Andreas Kupfer

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Andreas Kupfer
Andreas Kupfer and Albin Kitzinger.jpg
Andreas Kupfer (left) and Albin Kitzinger
Personnel
birthday May 7, 1914
place of birth Schweinfurt ,  German Empire
date of death April 30, 2001
Place of death Marktbreit ,  Germany
Size 172 cm
position Outrunner
Juniors
Years station
VfR 07 Schweinfurt
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1932-1933 VfR 07 Schweinfurt
1933-1954 1. FC Schweinfurt 05
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1937-1950 Germany 44 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Andreas "Ander" Kupfer (born May 7, 1914 in Schweinfurt ; † April 30, 2001 in Marktbreit ) was a German football player . From 1937 to 1950 he played 44 international matches in the German national soccer team as an active member of 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 and scored one goal. He became known as one of the world's best players in the outside runner position in the 1930s . The coach of the successful Italian World Cup teams in 1934 and 1938, Vittorio Pozzo , appointed copper in 1938 to a FIFA continent selection formed for the first time for the game against England on October 26 . On November 22, 1950, Andreas Kupfer was the first captain of the national soccer team of the newly founded Federal Republic of Germany in the game against Switzerland .

Career

societies

Kupfer grew up sporting at VfR 07 Schweinfurt , and at the age of 19 he joined the local leader 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 in 1933. With the round of 1933/34 , the regional championships were played for the first time in 16 Gauligen, primarily set up according to country team criteria. In the sporty, demanding Gauliga Bayern - competitors of the green-whites from Lower Franconia were among others 1. FC Nürnberg, TSV 1860 Munich, Bayern Munich, Swabian Augsburg, SpVgg Fürth, Wacker Munich - the 05ers took fourth place in their debut year. The young talent Kupfer was able to receive valuable object lessons in the performance class of the Gauliga as well as at the side of his teammates Albin Kitzinger and Karl Rühr and thus continuously improve his performance.

In the Tschammer Cup of 1936, Kupfer and his colleagues were able to draw national attention for the first time. Only in the semi-finals did the Schweinfurters fail after a 3-2 defeat on November 8, 1936 in Gelsenkirchen at FC Schalke 04. In the following round, however, the upswing continued. Behind the defending champion 1. FC Nürnberg, the green-whites took second place in 1936/37 and Kupfer made his debut on March 21, 1937 in the national soccer team. He followed his teammate Albin Kitzinger, who had already made his debut in the national team in August 1935.

When Schweinfurt won the game with 2-1 goals against defending champion 1. FC Nürnberg on April 2, 1939, they were able to celebrate the Gaume Championship with one point ahead of TSV 1860 Munich and thus make it into the finals of the German soccer championship. In the final round, the international played all four games against competitors Dresdner SC and Warnsdorfer FK . Equal on points with the Helmut Schön-Elf from Dresden - both showed 6: 2 points - Schweinfurt only got second place in the group with one more goal and was eliminated from the final round. Nevertheless, Kupfer and his teammates Kitzinger, Walter Meining, Jakob Lotz, Karl Spitzenpfeil, Robert Niederhausen and Paul Gorski represented the Gauliga Bayern first-class.

Three years later, in the 1941/42 war season, Kupfer and colleagues won the second championship in Bavaria. The basis was 22: 0 home points, with which they were able to relegate SpVgg Fürth and TSV 1860 Munich as defending champions. In the final round of 16 on May 24, 1942 Schweinfurt was defeated without the driver "Anderl" Kupfer against the SS-Sport-Gemeinschaft Strasbourg with 1: 2 goals.

After the end of the Second World War , the South German Football League was started on November 4, 1945 with the first game day . On October 14th, the Schweinfurters had already played a friendly game at 1. FC Bamberg. After 30 match days, Kupfer und Kollegen finished seventh in the debut round in 1945/46 with 33:27 points. When Nürnberg in 1946/47 in the "Mammut League" consisting of 20 clubs with a 13 point lead and a goal difference of 108:31 was able to win the championship ahead of SV Waldhof, Schweinfurt finished ninth. On the 35th matchday, the “Schnüdel” stole a point from the champions with a 2-2 draw in front of 14,000 spectators. “Anderl”, who just turned 33 five weeks ago, played as usual in the right wing position and won most of the duels against Julius Uebelein, cousin Karl “Molli” Kupfer fought as a middle runner against striker Hans Pöschl and Albin Kitzinger had it with young Max Morlock to do. After a reader vote on a “fictitious” national team from the sports magazine “Der neue Sport” from Frankfurt, Kupfer and the two Nuremberg-based Kennemann and Gebhardt formed the runner-up line.

In the 1950/51 round, Kupfer and Schweinfurt led the table in the Oberliga Süd with 17: 7 points after the 3-0 home win in the catch-up game on November 12, 1950 against FC Singen 04, where Ernst Willimowski played in attack, However, seven days later, on November 19, they lost the championship lead by a 1: 2 home defeat against Swabian Augsburg to rivals 1. FC Nürnberg and SpVgg Fürth with equal points. Three days later, on November 22nd in Stuttgart in front of 115,000 spectators in the completely overcrowded Neckar Stadium, the 36-year-old “Anderl” Kupfer led the German national soccer team onto the pitch for the first post-war international match against Switzerland. At the end of the round he finished seventh with Schweinfurt and had played in 32 of 34 league games and scored three goals. For the first time he established himself with Fritz Meusel , he scored 23 goals for the green-whites, an offensive player from Schweinfurt in the top ranks of the southern goalscorer list. The following year almost brought decline. The 05er score the fewest goals in the league with 32 goals and can barely leave the two relegated Swabians Augsburg and the Mannheim district club VfL Neckarau behind them.

On March 29, 1953, just before his 39th birthday and after 20 years as a top performer in the league team, which always plays in the top division of the Gau and Oberliga, Andreas Kupfer plays his last competitive game for Schweinfurt 05. Together with Ludwig Merz and Walter Lang, he formed the runner row. His 229th league game at 1. FC Nürnberg was lost with 0: 3 goals. After around 650 appearances in the dress of the zero fives, he ended his two decades long impressive playing career.

In 1993, Hermann E. Fischer describes the captain in the first international match of the post-war period in his book about the Oberliga-Süd in the following words:

“ Seeing Anderl Kupfer in action was often a real pleasure. Well versed in defense and forward thrust alike, he knew how to stroke the ball, and it obeyed him. Great condition gave the left-footed man on the right side many advantages. Anyone who called Anderl "Anderl", however, completely misunderstood him: He really wasn't an "Anderl", something so hearty. His uncompromising toughness was considered proverbial and many opponents felt it, including Helmut Schön in the final rounds of the Dresdner SC with the 05ers in 1939 "

The “kicker” judged the Schweinfurt outrunner pair Kupfer-Kitzinger in 1939 with the following comments: “One would like to say: They were virtually created for the modern game. As a partner and as an individual, they are unequaled in Europe. ”The listed value is underlined by the appointment to the continent team on October 26, 1938 in London in the game against England together with Albin Kitzinger, where she and the Italian World Cup stopper Miguel Andreolo formed the runner row.

Selection / national team

In the game year 1936/37 Schweinfurt 05 adorned itself with the runner-up in Bavaria and, in addition to Albin Kitzinger, his young outside runner colleague Andreas Kupfer had distinguished himself in particular. When the DFB held a double match day with the national team on March 21, 1937 - a "B-Elf" competed against Luxembourg and the "A selection" played in Stuttgart against the representation of France - copper made his debut in Luxembourg the national team. The experienced Benrather Karl Hohmann led the eleven of the "newcomers" in the Grand Duchy to a 3-2 victory as team captain and the man from Schweinfurt had recommended himself for further missions in the outside runner position. A month later, on April 25th, “Ander” Kupfer made his second international appearance. In Hanover, the German team achieved a 1-0 win against Belgium. The runner series played for the first time in the line-up with center runner Ludwig Goldbrunner and the two Schweinfurt outer runners Kupfer and Kitzinger. After that, after two international matches, Kupfer was a permanent member of the national team of the coaching team Otto Nerz and Sepp Herberger . The copper - Goldbrunner - Kitzinger runner series is described in the specialist literature as “probably the strongest runner series that Germany had until 1945”.

Eight days later, on May 2nd, Kupfer was active in his third international match in the DFB-Elf, which scored 1-0 in Zurich with a goal from club colleague Kitzinger. A fortnight later, the next international match against Denmark was on the program in Wroclaw. In between, a course with three games against the English professional team from Manchester City was carried out. On May 12th, the third test match against the team from the Maine Road stadium took place in front of 18,000 spectators in Schweinfurt, Germany. The three local heroes Kupfer, Kitzinger and Robert Bernard formed the runner-up in the 3-2 defeat against "The Citizens". Four days later, team captain Fritz Szepan led the national team in Breslau in front of 40,000 spectators against Denmark. The northern neighbor had proven their sporting substance in 1936 with a positive record in the games against Sweden (4: 3), Finland (4: 1), Norway (3: 3) and Poland (2: 1). The game ended with a superior 8-0 victory by the German team and the so-called " Breslau-Elf " was born. With his four international appearances, Kupfer was the "chick", Otto Siffling from SV Waldhof was the trouble spot on the Danish defensive as a "lagging center forward" and, with five goals, the outstanding scorer. The “game-defining square” in the World Cup system through the two well-rehearsed outside runners and half-strikers (Kupfer-Kitzinger and Gellesch-Szepan) was crowned by the “playing goalscorer” Siffling. The DFB-Elf showed impressive combinations, skillful passing game, change of position, play in depth and over the wings, convinced with technique and wit. The old prejudices that German footballers could only fight and run, but not demonstrate playful class, gave them a clear rebuff.

When Hitler's troops marched into Austria from the beginning of March 1938, the situation of the German national soccer team for the 1938 World Cup in France also changed suddenly . Both national teams were qualified for the FIFA tournament, both teams were qualitatively favorites, but both teams had completely different systems. The time until the start of the World Cup in June was not enough for a successful merger. The politically decreed “6: 5 basis” for the installation could work on paper, but not on the lawn. For this reason, Kupfer did not experience a high point in his sporting career in France, the two games against Switzerland on June 4th and 9th in Paris, were bitter experiences. In the 1-1 draw after extra time, the two Schweinfurt side runners Kitzinger and Kupfer formed the runner row alongside the Austrian middle runner Hans Mock . Kitzinger injured himself in the process and so the runner row formed anew with Kupfer, Goldbrunner and Stefan Skoumal from Rapid Vienna in the 2: 4 defeat in the replay . In Leinemann it is noted:

“ A Viennese melange with a Prussian touch”, as Herberger sarcastically called the company. Athletic arguments had to take a back seat against political pressure. "

During the war years Fritz Walter from 1. FC Kaiserslautern made his debut on July 14, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main in the international match against Romania . The 26-time national player Kupfer was the calming roommate of the nervous newcomer from the Palatinate. The game ended with a 9-3 win and Germany had a new star striker in the triple goalscorer Fritz Walter. On November 22, 1942, Germany played its last international game against Slovakia in Pressburg. In his 43rd international match, Kupfer formed the German runner row with Hans Rohde and Albert Sing in a 5-2 win. Fritz Walter and August Klingler formed a prominent left wing. After that, international games were no longer possible due to the worsening war conditions.

After the end of the Second World War, the veteran from Schweinfurt was in the first two representative games in March and June 1946 in the selection of South Germany against West Germany. In May and October 1948 he again represented the South in the games against a combination of West / North and North Germany. National coach Herberger conducted the first post-war training course for the future national team in Duisburg from November 14 to 19, 1949. On November 22, 1950, eight years after the last international game on November 22, 1942, the 36-year-old copper was the captain of the German national soccer team in the first international game after the war against Switzerland in Stuttgart. His 13-year career in the national team ended with his 44th appearance.

Helmut Schön , Kupfer's teammate in the national team from 1937 to 1941, attributed the following characteristics to the outside runner in 1978 in his memoirs:

“ Anderl Kupfer as outside runner was a player who would definitely have a regular place in midfield today; I would have been glad to have had such a man with me in Argentina. When he was playing behind me, with his hardness, his skill, his speed, then I felt absolutely safe in front. Copper's left leg was stronger than the right; if he ran with the ball from right to center, he gave diagonally with his left foot templates on the right wing, which tore everything open. A gifted player. "

successes

1. FC Schweinfurt 05

Selection teams

Others

  • Kupfer acted in the role of a football player in the sports film "The Great Game", produced by Robert Adolf Stemmle in 1941 and published in 1942 .
  • He ran a paving business and later worked as a trainer for lower-class amateur clubs in Lower Franconia .
  • In the Oberliga Süd he had also exercised the role of player coach at Schweinfurt 05 in the rounds of 1947/48, 1949/49 and from 1951 to 1953.
  • His son Rolf completed a total of 54 games in the Oberliga Süd for the zero five from 1960 to 1963 and scored 13 goals. He was the captain of the championship team of the 1965/66 round in the South Regional Football League , where his father Andreas helped out as a coach in the 1964/65 season.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Football Association 75th Anniversary Celebration Match: England 3 Rest of Europe 0. www.englandfootballonline.com, accessed June 7, 2017 .
  2. ^ Hans Dieter Baroth: kick-off in ruins. Football in the post-war period and the first years of the Oberligen Süd, Südwest, West, Nord and Berlin , pp. 10–11.
  3. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963 , p. 164.
  4. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963 , p. 139.
  5. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne: Spiellexikon 1890-1963 , p. 191.
  6. ↑ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling (ed.): The history of the national football team , p. 594.
  7. ↑ Jürgen Leinemann: Sepp Herberger , p. 155.
  8. ↑ Helmut Schön: Football. Memories , p. 79.
  9. ↑ The big game on imdb .com
  10. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963 , p. 213.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Kupfer, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kupfer, Anderl (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinfurt , Germany
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2001
Place of death Schweinfurt , Germany