Heinrich Abt (soccer player)

Heinrich Abbot
Personnel
Surname	Heinrich "Heini Abt"
birthday	August 22, 1909
place of birth	German Empire
date of death	unknown
Place of death	unknown
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
07 / 1930-06 / 1931	Kickers Offenbach
07 / 1931-06 / 1932	Eintracht Frankfurt
07 / 1932-06 / 1946	Kickers Offenbach	21 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Heinrich "Heini" Abt (born August 22, 1909 ) was a soccer player from Kickers Offenbach , who played seven league games in the first-class soccer Oberliga Süd , immediately after the end of World War II, in the debut round 1945/46 for the Elf vom Bieberer Berg completed and scored a goal. The later honorary captain won six championships with the OFC in the Gauliga Südwest or Hessen-Nassau from 1934 to 1944 and stood in 21 finals for Offenbach and scored a goal in the Gauliga Südwest 1940/41 .

He also played ten games in the DFB Cup .

career

He was active at Kickers Offenbach from the 1932/33 round through the stations VfR Offenbach (until 1931) and Eintracht Frankfurt (1931/32), where Abt could not get past the above-average runner series with Rudolf Gramlich , Bernhard Leis and Hugo Mantel "Heini" Abt, experienced a very successful time on the Bieberer Berg as a right outside runner. As early as 1933/34 , the “great silent man”, who performed his task calmly and solidly, celebrated his first championship success with the Kickers under coach Rudolf Keller . His first game in the final round of the German soccer championship was played by Abt on April 8, 1934 in a 4-1 home win against Union Boeckingen . This was followed by five rounds of team reorganization before a series of five championship successes in a row from 1939/40. In the final round in 1941, Abt failed with his kickers by just one point in the group games at VfL Cologne , as the second leg in the cathedral city was lost 3-1 on May 4th. In the middle of the war, Abt was exempted from working at the front as a lathe operator in an armaments factory, and after successes against VfL 99 Cologne (3: 1) and Werder Bremen (4: 3) in 1942, he moved into the semi-finals of the German championship against the OFC FC Schalke 04 a. Their outstanding attack line-up with Ernst Kalwitzki , Fritz Szepan , Hermann Eppenhoff , Ernst Kuzorra and Adolf Urban prevented the Kickers from making it into the final on June 21 with an undisputed 6-0 victory. Then the game for 3rd place in Berlin against Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin , in whose ranks Gerhard Graf , Johann Herberger and Ernst Lehner were among the top performers, lost 4-0. "Heini" Abt was the right runner for the OFC in all finals. The last final game was played by Abt on April 16, 1944 in a 2: 4 defeat against FC 93 Mulhouse at the side of teammates like Willi Keim , Erich Nowotny and Anton Picard , when Daxlander "guest player" August Klingler scored two goals for the team scored from Alsace.

After the end of the Second World War, Abt helped out again in the first round of the Oberliga Süd at OFC 1945/46 in seven league games (1 goal) before he finally ended his career as a player. The honorary captain then worked for many years on the Kickers game committee.

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 9.
• Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 28). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-106-9 .