Georg Siegel (soccer player)
Georg Siegel (born November 21, 1918 , † after 1952 ) was a German football player .
Career
Siegel played for SV Waldhof Mannheim as a defender - with interruptions - from 1935 to 1952.
At the beginning he was in the Gauliga Baden from 1935 to 1939 , in one of 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the uniform top division in the German Reich , the 1939/40 season in the North Baden group , active for the club . He also played the first half of the 1941/42 season and the 1944/45 season . During this time he won the North Baden Gaume Championship twice and the Baden Gaume Championship five times. He made his debut on December 6, 1936 in the 1-1 draw in the derby against VfR Mannheim as a left defender in the then World Cup system alongside center runner Ernst Heermann and center forward Otto Siffling .
Due to the success he was in the finals for the German championship in 1936/37 and 1939/40 a total of nine times. When he first participated, he played five of six games in Group 4 and was eliminated from the competition with his team in third place, as only the four group winners played the semi-finals. In his second appearance, he played nine games, including the two third-place games . Since the first encounter with SK Rapid Wien on July 21st with the result of 4: 4 after extra time did not produce a winner, this encounter was repeated a week later and lost 2: 5.
In the cup competition for club teams created in 1935 for the Tschammer Cup , it was used in five games in 1937 and 1938 ; 1939 in eight, 1941 in two and 1942 in one.
He made his debut on August 29, 1937 in a 2-0 first-round win over VfB Friedberg , before failing 2-1 at FC Schalke 04 after four more games in the semifinals . In 1938 he and his team fell out with the 3-2 defeat against SK Rapid Wien in the quarterfinals. In 1939, however, after seven games, he reached the final, which was not played until April 28, 1940, but was lost 2-0 to 1. FC Nuremberg in the Berlin Olympic Stadium in front of 60,000 spectators.
The 1940/41 season he was active in the Gauliga Bayern for SpVgg Fürth , for which he was also used in four games of the Tschammerpokal competition, the second half of the 1942/43 season and the following season for Lufthansa SG Berlin in the Gauliga Berlin -Brandenburg . In October and November 1941, the Waldhof defender also played two games against Moselland (6: 2) and the Lower Rhine (1: 3) in the regional selection of North Baden. As a player in the Berlin-Brandenburg district selection team , he also took part in the competition for the Reichsbund Cup in 1941/42 . In the replay of the semifinal match against the Gauselection team Nordmark , which had previously ended in a 1-1 draw at the Poststadion in Berlin on September 7, 1942 , he was used on September 27, 1942 in the Hoheluft stadium in Hamburg in the 4-1 defeat.
After the end of the Second World War he was in the Oberliga Süd from 1945 to 1952 , one of initially three and later expanded to five top German leagues. With the second place at the end of the 1946/47 season, he achieved the best result with SV Waldhof Mannheim. In May and October 1948 Siegel also represented the colors of Southern Germany in two representative games against Northwest (2: 1) and Northern Germany (1: 1). In the first game Jakob Streitle was his partner as defender against the Lower Rhine, Adolf Knoll . In total, he had played 201 league games for the "blue-black" and scored 20 goals.
successes
- Gaumeister Baden 1936 , 1937 , 1940 , 1942 , 1945
- Gaumeister Nordbaden 1940 , 1942
- Tschammer Cup finalist 1939
literature
- 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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 364 .
Web links
- Georg Siegel in the database of weltfussball.de
- Georg Siegel in the database of the German Football Association
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Siegel, Georg |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1918 |
DATE OF DEATH | after 1952 |