Georg Pledl

Georg Pledl (born September 21, 1919 ), also called "Schorsch", is a former German football player. The defender of TSV Munich 1860 played 185 point games from 1945 to 1953 in the first-class Oberliga Süd and scored nine goals. When he was active with the "Löwen" in the Nazi era in the Gauliga Bayern , he won the Tschammer Cup on November 15, 1942 with a 2-0 final victory over FC Schalke 04 .

Career

Gauliga (1938-1945)

From the 1938/39 round, "Schorsch" Pledl, who was deployable as a defender and middle runner in the World Cup system at that time, was a member of the Munich 1860 league team. He made his debut on December 4, 1938 in a 3-1 away win at SpVgg Fürth in the first team of the blue-whites from Giesing. Pledl, like other players of the sixties - Rockinger, Schmidhuber, Schiller, Burger, both Jandas, Ertl - received the draft notice immediately after the start of the war and the weakened team took seventh place in 1939/40. When Heinz Krückeberg and Ernst Willimowski had two new attackers for the 1940/41 war season, the championship in the Bavarian division won in 1860. In the final round of the German championship Pledl was not used due to the war. The "Löwen" defense mostly competed in the group games with field players Georg Bayerer, Franz Schmeißer, Franz Graf, Josef Wendl and Franz Hammerl . Under coach Max Schäfer , Pledl and colleagues achieved third place in Bavaria in the 1941/42 season. In the Reichsbund Cup he acted on November 9, 1941 in the 3: 4 defeat against Cologne / Aachen in the Bayern team as a defender at the side of fellow players such as Robert Bernard , Albin Kitzinger , Ludwig Janda and Hans Fiederer . At the city game on November 23, 1941 from Munich against Sofia (1: 1) the defender represented the Munich colors.

Pledl experienced his greatest sporting success in the competition for the Tschammer Cup in 1942 . After victories over SK Rapid Wien (5: 3), Stuttgarter Kickers (3: 1), SS SG Strasbourg (15: 1), FV Stadt Dudelange (7: 0) and TuS Lipine (6: 0) the Eleven from Munich also surprisingly won the final against the German champions of 1942, FC Schalke 04 around Ernst Kuzorra and Fritz Szepan on November 15, 1942 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium in front of 80,000 spectators . Pledl asserted himself in the duels against the Schalke national left winger Adolf Urban . The press generally praised the sixties as a deserved winner, with the defense around Schmeisser, Pledl and Bayerer being seen as a decisive advantage over Schalke. The players in the cup success each received 180 RM , a certificate, a silver signet ring and a watch as a prize.

Oberliga Süd (1945-1953)

The best performance with the "Löwen" in the Oberliga Süd experienced "Schorsch" Pledl in the 1947/48 season when he reached the runner-up championship. The defensive strategist had played 28 league games (1 goal) under coach Max Schäfer at the side of teammates such as goal scorer Otto Thanner (24 goals), Franz Hammerl , Georg Bayerer and Fritz Sommer . In the 2-1 home win on March 14, 1948 against 1. FC Nürnberg, the stadium on Grünwalder Strasse was visited by 58,200 spectators. The final round of the German soccer championship on July 18, 1948 was lost in Worms against 1. FC Kaiserslautern with 1: 5 goals. On October 2, 1949, Pledl defended the 2-2 draw in Munich in the representative game in the selection of southern Germany against northern Germany. His opponent was the left winger Alfred Beck .

The games in the competition for the regional cup in 1949/50 were a high point in the sporting career of the defender from Munich 1860. The final game took place on March 19, 1950 in Stuttgart in front of 89,000 spectators against the Palatinate. Bayern won the regional cup in 1949/50 with two goals from Fürth center forward Horst Schade . The absence of the injured playmaker Fritz Walter on the part of the Palatinate helped that the defensive formation of the Bayern-Elf with Franz Süßmann (goalkeeper), the defenders Georg Pledl - Ludwig Merz and the runner row with Gunther Baumann , Jakob Streitle and Herbert Moll without conceding a goal stayed.

Under coach Fred Harthaus , the veteran again completed 22 league games (1 goal) alongside Kurt Mondschein , Ludwig Zausinger and the young Ernst Wechselberger for the sixties in the 1952/53 season , but at the end of the round the "lions" rose as penultimate in the table the 2nd League South from. The senior went the way into the second division of his club and also had an active part in the promotion in the 1954/55 season. He was replaced in this round by Alfons Stemmer as a middle runner and ended his playing career in the summer of 1955.

Web links

• Georg Pledl in the weltfussball.de database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Spoon Meier. P. 156.
2. ^ Spoon Meier. P. 164.
3. ^ Spoon Meier. P. 163.
4. ↑ Greens, Melchior. P. 92.
5. ↑ Greens, Melchior. P. 96.

literature

• Hardy Grüne, Claus Melchior: Legends in White and Blue. 100 years of football history for a traditional Munich club. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 1999. ISBN 3-89533-256-9 .
• 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.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• Antonöffelmeier: The "lions" under the swastika. The TSV Munich from 1860 under National Socialism. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-89533-645-4 .