Fritz Semmelmann

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Fritz Semmelmann (born July 24, 1928 in Bayreuth ; † June 17, 2011 ibid) was a German soccer player who took part in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne as an active member of the German amateur soccer team .

career

SpVgg Bayreuth until 1962

With the Spielvereinigung Bayreuth the outstanding outside runner Fritz Semmelmann only succeeded in the 1953/54 season of promotion to the 1st amateur league in Northern Bavaria. Personally, he had already won the amateur state cup in Hanover with 5-2 goals against Lower Saxony in 1953 with the Bayern association . In 1954 and 1955, the trained carpenter was twice in the Bavarian winning teams of the amateur competition. In the year of the soccer world championship in 1958 in Sweden Semmelmann won the runner-up with SpVgg Bayreuth before he was able to celebrate promotion to the 2nd league south as a champion at the age of 31 in the season 1958/59 - ahead of the city rivals FC and VfB. After the excellent fifth place in the debut year, the game association rose with the veteran Semmelmann in the round 1961/62 from the 2nd League South and he ended his playing career at the age of 34.

Amateur national team, B national team, 1953–1958

On April 29, 1953, the national league player Fritz Semmelmann from Bayreuth in Upper Franconia made his debut in the amateur national team at the game in Linz against Austria. It was the first game for the amateurs after the 1952 Olympic tournament in Helsinki. After goals from Zeitler, Schröder and Klug, the DFB team won 3-1 goals. At the side of center runner Herbert Schäfer and captain Hans Eberle , Semmelmann ensured the stability of the defense. In May 1953, national coach Sepp Herberger conducted screening courses with three test matches against the English professional team Bolton Wanderers during the final round of the German soccer championship and had invited the newcomer to the amateur national team. In all three matches in Regensburg, Berlin and Düsseldorf, the national coach tested the Bayreuth in the left runner position . Together with Gerhard Harpers and Herbert Schäfer he formed the runner row twice. At the end of the course, two more games against German national teams were held at the beginning of June. On June 4, the DFB selection in Augsburg against southern Germany and on June 6 in Berlin against a local city selection. Harpers, Schäfer and Semmelmann also formed the runner-up in these test matches. At the end of the game year 1953, the second appearance in the amateur national team followed on June 13 in the 1-0 success against France in Wuppertal. In September 1953 - Germany played World Cup qualifiers on August 19, October 11 and November 22 against Norway and Saarland - Herberger put the amateur in a test of a DFB selection against a Swiss selection on September 2 in Constance in the second half for Richard Gottinger . In 1954 the amateur national team only played one international match. On May 30th in Longwy against France. Semmelmann acted on his root position of the left outer runner. In July 1955, the Upper Franconian was a participant in a national team course at the Grünberg sports school. He played all three amateurs' international games in 1956, including the only game during the Olympic Tournament in Melbourne , which was lost 2-1 on November 24, 1956 against the eventual Olympic champion Soviet Union . On March 6, 1957, the amateur player from the 1st Amateur League North Bavaria was even in the B national team in the 4-0 victory in Munich against Austria. Together with Karl Borutta and Rudi Hoffmann , he formed the runner row. Helmut Rahn contributed two hits to the win. On March 27, he came to his second international B match. The players came entirely from the major leagues - Tilkowski (Herne), Mechnig (Worms), Keck (1. FC Saarbrücken), Borutta (Schalke), Hesse (KSC), Klodt (Schalke), Jagielski (Schalke), Glomb (Nuremberg) , Heinrich Müller (Nuremberg) and Siedl (KSC) - only Semmelmann played in the 1st amateur league in Northern Bavaria. Herberger even nominated the amateur after the convincing appearances in the B national team for the provisional squad for the international match of the A national team on April 3, 1957 in Amsterdam against Holland. This was followed by missions seven and eight in the amateur national team on May 15 and 19, 1957 and the renewed inclusion in the provisional squad of the A-Elf for the international match on May 22 in Stuttgart against Scotland. The 1956/57 season ended for Semmelmann with missions on June 20 and 29, 1957 in other teams of the DFB. On June 20, he played in a B selection against an A selection and on June 29 in Karlsruhe in the southern German selection against northern Germany. Together with Karl Mai and Werner Hesse, he formed the runner-up of the south in Karlsruhe, who of course had started with a top division selection, the exception being the exceptional footballer from Bayreuth. This ended the appointment of the amateur in the senior national team. He did not change to the league at all and with Horst Szymaniak the national coach had found a new top performer in the position of left runner. With his eleventh appearance in the amateur national team on May 7, 1958 in Gelsenkirchen in a 5-1 win against Curacao, Fritz Semmelmann ended his international career.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SpVgg mourns the loss of Fritz Semmelmann ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), entry on the SpVgg Bayreuth website.

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personal data
SURNAME Semmelmann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 2011
Place of death Bayreuth