and Hermann Michael , he could not prevent a 1: 2 defeat and elimination from the competition. On November 12, 1949, the Benrather ran in Frankfurt when comparing the South selection against West Germany (5: 4) again as a right wing runner. From November 14th to 19th, 1949 he took part in the first post-war course in Duisburg under Sepp Herberger. During a viewing course in Duisburg from April 2 to 6, 1951, he was part of a DFB team that defeated the Saar-Elf 7-1 in Essen and Mebus acted with Heinz Wewers and Hans Haferkamp and scored a goal. Ten days later, on April 15, he made his debut in the international match in Zurich against Switzerland in the senior national team.

For the B national team , he was used in two international matches. He had his first on June 14, 1953 in Düsseldorf in the 5-2 victory against the B selection in Spain, his second on April 24, 1954 in Offenburg in the 1: 3 defeat against the B selection in Switzerland.

successes

Awards

Silver bay leaf (awarded 1974)

Coaching career

Mebus already worked as a trainer during his active career. In the 1950/51 season he was player-coach at VfL Benrath in the 2nd League West and also trained after his move to 1. FC Köln clubs in the amateur area and at the end of his playing activity from 1955 to 1957 the amateurs of 1. FC. After quitting as a contract player, positions at SV Schlebusch , TuRa Hennef , TuS Höhenhaus , CfB Ford Niehl , VfL Cologne 99 , SV 09 Eitorf , 1. SC Göttingen 05 , SSV Troisdorf 05 and TSC Euskirchen followed .

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne: Spiellexikon 1890-1963. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2006. ISBN 978-3-89784-148-2 . P. 252.
  • Dirk Innschuld, Frederic Latz: With the billy goat on his chest. All players, all coaches, all officials of 1. FC Köln. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7307-0047-1 . Pp. 217/218.
  • Dirk Innschuld, Thomas Hardt, Frederic Latz: Under the sign of the billy goat. The history of 1. FC Köln. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2014. ISBN 978-3-7307-0127-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Innschuld, Frederic Latz: With the billy goat on the chest. P. 217
  2. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grune: Player Lexicon 1890-1963. P. 252
  3. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Green: German Cup History since 1935. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2000. ISBN 3-89784-146-0 . P.56
  4. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): West Chronicle. Football in West Germany 1945–1963. Berlin 2011. pp. 143-147, 183-187
  5. ↑ Dirk Innschuld, Frederic Latz: With the billy goat on the chest. P. 218
  6. ↑ Dirk Innschuld, Frederic Latz: With the billy goat on the chest. P. 218

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personal data
SURNAME Mebus, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Benrath , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1993
Place of death Cologne , Germany