Gunther Baumann (soccer player)

Gunther Baumann
Personnel
birthday	January 19, 1921
place of birth	Leipzig ,  Germany
date of death	February 7, 1998
position	Outside runner , middle runner
Juniors
Years	station
1936-1939	VfB Leipzig
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1939-1945	Hannover 96
1947-1949	Stuttgart Kickers	35 (4)
1949-1956	1. FC Nuremberg	164 (12)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1950-1951	Germany	2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1960-1963	FC Bayern Hof
1963-1964	Tasmania Berlin
1964-1965	1. FC Nuremberg
1965-1967	1. FC Schweinfurt 05
1967	TSV 1860 Munich
1967-1969	VfB Stuttgart
1969-1971	FC Bayern Hof
1971-1972	Alemannia Aachen
1972	SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg
1973-1974	VfR Mannheim
1976	1. FC Schweinfurt 05
	Hannover 96
	SpVgg Weiden
1 Only league games are given.

Gunther "Bello" Baumann (born January 19, 1921 in Leipzig ; † February 7, 1998 ) was a German football player and coach . From 1948 to 1956, Baumann played a total of 188 league games and scored 16 goals for the clubs Stuttgarter Kickers and 1. FC Nürnberg in the then first-class soccer Oberliga Süd . In the national team he was under national coach Sepp Herberger in 1950 and 1951 twice in games against Switzerland . He worked as a coach in the Bundesliga with the clubs 1. FC Nürnberg, TSV 1860 Munich and VfB Stuttgart . With the Munich "Lions" he won the runner- up in the 1966/67 season.

Career as a player

In the club

Gunther Baumann began his career in the school team of VfB Leipzig , where he made his debut as a center forward in the first team in the Gauliga Sachsen at the age of 16 and was invited by Reich coach Sepp Herberger to a course of the national team a year later . At the age of 18 he then moved to Hannover 96 in 1939 . However, he did not play long there, as he was drafted into the Wehrmacht soon after graduating from high school. As an officer he was taken prisoner by the English in Africa. In the prison camp he played in a selection that was actually only reserved for the English. Due to his performance he almost ended up at Sheffield United as a professional, but in the end they didn't dare to give a German a contract in Sheffield. In 1948 he was released from captivity and returned to Germany.

Leipzig was out of the question for him due to the political circumstances, so he ended up in southern Germany and joined the Stuttgarter Kickers in the Oberliga Süd. On May 9, 1948, he made his debut with Kickers in the Oberliga Süd and scored two goals as a half-striker for a 6-0 home win against Wacker Munich. In the 20-man league, the Kickers achieved a goal difference of 113: 58 goals and after a play-off on July 11, 1948 against FC Bayern Munich (5: 1), they came third. The ex-Leipzig had played the last eight rounds from May and three goals alongside teammates such as Siegfried Kronenbitter , Edmund Conen , Kurt Lauxmann (26 goals), Helmut Jahn (goalkeeper), Reinhard Schaletzki , Albert Sing , Hellmut Schmeißer and Franz Immigely scored for the Kickers. In the 1948/49 season he finished 8th with the blue-whites from Degerloch. He had played 26 league games (1 goal), mostly as a middle runner. For the 1949/50 season he joined 1. FC Nürnberg .

For this he played a total of 154 league games (twelve goals) by 1956 and came to a total of 274 missions for the club . In Nuremberg, Baumann initially played as a half-forward and outside runner. After Georg Kennemann's career ended, he moved to his position as a middle runner. In the 1950/51 season he won the championship in the south with Nuremberg under coach Hans Schmidt and in 1951/52 it was enough for the runner-up and re-entry into the final round of the German soccer championship .

The club newspaper of 1. FC Nürnberg described him in 1949 as the “tough guy” and criticized his “poor maneuverability”. After the 1955/56 season, Baumann ended his playing career at 1. FC Nuremberg under coach Franz Binder .

Selection player

With the German national student team, he won the world championship at the Academic World Games in Vienna in August 1939 with two games against Hungary (2-1) and Italy (3-0). Participants included Fritz Hack and Erwin Schädler .

Still as a player for the Stuttgarter Kickers, Baumann competed on March 13, 1949 in the representative selection of southern Germany in Hanover in a comparison against northern Germany. As a middle runner in the then World Cup system, he was the head of defense in front of goalkeeper Toni Turek von Ulm in 1846. In the 1949/50 season, the national cup competition was carried out with contract players and representatives from the DFV area also took part. The Bavarian team won the final on March 19, 1950 at the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart in front of 89,000 spectators with 2-0 against the representatives from the Palatinate. Baumann played right outside runner and veteran Jakob Streitle acted as middle runner. Center forward Horst Schade (SpVgg Fürth) scored both goals for the south. The Pfalz selection had to compete without the injured playmaker Fritz Walter . On November 11, 1950 Baumann was again in the South German selection in the game against the southwest in Ludwigshafen (2-2). It was the last test before the first international match after the end of World War II.

On November 22, 1950, at the age of 29, he made his national team debut in the first post-war international match against Switzerland . Baumann came as a middle runner and had the outside runners Andreas Kupfer and Karl Barufka by his side. The DFB-Elf won the game 1-0 in front of 115,000 spectators. After that, however, he only played a second international match in the second leg on April 15, 1951 in Zurich (3-2). Competitors in the middle runner position in the years up to the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland were in particular Jupp Posipal , Werner Liebrich , Robert Schlienz , Herbert Schäfer and Heinz Wewers . At the beginning of May 1954 he was reported to FIFA by the DFB in the 40 list, but was not accepted into the 22 group.

Career as a coach

After his active career he worked as a trainer at Hannover 96 , 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 , Bayern Hof , Tasmania Berlin , SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg , VfR Mannheim , SpVgg Weiden and Alemannia Aachen, among others .

After the station FC Bayern Hof in the Oberliga Süd (1960–1963) Baumann went to Tasmania Berlin for the 1963/64 season. He led the team from Neukölln to the championship in the Berlin Regional Football League . With the men around striker Heinz Fischer , a 5-1 home win against the later Bundesliga promoted Borussia Neunkirchen and on June 24, 1964 a 3-0 home win against the original promotion favorite FC Bayern Munich succeeded in the BL promotion round. With 6: 6 points, Tasmania finished third in the promotion round, two points behind promoted Neunkirchen.

At the end of the first Bundesliga season 1963/64 Baumann replaced Jenő Csaknády as coach of 1. FC Nürnberg , which he led to sixth place during the 1964/65 season . The then player Ferdinand Wenauer characterized his coaching activity with the words: “His motto was: Back to football, back to the playful moment. The offensive game was again the trump card, the wall football in the future strictly frowned upon. Under Gunter Baumann's direction, playing football was fun again. “But the last six games of the season were no more wins.

When the board wanted to commit Baumann to more agreements with the technical director Alv Riemke , Baumann left the club and switched to FC Schweinfurt 05, with whom he was champion in the Regionalliga Süd in 1966. From February 15, 1967 he was active again in the 1st Bundesliga. He led TSV 1860 Munich from sixth to second place in the 1966/67 season . He then followed Albert Sing to the coaching post of VfB Stuttgart , while Sing was his successor at TSV 1860. The 1967/68 season ended with VfB Baumann in eighth place in the table, the season 1968/69 then in fifth place.

In 1971/72 Baumann trained the then second division Alemannia Aachen .

particularities

During his active time, Baumann was also the operator of the club restaurant of 1. FC Nürnberg. He gave up this job in 1955 for the sake of his wife and then took it up again at the end of his coaching career.

literature

• Christoph Bausenwein, Bernd Siegler, Harald Kaiser: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2012. ISBN 978-3-89533-907-3 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 27 f .
• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 20th f .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Gunther Baumann , www.glubberer.de (September 8, 2006)
2. ^ Gilbert Bringmann (ed.): Football Almanach 1900–1943. Kassel sports publisher. Kassel 1992. ISBN 3-928562-13-4 . P. 344
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Gunther Baumann , www.fussballdaten.de (September 8, 2006)
4. ↑ Table of the Regionalliga Süd 1965/1966 , www.fussballdaten.de (September 8, 2006)
5. ↑ Table of the Bundesliga 1966/1967 on matchday 21 , www.fussballdaten.de (September 8, 2006)
6. ↑ VfB Stuttgart: Der Kader 1966/1967 , www.fussballdaten.de (September 8, 2006) ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2006 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. 
7. ↑ TSV 1860 Munich: Der Kader 1967/1968 , www.fussballdaten.de (September 8, 2006) ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.