Heinz Rogge

Heinz Rogge (born May 20, 1927 in Berlin-Oberschöneweide ) is a former German soccer player who, as an active member of Union Oberschöneweide , topped the top scorer list in the Berlin City League with 29 goals in the 1949/50 season .

career

Youth and War, until 1945

In the years 1937–1938, Heinz Rogge's football career began in the school team of SC Union Oberschöneweide (predecessor of today's 1. FC Union Berlin ). Due to the circumstances of the Second World War , he was already used as a 16-year-old in the league team at the "Alte Försterei". The Wuhlheider made it into the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg in 1943/44 , but where the game was stopped in January 1945.

After the Second World War, 1948 to 1956

Heinz Rogge suffered damage to his lungs through war and imprisonment. He only returned to Oberschöneweide from captivity in 1948 and was therefore only a member of the Union championship towards the end of the second half of the 1947/48 season. Even when the defending champion took third place behind SG Wilmersdorf and SG Charlottenburg in 1948/49 , the health effects prevented him from being part of the East Berlin team. In the last round of the joint Berlin city league, 1949/50, Rogge, who is now in full possession of his powers, swung himself up to become the top scorer in Berlin with 29 goals and won the runner-up with Union behind title holder Tennis Borussia . The team of coach "Hanne" Sobek scored the most goals of the season with 69 goals and had an average attendance of 11,583 in the city league. On February 19, 1950, the center forward scored five goals in an 8-1 win against VfL Nord Berlin . To determine the second Berlin representative for the final round of the German football championship in 1950 , two elimination games had to be played against Berliner SV 92 on May 14th and 17th. The Rogge, equipped with brilliant technique and great shooting power, contributed four goals to asserting himself against the BSV. The final round game played on May 28 in Kiel against Hamburger SV brought a clear defeat for the Berlin runners-up with 0: 7 goals. Herbert Wojtkowiak scored four goals for HSV alone. Union took the strikers Erwin Wax , Manfred Seidel , Rogge, Paul Salisch and Heinz Lehninger in the storm. During this phase, the Union team was also exposed to strong pressure due to sport-political quarrels, so that under no circumstances could their concentration be focused solely on training and games. From the spring of 1950 it was clear that the Berlin City League would introduce contract players at the beginning of the 1950/51 season. The German Sports Committee of the GDR prohibited the issuing of licenses for the East Berlin clubs Oberschöneweide, Pankow and Lichtenberg. In protest, the Wuhlheider denied their championship games from March 1950 in the Post Stadium , which was in the neighboring Tiergarten in the western sector. Finally, Union was banned from participating in the finals. The team ignored it and still went to Kiel to play against Hamburger SV. More decisive for the future was the further decision to leave East Berlin as a whole and to settle in West Berlin, where the Poststadion became the new home. On June 9, 1950, SC Union 06 Berlin was re-established . On June 14th, the cup semi-final was played under these stressful circumstances and lost with 0-2 goals against Tennis Borussia.

1951 and 1952 followed with Union 06 two runner-up championships and the entry into the cup final on August 26, 1951, but which was lost in extra time with 1: 2 goals against the "Veilchen". In the final, center forward Rogge brought the Union into the lead in the third minute. In the third attempt, in 1952/53, Rogge and his teammates succeeded: They won the championship with 40: 8 points and nine points ahead of Spandauer SV and Tennis Borussia. Heinz Rogge scored 14 goals in 20 games. Only on the first day of the round, on September 7, 1952, was Spandauer SV the only defeat of the entire season. Reinforced by the addition of Paul Lemm , Kurt Podratz and Walter Sowade , Union 06 was clearly superior to the other Berlin competitors in 1953. In the finals, Union 06 was unable to confirm this level of performance and had no chance in the group matches against VfB Stuttgart , Borussia Dortmund and Hamburger SV.

In the following three rounds Heinz Rogge could no longer intervene in the championship fight with Union 06 and ended his playing at Union 06 with the game on April 8, 1956 against Hertha Zehlendorf. From 1950 to 1956 he had completed 109 games in the city league and was there 63 goals scored.

End of career

Heinz Rogge moved to Tennis Borussia Berlin for the 1956/57 round and played six more games with the "Veilchen", scoring three goals. With his use on February 24, 1957 in the game against Hertha Zehlendorf, he finally said goodbye to the Berlin city league. Rogge, who originally learned to work as a laboratory technician, later earned his living as a freelance machine operator in West Berlin and was also active with his former Union teammates Richard Strehlow , Herbert Stelter , Paul Salisch, Walter Sowade and others at the old men.

literature

• Hans Dieter Baroth , "Kick off in ruins", football in the post-war period and the first years of the top leagues South, Southwest, West, North and Berlin, Klartext-Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-88474-454-2 .
• Wolfgang Hartwig / Günter Weise, 100 years of football in Berlin, SVB Sportverlag, 1997, ISBN 3-328-00734-2 .
• LIBERO, No. 3, IFFHS, Oct./Nov. 1988, football in West Berlin: 1950-52.
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 2: 1948–1963 (= Agon-Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 29). Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 .