Egmont Kablitz

Egmont Kablitz (born September 26, 1927 - † November 16, 2011 ) was a German football player . With 198 appearances and 13 goals between 1952 and 1962, he is Borussia Mönchengladbach's record player in what was then the first-class football league West .

career

The all - rounder, which can be used in all team areas - defense, runner row, attack - in the World Cup system at that time , came from Prussia Krefeld from the 2nd League West to the Oberliga returnees in Mönchen Gladbach in the 1952/53 season . With the black-and-whites from the Grotenburg Stadium in Krefeld , he and his club mates Heinz Janssen and Hermann Wiefels had recommended himself with his playing strength in the association round for the eleven from Bökelberg. In his league debut on August 24, 1952 in the home game against FC Schalke 04 , he scored his first goal as a half right. Schalke won the game 6-2 and Kablitz played 21 association games under coach Fritz Pliska in his first year in the Oberliga West and scored two goals. Mönchengladbach managed to stay in league with just 14th place in the table.

In his fifth year in Mönchengladbach, 1956/57, he was relegated to the 2nd division with his club. He had scored four goals in 24 league appearances. Under the fetched trainer Pliska, BMG reached the runner-up in 1957/58 and thus the immediate return to the Oberliga West. At the side of teammates Albert Brülls (29-23), Albert Jansen (27-15) and goalkeeper Günter Jansen (30 games), Kablitz scored his personal record with eleven goals in 28 second division games. On the last day of the match, May 18, 1958, he was also on the list of goalscorers in the 2-0 away win at SG Düren 99 .

In the year after the league return, 1958/59, Kablitz completed all 30 league games with the Black and White Greens from the Lower Rhine and scored two goals. When Friedhelm Frontzeck and Ulrich Kohn, two powerful newcomers, strengthened the squad of players in the 1959/60 season , but the fight against relegation at Bökelberg continued to be in the foreground, the versatile team player made another 22 league appearances. The most successful season came in the ninth Gladbach year, 1960/61. The two attackers, Franz Brungs and Helmut Fendel , who came from Cologne, significantly reinforced the offensive of Borussia, now trained by Bernd Oles . The first highlight was the final for the West German Cup on August 24, 1960 in Düsseldorf against the West Champion 1. FC Köln . In the surprising 3-1 win for Gladbach, Kablitz played on half left and the goals were scored by Kohn (2) and Brungs. On October 2, 1960, he was the right wing runner in the 5-3 win against Westfalia Herne in action. Three days later, on October 5th, Kablitz was not used in the 3-2 victory in the DFB Cup final against Karlsruher SC . In the first game of a DFB-Elf in the European Cup Winners' Cup , on November 15, 1960, in the home game against the Glasgow Rangers , Kablitz was in the 3-0 defeat as a left wing runner on the field. The 1960/61 season ended Mönchengladbach in sixth place in the league and the veteran had completed 23 league games with one goal.

After ten rounds at Borussia Mönchengladbach, the 34-year-old Kablitz ended his playing career in the summer of 1962 after a total of 198 league games with 13 goals. He leads the ranking of the league games at Borussia ahead of Wilhelm Wicken (178-45) and Albert Brülls (160-38).

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 .
• Matthias Kropp: Germany's great football teams. Part 5: Borussia Mönchengladbach (= "AGON Sportverlag statistics." Vol. 11). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-928562-39-8 .
• Markus Aretz, Stephan Giebeler, Elmar Kreuels: Borussia Mönchengladbach. The Chronicle. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2010. ISBN 978-3-89533-748-2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary for Egmont Kablitz. Retrieved May 27, 2020 .