Ernst Tzschach

Ernst Tzschach
in a photo from 1935

Commemorative coin on the occasion of the federal cup victory on March 24, 1935

Ernst Tzschach (born December 17, 1911 in Steinach , † October 14, 1971 there ) was a German football player and coach .

Career

Ernst Tzschach
in a recording from 1953

Tzschach belonged from 1928 to 1934 as a goalkeeper to SV 08 Steinach , which is based in his Thuringian birthplace , for whom he played point games in the championships organized by the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs in the Gau Südthüringen . At the end of his second season he won the championship with his team and consequently took part in the final round of the Central German Championship. After SV Union Zella-Mehlis was defeated 4-1 in the 1st preliminary round and 1st VFC 03 Plauen 2-1 in the 2nd preliminary round , they lost 3-2 to SV Sturm Chemnitz in the quarter-finals . Two years later, the new championship succeeded, but in the final round of the Central German Championship overtook him and his team in the first preliminary round with the 2-3 defeat against FC Thuringia Weida . In the following season he won the championship again, but failed in the quarterfinals of the final at SC Wacker 1895 Leipzig with 1: 3.

From the 1933/34 season he played in the Gauliga Mitte , in one of 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the uniform top division in the German Empire . With his team, he finished the season in second place behind FC Wacker Halle , the following season in third place . In total, he completed 30 of 36 Gauliga games.

The 1935/36 season he played for the SpVgg yellow-red Meiningen in the second-rate district class Thuringia ; then the team withdrew from the game. As a player in the military sports club, he was invited several times by Reich trainer Sepp Herberger to courses for the senior national team, but never played in an international match , as the competition with Hans Jakob , Fritz Buchloh and Willy Jürissen was too great.

Tzschach was used as a player in the competition for the Reichsbund Cup, which he won with the Gau selection team in Berlin on March 24, 1935 2-0 against the Gau selection team Berlin-Brandenburg. The way there led via the Gau selection team Southwest (3: 2 a.s.l.; players including Hans Stubb , Rudolf Gramlich , Heinrich Hergert , Willi Tiefel , Edmund Conen ), Lower Saxony (2: 0; players including Fritz Deike , Herbert Widmayer , Ludwig Lachner , Erich Meng , Richard Meng) and the 4-2 victory over Nordmark, who played with the national players Hans Rohde , Erwin Stührk , Otto Rohwedder , Herbert Panse and Rudolf Noack .

From 1939 to 1945 he was a soldier in World War II , after which he was taken prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1949.
From 1953 to 1955 he completed the trainer course at the German University for Physical Culture in Leipzig .
1956 and 1957 he served as assistant coach of Walter Fritzsch for the third division Motor West Karl-Marx-Stadt in the previously established one year II. DDR-Liga active.
Until 1963 he trained the district league clubs BSG Motor Rudisleben and BSG Lokomotive Meiningen .
He was also the district trainer in the Suhl district .

Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 . P. 396.
IFFHS: LIBERO. No. D 17. 1998. III. Quarter. Gau selection competitions (1933–1942). Pp. 18–24 (competition 1934/35)

personal data
SURNAME	Tzschach, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH	December 17, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Steinach , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH	October 14, 1971
Place of death	Steinach , Thuringia