Gerhard Krug

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Gerhard Krug
Personnel
birthday August 5, 1936
date of death June 12, 2011
Place of death HamburgGermany
position Striker , then defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1956-1965 Hamburger SV 240 (41)
1 Only league games are given.

Gerhard Krug (born August 5, 1936 ; † June 12, 2011 in Hamburg ) was a German football player for Hamburger SV , who won the German championship in 1960 and the 1963 DFB Cup with the "Rothosen" . After finishing his active sports career, he worked as a journalist .

career

Football, 1946 to 1966

“Gerd” Krug initially worked for Post SV and HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst in his youth before he joined Hamburger SV in 1951 at the age of 15. There he already played with Uwe Reuter , Uwe Seeler , Klaus Stürmer and Jürgen Werner in the A-youth. Looking back, he stated in 2008:

“We had an outstanding youth team. Klaus Stürmer was also there. Anyone who was good in Hamburg also wanted to play at HSV. And in my youth it was really fun with Günther Mahlmann. He is considered to be the father of the championship team from 1960. And after the games in Ochsenzoll there was oxtail soup in the Lindenhof. "

The junior, who initially played a wing or half-striker, moved up during the round of 1955/56 - in the league it had not yet been used - during the final round of the German championship in the league team of the coaching team Günter Mahlmann and Martin Wilke . After the clear 5-0 defeat in Dortmund on May 30, Krug and his youth colleague Uwe Reuter were used together for the first time on June 3, 1956 as right and left wingers in the group game against VfB Stuttgart. In the 2-1 success against the eventual German champions Borussia Dortmund on June 10th in front of 80,000 spectators in the Volksparkstadion, the HSV attack consisted of Krug, Klaus Stürmer, Walter Schemel , Günter Schlegel and Uwe Reuter.

In his first year in the league , 1956/57, Krug completed 29 league games and scored 18 goals. In addition to him, Reuter (27-6) and Jürgen Werner (21-1) were two other students in the regular line-up of the diamond bearers. Immediately before the start of the round, on August 5, 1956, he stormed in the Karlsruhe Wildpark Stadium in the DFB Cup final of 1956 in the 1: 3 defeat against the defending champions Karlsruher SC on the right HSV wing. Krug scored his first goals in the Oberliga Nord on the third match day, September 2, 1956, in a 6-1 win over local rivals FC St. Pauli . He formed the right attacking side with right-winger Reuter on half-right and, like Uwe Seeler and Günter Schlegel, scored two goals. When in the second half of the season the eleven from Millerntor were even played out with 9-0 goals and Klaus Stürmer was celebrated as a five-time goalscorer, he only shone on the right wing as a flank giver. With his 18 goals, he took second place behind Uwe Seeler (31) in the internal HSV goalscorer list. In the final round, the northern champion prevailed against the Duisburger Spielverein, as well as 1. FC Nürnberg and 1. FC Saarbrücken and was in the final of the German championship on June 23, 1957 . The pitcher playing on the half-left equalized the lead by Alfred Kelbassa in the 24th minute , but in the end the Dortmund defending champion prevailed with 4-1 goals. In the year of the football world championship in Sweden in 1958, Krug and his teammates again entered the final of the German championship. But also on May 18th in Hanover, a rival from the west of football prevailed, the “Royal Blues” from FC Schalke 04 brought the “championship cup” to Gelsenkirchen with a 3-0 win.

The long-awaited title win succeeded in the third attempt at the final on June 25, 1960 in Frankfurt with a 3-2 victory against the favored West Champion 1. FC Köln. Tactically, the Krug, now retrained as a defender, played a key role. As a left defender, he successfully fought the still dangerous national right wing winger Helmut Rahn and ensured that the "goal scorer of the World Cup tournaments 1954 and 1958" remained without a hit in the final. In the attack, Gert Dörfel now supplied striker Uwe Seeler with flanks in a row on the left wing . In the 1960/61 series, Krug belonged to the circle of HSV players who made history with the exciting games in the European Cup against Young Boys Bern , FC Burnley and in the semifinals with three games against FC Barcelona . On April 28, 1963, the Oberliga Nord era ended with the 30th matchday. "Gerd" Krug played 176 league games for Hamburger SV from 1956 to 1963 and scored 38 goals, won seven championship titles in a row, made it to the final of the German championship three times, was part of the 1960 championship team and won in Scored six goals in 33 finals for the German championship. Krug is quoted by Formeseyn as follows about the frequency of training in the upper league era and the unconditional ambition of the student trio:

“We trained four times a week. Uwe Seeler trained more there, and also played internationally. He was taking it much more seriously. We felt like playing a bit, we thought it was really funny, but we all wanted to be teachers. Uwe Reuter later became an English teacher, Jürgen Werner a Latin teacher. Well, and I would have wanted to be a German teacher ... "

For the selection of the NFV Krug played three representative games against southern and western Germany in 1957, 1959 and 1960.

Krug celebrated his last success on August 14, 1963, when he and HSV won the DFB Cup final with 3-0 goals against the reigning German champions Borussia Dortmund, ten days before the start of the newly installed Bundesliga . The final triangle with Horst Schnoor and his defender colleague Jürgen Kurbjuhn kept the BVB attackers Reinhold Wosab , Franz Brungs and Gerd Cyliax safe in check. On the debut day of the Bundesliga, August 24, 1963, the newly crowned DFB Cup winner scored the first point in the Bundesliga with a 1-1 draw at Preußen Münster. After the 3-0 home win on matchday four, coach Martin Wilke's team led the table with 7-1 points. After the 1-1 home draw on March 4, 1964 in the European Cup Winners' Cup against Olympique Lyon , there was a downgrading defeat at TSV 1860 Munich with 2: 9 three days later , with "Gerd" Krug playing as the right wing runner. At the end of the round, Hamburg was in sixth place and Krug had played 26 of 30 rounds. In the second year of the Bundesliga, the former series champions slipped back to 11th place with a negative point account. Uwe Seeler's Achilles tendon rupture on February 20, 1965 in the away game at Eintracht Frankfurt certainly contributed to this. In the third Bundesliga season 1965/66 Krug came in addition to the two defensive newcomers Egon Horst and Willi Schulz only to 12 league appearances and scored three goals. Two goals resulted from the 8-0 home win on February 12, 1966 against Karlsruher SC, when he was able to act again in midfield at the end of his playing career. With the game on May 14, 1966 at 1. FC Köln, he ended his playing career with four goals after 64 Bundesliga games.

Supervisory board HSV

On October 6, 2008, the senior citizens' assembly of Hamburger SV Krug elected senior delegates to the HSV supervisory board . On June 11, 2011, the association announced that Krug had resigned from his supervisory board mandate with immediate effect for health reasons. Krug died a day later at the age of 74.

Gerhard Krug was buried in the Nienstedten cemetery.

journalist

After his active career, Krug studied German literature , literature and sports and was a writing editor for the newspapers Die Welt and Welt am Sonntag . Afterwards he was a reporter for Stern and deputy editor-in-chief at Tempo . He then worked as a television journalist. In 1992 he became coordinator for politics and society and from 1995 to 1998 editor-in-chief for television at Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg .

From 2001 to 2009 he was involved at the Electronic Media School (EMS) for the next generation of journalists. He was a member of the jury for the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs Prize for TV Journalism. Krug was married to the journalist Birgit Lahann . His sons Christian and Matthias also took up this profession.

Honors

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Axel Formeseyn: Unser HSV, Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, p. 14.
  2. Jankowski / Pistorius / Prüss: Football in the North, 100 Years of the North German Football Association, North German Football Association 2005, p. 363.
  3. Gerd Krug resigns from the supervisory board ( memento of the original dated June 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hsv.de
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