August Groß

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August Groß (born March 15, 1917 ), nickname Gustl , is a former German soccer player . The offensive player won the Reichsbund Cup in 1942 as a player from Rot-Weiß Oberhausen with the selection of the Lower Rhine . After the end of the Second World War, he and the team from the Niederrhein Stadium were champions of the Niederrhein region in 1946 and 1947, and from 1947 to 1950 he played 44 league games and scored eleven goals in what was then the first-class football league West .

Career

societies

Groß played at VfB Friedrichshafen in the second-class district class Württemberg . At the end of the 1937/38 season, he left the club and switched to the reigning Gaumeister Eintracht Frankfurt , for whom he was in the Gauliga Südwest , one of 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the uniform top division in the German Reich , for two seasons . Denied point games.

With eight point games in which he scored one goal, the 1938/39 season ended in third place. Gross made his debut in the Gauliga on September 25, 1938, in a 2-1 home win against FK Pirmasens. He played center forward in the former World Cup formation with teammates Karl Röll , Adam Schmitt , Albert Wirsching and Fritz Linken . In the following season he played only three point games in the Gauliga Südwest, which was divided into two seasons; the season Mainhessen was finished in second place with two points behind Kickers Offenbach . Due to his assignment to the Mülheim airport in 1939/40 he was also used as a war guest player at RW Oberhausen.

From 1940 he regularly joined the “Kleeblattelf” - and stayed for ten years. In the Gauliga Niederrhein he and his team finished sixth, fifth and sixth in the first three seasons. At the end of the 1943/44 season, KSG Rot-Weiß / Alstaden Oberhausen finished fourth, and KSG Rot-Weiß / Elmar Oberhausen came second in the 1944/45 season, which was canceled after the first match day .

After the end of the Second World War , Oberhausen first won the Oberhausen city championship in the district of Rechter Niederrhein. 2, then on May 12, 1946 with a 2-0 win against Sterkrade 06/07 the Oberhausen city championship. In the district championship, Red-White prevailed with 8-0 points ahead of Meidericher SV, VfB Speldorf, VfB Lohberg and VfB Rheingold Emmerich. Groß won with RWO on September 1, 1946 2-0 against VfL Benrath - with their aces Karl Hohmann , Josef Rasselnberg , Paul Mebus - the final of the Lower Rhine Championship. In front of 30,000 spectators, coach Karl Winkler had the host in the Niederrheinstadion with goalkeeper Willy Jürissen , the defenders Franz Pyta , Willi Ickelrath , the runners Hermann Rütter , Robert Schröder , Bruno Jezewski and the attack with Werner Stahl , Werner Günther , Willi Rahmann , Gustl Groß and Heinz Otten sent to the lawn. Fortuna Düsseldorf, Rheydter Spielverein, Sportfreunde Katernberg and SC Rot-Weiß Oberhausen met in May in the final round of the Niederrhein Championship in 1947. The group games ended Düsseldorf and Oberhausen with 5: 1 points each and therefore carried out a playoff for the championship on June 7, 1947 in Hamborn. In front of 38,000 spectators, the title was defended with a 3: 1 and thus the admission to the new Oberliga West from the season 1947/48 and the entry into the zone championship . There, in the first round (June 22nd in Hamburg), a 3-2 win after extra time against Eintracht Braunschweig, where Groß scored a goal. In the semifinals he failed with RWO on July 6th in front of 35,000 spectators in Duisburg after a 1: 3 defeat at Hamburger SV, which also won the championship with a 1: 0 against Borussia Dortmund.

From 1947 to 1950 he played in the Oberliga West , founded in 1947 , as one of five seasons as the uniformly highest division in Germany, a total of 45 league games in which he scored ten goals. He made his debut on September 14, 1947 (1st matchday) in a 5-2 win in the away game against STV Horst-Emscher , against which he scored the goals to 4-2 in the 85th and 5-2 in the 88th minute scored; in his next 20 point games he scored another six goals. In 1948/49 he played 14 league games, in which he scored two goals, and in his last season he remained goalless in ten league games.

Selection team

As a player in the Niederrhein region selection team , he took part in the competition for the Reichsbund Cup. After his team had fought their way to the semi-finals in 1941/42 , after victories over the Gau selection teams Baden and Kurhessen , he participated in this on September 7, 1942 in the Vienna Prater Stadium , in which the Gau selection team Donau-Alpenland through the gate of Josef Arens from TuS Helene Essen could be defeated with the goal to 1-0 in the 46th minute. The final held on November 15, 1942 in Essen's Uhlenkrugstadion against the Gau selection team Nordmark in front of 20,000 spectators was won 2-1.

successes

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne: Spiellexikon 1890-1963. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2006. ISBN 978-3-89784-148-2 . P. 118.
  • Peter Seiwert, Manuela Rettweiler: The long way to the Bundesliga. Rot-Weiss Oberhausen Chronicle 1902–1969. Publishing house Karl Maria Laufen. Oberhausen 1999. ISBN 3-87468-161-0 .
  • Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and sky striker. The story of Eintracht Frankfurt. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-89533-427-8 . P. 341.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knieriem, Grüner: Spiellexikon 1890–1963. P. 118
  2. ↑ August Groß on eintracht-archiv.de
  3. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): West Chronicle. Football in West Germany 1945–1952. KGT new media. Berlin 2011. p. 26
  4. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): West Chronicle. Football in West Germany 1945–1952. KGT new media. Berlin 2011. p. 18
  5. ↑ Seiwert, Rettweiler: The long way to the Bundesliga. Pp. 104/105
  6. ↑ Seiwert, Rettweiler: The long way to the Bundesliga. Pp. 107/108
personal data
SURNAME Great, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Big, Gustl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1917