Elwin Schlebrowski

Elwin Schlebrowski (* 31 August 1925 in Klein-Kamionken , East Prussia ; † 8. February 2000 ) was a German football - midfielder . The player, who was an outside runner and half-forward in the World Cup system at the time , won the German soccer championship with Borussia Dortmund in 1956 and 1957 . For the black and yellow he completed from 1951 to 1960 in the first-class football league West 183 league games and scored 15 goals.

career

Associations until 1960

Schlebrowski, who came to the Ruhr area with his parents as a child, grew up playing football in the youth department of Prussia Wanne from 1936 . After the end of the Second World War , he continued his career in the senior sector in the Emscherstadt. When the player, who was still in attack at that time, scored 21 goals in 30 rounds in the 1950/51 season with Sportfreunde in the 2nd League West in the table sixteenth, he was signed by Borussia Dortmund for the 1951/52 season for the Oberliga West. Another newcomer, Alfred Niepieklo , who came from Castrop, signed a contract with Westphalia.

The "fighter and endurance runner" made his debut on the first round match day, August 19, 1951, in a 2-2 home draw against Rot-Weiss Essen in the Oberliga West. In the attack, the team of coach Hans Schmidt in the line-up with Herbert Sandmann , Josef Linneweber , Niepieklo, Schlebrowski and Hans Flügel played in front of 35,000 spectators in the Rote Erde stadium . At the end of the round, BVB finished fourth and the newcomer from Wanne had scored ten goals in 22 league appearances. In his second Dortmund season, 1952/53, "Schlebro" celebrated the championship in the Oberliga West, but suffered a meniscus injury at the end of January 1953, which forced him to take a month-long break and also prevented him from participating in the finals German championship 1953 could participate. It was not until September 20, 1953, on the sixth day of the 1953/54 season, that he was able to celebrate his comeback in the league.

After finishing fifth (1953/54) and four (1954/55), there followed two triumphant years under the new coach Helmut Schneider . After the championships in the Oberliga West, the mature Dortmund team - not only Schlebrowski had exceeded 30 - also prevailed in the respective finals in 1956 and 1957. The standard runner series ran with Schlebrowski, Max Michallek and Helmut Bracht . The defensive class of the Dortmund champions once had to go to the Karlsruher SC in the 1956 final with the dangerous attack with Oswald Traub , Kurt Sommerlatt , Heinz Beck , Ernst Kunkel and Bernhard Termath as well as in 1957 the Hamburger SV with their attackers Walter Schemel , Uwe Reuter , Uwe Seeler , Gerhard Krug and Franz Klepacz experienced. In the finals for the German championship in 1956 and 1957, the man from Wanne played eleven games with Dortmund.

In the rounds of 1956/57 and 1957/58 , the international competition games in the young European champions were added. Outstanding were the arguments in October / November 1956 with the English champions Manchester United and in February / March 1958 with the Italian champions AC Milan . Against Matt Busby's team , BVB quickly fell 3-0 down against the "Busby Babes" in the first half of the first half of the game in Manchester, but Helmut Kapitulski and Alfred Preißler shortened to 2: 3 in the second half. The 0: 0 in the second leg is described as happy for “ManU” with their captain Roger Byrne and star strikers Duncan Edwards and Tommy Taylor . In the quarter-final first leg on February 12, 1958 in the local Red Earth it was enough against the professionals from AC Milan to a 1-1. The Lombards started without the injured Juan Schiaffino but were clearly superior in the second leg and prevailed with goalkeeper Lorenzo Buffon , defender Cesare Maldini , midfielder Luigi Radice and the attackers Ernesto Grillo and Nils Liedholm in San Siro with 4-1 goals. Without the outstanding performance of goalkeeper Heinrich Kwiatkowski , the result could have been even higher; Even the experienced Dortmund runners with Schlebrowski, Michallek and Bracht could not match the Black Reds from Serie A. Schlebrowski played ten games in the European Cup with Dortmund from 1956 to 1958.

In the first round under the new coach Max Merkel , 1958/59, the veteran with 21 league appearances still belonged to the regular line-up of the black and yellow. In the 1959/60 series, however, he retired after only two league games. From 1951 to 1960 Elwin Schlebrowski played 183 league games and scored 15 goals in the Oberliga West for Borussia Dortmund.

After his playing career, Schlebrowski trained the Borussia A-youth for five years . Later he was a long time member of the association's council of elders.

Selection player

On February 1, 1953 in Düsseldorf in the representative game of West Germany against South West Germany (3: 5) Schlebrowski came as a right runner next to the club colleagues Preißler and wing. Due to his subsequent protracted meniscus injury, he was no longer accepted into selection teams for years.

At the age of 31, he made his debut in the national team in 1956. He played two international matches for Germany: on November 25th in a 3-0 draw against Ireland in Dublin and on December 23rd in Cologne in a 4-1 win over Belgium . In the 3-0 defeat in Dublin he formed the runner row with Heinz Wewers and Karl Mai . Horst Szymaniak played the left wing runner in the 4-1 win against Belgium . After that, the senior was not called back to the national team. He played his last selection game on December 30th this year in Ludwigshafen in the representative game between Southwest Germany and West Germany (3: 1).

job

In Wanne-Eickel, Schlebrowski worked in mining , in Dortmund he managed to retrain as a commercial clerk and became an employee of the Hoesch iron and steel works in Hörde .

literature

• Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: The fame, the dream and the passion. The story of Borussia Dortmund . Verlag die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89533-810-6 , p. 494/495.
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 336 .
2. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. Volume 1: 1955 to 1974. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , pp. 18/19.