Gerd Higi

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Gerd Higi (born February 8, 1919 , † April 12, 1990 in Mainz ) was a German football player and coach. The honorary captain of FSV Mainz 05 was a player, coach and official at the Rheinhessen. The defender played 115 league games and scored two goals in the Southwest Football League from 1945 to 1951 . From January 1955 to June 1957 he was a coach at Mainz 05 in the major league.

career

player

As a young player, Gerd Higi was already active in the " Fort Bingen " arena. He came in 1936/37 in the district class Rheinhessen as a left wing on twelve missions. The team of player-coach Clemens Weilbächer finished ninth. After this season, the zero five had to give up the "Fort Bingen" stadium; The new home ground was the municipal Herbert-Norkus-Kampfbahn built in 1928 - today's Bruchweg Stadium .

After the end of the Second World War, the Oberliga Südwest opened on January 6, 1946 with the game Mainz 05 against 1. FC Saarbrücken (2: 4) in front of 2,600 spectators. In 1946/47 the round was played in a series of eight; from January 12, 1947 to June 8, 1947. The 3-1 home win in front of 9,000 spectators with player-coach Helmut Schneider against 1. FC Kaiserslautern was outstanding . From the 1947/48 season there was a north and a south relay in the southwest.

Under coach Albert Heitz, the Red-Whites from Bruchweg Stadium finished eighth in a season of 13 in the 1948/49 season. Higi, now acting as a left defender, had played all 24 competitive games. His frequent defender partner was Josef Amadori , who was also used as a middle runner. Other regular players were Werner Barth, Erich Reith, the twelve-time goalscorer Karl-Heinz Wettig and Josef Meinhardt. This year three Mainz clubs were represented in the major league: Mainz 05, SpVg Weisenau and SG Gonsenheim . Both games were won against relegated Gonsenheim, in Weisenau there was a 2-2 draw and a 3-0 home win at Bruchweg.

From the 1950/51 season was played for the first time in a single-track Oberliga Südwest with 14 teams. With only 14:38 points, the zero five with the 12th place could just reach the league. The team around captain Higi had opened the round with coach Berno Wischmann , after six league games with 4-8 points, Hans Geiger took over as coach. Higi was a member of the team again with 24 appearances. The master baker ended his playing career and was a member of the game committee of his club from 1952.

Functionary and trainer

In the second season of coach Emil Izsó , 1954/55, things went badly at Mainz 05. In order to avoid relegation, Gerd Higi became volunteer trainer at Bruchweg from January 1955. After the 19th matchday, January 23, 1955, tied with 9:27 points, the Sportfreunde Saarbrücken and the zero five were bottom of the table. With a 9-0 home win on the next match day, January 30th, against Sportfreunde, the Higi-Elf catches up with fellow players like Eintracht Kreuznach, Eintracht Trier and FV Speyer. At the end of the round, Higi finished 14th with his eleven and thus achieved relegation. In the two other rounds in 1955/56 and 1956/57 as a part-time coach, he occupied 10th place with the Rheinhessen team and built the young talent Lothar Buchmann into the league eleven. In 1957 he resigned from the coaching position for professional reasons.

In the 2nd Bundesliga , the honorary captain jumped in twice as an interim coach: 1974/75 for three games after Uwe Klimaschefski and 1975/76 also for three games for Gerd Menne, who moved to Augsburg . In addition to his work as chairman of the game committee, Higi also worked for his club as head of the junior department and as a talent scout for years.

Gerd Higi was an institution and one of the post-war legends of Mainz 05.

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 .
  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963 . Klartext Verlag, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
  • Reinhard Rehberg, Christian Karn: Carnival on Bruchweg. The great years of Mainz 05. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-624-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Higi in the archive of FSV Mainz 05
  2. ^ Christian Karn: 1. FSV Mainz 05: From year to year 1925–2008. Bad Hersfeld 2008, OCLC 612998834 , p. 28.
  3. ^ Christian Karn: 1. FSV Mainz 05: From year to year 1925–2008. 2008, p. 29.
  4. ↑ Werner Skrentny: The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. 1996, p. 88.
personal data
SURNAME Higi, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1919
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1990
Place of death Mainz