Georg Lechner (soccer player, 1918)

Georg Lechner senior (born October 6, 1918 ; † unknown) was a German soccer player and coach who played a total of 201 point games in the first class of the time at TSV Schwaben Augsburg and TSG Ulm 1846 in the Oberliga Süd from 1945 to 1953, and as a playmaker and Striker has scored 78 goals. The offensive player, who came up as a half-forward and a center-forward in the World Cup system , had previously played first-class soccer in the Gauliga Bayern at TSV Schwaben Augsburg and celebrated great successes with the Bayern team. On 30 June 1940 won Lechner with Gauauswahl Bayern the finale to the Reichsbund Cup with 3: 1 against the Gauauswahl Saxony while scoring one goal and. On September 7, 1941, the Saxons retaliated in the final in Chemnitz with a 2-0 win against the defending champion, with Lechner again in the Bayern district selection as a half-striker and playmaker.

career

Gauliga

Georg Lechner had come to SSV Schwaben Augsburg from the Augsburg district club SV Kriegshaber and achieved promotion to the Gauliga Bayern with his team in the 1939/40 season . Due to the achievements he showed, the young offensive player was appointed to the regional selection of Bavaria for the regional selection competition for the Reichsbund Cup. In the Gauliga, the Swabians were not among the top group, but playmaker and striker Lechner were among the best players. He continued to play in the Bavarian selection.

Oberliga Süd, 1945 to 1953

In the first two seasons of the Oberliga Süd after the end of World War II, 1945 to 1947, the 65-time national striker Ernst Lehner was still the dominant figure at TSV Schwaben Augsburg. Wilhelm Dziarstek on the defensive and Georg Lechner on the offensive acted as top performers at his side . Dziarstek and Lechner were also in the selection of South Germany, which won 4: 3 against West Germany on June 30, 1946 in front of 64,000 spectators in Cologne. Herbert Binkert , Max Morlock , Robert Schlienz , Lechner and Karl Barufka formed the attack line and Lechner distinguished himself as a two-time goal scorer. From the 1947/48 season onwards , Lehner stormed for Viktoria Aschaffenburg . In a very long season with 38 game days - the season started on September 6, 1947, catch-up games ended on July 4 (not counting the game on August 29, 1948 between Eintracht Frankfurt and 1. FC Nürnberg) - and six relegated teams at the end of the season , the “purple-whites” were mostly in the middle of the table. Lechner scored 20 goals and TSV Schwaben Augsburg finished 11th.

When the Swabians prevailed 6-2 in the home game against Rot-Weiss Frankfurt on November 16, 1947 , Lechner was involved with three goals. In the 6-1 away win against VfR Mannheim on January 11, 1948 , he even scored four goals. In 1948/49 Lechner and his teammates received support from Wilhelm Struzina . TSV Schwaben Augsburg finished 7th in a 16-player league and local rivals BCA managed to stay in the league in the last second with a 1-0 win in the decider against TSG Ulm 1846 . Lechner had played all 30 point games and scored eight goals. The first half of the 1949/50 season ended Schwaben Augsburg after 15 matchdays with 12:18 points in 15th place. The previous defense chief Dziarstek ended his playing career on January 8, 1950 against SpVgg Fürth (1: 4). At the end of the season, TSV Schwaben Augsburg finished 11th with 26:34 points - tied with BCA - and veteran Lechner had proven his class in 30 league appearances with nine goals. In his penultimate season with TSV, 1950/51 , he scored seven goals in 22 league games and TSV finished 13th in an 18-league. When the “Purple-Whites” in 1951/52 finished 15th with 19:41 points and thus had to start relegation to the 2nd South League , Lechner only played two home games in the first half of the season due to illness and injury. 1 against Aschaffenburg; 1-0 against Stuttgarter Kickers). After a total of 182 league appearances with 76 goals - making Lechner the top league record scorer for the Swabians - he stopped playing at TSV in the summer of 1952 and joined the league promoted TSG Ulm 1846 in the 1952/53 round . Another 19 league appearances with two goals followed in Ulm, but the 34-year-old could not prevent the immediate relegation of the "Spatzen".

From 1961 to 1963 Lechner worked as a coach in the Oberliga Süd at TSV Schwaben Augsburg, as well as in the debut year of the second-rate Regionalliga Süd in 1963/64 , when he and his club took fourth place with players like nephew Georg Lechner and Kurt Haseneder .

Selection appointments

In the competition of the Reichsbund Cup 1939/40, the young talent from Swabia Augsburg was used for the first time on December 3, 1939 in Munich in the regional selection of Bavaria in the game against Württemberg (3-0). In the first long winter of the war in 1939/40, Lechner was invited to a viewing course by Reich trainer Sepp Herberger . Other offensive players such as Hans Biallas , Hermann Eppenhoff , August Gottschalk , Herbert Burdenski , Gerhard Graf , Paul Matzkowski , Hans Fiederer , Karl Barufka and Willi Arlt took part. On June 30, 1940, he won the Reichsbund Cup with the Bavarian regional selection 3-1 against Saxony. Lechner, together with Ludwig Janda and Hans Fiederer, formed the inner storm of the winning Bavarian selection. In the 1940/41 competition he moved into the final again with the defending champion Bavaria. That was lost on September 7, 1941 in Chemnitz with 0-2 against hosts Saxony. The last assignment in the Bavarian district selection dates from November 9, 1941 in the game against Cologne / Aachen, which was lost 3: 4 and Lechner scored all three goals for Bayern.

After the end of the first league round in southern Germany, 1945/46, Lechner was appointed to the representative selection of southern Germany for the game on June 30, 1946 in Cologne against western Germany. The Augsburg player scored two goals in the 4: 3 of the south.

Lechner is noted in the player lexicon: "Without the Second World War, the director and long-time captain of the Swabian Augsburg team would almost certainly have achieved international honors."

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 , p. 383.
• 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 .

Web links

• Georg Lechner in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of TSV Kriegshaber on tsv-kriegshaber.de
2. ^ Raphael Keppel : Germany's international soccer games. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sport- und Spielverlag Hitzel, Hürth 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 , p. 175.
3. ↑ Werner Skrentny: When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945-1963. P. 167