Günter Rehbein

Günter Rehbein (born May 8, 1936 ) is a former German football player . From 1954 to 1963 he completed a total of 243 league games in the old first-class football league and scored eleven goals. For Eintracht Bad Kreuznach from 1954 to 1960 in the Südwestoberliga 166 games with nine goals and from 1960 to 1963 at VfR Mannheim in the Oberliga Süd 77 games with two hits.

career

In the southwest, until 1960

After promotion in 1954, Günter Rehbein played with the team from the Nahe valley , Eintracht Bad Kreuznach, six years in the Southwest Football League, continuously as a top performer and regular player. From 1955 under the training direction of ex-national player Jupp Rasselnberg . At the end of his first league season in 1954/55, on June 25, 1955, the 19-year-old talented outside runner was appointed to the newly installed junior national team (U 23) of the DFB by national coach Sepp Herberger . The international match against Yugoslavia ended in Frankfurt with a 3-3 draw, and Rehbein was the right wing runner in action. In the 1957/58 season he achieved the best placement with his teammates Achim Melcher and Richard Sehrt with seventh place. On December 8, 1957, the 2-1 home win in front of 10,000 spectators against 1. FC Kaiserslautern , in whose ranks Fritz Walter , Ottmar Walter and Horst Eckel were still three active players from the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, contributed to this. With the last round match day in 1959/60, April 24, 1960, with the 3-1 home win against SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken , he ended his active time with SG Eintracht Bad Kreuznach and moved to the South Football League for the 1960/61 season to VfR Mannheim.

In Mannheim, 1960 to 1968

In the square city, with the blue-white-reds from VfR, the newcomer from Bad Kreuznach completed all 30 league games straight away in 1960/61 and the lawn players took ninth place in the Oberliga Süd. In the two final rounds of the Oberliga era, 1961/62 and 1962/63, the German champion of 1949 came , but not beyond double-digit places and thus could not qualify for the new Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season. After a total of 77 league games with two goals, Rehbein's football league ended with VfR in the summer of 1963. From the round 1963/64 he played with the VfR in the second -rate regional soccer league south . Along with goalkeeper Hans Benzler and striker Rudolf Bast, he was one of the top performers in the first two rounds, and VfR came in sixth. After the low in the 1966 world championship year - VfR only ended up in 12th place - the new goalscorer Franz Schäffner , midfielder Wolfgang Platz and defensive player Walter Duttenhofer took fifth and sixth place again in 1967 and 1968 Regional league south. After a total of 150 league games in the regional league with seven goals, Günter Rehbein ended his high-class playing career in the summer of 1968.

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• 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 .