Heinz Schumann (soccer player)

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Heinz Schumann (born April 24, 1922 , † April 24, 2003 ) was a German football player and coach who was active as a striker for the clubs Eintracht Nordhorn , Prussia Münster and Berliner SV 92 in the football leagues North , West and Berlin is. His sons Thomas Schumann (Hertha 03 Zehlendorf), Andreas Schumann (soccer player), and Christof Schumann were also successful in amateur soccer in Berlin in the 1970s.

career

Nordhorn, amateur football until 1955

Shortly after the end of the war, Heinz Schumann and forty other young people from Berlin were sent to the German-Dutch border town of Nordhorn as part of the “ Aktion Storch ” program . Since Schumann had already got to know his ideals of human education and the pure amateur idea at the Post Sports Club Berlin, the home of the "Spartans", under coach Ernst Fuhry before the Second World War , he was also one of the cornerstones of the team formed by Fuhry in the district town of the Grafschaft Bentheim from Eintracht Nordhorn.

The "Weinroten" from the Protestant textile stronghold Nordhorn was given the title of a "miracle storm" due to the inspiring form of the technical combination football of three consecutive titles in the amateur league Lower Saxony-West in the years 1953 to 1955. Schumann himself was an elegant, agile, fast, ball-skill attacker who came into its own both in the inner storm and on the left wing. For the first time Schumann appeared with Nordhorn in 1952 in the games for the German amateur championship as runner-up. The Fuhry-Elf failed at the Cronenberger SC in the due replay. After winning the championship in 1953 and 1954, Eintracht waived participation in the promotion round to the Oberliga Nord and returned to the games for the German amateur championship. Only after the third championship win in 1955, Ernst Fuhry could no longer prevent his team from participating in the league promotion round. Nordhorn prevailed against Concordia Hamburg , TSV Havelse and VfB Lübeck and rose to the Oberliga Nord.

Heinz Schumann was a member of Lower Saxony's association selection from the 1952/53 season. On March 8, 1953, he scored the winning goal in the semi-final game of the regional cup in Braunschweig against Hessen for the Lower Saxony 3-2 win in extra time. Bayern won the final on April 25, 1953 with 5-2 goals. On November 25, 1956, Schumann played his last state cup game for Lower Saxony in Oldenburg against Schleswig-Holstein. He contributed one goal to the 3-0 win.

On May 30, 1954, the German national soccer team of amateurs played their tenth international match. Heinz Schumann, with Nordhorn he won the championship in the west season for the second time in Lower Saxony with a goal difference of 128:34 points in front of VfB Oldenburg and Olympia Wilhelmshaven , belonged to the German amateur selection in the 0-0 draw against France in Longwy on. The DFB-Elf acted with the attack Schumann, Hans Weilbächer , Johann Zeitler , Ernst Wade and Hermann Höfer .

League football, 1955 to 1959

The attacker from Eintracht Nordhorn celebrated his debut in the Oberliga Nord at the age of 33 on the first match day of the 1955/56 season, on August 28, 1955, in a 3-3 draw against Bremerhaven 93 . In front of 9,000 spectators, he scored the first league goal for the Fuhry-Elf in the 32nd minute, bringing the "Weinroten" 1-0 lead. In the 66th minute of the game he was again successful as a goalscorer. The next two home games against Werder Bremen and Hamburger SV - September 11 and October 2 - are among the highlights of Eintracht Nordhorn's club history. In front of 12,000 spectators, a 5-2 win - three hits from striker Heinz Conradi - against Bremen and center forward Schumann ended the scoring in the 68th minute with his goal to make it 5-2. On the fifth matchday, in a 1-1 draw against Hamburger SV, Schumann equalized in the 73rd minute in front of a record crowd of 18,000 spectators. His duels with center runner Jupp Posipal stood out. After the 15th matchday, Nordhorn was fourth with 18:12 points, one point behind Holstein Kiel and Hannover 96 with 19:11 points each. At the end of the round, Eintracht came in 12th and Heinz Schumann had 28 missions with ten hits. When he single-handedly won the 3-2 home win against the guests of Eintracht Braunschweig - first round from Eintracht goalkeeper Hans Jäcker - on November 4, 1956 with his three goals , he said goodbye to Nordhorn and joined Prussia Münster in the Football Oberliga West. He made his debut with the Prussians on February 16, 1957 in a 5-1 home win against Borussia Mönchengladbach . The Münster wing tongs were Felix Gerritzen and Heinz Schumann, who also scored a goal at the debut. On the final day of the 1956/57 round, on May 18, 1957, Schumann said goodbye after eight appearances with two goals, but with the 2-0 away defeat at SV Sodingen again from Münster and moved back to his hometown Berlin and closed there the Berliner SV 92.

From 1957 to 1959, the veteran played 37 games for BSV 92 in the Berlin City League and scored 23 goals. With the 3-2 win on April 26, 1959 against Viktoria 89 Berlin , he ended his playing career. In the eleventh minute, the 37-year-old scored the 2-0 lead. From 1955 to 1959, Heinz Schumann recorded a total of 73 league appearances with 39 goals. On the 19th match day of the round 1955/56, on January 29, 1956, he guarded the goal of Eintracht Nordhorn once as a representative of the prevented goalkeeper Karl Beyer in the 3-0 away defeat against Arminia Hannover.

Trainer

Heinz Schumann, who had already acquired his soccer teacher license as an active player in 1954, worked as a coach in Berlin for many years. a. he trained Wacker 04 Berlin. From 1964 he was chairman of the Berlin Association Group in the Association of German Football Teachers. In 1980 he was awarded the Golden Merit Pin of the German Sports Teachers Association.

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personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1922
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2003