Heinz Kubsch

Heinz Kubsch
Personnel
birthday	July 20, 1930
place of birth	Essen ,  German Empire
date of death	October 24, 1993
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
1939-1948	Sportfreunde Katernberg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1948-1953	Sportfreunde Katernberg	122 (0)
1953-1961	FK Pirmasens	222 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1954-1956	Germany	3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Heinz Kubsch (born July 20, 1930 in Essen , † October 24, 1993 ) was a German football player . The goalkeeper played three international matches in the German national soccer team between 1954 and 1956 and took part in the 1954 soccer world championship in Switzerland .

career

Clubs, 1941 to 1961

Katernberg, until 1953

In the north of Essen, in the Katernberg district, in the middle of a workers' settlement under the sign of the Zeche Zollverein , Heinz Kubsch grew up, learned the trade of cabinet maker and successfully went through the youth department of Sportfreunde Katernberg in 1913 in his spare time . As mining and football in the Ruhr area Were synonymous, came the great times of the Katernbergs. Most of the players worked in a mine, if not exactly from coal, and the Zeche Zollverein was a generous patron and sponsor, where the young Kubsch also earned his living as a carpenter. At the Lindenbruch one experienced the cohesive life context of a workers' settlement, where work, living and leisure still formed a unit. And free time, that's what the footballers of Sportfreunde Katernberg stood for, with the Am Lindenbruch stadium and its Aschenplatz, which is feared by the guest teams.

By winning the Ruhr district championship in 1947 before TuRa 1886 Essen and Rot-Weiss Essen , Katernberg, together with Fortuna Düsseldorf, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Vohwinkel 80 and Hamborn 07 from the Niederrhein region, had won the football Oberliga West starting in 1947/48 qualified. Twelve teams celebrated their premiere on September 14, 1947, Katernberg lost 3-0 at Borussia Dortmund. In the next few weeks and months, the relatively blank slate, the squire from the north of Essen, developed into the surprise team of the western league and also successfully took revenge on January 11, 1949 with a 2-0 home win against Borussia Dortmund in front of 12,000 spectators the premiere defeat. After thirteen match days, the Sportfreunde led the table with 20: 6 points, chased by the tied pursuers Borussia Dortmund and Fortuna Düsseldorf with 17: 9 points each. From the 16th matchday on January 25, 1948, the 17-year-old Heinz Kubsch was in the goal of the Katernbergers. He was the youngest senior league keeper in the DFB area. Heini Jerosch had completed the first fourteen point games as a goalkeeper for Sportfreunde. The turning point in the championship question came four game days before the end: Kubsch and his Katernbergers lost 2: 5 goals in Oberhausen, while pursuers Dortmund defeated TSG Vohwinkel with 5: 0 goals. In the end, the team from Lindenbruch took the runner-up with 34:14 points behind champions Borussia Dortmund who crossed the finish line with a two-point lead. With 22: 2 home points, the basis for the runner-up on the notorious Aschenplatz with its fanatical audience was laid. Erkenschwick's striker "Jule" Ludorf is said to have said about the atmosphere:

“ Nowhere did you play so close to the opposing audience. Whoever won in Katernberg should have got three points, one for the nerves "

Katernberg ended the first league season on April 18, 1948 with a 4-2 away win in the Glückaufkampfbahn of the old champions FC Schalke 04 , when the 0-2 deficit could be made up in the second half with three goals by the striker Paul Mieloszyk. Heinz Kubsch guarded the goal of the Sportfreunde and Heinrich Kwiatkowski the goal of the Schalke.

In the second league year, 1948/49, the responsive Heinz Kubsch was in all 24 games in the case of the Katernbergers and distinguished himself with above-average performances. Nevertheless, the runner-up from the previous year could not prevent relegation from the league after the switch from the ash to the grass pitch on the Lindenbruch. But after one round, the sports fans immediately returned to the top division. By winning the title in 1950 in the 2nd League West in front of Borussia Mönchengladbach, FV Hombruch 09 and Meidericher SV, the Nord-Essen team with goalkeeper Kubsch made an immediate return. Sportfreunde started the 1950/51 season with Helmut Rahn and Willi Vordenbäum on the attack. The two derbies against Rot-Weiss Essen resulted in a 2: 3 home defeat in Lindenbruch and a 2: 2 draw on Hafenstrasse. With a 4-1 win in front of 20,000 spectators in Katernberg, FC Schalke 04 won the championship on the last match day, April 29, 1951, ahead of Preußen Münster, which lost 4-0 at the same time at Preußen Dellbrück and thus lead the table and Championship title gambled away. Kubsch completed all 30 rounds and finished twelfth with the Sportfreunde. Before the round in 1951/52, Helmut Rahn signed a contract with Rot-Weiss Essen and with the team from Uhlenkrug, ETB Schwarz-Weiß, the third team from Essen was promoted to the Oberliga West. The green and white sports fans set the start in the sand with 0: 6 points and finished eleventh at halftime with 14:16 points. At the end of the round, they reached tenth place and Heinz Kubsch had once again proven his outstanding class in his 28 league games. The preliminary round in 1952/53 brought Heinz Kubsch a personal award with the appointment of the DFB for the B international match on November 9, 1952 in Basel against Switzerland. Together with the defenders Hans Eberle and Hans Bauer as well as Kurt Sommerlatt, Herbert Schäfer and Gerhard Harpers in the runner row, the goalkeeper was the guarantor of the 2-0 success of the German team. Together with Willi Vordenbäum, Kubsch played all 30 league games at Sportfreunde. The effects of the currency reform of 1948 and the financial possibilities of the newly installed contract player statute heralded the end of the mining-dominated founding clubs and this also applied to Katernberg. With 19:41 points, Kubsch and colleagues reached 15th place and thus the Sportfreunde rose in 1953 together with Erkenschwick in the 2nd division west. On matchday 30, the green and whites said goodbye in front of only 2000 spectators with a 3-2 home win against STV Horst-Emscher from the league. Hans Dieter Baroth notes about the super talent in the Katernberger Tor:

“ The Katernberg goalkeeper was quickly in the B national team, and the door to the A national team was wide open, although there was someone named Toni Turek. But there was a small incident that hindered the career of goalkeeper Kubsch badly. Kubsch had celebrated his birthday extensively. The next day he showed a flawless performance in the game against Alemannia Aachen. But he was unlucky enough to get too close to national coach Sepp Herberger. And the Federal Sepp promptly smelled the goalkeeper's 'flag'. With the Puritan national coach, Kubsch was 'down there', but he played three times in the senior national team. "

After 122 games for the Sportfreunde Katernberg in the Oberliga West, Kubsch moved to the 1953/54 round for FK Pirmasens in the Oberliga Südwest .

Pirmasens, 1953 to 1961

The FK Pirmasens - based in the "shoe town" Pirmasens in the Palatinate Forest in the border region, in the southwestern tip of the republic - had money in the 1950s to sign good players and, above all, to offer newcomers professional prospects. In addition to several shoe companies, there were opportunities in the plastics factory, in the iron and sanitary wholesalers as well as in the city administration. “What do you need new?” Was considered at the office and then action was taken. Often it was shoe representatives who made the first contact with players. It was the same in 1953 when the 23-year-old goalkeeper Heinz Kubsch changed. After moving from Essen, he and his wife ran a tobacco shop in the center of the “Schuhstadt” with lottery tickets.

With 24: 2 points, FK Pirmasens started with the new goalkeeper Heinz Kubsch in the 1953/54 season in the Southwest Football League. It was not until the 14th match day that the league leaders suffered their first defeat with 1-0 goals at 1. FC Saarbrücken. This was made up for eight days later with a 2-1 home win in front of 25,000 spectators against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . On matchday 30, April 11, 1954, the championship leader from Pirmasens traveled one point ahead of pursuers 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The Walter team decided the title race with a 4-0 win in front of 30,000 spectators on the Betzenberg. Heinz Kubsch had played all 30 games for the runner-up and received brilliant reviews. With his quick reactions and “cat-like” agility, he literally forced himself into the national team for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland. National coach Herberger invited the ex-Katernberger for the first time in February 1954 to a DFB course. On February 28, the new goalkeeper of FK Pirmasens also impressed at the representative game of the southwest in Hamburg. Südwest won 4-2 goals against northern Germany and Kubsch was one of the six goalkeepers who Sepp Herberger appointed to the provisional World Cup squad in mid-March 1954: Turek, Herkenrath, Kubsch, Kwiatkowski, Klemm and Geißler.

Together with defender Fritz Laband from Hamburger SV, Kubsch celebrated his debut in the national soccer team on April 25, 1954. In the last international match before the World Cup, the DFB-Elf won in Basel with 5: 3 goals against Switzerland. Regular defender Erich Retter suffered a serious meniscus injury and dropped out for the World Cup.

With Pirmasens followed the 1953/54 world championship season three rounds in the southwest without belonging to the top of the table. When coach Helmut Schneider came to the stadium on Zweibrücker Straße in Pirmasens with playmaker and goalscorer Helmut Kapitulski for the round in 1957/58 , “the club” - as the club is called in dialect - began to take off. In 1958, 1959 and 1960, FK Pirmasens won the championship in the Oberliga Südwest in a row. In the three final rounds of the German soccer championship, the goalkeeper played all 15 games against Hamburger SV, 1. FC Cologne, 1. FC Nuremberg, Eintracht Frankfurt, Werder Bremen and Tasmania 1900 Berlin. In the 1958 World Cup, the games were played in neutral stadiums. Kubsch played with the FKP in front of 70,000 spectators in Stuttgart 2: 2 against 1. FC Nürnberg, in front of 50,000 spectators in Augsburg 1: 1 against 1. FC Köln and lost in front of 40,000 spectators in Dortmund against Hamburger SV with 1: 2 goals . In the following year, 1959, the two successes against Cologne with 4: 0 and Bremen with 4: 1 goals and the 2: 3 defeat in front of 81,000 spectators in the Frankfurt Waldstadion against the eventual German champions Eintracht Frankfurt stood out.

In the 1960/61 round Pirmasens gambled away on the 29th matchday with a 2-3 defeat at Borussia Neunkirchen, the renewed championship success. With one point behind the tied teams of 1. FC Saarbrücken and Borussia Neunkirchen, the blue-whites landed in third place. Heinz Kubsch had completed 29 games in this round and said goodbye with the game on April 16, 1961 in Neunkirchen as an active player and ended his career after 222 top division games with Pirmasens.

Teammate Hermann Laag (328), he is with Rolf Ertel (332) and Emil Weber (308) the upper league record player of the Pirmasens, expresses himself about Kubsch with the following words: "Heinz reacted colossally on the line". Trainer Helmut Schneider explained the performance boom of the three-time champion as follows: "In the front, God helps us and in the back Heinz Kubsch holds everything ...".

Selection appointments

After his national team debut on April 25, 1954 in Basel against Switzerland, Kubsch was nominated together with Toni Turek and Heini Kwiatkowski as goalkeeper for the World Cup squad in Switzerland. In the surprising world championship success of the Herberger-Elf, however, Kubsch did not play a game. The main reason for this was an “involuntary bath” that deprived the unfortunate Kubsch of his commitment at the World Cup, as Fritz Walter put it in his 3: 2 Copress book. After his friend and roommate Kwiatkowski had fallen into Lake Thun in Spiez and Kubsch saved himself from the overturning rowing boat with a jump in the confusion of the rescue operation for “Kwiat”, Heinz Kubsch only discovered in the hotel that he had sprained his shoulder had, so strong that his use as a goalkeeper during the World Cup was out of the question.

On March 23, 1955, Kubsch came to his second international B game . The German team wrestled a 1-1 draw from England in Sheffield. His second game in the senior national team follows a month later. On May 28, Germany defeated Ireland 2-1 in Hamburg, whereby the defense with Kubsch, the defender pair Retter and Erhardt, and the runner row with Schlienz, Rudolf Hoffmann and Mai is the guarantee of success. This process was repeated in the 1956/57 season: first on September 15, 1956, his third appearance in the B national team and on November 21, his third A international match in Frankfurt against Switzerland. His career in the national team was then over. For southwest Germany, he played two representative games against southern and northern Germany on November 18, 1959 and March 19, 1960.

Kubsch was also a marksman in the 1st team of SV 1900 Lemberg.

death

Heinz Kubsch died in October 1993 after a long illness.

literature

• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• Ralf Piorr (Ed.): The pot is round, Das Lexikon des Revier-Fußballs , Volumes 1 and 2, Klartext-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-89861-356-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.), The pot is round, Das Lexikon des Revier-Fußballs, Die Vereine, Volume 2, p. 150.
2. ↑ Ralf Piorr, Der Pott ist rund, Volume 1, Page 22: Kubsch is listed as the goalkeeper of the Revier team for the season.
3. ↑ Ralf Piorr, Der Pott ist rund, Volume 1, Page 33: Kubsch was the goalkeeper of the Revier team in the 1951/52 round.
4. ↑ Hans Dieter Baroth, "Boys, Heaven belongs to you!", The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963, p. 48.
5. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.), Extension - the other football magazine, No. 1, AGON Sportverlag, 1994, pp. 102–117.
6. ↑ Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 266 .
7. ^ Fritz Walter, 3: 2, The Games for the World Cup, Copress-Verlag, 1954, pp. 60–62.

References

• Germany at the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland