Fritz Buchloh

Fritz Buchloh (born November 26, 1909 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † July 22, 1998 there ) was a German football player . The keeper completed as Active of VfB Speldorf 1932-1936 in the national football team 17 matches. He was a member of the DFB squad for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and the 1938 World Cup in France; for the 1934 World Cup he was available on call.

Athletic career

societies

He played as a goalkeeper in the 1930s for VfB Speldorf ( Speldorf is a district of Mülheim an der Ruhr ). He was considered an energetic goalkeeper with good positional play and excellent reflexes. He was more of a calculating goalkeeper than a showman. From the 1927/28 round, the high school student was the goalkeeper of the first team of the green-whites from the Am Blötter Weg sports field in Speldorf. With his hometown club VfB Speldorf he was active in the Niederrhein district league until 1933 and then belonged to the second-class district class as the substructure of the Gauliga Niederrhein with VfB. Twice, in the rounds of 1934/35 and 1935/36, Buchloh and his teammates were able to win the championship and thus make it into the promotion round to the Gauliga. But the ascent did not succeed.

Towards the end of his national team career, he went to Berlin in 1937/38 to become a "qualified sports teacher for physical exercise" at the Reich Academy. He also guarded the Hertha BSC gate . In 1938 he returned to West Germany and at the end of his career played at Schwarz-Weiß Essen . In Essen, he made his debut against local rivals Rot-Weiss Essen on the 4th matchday (October 16, 1938) of the 1938/39 season . Buchloh stayed without conceding eight games in a row. At the end of the season, Schwarz-Weiß Essen was runner-up behind Fortuna Düsseldorf . Buchloh remained in 15 championship games with 9 goals conceded. During the following season (1939/40) Buchloh was only used sporadically. There were still 3 appearances registered in 18 championship games in which he had to concede 3 goals.

Selection games

As early as October 13, 1929, the young goalkeeper from Speldorf was in the goal of West Germany's selection in a competition game of the Federal Cup. In Dortmund, West Germany lost with the attackers Ernst Kuzorra and Fritz Szepan with 1: 4 goals against North Germany. After Heiner Stuhlfauth from 1. FC Nürnberg had ended his career in the national team with the international match against Italy on March 2, 1930, his successors were found in Willibald Kreß and Hans Jakob . The keeper from Speldorf was already part of the circle of the DFB selection of Reich coach Otto Nerz and made his debut on December 4, 1932 in Düsseldorf in the game against the Netherlands in the goal of the national team. On March 11, 1934 he was in the World Cup qualifier against Luxembourg in a 9-1 victory in the goal of the German selection. From 7 to 19 May 1934 he took part in the final World Cup course, but Nerz only took his two rivals Kreß and Jakob with him to Italy, Buchloh was on call for the 1934 World Cup in Italy. In the first game after the World Cup, on September 9, 1934, he was in the goal of the national team in the 5-2 win against Poland in Warsaw, in which the winger of Wormatis Worms, Josef Fath , made his debut on the left wing . In the 3-1 win on May 8, 1935 in Dortmund against Ireland, Buchloh led the German team onto the field as captain. Four days later, on May 12th, in front of 74,000 spectators in Cologne, he lost 2-1 goals against Spain.

In February 1936 he was a member of the DFB squad for the two international matches against Spain and Portugal. In the 2-1 win in Barcelona against Spain, the man from Regensburg guarded the German goal, in Lisbon in the 3-1 win it was Buchloh's turn. He was replaced by Jakob from the 56th minute due to an injury. In August 1936 he took part with the national team in the Olympic Games in Berlin. He was in goal in the 9-0 opening success of the DFB-Elf on August 4th in Berlin (round of 16) against Luxembourg. In the surprising 2-0 defeat against Norway on August 7th (quarter-finals), Hans Jakob was the German goalkeeper. In the first international match after the Olympics, on September 13, 1936 in Warsaw, Buchloh again guarded the German goal in his 17th international match. In the 1-1 draw he formed the defensive along with Paul Janes , Reinhold Munzenberg , Paul Mehl , Josef Rodzinski and Albin Kitzinger .

In the national team he was active in 17 games from 1932 to 1936. He was a member of the national team until the 1938 World Cup in France. On May 19, three days after the birth of the Breslau-Elf - on May 16, 1937, Germany won 8-0 against Denmark in Breslau - Buchloh was in the German goal in a friendly against Manchester City in Berlin. In addition to Hans Jakob and Rudolf Raftl, he was a member of the World Cup squad in France in June 1938. Bausenwein noted the following passage in his genre history and soul science of the gatekeeper to Buchloh:

“While Jakob was known as a tough and powerful player, the quiet Buchloh shone with more casual elegance. The journalist Hannes Berger: 'Fritz Buchloh had a pronounced feeling for the ball, he resembled the style of Frankfurt's Kreß in his whole way. National coach Nerz, who had a kind of love-hate relationship with the 'beautiful Willibald', perhaps just because of that gave him a chance again and again. "

Jürgen Bitter played Buchloh with 25 representative games for West Germany, 18 for the Lower Rhine - the last in the Reichsbund Cup on January 22, 1939 as a player from SW Essen in Bamberg against Bavaria - and three for Berlin.

Trainer and Profession

After temporarily holding a coaching position in Iceland before the Second World War, he was responsible for one game for the Icelandic national football team in 1949 and was one of the first German coaches abroad after the war.

After his career, Buchloh initially embarked on an administrative career, suffered eleven broken bones during the war and was interned in France. Then sports diplomat, association trainer Niederrhein, where he won the national cup in 1951 , club trainer from 1952 to 1954 in the West Football League at Schwarz-Weiß Essen , representative of a large industrial company, before he started his own business. In the Association of German Football Teachers he was from the founding meeting on September 9, 1957 in Duisburg - 1st chairman: Paul Oßwald , 2nd chairman: Herbert Widmayer , treasurer: Fritz Buchloh - volunteered as treasurer for more than two decades and became an honorary member in 1978 appointed. Even after the founding of the Union of European Football Coaches in Vienna in 1980, Buchloh was a member of the Presidium as 2nd Vice President and Treasurer. At his hometown club VfB Speldorf he was also a manager and was appointed honorary chairman.

literature

• Willi Rüter: Mülheimer in the national jersey - Fritz Buchloh . In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung from 11./12. May 1955.
• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Fritz Tauber: German national football team: Player statistics from A to Z . 3. Edition. AGNON, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 , p. 23 (176 pages). (Date of death here: July 24, 1998)

Web links

• Fritz Buchloh in the database of weltfussball.de
• Fritz Buchloh in the database of EU-Football.info (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Fritz Buchloh - International Appearances . RSSSF.com . April 8, 2020. Accessed April 14, 2020.
2. ↑ Christoph Bausenwein: The last men . Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2003. ISBN 3-89533-425-1 . P. 228.
3. ↑ Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 71 .

See also

• Germany at the 1934 World Cup in Italy
• Germany at the 1938 World Cup in France