Edmund Conen

Edmund Conen
Personnel
birthday	November 10, 1914
place of birth	Ürzig ,  German Empire
date of death	March 5, 1990
Place of death	Leverkusen ,  Germany
size	178 cm
position	Center Forward
Juniors
Years	station
1924-1928	SV Urzig 1921
1928-1930	FV 03 Saarbrücken
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1931-1935	FV 03 Saarbrücken
1938-1943	Stuttgart Kickers
1943-1944	FC Mühlhausen
1944	HSV Groß Born
1945	SG Hermsdorf
1945-1950	Stuttgart Kickers	129 (57)
1950-1952	FC Young Fellows Zurich
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1934-1942	Germany	28 (27)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1950	Stuttgarter Kickers (interim)
1950-1952	FC Young Fellows Zurich
1952-1956	Eintracht Braunschweig
1956-1957	Wuppertal SV
1957-1959	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1964	SV Schlebusch
1970-1973	BV Opladen
1 Only league games are given.

Edmund "Ed" Conen , called "Rolly" (born November 10, 1914 in Ürzig , Rhine Province , now Rhineland-Palatinate , † March 5, 1990 in Leverkusen ), was a German football player . He was mostly used as a center forward; 19 years after his death, the magazine 11 Freunde described him as "supple and tall as a greyhound, yet fast and powerful". Reich coach Otto Nerz nominated Conen in 1934 for lack of alternatives for the World Cup in Italy , where he contributed four goals to third place in the German team. Originally, the attacker was led through these goals together with the Czechoslovak Oldřich Nejedlý and the Italian Angelo Schiavio as the top scorer of the second World Cup finals; on November 10, 2006, however, FIFA recognized Nejedlý a fifth goal, making this the sole top scorer. In the round of 16 against Belgium , Conen scored the first (flawless) hat trick in World Cup history.

During his club career, which lasted 21 years with interruptions, he also played in what is now France and Switzerland . Between 1934 and 1942, Conen wore the national jersey in 28 international matches and, with 27 goals, has the best hit rate of a German national team player with at least 25 appearances after Gerd Müller .

Edmund Conen's career

1924 to 1952: Club career

Edmund Conen opened his senior career at FV Saarbrücken and rose with the team in the 1934/35 season in the Gauliga Südwest . After a break from illness, he joined the Stuttgarter Kickers in the Gauliga Württemberg in 1938 through the mediation of his former trainer Ossi Müller . During the Second World War he was a guest player at FC Mülhausen and Heeres-SV Groß Born . In 1934, his planned move to Werder Bremen failed because Conen had revealed to the German Football Association what sums Werder was investing in new players. Back then, football was still an amateur sport in Germany and payments to players were not allowed.

For the clubs Stuttgarter Kickers (13-11; 1939-42) and HSV Groß-Born (3-3; 1944) he completed a total of 16 final rounds of the German soccer championship and scored 14 goals. In the finals in 1939, the international striker with the Kickers came tied with SK Admira Wien , both clubs came in 7: 5 points, and came second in Group III. The combination-safe, agile and yet straight forward attacker scored three goals in each of the two successes against SV Dessau 05 (3: 2) and VfR Mannheim (4: 1). With the Kickers he asserted himself on the side of Albert Sing in the Gauliga Württemberg from 1939 to 1942 four times in a row as champions. With Groß-Born, Conen failed in the finals in 1944 only in the semi-finals by a 2-3 defeat at the Luftwaffe sports club Hamburg . His teammates included Wilhelm Sold, Kurt Hinsch and Ernst Plener . Already in July 1933 he had gained experience in the association selection of Rheinhessen / Saar at the side of his club mate Wilhelm Sold and on July 29, 1934 in Nuremberg in the final against Bayern, he was a member of the 5: 3 victorious Southwest selection for the Kampfspiel-Pokal 1934 . Conen stood out as a three-time and national left winger Josef Fath as a two-time goalscorer.

After the Second World War he played successfully with the Kickers in the Oberliga Süd until 1950 . In the 1947/48 season, the “blues” from Degerloch achieved a record 113 goals and ended up in third place. Conen scored 18 goals on the side of offensive colleagues Kurt Lauxmann (26), Siegfried Kronenbitter (13), eleven goals each from Helmut Schmeißer and Günther Sosna , and eight goals from ex-national player Reinhard Schaletzki . During his time with the Kickers, “Ed” Conen ran the 42-bed “tower hotel” in Stuttgart in the bunker on the Rosenstein Bridge . From 1950 to 1952 he was in Switzerland as player-coach at Young Fellows Zurich in the National League A operates.

Club stations

• SV Ürzig 1921 (1924–1928 as a teenager)
• FV 03 Saarbrücken (1928–1931 as a youth)
• Stuttgarter Kickers (1939-1950)

• FC Mülhausen 1893 (1943–1944 as guest player)
• Heeressportverein Groß Born (1943–1944 as guest player)

• SG Hermsdorf (1945)
• FC Young Fellows Zurich (1950–1952 as player coach)

1934 to 1942: national team career

Between 1934 and 1942 he played 28 international matches for the DFB and scored 27 goals . He made his debut at the age of 19 in January 1934 in an international match against Hungary, in which he scored a goal. During his time at FV Saarbrücken he was active for the national team a total of 14 times ; also 14 during his time with the Stuttgarter Kickers . At the second World Cup held in 1934, he was one of the most noticeable center strikers. The storm with him, Ernst Lehner , Karl Hohmann , Otto Siffling and Stanislaus Kobierski was a decisive factor in the unexpected success of the German team in the tournament. Third place was achieved with a 3-2 victory (goals: 2 × Lehner, 1 × Conen) against Austria .

He set a record with his three goals in one half in the 5-2 victory in the round of 16 against Belgium in Florence . Gerd Müller was the second German player in the history of the World Cup to equalize this performance in the 1970 World Cup when the German team beat Peru 3-1 . What is remarkable is the fact that Conen was only 19 years old at this tournament.

At the age of 21, he was finally stopped by a protracted illness. Conen suffered from cardiac neurosis and was afraid of people. Football disappeared from his life for three and a half years. After the 14th international match against Poland on September 15, 1935 (with a Conen hit), he was only able to make his international comeback on June 25, 1939 in Copenhagen against Denmark . He scored a goal for a 2-0 victory. In the war year 1942 he played his last international match. On May 3, the German national team won 5: 3 goals against Hungary in Budapest . After a 1: 3 half-time deficit, Conen and the young Fritz Walter tore the game for Sepp Herberger's team out of the fire.

number	date	opponent	result	Gates	Remarks
01	01/14/1934	Hungary	3: 1	80 ′
02	May 27, 1934	Belgium	5: 2	66 ′ 69 ′ 85 ′	World Championship
03	05/31/1934	Sweden	2: 1		World Championship
04th	06/03/1934	Czechoslovakia	1: 3		World Championship
05	06/07/1934	Austria	3: 2	29 ′	World Championship
06th	01/27/1935	Switzerland	4-0	29 ′ 42 ′ 50 ′
07th	02/17/1935	Netherlands	3: 2	2 ′
08th	March 17, 1935	France	3: 1
09	05/12/1935	Spain	1: 2	11 ′
10	05/26/1935	Czechoslovakia	2: 1
11	06/27/1935	Norway	1: 1
12	06/30/1935	Sweden	1: 3
13	08/18/1935	Finland	6-0	43 ′ 46 ′ 75 ′
14th	September 15, 1935	Poland	1-0	34 ′
15th	06/25/1939	Denmark	2-0	76 ′
16	October 15, 1939	Yugoslavia	5: 1
17th	10/22/1939	Bulgaria	2: 1	39 ′
18th	11/26/1939	Italy	5: 2	70 ′
19th	04/07/1940	Hungary	2: 2
20th	09/01/1940	Finland	13: 0	8 ′ 16 ′ 32 ′ 47 ′
21st	09/15/1940	Slovakia	1-0
22nd	10/06/1940	Hungary	2: 2
23	10/20/1940	Bulgaria	7: 3	19 ′ (EM) 60 ′ 63 ′ 74 ′
24	11/16/1941	Denmark	1: 1
25th	December 07, 1941	Slovakia	4-0	27 ′ 62 ′
26th	January 18, 1942	Croatia	2-0
27	04/12/1942	Spain	1: 1
28	05/03/1942	Hungary	5: 3

1950 to 1973: coaching

After two years in Zurich, from 1950 to 1952, Conen worked as a trainer, supervising, among others, Eintracht Braunschweig from 1952 to 1956 and 1956/57 for Wuppertaler SV in the Oberliga West . With the team from the Stadion am Zoo , he finished ninth in the Oberliga West with the players Günter Augustat , Alfred Beck , Erich Haase and Horst Szymaniak . In the 2nd League West, Conen then worked for Bayer 04 Leverkusen from 1957 to 1960 . As a coach of amateur teams, he subsequently had his greatest success with the Leverkusen association league club SV Schlebusch , which he led to the Middle Rhine Championship in 1963. His last coaching position was BV Opladen , with whom he was promoted to the Middle Rhine regional league. During this time, Edmund Conen worked professionally in the Opladen railway repair shop .

Eintracht from Braunschweig was transferred to the amateur camp in June 1952 by the DFB sports court. Conen started as a coach on Hamburger Strasse in the Lower Saxony East amateur league. With the four Eastern players Heinz Wozniakowski , Werner Oberländer , Winfried Herz and goalkeeper Heinz Senftleben and the all-rounder Werner Thamm as scaffolding, he led the Blue-Yellows to a sovereign title win and after the promotion round against the rivals VfL Wolfsburg, VfR Neumünster and Bergedorf 85 to return to the Oberliga Nord . As a league returnee, the trainer came fourth with Eintracht in 1954.

Coaching stations

• Stuttgarter Kickers (1950 as interim trainer)
• Eintracht Braunschweig (1952–1956)
• Wuppertaler SV (1956–1957)
• SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen (1957-1959)
• SV Schlebusch 1923 (1964)
• BV Opladen (1970–1973)

Until his retirement he worked at the Opladen railway repair shop. Conen died in March 1990 at the age of 75.

Publications

• Edmund Conen: Edmund Conen tells. Memories of the 28-time striker of the German national team. Sportbericht-Verlag, Stuttgart 1950 (62 pages).

literature

• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Horst Bläsig, Alex Leppert: A red lion on the chest. The story of Eintracht Braunschweig. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-675-1 .

Web links

• Biography in the portal Rheinische Geschichte
• Conen Edmund: FV Saarbrücken 03, Stuttgarter Kickers ( German ) In: oberberg-fussball.de . Retrieved April 27, 2012.
• The Kickersarchiv: Conen Edmund ( German ) In: kickersarchiv.de . Retrieved April 27, 2012.
• Edmund Conen on the 95th: The fearful giant ( German ) In: 11freunde.de . Retrieved April 27, 2012.
• Edmund Conen in the weltfussball.de database

Individual evidence

1. ^ SID: Soccer - World Cup: DFB goal scorer Conen is no longer World Cup top scorer. In: Focus Online . November 10, 2006, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Hardy Green, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. P. 52.
3. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. P. 74.
4. ↑ Striker for Hitler: on the interaction between football and National Socialism, p. 94 [1]
5. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/conen-intlg.html
6. ↑ http://vote.unserebesten.zdf.de/details/index26.htm Archive link ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ http://www.agon-antiquariat.de/buch-sepp-herberger-leben-eine-legende-pi-2341.html