Hans Pöschl

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Hans Pöschl (born July 17, 1921 in Nuremberg ; † July 8, 1999 in Bremen ) was a German football player who had won the German football championship in 1948 as an active player in 1. FC Nuremberg in the center forward position .

career

Nuremberg, until 1950

Youth and World War II, until 1945

Already at the age of 17 Hans Pöschl came to the cup game against Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz on November 6, 1938 in the first team of the "Club" as an outside runner . The young player formed the "Club" runner series with Hans Uebelein and Richard Oehm . Before that, as a boy, he and his friend Robert "Zapf" ​​Gebhardt had already acquired the feeling for the ball and the skill of duels in the daily soccer game on the Deutschherrenwiese. Pöschl joined the youth club in 1938 from the inner-city district of Gostenhof , from the local FSV 83. But he experienced his sporting highlights after the end of the Second World War in the football league south .

Oberliga Süd, 1945 to 1950

With the generous approval of the armed forces of the United States , the representatives of the traditional southern German clubs were able to found the South German Football Association and the Oberliga Süd - in the American zone - at a meeting on October 13, 1945 in the "Krone" inn in Fellbach . 1. FC Nürnberg started the round on November 4, 1945 in front of 16,000 spectators with a 2-1 win against FC Bayern Munich . Hans Pöschl made his debut in the center forward position, as the intended Dresden Fritz Machate had hired at short notice in Bamberg. Initially, the “Club” played on small squares on the outskirts, because the grandstand at “Zabo” had burned down, the fencing was demolished, the sports facility was in desolate condition and the Americans had confiscated the club's home. Larger games took place in the Ronhof in Fürth with the permission of the city commandant . On July 14, 1946, on the 30th matchday, the "final" took place in Stuttgart. 1. FC Nürnberg traveled to Swabia as leaders of the table with one point ahead of VfB. The "Club" took on the attack with the cast of Helmut Herbolsheimer , Max Morlock , Hans Pöschl, Julius Uebelein and Willi Spieß . The leader of the table was decimated in the 3rd minute by a dismissal against center forward Pöschl - he had scored 20 goals in the course of the round - and lost the game with 0: 1 goals. In the end, VfB Stuttgart became champions by one point. The post-war rounds, some of which were conducted under adventurous conditions - traffic, housing, working conditions - were massively accompanied by nutritional problems. In Nuremberg, Robert Gebhardt played a decisive role in supplying the team. The son of a landlord had good contacts with the Nuremberg slaughterhouse. In exchange for free tickets for club games, the “Zapf” got extra meat rations for the table footballers, which were then roasted in the parents' restaurant “Zum Hippel”.

" From the slaughterhouse there were two bags of meat every Thursday, and after the training we always dined in the pub at Zapf Gebhardt ,"

remembers the then club center forward Hans Pöschl.

In the second season in the south, 1946/47 , 38 game days were on the program and the round began on September 22, 1946. Game operations suffered from the harshest winter in decades. In February 1947, Germany literally suffocated in masses of snow, which almost completely collapsed gaming operations. It was the season for Hans Pöschl, the sleek, lightning-fast, cunning and lively striker. The "blonde Hans" or the "greyhound", as his fans called him, was not just an enforcer and a swallower. Time and again he turned the opposing defenses upside down and stole the show from even Max Morlock. In the end, Pöschl had scored 38 goals in 38 games and was the top scorer in the Oberliga Süd . The striker excelled in the games against Bayern Munich, Phönix Karlsruhe, VfR Mannheim and VfB Stuttgart as a triple goalscorer. In the 5-1 home win against runner-up SV Waldhof Mannheim on March 16, 1947, he even scored four goals. When the new champions 1. FC Nürnberg concluded the league round on July 6, 1947 in front of 30,000 spectators with a 5-1 home win against 1860 Munich, Pöschl appeared as a two-time goalscorer. The "Club" attack was made up of Helmut Herbolsheimer, Max Morlock, Pöschl, Julius Uebelein and Konrad Winterstein . In the home games, the champion got 38: 0 points. Overall, Nuremberg came to 62:14 points and 108: 31 goals. Runner-up Waldhof was 13 points behind and a goal difference of 74:54 goals. The strikers Fritz Balogh (32), Max Morlock and Georg Platzer followed in the south with 25 goals each behind Pöschl. Although February 1947 had looked extraordinarily good for the execution of the first post-war finals, the plan had to be abandoned a few weeks later - it was not yet feasible. Although there were three regional champions thanks to allied concessions with Hamburger SV (British zone), 1. FC Nürnberg (American zone) and 1. FC Kaiserslautern ( French zone ), the top southern German clubs refused to take part. In autumn 1947, the matches on August 10th with the pairings HSV - Charlottenburg and Nürnberg - Kaiserslautern, with which the "final round of the German championship" should be opened, were announced, but Nürnberg waived with the hint that the east zone would be missing , finally to the event. Pöschl and his teammates lost the chance to bring the 1947 German championship to the Noris after the southern German championship.

In the third round in the south, in 1947/48 , Nuremberg successfully defended its title. Hans Pöschl completed 34 games and distinguished himself as a goal scorer 19 times. Nuremberg won the championship by eight points ahead of runner-up 1860 Munich. Now, three years after the end of the Second World War, the final round of the German soccer championship has been held for the first time. The currency reform carried out in the three western zones on June 21, 1948 caused severe tensions between western and eastern Germany. The Soviet blockade of West Berlin, the American supply of the city through an "airlift" and the "Cold War" made the all-German championship burst. The "East Zone Master" SG Planitz was not allowed to travel to Stuttgart for the preliminary round game on July 18, 1948 against 1. FC Nürnberg. In the semi-finals on July 25th in Mannheim, Nuremberg beat FC St. Pauli 3-2 after extra time. Pöschl decided the game with his goal in the 94th minute. In the final, the center forward scored in the 25th minute to lead the Franks 2-0 and the "Club" won the final with 2-1 goals against the "Walter" eleven from 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Green explains about the final:

“ Under the leadership of their new attack leader, Hans Pöschl, the people of Nuremberg set off a veritable fireworks display and gave their opponent no chance. Already in the tenth minute the club had taken a 1-0 lead thanks to a Konrad Winterstein header. Fifteen minutes later, Hans Pöschl had increased to 2-0, and the Palatinate who had no chance at that point were defeated. "

However, the Franks could not long benefit from this success. The German champion ended up as defending champion in 1948/49 in the south with a negative score of 27:33 points only in 11th place. Partly the age - Kennemann, Uebelein brothers - and injury consequences - Bergner, Herbolsheimer, Schaffer - led to a decline in performance. The defending champion was only able to set an exclamation mark on matchday 18, February 6, 1949, in an 8-1 victory over the sovereign championship leaders and later champions Kickers Offenbach . The "blonde Hans" contributed two hits to the success against the team around Horst Buhtz . Pöschl scored a total of nine goals in 21 games in this unsatisfactory sporting round and moved to Switzerland to Grasshopper Club Zurich in March . He had played his last point game for the "Zabo" -Elf on March 6, 1949 in a 2-1 home win against FC Schweinfurt 05 and scored the winning goal in the 22nd minute.

In Zurich, with the blue-whites in the Hardturm stadium, Pöschl experienced their descent as a spectator in the 1948/49 season. He had lived like a king there, but he was only allowed to play football in friendly matches. The International Football Association (FIFA) refused him permission to play because the DFB was not yet a member of FIFA. After six months he returned to Nuremberg and also opened the 1949/50 round with the starting game on September 4, 1949, with a 3: 3 home draw against BC Augsburg. But even the returnees could not perform miracles in the Noris. The "Club" was in 15th place with 7:13 points after the 11th matchday and resorted to the emergency solution to the change of coach. “Bumbes” Schmidt took over from “Lori” Polster and led the ex-champion to eighth place in the round when local rivals SpVgg Fürth of all places celebrated the championship in the south. In the 1950/51 round, however, Pöschl finally left the "Club", he accepted the offer from the north and signed with Werder Bremen . He had played his last league game on April 2, 1950 in a 0-0 draw at FSV Frankfurt in the stadium on Bornheimer Hang for Nuremberg. Overall, Pöschl came in the Oberliga Süd from 1945 to 1950 to 140 games and scored 91 goals.

Selection appointments, 1948–1949

Since the German national soccer team was not able to play their first post-war international match against Switzerland in Stuttgart on November 22, 1950, the best phase of the strong striker Hans Pöschl - 1945 to 1950 - passed without the possibility of playing in the eagle jersey. For southern Germany, however, he played representative games on May 19 and October 17, 1948 and October 2, 1949 and was also invited by Sepp Herberger to the DFB's first post-war course from November 14 to 19, 1949 in Duisburg.

Werder Bremen, 1950 to 1957

Before the 1950/51 round, Werder Bremen, FC Bayern Munich, 1. FC Cologne and Bayer Leverkusen had vied for the dangerous center forward. Bremen made the race. There Pöschl could not only offer a good professional future at Europe's largest tobacco company Martin Brinkmann, but also paid 15,000 DM. Werder managing director Hans Wolff put together the "Texas Elf", named after the "cigarette that says something" from Brinkmann. Despite other experts such as Dragomir Ilic , Herbert Burdenski , Karl-Heinz Preuße , Richard Ackerschott and from January 1955 with Willi Schröder in the Werder team, the ex-Nürnberger should not be able to repeat the great success in the north. The two third places in the rounds of 1952/53 and 1954/55 were the best placements of his playing career with Bremen. Under coach Fred Schulz , he completed most of his 146 appearances in the northern soccer league - he scored 12 goals - now back in the runner-up. With the use on May 12, 1957 in the 0-1 defeat at VfL Wolfsburg, Hans Pöschl ended his playing career in the major league two months before his 36th birthday. From 1945 to 1957 he had played 286 games with 103 goals in the soccer leagues south and north.

After the career

After the end of his playing career, the enthusiastic tennis player, mountaineer and hobby Egyptologist worked as a trainer for various lower-class clubs. For example: trainer at my club ATSV / ASC Nienburg in the early 1960s

literature

  • Christoph Bausenwein / Harald Kaiser / Bernd Siegler: 1. FC Nürnberg, “The legend of the club”, Die Werkstatt publishing house, 1996, ISBN 3-89533-163-5 .
  • Werner Skrentny (ed.): "When Morlock still met the moonlight", The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963, Klartext-Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
  • Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Familienangebote.genealogy.net: Obituary
  2. ^ Hans Dieter Baroth : kick-off in ruins . Post-war football and the first few years of the major leagues, p. 17.
  3. ↑ Bausenwein / Kaiser / Siegler, 1. FC Nuremberg, "The legend of the club", p. 112.
  4. ↑ Christoph Bausenwein / Harald Kaiser / Bernd Siegler, 1. FC Nürnberg, "The legend of the club", p. 109.
  5. ↑ a b Bausenwein / Kaiser / Siegler, 1. FC Nürnberg, p. 110.
  6. ↑ a b Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , p. 274.
  7. ^ Bausenwein / Kaiser / Siegler, 1. FC Nürnberg, p. 115.
  8. ↑ Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , p. 284.
  9. ^ Bausenwein / Kaiser / Siegler, 1. FC Nürnberg, p. 125.
  10. ^ Bausenwein / Kaiser / Siegler, 1. FC Nürnberg, p. 126.
  11. ^ Jens Reimer Prüß: Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. P. 172.
  12. ↑ Hardy Green, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. P. 296.
personal data
SURNAME Pöschl, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1999