Albert Conrad (soccer player)

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Albert Conrad (born December 13, 1910 in Kaiserslautern , † December 27, 1985 in Mannheim ) was a German football player . The defender in the World Cup system at that time played a total of 80 games (2 goals) in football at the clubs VfR Mannheim (5-0), SV Waldhof (39-1) and VfL Neckarau (36-1) from 1945 to 1952. Completed Oberliga Süd . Before and during the Second World War, the defensive player had already been active in the Gauligen Southwest and Baden . In 1934 he won the final against the selection of Bayern for the Kampfspiel-Pokal 5: 3 with the southwest selection on July 29th .

career

Conrad played during his active career until May 1935 for 1. FC Kaiserslautern , from May 1935 to April 1936 at Eintracht Frankfurt , at VfR Mannheim (1936-1946 with a short interim at VfR Höchst ), from 1946 at local rivals SV Waldhof Mannheim and finally from 1947, after a change during the season, to 1953 at VfL Neckarau . He was in the squad of the U-18s, the Reichself and the German Olympic team in 1936. He played actively until 1952.

For the VfR Mannheim Light Blonde Conrad denied to 1944 77 Gauligaspiele, won four times Gaumeisterschaft in Baden (1938, 1939, 1943, 1944), was used in 19 games in the Gauauswahl of Baden and came in 15 games for the German soccer championship for use . In the final round in 1938 , the semi-finals were narrowly missed: Conrad and his teammates such as Philipp Henninger , Otto Kamenzin , Werner Feth , Richard Spindler and Philipp Rohr had the same point as FC Schalke 04 - both clubs had 8: 4 points , Anton Lutz , Gustav Adam and Karl Striebinger were content with 2nd place and were eliminated after the group games. VfR won the away game against Schalke on April 18 with 2: 1, and in the home game in front of 34,000 spectators on April 30, they achieved a 2: 2 draw.

The last appearance in the Oberliga Süd dates from the veteran with VfL Neckarau on April 26, 1952, when the relegated defender Conrad lost the away game 2-0 at FSV Frankfurt with the 41-year-old defender. Afterwards, the father of two took over the training management in Neckarau and worked as a trainer at the Ludwigshafen suburb ASV Hochfeld and the FG Union Heidelberg. Albert Conrad, who was one of the best defenders in the Gauliga Baden, was the owner of the silver DFB pin, the golden badge of honor of VfR Mannheim and the plaque of honor of the city of Mannheim.

Conrad had been a member of the NSDAP since 1930 , and from September 1933 an Oberscharführer in the SA . During the Second World War until shortly after the end of the war, he was a coach at VfR Mannheim.

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 , p. 52.
  • Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Publishing house regional culture. Ubstadt-Weiher 2016. ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 . Pp. 302/303.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from April 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 303
  3. ^ Albert Conrad ; Vita
personal data
SURNAME Conrad, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1985
Place of death Mannheim