Berthold Buchenau

Berthold Buchenau (born August 26, 1934 - May 13, 2016 ) was a football player for FSV Frankfurt , who played a total of 194 games in the Oberliga Süd from 1954 to 1962 and scored 89 goals.

career

In the club

Buchenau learned to play football at the gymnastics and sports club in the Taunus village of Eisenbach . As a 17-year-old he moved to Frankfurt, where he joined FSV Frankfurt in the 1951/52 season. With the first team of the Bornheim district club and local rivals Eintracht , two representatives of the Main metropolis were playing in the Oberliga Süd , one of five seasons of the top division in the still young Federal Republic. In the first years of the post-war period, the FSV was mostly ahead of the Riederwäldern, in 1951, for example, when Buchenau decided to play on the Bornheimer Hang in the future , the FSV was in 5th place, three places ahead of Eintracht. Gradually, however, the tide turned in the Frankfurt city comparison in favor of the "Adler", who won the 1953 South German Championship for the first time.

After Berthold Buchenau had outgrown the youth teams, he made his debut at the start of the 1954/55 season in the FSV's Oberliga-Elf. On August 21, 1954, a few days before Buchenau's 20th birthday, the SpVgg made a guest appearance. Fürth in front of 10,000 spectators on Bornheimer Hang. Coach Willibald Kreß placed Berthold Buchenau as a center forward, with him Willi Kunkel and Alwin Meyer on the right and the newly crowned soccer world champions Richard Herrmann and Rudolf Lehmann on the left, the black-and-blue assault line. The game against the "Kleeblättler" ended 0: 0, but two weeks later, on the third day of the round, Buchenau first exhibited his goalscoring proof: scoring the second home game he at 5: 2 on the VfB Stuttgart to hit the intermediate 4 : 2. Overall, the young talent scored a remarkable eleven goals in 28 games in his debut round, and the Bornheimers played for the top places in the table for a long time, but in the end it was only 7th in the final table.

The tech-savvy striker, who was also characterized by a hard, well-placed shot and his headball strength, confirmed his achievements in the following seasons and was second best - after Richard Herrmann - until the relegation of the FSV in 1962 with a total of 89 goals in 194 games Black-Blue scorer in the Oberliga Süd. At the height of his career he scored 20 goals in 28 games in the 1959/60 season - the last season with Herrmann - but most recently, in the relegation season 1961/62 , he only made 13 games (1 goal). The FSV had to struggle with financial difficulties from the mid-1950s, and with the lack of success in the major league - the FSV could no longer get beyond a midfield position - the number of spectators also fell. With the commitment of the Yugoslav starter coach Bogdan Cuvaj instead of Willibald Kress for the round 1956/57 one hoped to be able to return to the top of the southern German teams on the Bornheimer slope. But Cuvaj left the club after one season after falling out with the club's management. After Richard Herrmann, the outstanding player personality of the FSV, had ended his career due to injury in the first half of the season 1959/60, the sporting performance on the slope continued to decline. A 12th place in 1960/61 - with only two points before the first relegated - was finally followed by relegation in the 1961/62 round, the FSV was only second class for the first time in its club history.

Selection teams

Due to his good performances, Buchenau had also played into the field of vision of national coach Sepp Herberger. This appointed him to the squad of the senior team for the international match against Ireland on May 28, 1955, but he was not used in the 2-1 win. One month later, on June 25th, Buchenau was in the debut eleven of the newly founded U-23 national team , the game on the native Bornheimer Hang against Yugoslavia ended 3: 3. That same summer, the third selection game for the almost 21-year-old followed: On August 7th, Buchenau played in the regional cup for the first time for the southern German selection, which lost 3: 4 to northern Germany in Hamburg. He played a second game for the SFV-Elf two years later in the same competition, the opponent in Karlsruhe was again Northern Germany, the game on June 29, 1957 ended 2-2. Buchenau's last game for a German selection was finally on June 20, 1957 in Schweinfurt, when the A against the B national team competed in a test match (9: 2), Buchenau ran into the B selection.

The highlights of Buchenau's career also included the then still unusual trips abroad to games in Russia, Yugoslavia, the CSSR (against the national team) or in Hungary, as well as the games with the Frankfurt-Offenbach city selection from players from Eintracht, Offenbacher Kickers and FSV in the first ever trade fair cup , the forerunner of the UEFA Cup. It was used three times in the first edition of this competition, which ran from 1955 to 1958 . In his debut on June 20, 1956 on Bornheimer Hang, Buchenau scored two goals in a 5-1 win over Basel, he also played on March 27, 1957 at Riederwald against London (1-0) and on June 12, 1957 in the second leg in Basel, which was lost 6-2.

literature

• Entry Berthold Buchenau In: 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. 45.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary at FSV Frankfurt
2. ↑ Stadium magazine fsv life No. 05, 2007/08 season, page 23
3. ↑ Karl-Heinz Jens: The omniscient football. The global statistics of the sports magazine. Olympia-Verlag, Nuremberg 1966
4. ↑ Match report Frankfurt-Basel 5: 1 (eintracht-archiv.de)
5. ↑ Match report Frankfurt-London 1-0 (eintracht-archiv.de)