Georg Herbold

Georg Herbold (born December 2, 1919 in Groß-Rohrheim ; † July 9, 1998 ) was a German football player for SV Waldhof Mannheim and played 242 games in the Oberliga Süd from 1945 to 1954 , scoring 88 goals.

career

Youth and beginnings, until 1945

"Schorsch" Herbold moved from the Waldhof youth to the extended squad of the Gauliga team for the 1937/38 season, which took third place in Gau 14 Baden behind champions VfR Mannheim and 1. FC Pforzheim . The striker made his debut in the Waldhof first team on October 3, 1937 in a game against FC Germania Brötzingen. After that, the mostly used as a winger talent played all the remaining 16 games of the season and scored five goals. In the 1938/39 season it was enough for Waldhof behind champions VfR Mannheim, the tied 1. FC Pforzheim and Freiburg FC only to fourth place, but Herbold had played all 18 rounds and won the top scorer in Gau Baden with 17 goals. The regular formation of the Waldhof team - Helmut Schneider , Ernst Heermann , Josef Erb , Reinhold Fanz , Ludwig Günderoth - which in the round 1938/39 after three games against SC Wacker Vienna in the semi-finals of the Tschammer Cup in the final on April 28th In 1940 he moved in against 1. FC Nürnberg , but he was not yet a member.

Oberliga Süd, 1945 to 1954

On November 4, 1945, SV Waldhof won a 1-1 draw at FSV Frankfurt on the start day of the South Football League . The first derby of the old rivals VfR and Waldhof Mannheim for upper league points took place on December 23, 1945 on Waldhof Platz. Waldhof won 3-0 goals and was also able to win the second leg on April 20, 1946 with 3-1 goals. In the Waldhof attack, Lipponer, Fanz, Schaudt, Herbold and Günderoth provided the goals. When on April 28, 1946 the Blau-Schwarzen were able to defeat 1. FC Nürnberg with goals from Herbold and Fanz 2-1, a record number of spectators was set for Mannheim with 33,000 visitors. At the end of the round, Waldhof took fourth place behind champions VfB Stuttgart , runner-up 1. FC Nürnberg and the Stuttgarter Kickers .

In the second year of the Oberliga Süd, 1946/47 , Waldhof won the runner-up behind 1. FC Nürnberg. In addition to “Schorsch” Herbold, goalkeepers Karl Vetter, Reinhold Fanz, Willi Rube and Paul Lipponer stood out as top performers in the team of coach Herbert Pahlke . The local rivals VfR - Hermann Jöckel , Philipp Rohr , Rudolf de la Vigne , Kurt Stiefvater - and VfL Neckarau - Fritz Balogh , Willi Preschle , Günter Sosna , Karl Gramminger , Martin Gramminger - ended up in 12th and 16th place in the table. When 1. FC Nürnberg was able to win the first German soccer championship after the Second World War in 1948 , the Waldhöfer in the Oberliga Süd had the champions from Franconia in the home game on September 21, 1947 with a 3-1 success - two goals by Herbold - both points accepted. Against the goal-hungry attack of the Stuttgarter Kickers - 113: 58 goals in this round - "Schorsch" Herbold and his teammates prevailed in the home game on October 5, 1947 with 4: 2 goals. After the 3-0 home win on February 15, 1948, Waldhof was in second place behind 1. FC Nürnberg. Herbold scored three goals in a 6: 4 home win on matchday 36 against SpVgg Fürth . The striker, who can be used in all attacking positions, scored a total of 18 hits in the 1947/48 round . The blue-black landed on the 6th place in the final table.

In the fourth league round in 1948/49 Georg Herbold won the top scorer's crown in the Oberliga Süd with 19 goals - together with Emil Maier from the champions Kickers Offenbach and Otto Thanner from TSV 1860 Munich . Since the local rival VfR Mannheim qualified as runner-up for the final round of the German championship in the south and surprisingly was able to bring the German championship to Mannheim on July 10, 1949 in Stuttgart against Borussia Dortmund , this personal award of the 29-year-old attacker almost went under . Herbold had played all 30 league games and Waldhof ended up in 5th place in the table with a goal difference of 54:43 goals. Ernst Löttke , the lawn player's center forward and their most successful round shooter, had 16 hits. Herbold was a double goal scorer in the games against Offenbach, Rödelsheim, Bayern Munich (second half of the season) and 1. FC Nürnberg. On the sixth match day, October 24, 1948, he distinguished himself as a three-time goalscorer in a 3-1 home win against Bayern Munich.

In the next few years, the “Waldhof boys” went down in the table. Also reaching the semi-finals in the first DFB Cup competition after the Second World War in 1953 after victories against Eintracht Braunschweig, SpVgg Fürth and Concordia Hamburg as well as the 2: 3 defeat in Koblenz on March 8, 1953 against the eventual cup winner Rot-Weiss Essen , could not prevent the athletic crash. In the year of the soccer world championship 1954 Waldhof rose as the table penultimate from the Oberliga Süd. The 34-year-old veteran Herbold had played again in 28 games and had mostly played as the right runner, scoring five goals. Gerhard Zeilinger explains:

“ The 2-0 defeat at VfB Stuttgart on April 4, 1954 not only meant SV Waldhof's farewell game after 40 years of membership in the first division, the 35-year-old“ Schorsch ”Herbold, the last of the legendary 'Waldhof boys', was eliminated from the team the team of players; For 20 years he wore the blue-black-blue jersey of SV Waldhof with a short break in the war. "

After relegation Georg Herbold ended his playing career at SV Waldhof and took over the position of player-coach at FV Hockenheim 08 in the 1st Amateur League North Baden for the 1954/55 round . Various coaching positions at Olympia Lampertheim , SV 98 Schwetzingen , TSV Pfungstadt and FC Alemannia Groß-Rohrheim followed.

Selection appointments, 1946 to 1950

The offensive qualities of "Schorsch" Herbold, in particular his pronounced technical ability to combine with goal danger, also made use of the city selection of Mannheim and the North Baden selection. Outstanding was the 1949/50 state cup of the association teams , where the contract players of the major leagues were allowed and the East German associations took part. In the qualification, Nordbaden prevailed on August 21, 1949 in Karlsruhe with a 3-1 win against Südbaden. In the preliminary round, however, on September 18, 1949 in Mannheim, the later finalist Pfalz was unbeatable with the Walter brothers in a 4-1 victory. Herbold scored the consolation goal for North Baden in front of 22,000 spectators . In the Baden attack, right winger Herbold, club mate Paul Lipponer and three VfR colleagues Kurt Stiefvater , Ernst Langlotz and Rudolf de la Vigne played . In April 1950 Herbold also belonged to a screening course given by national trainer Herberger.

literature

• Gerhard Zeilinger, Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945–1970, Football Archive Mannheim, 1995, ISBN 3-929295-14-8 .
• 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 .
• Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Publishing house regional culture. Ubstadt-Weiher 2016. ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 . Pp. 340/341.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait at FuPa.net , accessed on December 23, 2017
2. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 340
3. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger, Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970, p. 18.
4. ↑ Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970, p. 95.