Gerd Komorowski

Gerd Komorowski (born June 18, 1949 in Sulzbach am Kocher ) is a former German soccer player who played 52 games in the Bundesliga between 1971 and 1977 for the clubs VfB Stuttgart and Karlsruher SC and scored one goal.

career

Jugend and VfB Stuttgart, 1956 to 1973

The student Gerd Komorowski started in the youth of his home club TSV Sulzbach and played there up to the B-youth. In 1966 he was brought into the high-performance youth department of the Swabian Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart. In the A-youth, the offensive player made it to the South German selection, where he also met the talents Uli Hoeneß (TSG Ulm 1846) and Paul Breitner (ESV Freilassing). From the A-youth he was transferred to the amateur team of VfB and won the championship in the amateur league North-Württemberg under coach Karl Bögelein in the 1970/71 season, thus moving his team into the competition for the German amateur championship . After successes with SpVgg Weiden ( Günter Helgert and Manfred Linz ), 1. FC Pforzheim and FC Gottmadingen , the VfB amateurs moved into the final. On July 10, 1971, however, defending champion SC Jülich 1910 prevailed in front of 8,000 spectators in Würzburg with a 1-0 victory and thus managed the title hat trick under coach Martin Luppen . The VfB talents Karl Berger , Wolfgang Frank , Roland Mall and Gerd Komorowski got a license contract for the 1971/72 round and switched to the professional team under coach Branko Zebec . "Komo" was used for the first time on March 4, 1972 in the 2-2 home draw against Arminia Bielefeld in the Bundesliga. Since he only came to ten missions under the new coach Hermann Eppenhoff in the 1972/73 season , he accepted the 1973/74 round - like teammate Karl Berger - the offer of the Baden rival Karlsruher SC from the Soccer Regionalliga Süd and moved to the fan-shaped city in North Baden.

Karlsruher SC, 1973 to 1978

In the last year of the old second-rate regional league system, 1973/74 , a new beginning was tackled in the Wildpark Stadium under the young coach Carl-Heinz Rühl . Komorowski started with his new teammates in the points round with a home game on August 11, 1973 against SpVgg Fürth . It brought KSC a false start with a 2-0 defeat and for the newcomer from Stuttgart a broken tibia and fibula in the middle of the first half. After the injury healed, coach Rühl used him in another 12 point games. The 1.73 m tall player with a very good basic speed was used on the defensive in the future and in 1974/75, in his debut year of the 2nd Bundesliga , he was part of the regular KSC line -up with 35 appearances, two points ahead the tied rivals FK Pirmasens and 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 won the championship in the southern season and thus also rose to the Bundesliga. In Baden's attack, center forward Bernd Hoffmann excelled with 25 goals and thus also won the top scorer's crown.

If the strong personal upheaval in the previously harmonious team squad by the newcomers Bredenfeld, O. Flindt-Bjerg, Kalb, Krauth, W. Schäfer and Struth in the first year of the Bundesliga, 1975/76 , was subsequently justified with relegation, the lack of cohesion resulted 1976/77 - significantly different financial remuneration with little to no difference in performance - to descent. With Balevski, Janzon and Sjöberg, another three newcomers had come to the wildlife park and the faction of the "climbers" played almost no role anymore. In the relegation battle, where team spirit can also play a decisive role in professional football compared to only individual ability, the KSC was inferior to the rivals from Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken and Bochum in the final phase and was relegated to the 2nd division one point behind. Komorowski was used in 19 games.

When he had to take a seat in the stands in 1977/78 under the successor of coach Bernd Hoss - who was dismissed after the 12th matchday despite the fact that KSC was ahead of the table -, Rolf Schafstall , Komorowski cut his cord from professional football , stopped in the summer of 1978 after another 15 appearances in the second division with the licensed football and joined the Offenburg FV in the amateur league Baden-Württemberg . The last league game for Karlsruher SC was completed by Komorowski on May 27, 1978 in a 1-0 away win against SV Waldhof Mannheim. In total, he completed 99 games with one goal for KSC from 1973 to 1978 in the Regionalliga Süd (13/1), 2nd Bundesliga (50/0) and Bundesliga (36/0). Further stations in the amateur area followed at 1. FC Pforzheim (1981/82), FG Rüppurr (1982/83), FV Kuppenheim (1983/84), FV Linkenheim (1984-86) and FV Leopoldshafen (1987-89), where as in Linkenheim, he was the player's coach.

After his playing career, the Swabian, who has become at home in Baden - he lives with his family in Leopoldshafen and is employed as a manager in the personnel area of ​​a Karlsruhe company in the field of vehicle technology, consumer goods and industrial technology - the Sulzbach, Eggenstein and Fortuna Kirchfeld clubs. From 1993 he played with the old men team of Alemannia Eggenstein and also played numerous celebrity games for VfB Stuttgart and Karlsruher SC.

literature

• “Up, you heroes!”, Magazine for football time stories, No. 17, Verlag Block Eins, February 28, 2010
• Stefan Radomski: Germany's big soccer teams, part 2: VfB Stuttgart, Kasseler Sportverlag, 1993, ISBN 3-928562-27-4
• Matthias Kropp: Germany's great football teams, part 11: Karlsruher SC, Agon-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-89609-115-8