Georg Kennemann

Georg Kennemann (born April 21, 1913 in Nuremberg ; † February 7, 1987 ) was a German football player .

Career

Until 1939

Georg Kennemann was a real Nuremberg man who grew up in the Johannis district. He started playing soccer at Bayern Kickers Nürnberg as a child . He later moved to FSV 83 Gostenhof Nürnberg and from 1933 to 1939 he played for SpVgg Fürth in the Bavarian Gauliga. The Gauligen were the highest division in German football back then. The best years of SpVgg Fürth, which was German champions in 1914, 1926 and 1929, were over in 1933. Only in 1935 was she again, with Georg Kennemann as a player, in the final round of the German football championship, but was eliminated in the group games.

Georg Kennemann was a giant of almost 1.90 meters and always played as a middle runner. He was a pure "cleaner" who saw his goal in keeping the penalty area "clean". Although he had a good feel for the ball, he did not shy away from a tough style of play in fulfilling his task. Because of this way of playing and also because of his "loose mouth" he was feared by the opponents, but also by the referees. Georg Kennemann was a police officer by profession and worked for the criminal police.

After 1939

In 1939 he moved to 1. FC Nürnberg, which he belonged to until the end of his career in 1951. In total, including the friendlies, he played in 330 games for the club, including 134 competitive games in which he scored four goals. He played his last league game for 1. FC Nürnberg on November 5, 1950. He was replaced by Gunther Baumann , who had moved from the Stuttgarter Kickers to the "Club". The high point in Georg Kennemann's career was the 1947/48 season , as 1 FC Nürnberg fought for the championship in what was then the football league south . In the preliminary round of the German soccer championship, it was the first to take place after 1945, they won the preliminary round without a fight over the east zone champion SG Planitz and in the intermediate round 3-2 over FC St. Pauli . In the final they faced the team from 1. FC Kaiserslautern . 1 FC Nürnberg won this game with 2-1 goals, whereby Georg Kennemann managed to score goals from 1. FC Kaiserslautern, who u. a. played with Fritz Walter and Ottmar , because the goal conceded by the Lauterer was an own goal by Hans Uebelein I. Kennemann formed an excellent runner in this game together with Gerhard Bergner and Robert Gebhardt .

No international matches could take place between 1945 and 1950 because German football was outlawed in international sport. Therefore, so-called representative games took place between the selected teams of the German top leagues during these years. These games were extremely popular with the German audience and audience numbers between 50,000 and 60,000 were not uncommon. Georg Kennemann played on March 24, 1946 in Stuttgart in the south selection, which defeated the west 3-0. He formed the runner row with the old international Andreas Kupfer and Albin Kitzinger , both from 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 . On May 19, 1948, he was in Frankfurt am Main in the southern team, which defeated the northwest with 2-1 goals. On October 17, 1948 he played in Nuremberg with the southern selection, in which u. a. his club colleagues Adolf Knoll , Max Morlock and Hans Pöschl were 1: 1 against the north. He played the last game in the south selection on October 2, 1949 in Munich , where it was 2-2 against the north. At that time there were u. a. Ludwig Janda from TSV 1860 Munich , who shortly thereafter became the first German football player to receive a professional contract in Italy , and his Nuremberg and Führer colleagues Adolf Knoll, Gunther Baumann, Robert Gebhardt, Richard Gottinger , Hans Pöschl, Otto Brenzke and Horst Schade .

Others

Georg Kennewick man who had hung his police profession on the nail, operating since 1950 in Nuremberg a Lotto - Toto - collection point.

Web links

• Georg Kennemann in the database of weltfussball.de
• Georg Kennemann on glubberer.de

literature

• Sports magazines The kicker and sports magazine
• Kicker-Almanach 1961. published by Copress-Verlag, Munich in cooperation with the German football-Illistrierte Kicker
• The legend of the club. Editors Christoph Bausenwein, Harald Kaiser and Bernd Siegler, Die Werkstatt publishing house, 1996
• The German football league 1946 to 1963. Sports and games publisher, Huerth, 1989