Emil Schmetzer

Emil Schmetzer (born June 19, 1908 in Mannheim ; † September 21, 1988 ) was a German football referee .

Life

Emil Schmetzer was a member of SV Waldhof Mannheim from the age of 20 and became a referee with 22. In 1950 he became a FIFA referee and whistled 13 international matches. At the Soccer World Cup in Switzerland in 1954 , he was used as the second German after Alfred Birlem at a World Cup and led the game England against Belgium, which ended 4: 4 after extra time. Outstanding at national level were his appearances in the final of the Tschammerpokal 1943 ( First Vienna FC 1894 - LSV Hamburg 3-2 afterwards) and in the final of the German championship in 1954 , in which Hannover 96 beat 1. FC Kaiserslautern 5-1 . In total, Schmetzer directed around 1,600 games.

In addition, Schmetzer was from 1943 to 1980 chairman of the Mannheim sports district and deputy chairman of the Badischer Sportbund. He was a member of the Mannheim municipal council from 1963 to 1975.

Schmetzer was a business assistant by profession . He worked for the BBC from 1929 to 1949 , interrupted by military service and imprisonment in 1944/45, and was then managing director of the Staatliche Sport-Toto GmbH Stuttgart in Mannheim.

Schmetzer was awarded the badge of honor of the German Football Association and the golden ring of honor from SV Waldhof Mannheim. In 1973 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon and in 1978 the great Merit Medal of the Badischer Sportbund.

literature

• Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport: 1945 to 1970 . 2nd edition, Mannheim 1996, ISBN 3-929295-14-8 , p. 63.
• Wolfgang Brach: The Mannheim City Council 1945–1984 . Mannheim 1984, ISBN 3-87804-162-4 . P. 106.
• Heinz Seitz (Red.): 75 years of the Mannheim District Referee Association . Laudenbach 1991.

Web links

• Appearances at weltfussball.de