Heinz Hempel

Heinz Hempel (born September 4, 1918 in Dresden ; † April 17, 1998 ) was a German football player. With the Dresdner SC he won the German Championship twice and the Tschammer Cup twice . Later he was a coach at the then top division club FC St. Pauli .

Player career

Dresdner SC

Hempel's first soccer teams were called SV Dresden-Niedersedlitz , Rasensport Dresden and SV Brandenburg 01 Dresden . In 1933/34 he played for a year with Sportfreunde 01 Dresden, which emerged from SV Brandenburg . After he moved to the Dresden district of Friedrichstadt , he joined the Dresdner SC in 1934, where his father had already played soccer. Here he first played in the junior team. Since his previous position as a center forward was already occupied, he was retrained as a defender. In 1935 he won his first title with the Saxon junior championship.

In the 1935/36 season he was accepted into the men's team at the age of 17. In 1939 he won the Saxony Gaume Championship for the first time with the DSC , with which the team qualified for the final round of the German Championship. Hempel played seven of the nine final round matches, in the preliminary round match against Warnsdorfer FK he contributed two goals to the 3-1 victory as a left defender. The DSC finally won the small final with a 3-2 victory over Hamburger SV, Hempel was back as a left defender. In 1940 the DSC reached the German championship finals again and made it into the final. Hempel played all eight matches, including as a right defender in the final, which Dresden lost 1-0 to FC Schalke 04. The Dresdeners were more successful on December 1, 1940, when they won the final for the Tschammer Cup with 2-1 over 1. FC Nürnberg with left-back Hempel . In this game Hempel acted as captain of his team.

In 1941 Hempel played seven of the eight finals for the German championship. The Dresdner SC and its defender Hempel again finished third after a 4-1 victory over VfL Cologne in 1899. On November 2, 1941, the DSC was able to successfully defend the Tschammer Cup. Captain Hempel was also involved in this game.

After the Dresdner SC had been successful in the 1941/42 season neither in the championship nor in the cup, he fought for the first time in 1943 the German football championship. Hempel was again called up in all five final round matches and was thus also in the victorious final, which was won 3-0 over FV Saarbrücken. Hempel won his second German championship a year later. After four finals, he was again in the final as a right-back, which the Dresden team won 4-0 this time over LSV Hamburg. Hempel is one of the six DSC players who took part in all the finals for the German championship between 1939 and 1944.

FC St. Pauli

After the end of the Second World War , Hempel moved to Hamburg . There he joined FC St. Pauli, with whom he was four times runner-up in the Oberliga Nord between 1948 and 1951 . The runner-up entitlement to participate in the final round of the German championship, and Hempel managed to take part in all the final rounds again, as with the DSC. He played a total of nine games in the four final tournaments for St. Pauli. He achieved his greatest success in Hamburg in 1948 when he reached the semi-finals of the German championship. Hempel also played as a defender at St. Pauli. At the age of 33, he ended his career as a competitive footballer.

Coaching career

However, he remained a member of FC St. Pauli. One year after the end of his football career, he took over the club as a coach in 1952 and held this position until 1963. During these years he had his greatest success in 1954 with the North German runner-up. In 1963 Hempel took over VfV Hildesheim and later, after an interruption of four years in 1967/68, again the training of the St. Paulians, with whom he reached fifth place in the Regionalliga Nord .

Web links

• Heinz Hempel in the database of weltfussball.de