Engelbert Kraus

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Engelbert "Berti" Kraus (born July 30, 1934 in Offenbach am Main ; † May 14, 2016 ) was a German football player . He was active for Kickers Offenbach and TSV 1860 Munich and played in the German national soccer team .

Career

Club career

Kraus played for Kickers Offenbach from 1952 and for TSV 1860 Munich from 1963 to 1965 . In the sixties , the right- winger won the DFB Cup in 1964 . From 1965 he played again with the Kickers, for which he scored 117 goals in a total of 328 games.

Kraus played from 1952 to 1963 for the Offenbacher Kickers in the Oberliga Süd. A highlight was the final on June 28, 1959 in Berlin against Eintracht Frankfurt for the German soccer championship . The Offenbach lost the dramatic main derby after extra time with 3: 5 goals. From 1955 to 1960 Kraus came to 14 games in the finals of the German football championship and scored eleven goals for the OFC.

With the start of the Bundesliga in 1963, coach Max Merkel brought Kraus to 1860 Munich. Despite winning the DFB Cup on June 13, 1964 in Stuttgart with a 2-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt , it was not a happy time for Kraus. After only 22 missions with nine goals, he returned to Bieberer Berg in 1965 .

He played with the Kickers for two years in the Regionalliga Süd and came up with 33 games with six goals. The longed-for promotion to the Bundesliga did not succeed , but participation in the promotion round. With the game on June 21, 1967 at Göttingen 05 in the Bundesliga promotion round 1967 Kraus ended his playing career.

National team

Kraus was appointed to the newly founded German U-23 national team on June 25, 1955 for the game against Yugoslavia, which ended 3: 3. He scored two goals in that game. It was his only use in the junior national team. In the German national team , Kraus appeared nine times from 1955 to 1964, but did not manage to be nominated for the German squad at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden . Helmut Rahn and Bernhard Klodt could not be ousted. In the first international match after the World Cup, on September 24, 1958 against Denmark, he was again part of the team that scored 1-1 in Copenhagen.

He then also belonged to the squad of the national team that took part in the 1962 World Cup in Chile . In the group game on June 6, 1962 against the host country Chile, in the 2-0 victory for the Herberger protégés, he then ran as the right winger in the Estadio Nacional stadium in Santiago next to Uwe Seeler , Albert Brülls and Hans Schäfer . His last appearance in the DFB dress resulted from the game on June 7, 1964 in Helsinki against Finland . With a 4: 1 success, the athletes said goodbye to long-time national coach Sepp Herberger . With this first game after the Bundesliga season 1963/64, Helmut Schön took over the DFB scepter. "Berti" Kraus also wore the jersey of the B national team three times (1956–1957) and also stormed against Yugoslavia in the DFB's first international junior match on June 25, 1955 in Frankfurt. The game ended with 3: 3 goals in a draw and Kraus stood out as a two-time goalscorer.

After the career

After two meniscus operations in 1965, the former right-winger ended his career and worked as an insurance employee in Offenbach. He became the initiator of the Old Men , a regular meeting of former active players of the first and second OFC teams.

Engelbert Kraus died on May 14, 2016 after a long illness. Before the regional league game Kickers Offenbach against Bahlinger SC Kraus was honored with a minute of silence.

literature

  • Hardy Greens : From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 1 . AGON, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
  • Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
  • 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Wilke: Kickers: Mourning Berti Kraus - Most successful national player of the OFC died at the age of 81. (No longer available online.) In: dreieich-zeitung.de. May 2016, archived from the original on July 2, 2016 ; Retrieved July 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dreieich-zeitung.de
  2. ↑ Obituary notice. In: op-online.de . May 21, 2016, accessed on July 3, 2016. Partly different in the press, for example: Damian Robota: OFC and fans mourn Engelbert “Berti” Kraus. In: op-online.de . May 15, 2016, accessed on July 3, 2016 (date of death there: May 13, 2016).
  3. ↑ First emotional, then serious. In: fnp.de . May 17, 2016, accessed July 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Kraus, Engelbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kraus, Berti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2016