Heinz Krückeberg

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Heinz Krückeberg (born July 9, 1921 , † March 7, 1945 ) was a German football player . The center forward won the Tschammer Cup with TSV 1860 Munich in 1942 .

career

1860 Munich, 1940 to 1944

In the summer of 1940 the 19-year-old soldier who was deployed in Munich, Heinz Krückeberg, came from the lower-class Lower Saxon amateur club SpVg Laatzen to 1860 Munich. The white-blue team played their association games in the Bavarian division . In the previous season it was only enough for seventh place, with the new center forward, the "Löwen" with player- coach Franz Schmeiser in 1940/41 with 83:30 goals and 35: 9 points ahead of 1. FC Nürnberg and won the championship in Bavaria. In the attack, Walter Staudinger, who came from Vienna, and Heinz Krückeberg, who has since been referred to as the “greatest talent in Germany” (kicker), caused constant danger. In the championship round, however, there were two defeats against local rivals FC Bayern on December 15, 1940 and March 2, 1941 with 1: 4 and 0: 1 goals. This despite the overall weak lap of the "Reds", who only came in eighth at the end of the lap. In his first derby games against FC Bayern, the young center forward Krückeberg got to know the class of ex-national stopper Ludwig Goldbrunner . In the final round of the German championship in April / May 1941 , the Munich team faced competitors from SK Rapid Wien , Stuttgarter Kickers and VfL Neckarau . The man from Lower Saxony immediately introduced himself as a two-time "lion" scorer in the final round of the 3: 3 away draw on April 13 at the Stuttgarter Kickers. Against the eventual German champions Rapid Wien - 4: 3 victory in the final against FC Schalke 04 - he scored the winning goal on April 27 in a 2-1 home win in the 78th minute. His fifth goal in the final round could not prevent the surprising 1: 2 defeat (first leg 6: 2) in Mannheim on May 4th against Neckarau and thus the Rapid-Elf sat in with the 2-0 home win on May 18th Group 4 through before the sixties. Valuable teammates of the young center forward were Franz Schmeiser, Josef Wendl , Franz Graf , Georg Bayerer , Franz Hammerl , Walter Staudinger, Georg Burger and especially the half-forward Ludwig Janda .

The title defense did not succeed in 1941/42. 1860 Munich took third place in Bavaria behind the surprisingly strong 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 - with Albin Kitzinger and Andreas Kupfer - and SpVgg Fürth. Under the former "Löwen" player Max Schäfer as coach, the White-Blue scored the most goals in the championship with 81 goals, but Schweinfurt celebrated the championship before Fürth. Krückeberg could not take part in all round games due to the restrictions of the World War. He was also not available in the two derbies against FC Bayern. The Tschammer Cup 1942 was held in the calendar year and the "lions" sat down in the national round games against SK Rapid Vienna (5: 3), Stuttgarter Kickers (3: 1), SG SS Strasbourg (15: 1; it was the first Use of Ernst Willimowski in the current cup competition for 1860 Munich on August 30, 1942 with seven goals), FV Stadt Dudelange (7: 0) and in the semifinals on October 25 against TuS Lipine with 6: 0 goals and thus made it into the final on November 15 in Berlin against the favorite FC Schalke 04 . The attacker from Laatzen had played in all five final round games. In the final he had to deal with the experienced middle runner Otto Tibulski , who proved to be a very strong opponent and did not allow the Munich attacking leader to score. In front of 80,000 spectators, the “Löwen” prevailed in the second half of the game with 2-0 goals and were thus able to celebrate the first big title in the club's history. The inner storm of the "Löwen" with the two half-strikers Ludwig Janda and Ernst Willimowski at the side of center forward Krückeberg was one of the eleven's showpieces and was almost impossible to hold. For Krückeberg, who was just 21 years old - he had the best talents to develop into a great player personality - a significant success as a football player was already on the books at the beginning of his hopeful career.

Since Reichssportführer von Tschammer had already ordered a restriction of the game operations in February 1942 and had banned "events that required travel of more than 50 kilometers", the association round 1942/43 in Bavaria was divided into two regionally divided groups, Southern and Northern Bavaria carried out. In the southern season, Krückeberg and colleagues secured the championship ahead of BC Augsburg and FC Bayern in 18 games with a goal difference of 103:15 goals and 33: 3 points. In the derbies - 4: 0/1: 1 - against the "Reds", Krückeberg played as a center forward. On the last match day of the second half of the season, on February 14, 1942, in the 1-1 draw, Alois Pledl even stepped in as a half-striker due to the war-related staff shortages .

In the final round of the German championship, the protégés of coach Max Schäfer prevailed against VfB Stuttgart (3-0) and Kickers Offenbach (2-0), but failed on May 30, 1943 in front of 60,000 spectators with 0-2 goals Prater Stadium at First Vienna Vienna. Rudolf Noack and Karl Decker scored the two goals for Vienna . Krückeberg was active as a center forward in all three games and scored a goal against Offenbach.

There is evidence for Krückeberg in the second half of 1943/44 in the southern group of the Gauliga Bayern a competitive game on February 27, 1944 in the derby against FC Bayern.

National team, 1941 to 1942

During the war years, the center forward Krückeberg was one of the candidates for the national soccer team of Reich coach Josef Herberger from 1941 . In the competition of the Reichsbundpokal 1940/41, the 60s center forward made his debut on March 16, 1941 in Frankfurt in the semi-final match in the Bavarian district selection in a 5-1 win against Südwest, in whose ranks Alfons Moog from Cologne defended and the young Lauterer Fritz Walter up half right stormed. In the Bayern-Elf coached by Max Schäfer, Krückeberg scored three goals alongside attacking colleagues Walter Staudinger, Georg Lechner , Hans Fiederer and Wilhelm Simetsreiter . In the final, however, on September 7, 1941 in Chemnitz, Saxony prevailed with 2-0 goals. He first took part in a DFB viewing course from March 17 to 21, 1941. During the international match against Switzerland on October 18, 1942 in Berlin, he was on the bench. A week before the international match, on October 11th, he stormed against the Stuttgart Kickers in a test match of the DFB selection in Ludwigsburg, Württemberg. In the 7-0 success of the selection, he scored two goals. Here were Ernst Lehner , Fritz Walter, Krückeberg, Ernst Willimowski August Klingler used in the attack.

War episode

Georg Lichtenstern , head of the 1st Company Infantry Division News Department 17 and one of the founders of the "Burgstern-Elf" soldier elf, had also made Heinz Krückeberg the offer to join the News Department 17 during an officer trainee course at the Army News School in Leipzig Burgstern Noris to move. But Lieutenant Krückeberg wanted to return to his unit (Panzer-Nachrichten -teilung Groß-Deutschland) on the Eastern Front. He fell there on March 7, 1945.

literature

  • Hardy Grüne / Claus Melchior: Legends in white and blue. 100 years of football history for a traditional Munich club. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89533-256-9 .
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Antonöffelmeier: The "lions" under the swastika. The TSV Munich from 1860 under National Socialism. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89533-645-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spoon Meier: The "lions" under the swastika, p. 160.
  2. ↑ Grüne / Melchior: p. 80.
  3. ↑ Joachim Schweer: The Munich Derby. 1860 - Bavaria. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1995, ISBN 3-928562-63-0 , p. 44/45.
  4. ↑ Anton Löffelmeier: The "lions" under the swastika. P. 160.
  5. ^ Antonöffelmeier: The "lions" under the swastika, p. 160.
  6. ↑ Joachim Schweer: The Munich Derby. 1860 - Bavaria. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1995, ISBN 3-928562-63-0 , p. 49.
  7. ↑ Joachim Schweer: The Munich Derby. 1860 - Bavaria. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1995, ISBN 3-928562-63-0 , p. 51.
  8. ^ Raphael Keppel : Germany's international soccer games. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sport- und Spielverlag Hitzel, Hürth 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 , p. 169.
  9. ^ Antonöffelmeier: The "lions" under the swastika, p. 169.
personal data
SURNAME Krückeberg, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1921
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1945