Adolf Kallenborn

Adolf Kallenborn (born March 9, 1929 ) is a former German football player who played a total of 156 league games and scored 40 goals at Hamborn 07 , 1. FC Nürnberg and Kickers Offenbach from 1948 to 1958 in the football Oberliga West and Oberliga Süd . The offensive player used in the World Cup system practiced at the time as a left winger, left connector or left winger won the championship in the Oberliga Süd in 1951 with Nuremberg and 1955 with Offenbach. For 1. FC Nürnberg he played all 12 group games and scored six goals in the two final rounds of the German soccer championships in 1951 and 1952.

career

As the black and yellow players from Hamborn 07, playing in the shadow of August-Thyssen-Hütte, under coach Anton Kugler with top performers Ernst Rupieta and the brothers Bernd and Max Oles in the season 1948/49 in the Oberliga West the 6th place reached, the 20-year-old winger Adolf Kallenborn had made his debut in April 1949 with three league appearances in the Oberliga West. He ran in the games against Fortuna Düsseldorf (3: 0), RW Essen (0: 3) and RW Oberhausen each as left winger. In his second league year, 1949/50, the Hamborner "Löwen" under coach Paul Zielinski took 9th place. The strong, agile and eager to finish winger had played all 30 league games alongside half-forward Adolf Schönborn and, with his 15 goals, was among the best strikers in the West. In Ralf Piorr's lexicon on Revier football, Hamborner is listed on the left wing in the attack of the Revier team in the 1949/50 season alongside Herbert Erdmann , Alfred Preißler , Willi Koll and Hans Kleina . His impressive round performance brought Kallenborn a contract offer from 1. FC Nürnberg from the Oberliga Süd and the left winger moved to the "Club" in Franconia for the 1950/51 season.

Here the man from Hamborn immediately hit the mark. The sturdy and powerful striker quickly became Nuremberg's new left winger and the public's favorite under coach Hans “Bumbes” Schmidt . Since the other newcomer Otto Brenzke from SpVgg Fürth was also convincing and Max Morlock secured the top scorer's crown in the south with 28 goals, the “club” won the championship in the south with two points ahead of the green-whites from Fürth. Kallenborn had contributed six goals in 21 league appearances. With his strength and speed, his ball handling, his sure eye for open alleys and his healthy shot, he had also made his way into the South German selection in the second half of the season. In his home town of Duisburg, on March 18, 1951, West Germany played against South Germany and lost 4-0. The attack from the south was occupied by Helmut Herbolsheimer , Morlock, Horst Schade , Max Appis and Kallenborn and the left wing had scored a goal. In the final round of the German soccer championship , the man on the left wing had made a convincing appearance in the group phase against Prussia Münster, Tennis Borussia Berlin and Hamburger SV. In the 3-2 away win at the "Veilchen" in Berlin in front of 80,000 spectators in the Olympic Stadium in the 69th minute of the game, he scored the winning goal and in the final group game on June 10, 1951 at the home game against Hamburger SV, he brought in the "Club" in the first half with a hat trick with a 3-0 lead, before Konrad Winterstein increased to 4-0 before the half-time whistle. Since the Tied Prussians from Münster were 1: 2 behind at Tennis Borussia at halftime, the southern champions spared themselves for the final, which was believed to be safe. “Bumbes” Schmidt had given the appropriate motto in the cabin: “Take it easy. Make sure that nobody gets injured. ”In the end it was 4: 1 for the“ Club ”, and in the dressing room they celebrated the move into the final - too early. The news from Berlin slowly trickled through: Preußen Münster had won 8-2 in Berlin, scoring six goals in the last 18 minutes. Thanks to the better goal difference, the Münster team were in the final. In the event of a tie, the division method counted, i.e. goals scored divided by goals conceded. Münster had a goal quotient of 1.375 at 22:16 goals, the club only 1.308 at 17:13. Almost seven hundredths decided whether to participate in the final. The club players were offended; in overcoming the disappointment Kallenborn did not help his six goals in six finals.

In the following round in 1951/52, Kallenborn and colleagues led the table with one point ahead of VfB Stuttgart until the last game day, April 6, 1952. At Christmas 1951, Kallenborn and Nuremberg had traveled to Spain with games against Atletico Bilbao (4: 2) and FC Barcelona (2: 0). On the final day of the lap, the two championship competitors met in front of 72,000 spectators in Stuttgart. At halftime it was 0-0 and the club would have moved into the finals as champions; In the second half, however, the VfB team of coach Georg Wurzer prevailed 2-0 and Kallenborn and his team-mates had to be content with the runner-up. The man from Hamborn had scored three goals in 27 league games and also proved himself as a left wing runner in several missions during the season. In the 1952 finals, the Franks failed at 1. FC Saarbrücken with one point behind; the Saarlanders moved into the final against VfB Stuttgart, but where the Swabians secured the championship trophy. Kallenborn had formed the runner row with Gerhard Bergner and Gunther Baumann in the six games of the final round. In the third year, 1952/53, he tore his knee ligament in the winter and took many months out of it. He was able to score three goals in 18 league appearances and the club fell back to 8th place under coach Anton "Toni" Kugler. In May 1953 he went on a three-week trip to the USA with the club.

For the 1953/54 season, Nuremberg signed goal scorer Horst Schade from local rivals Spielvereinigung Fürth and wanted to intervene again in the championship race. It was a bad season for Kallenborn; under coach Alv Riemke he only made four league appearances. He then signed a new contract with Kickers Offenbach for the 1954/55 season and moved to the leather town of Hesse. At the Kickers he won the championship under coach Paul Oßwald and reached the semi-finals with the OFC in the DFB Cup . But he wasn't really happy at Bieberer Berg, he only made 10 rounds in which he scored four goals. Coach Oßwald consistently relied on the attack line-up with Engelbert Kraus , Gerhard Kaufhold , Helmut Preisendörfer , Ernst Wade and Willi Weber , so that Kallenborn was mostly used as a replacement for Wade (22-10). At the cup semi-final on April 7, 1955, he stormed in the stadium at the zoo in Wuppertal against FC Schalke 04 in front of 28,000 spectators on half left. Schalke prevailed 2-1, but lost the final on May 21st in Braunschweig 2: 3 against Karlsruher SC. With the use in the catch-up game on May 1, 1955 at VfR Mannheim (1: 3), Kallenborn said goodbye to Offenbach and the Oberliga Süd, he returned to his hometown club Hamborn 07 for the 1955/56 season, which had just been runner-up in the 2. League West, which had achieved a return to the Oberliga.

Although there were other high-performance players available in addition to Kallenborn in the form of forward talent Horst Jesih , oldtimer Karl Hetzel and the consistently reliable Walter Dongmann , the league returnee under coach Elek Schwartz was unable to maintain relegation. Although Hamborn started the round with a 4-0 home win against Wuppertaler SV, after the first half of the season the “Löwen” were already 15th and penultimate place in the table with just 7:23 points. On matchday 30, April 29, 1956, Hamborn 07 said goodbye with a 2-1 home defeat against inner-city rivals Duisburger SV, bottom of the league table. Homecoming Kallenborn had scored six goals in 20 league appearances. He immediately celebrated the league return in 1956/57 with the championship in the 2nd division West - Kallenborn had scored eight goals in 21 league games - but again in the 1958 world championship year he failed to stay up. With a 1-1 draw at DSV, Hamborn said goodbye to half-forward Kallenborn on April 13, 1958 from the Oberliga West. The two-time South German master player in 1951 and 1955, said goodbye to contract football after this round; his further footballing path is unknown.

In Kirn and Natan following in their small football Primer of 1958 is held Footballer Adolf Kallenborn: "Left Wing, even inside forward. Should have achieved more due to his disposition, but often lost sight of the goal in his younger years. "

literature

• 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 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 . P. 181.
• Christoph Bausenwein, Bernd Siegler, Harald Kaiser: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2012. ISBN 978-3-89533-907-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grune: Player Lexicon 1890-1963. P. 181
2. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): The pot is round. The lexicon of Revier football. Volume 1: The Chronicle 1945 to 2005. Klartext Verlag. Essen 2005. ISBN 3-89861-358-5 . P. 25
3. ↑ Bausenwein, Siegler, Kaiser: The legend of the club. Pp. 140/141
4. ^ Richard Kirn, Alex Natan: Football. Past and present, rules and terms. Ullstein paperback publishing house. Frankfurt am Main 1958. Ullstein Book No. 206. P. 122