Gunter Schnaubelt

Gunter Siegfried Schnaubelt (born January 31, 1942 in Waidhofen an der Ybbs ; † November 4, 2012 in Vienna ) was an Austrian football referee .

Schnaubelt grew up in Zwettl , but came to Vienna as an electrician before starting his apprenticeship . There he also played at Helfort as a center forward. Due to numerous injuries, his wife Anna gave him the idea to end his career and become a referee. Therefore, in 1962, he passed the referee examination with the Vienna referees committee. In 1965, after moving to Korneuburg , Schnaubelt joined the Lower Austrian Referees College.

From 1976 Schnaubelt headed games of the second division (second highest division). And here, too, he was not spared from injuries. At a game of the DSV Leoben in Donawitz , he ran into a defender, where he lost his front teeth . Nevertheless, he still led the game to the end in pain. Schnaubelt, who was part of the Bundesliga referees' squad until 1982, managed 30 games during this time. He formed a team with Heinz Holzmann and Heinz Bugl , with one acting as referee and the other two as linesman . Until he reached the age limit in 1990, Schnaubelt was a member of the regional league judges.

Schnaubelt was considered to be a strict referee who enforced the rules. Nevertheless, he had only two dropped games. Once in the lowlands of the last class, after the imposition of a penalty against the home club, whereupon he was physically attacked by a player, and once when he removed no fewer than five players from the home team in the Lower Austrian regional league in Neunkirchen , whereupon the Minimum number of seven players no longer stood on the field.

The highlights of his career include, in addition to referee assignments at the Army World Cup in Liège and Alkmaar , a deployment as linesman (referee was Adolf Matthias ) in the international match between the German Democratic Republic against Hungary (November 19, 1980 in Halle (Saale) ; result 2: 0).

After finishing his playing career Schnaubelt hit a career as an official one. From 1990 to 2007 he was a referee observer in the Regionalliga and from 1991 to 2000 also a referee observer in the Bundesliga. He set a milestone in the 1980s when he introduced IT to the Lower Austrian Referees Board, for which he served as administrator until 2007 .

Professionally it brought Schnaubelt that the second chance the Matura caught up, to the Governing Council in the Federal Ministry of Defense .

In addition to football, Schnaubelt was also interested in chess , where he worked for the Korneuburg chess club. There he was one of the most successful players in the club and won the Korneuburg City Championships twice, along with numerous other titles . In addition, he was committed to the club's youth work.

Schnaubelt was buried at the Baumgartner Friedhof (group L, number 18) in Vienna.

Web links

• Lutz Lischka in "whistle - The Austrian Referee Newspaper ", issue No. 5/2007, pages 14 and 15: Der Bullige (PDF document, 1.63 MB; accessed on May 23, 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Franz Brandstetter in "SV Korneuburg Top aktuell, Episode 62" (PDF document, 33 KB; accessed on May 23, 2013)