Helmut Bracht

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Helmut "Jockel" Bracht (born September 11, 1929 in Dortmund ; † May 12, 2011 in Seppenrade ) was a German football player and coach . With Borussia Dortmund he was German champion three times in 1956, 1957 and 1963 and one time runner-up in 1961. Besides Wilhelm Burgsmüller, he is the only player who was in the final of all three Borussia championships before the Bundesliga was founded.

career

Oberliga West and Bundesliga, 1955 to 1964

Bracht began his career in the youth of Borussia, but moved to Lünen after the end of the Second World War , where he played for Prussia Horstmar, Lüner SV and BV Brambauer . At the beginning of the 1950s he returned to BVB, but was initially loaned to Westfalia Herne and SpVgg Herten , where he gained competitive experience in the 2nd division west from 1949/50 to 1954/55. In the last season in Herten, 1954/55, he finished fourth with the green-whites from the Katzenbusch arena behind Wuppertaler SV, Hamborn 07 and VfB Bottrop. He had completed 27 league games under coach Wilhelm Kronsbein at the side of teammates such as Hans Barwenzik and Heinz Dokter. The midfielder, who mostly acted as a left wing runner in the World Cup system at the time, made his debut in the first team at Borussia Dortmund in the Oberliga West 1955/56 on the fifth match day, when BVB played 1. FC Köln in the home game on September 18, 1955 3-0 goals. Bracht had mostly to do with the Cologne half right Hans Sturm . Coach Helmut Schneider used Erich Schanko's successor in 25 league matches and BVB celebrated the championship in the Oberliga West with the legendary trio Alfred Preißler , Alfred Kelbassa and Alfred Niepieklo . In the final round of the German championship , Dortmund qualified for the final over Hamburger SV, VfB Stuttgart and Viktoria 89 Berlin. On June 24, 1956, the West Master prevailed in Berlin with 4-2 goals against Karlsruher SC and Bracht promptly became German champions in his first round with BVB. The master’s runner row consisted of Elwin Schlebrowski , Max Michallek and “Jockel” Bracht.

In the 1956/57 season Bracht and his teammates first defended their title in the Oberliga West and then again triumphed in the German championship in 1957 . What is unique in the history of German football is that Dortmund managed to defend their title with the same final line-up. In the year of the football world championship in 1958 in Sweden, the eleven from Borsigpaltz only came in fifth, personally Bracht, who is now known as the “oil prince” through his professional activities in his mineral oil agency, posted his best round record with six goals in all 30 league games . His lap performance is also recognized by being accepted into the "Revier Team 1957/58". Bracht forms the runner row together with Karl Borutta and Willi Koll . After a further fifth place in 1959 - again Bracht had played all 30 league games - came in the series 1959/60 under coach Max Merkel and with the new offensive forces Timo Konietzka (25 goals) and Jürgen Schütz (25 goals) new momentum in the BVB- Team. For the runner-up in 1961 in the Oberliga West, "Jockel" Bracht had made his contribution in 20 league games, but he was not used in the final round of the German championship - as in the final against 1. FC Nürnberg, which was lost 3-0 with goals .

In the last year of the old first-class league system, 1962/63 , Bracht made 18 league appearances under coach Hermann Eppenhoff when he reached the runner-up behind champions 1. FC Köln, but was then in the final round of the German championship in the group stage from the third match day Active on June 1st in the home game against Hamburger SV, won 3-2, including the final in the team of the German champions of 1963 . The 4-0 success on the last day of the group, June 22nd, at the "Löwen" from 1860 Munich, supervised by the former BVB coach Merkel, brought the decision to move into the final. Dortmund won the championship cup against the favored Cologne team with a 3-1 win on June 29th in Stuttgart. Dieter Kurrat , Wolfgang Paul and Bracht formed the runner row of the last master of the old Oberliga era against the Cologne inner storm with Hans Schäfer , Anton Regh and Karl-Heinz Ripkens .

Helmut Bracht played 201 games for Dortmund in Oberliga West from 1955 to 1963, scoring five goals. In the finals for the German championship, he came on 15 missions with one goal. He ended his active career in 1964 after eleven games in the Bundesliga . He belongs to the group of players who got the Bundesliga up and running on August 24, 1963, the starting day of the new league concentration in Germany. Dortmund lost with Bracht 2: 3 at Werder Bremen. On the last lap day, May 9, 1964, in the 2-0 defeat against Eintracht Braunschweig, he also ended his playing career. He is counted among the "forgotten national players" of BVB.

European Cup, 1956 to 1964

Thanks to the three championship successes in 1956, 1957 and 1963, the strong, defensive and never plugging outrunner of BVB experienced the excitement of the European Cup games. From 1956 to 1964 he made 13 appearances with one goal in the championship competition. He scored the goal on August 1, 1956, in the first EC game in Dortmund, in a 4: 3 home game against Spora Luxembourg. Memorable encounters were the clashes against Manchester United (2: 3/0: 0) in 1956/57, where the BVB runner row had to do with Billy Whelan, Tommy Taylor and Duncan Edwards . The same applies to the two games in 1957/58 against the Italian champions AC Milan (1: 1/1: 4) with their stars Cesare Maldini and Nils Liedholm . At the age of 34, the veteran left the international stage in the semi-finals against Inter Milan (2: 2/0: 2) in 1963/64 . Again he had to compete with international greats in the duels against Jair da Costa , Sandro Mazzola , Aurelio Milani , Luis Suárez and Mario Corso .

After the career

After the end of his career, Bracht was initially a talent scout and later chairman at Borussia. In the 1970s, he also took on the position of coach at BVB for several months. Since 1974 he has been a member of Borussia Dortmund's council of elders, which he chaired from 1995 to 2001.

Bracht, a trained businessman, took over the general agency of the German Shell in Dortmund in 1957 and founded his pipe cleaning and sewer technology company in Dortmund in 1960. This made him one of the first footballers to become self-employed during his football career .

Helmut Bracht died in 2011 at the age of 81 and was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Brechte .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfried Wittke: Borussia Dortmund mourns Helmut Bracht. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , May 13, 2011.
  2. ↑ West Chronicle. Football in West Germany 1952–1958. In: German Sports Club for Football Statistics , Berlin, 2012, p. 106.
  3. ↑ Jo Viellvoye : Borussia Dortmund - The story of a great team. In: Copress-Verlag , Munich, 1966, p. 23.
  4. ^ A b Klaus Nerger: Helmut "Jockel" Bracht. In: knerger.de .
  5. ↑ Ralf Piorr : The pot is round. The lexicon of Revier football. In: Klartext Verlag , Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-356-9 , p. 57.
  6. ^ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling , Werner Steffen: Borussia Dortmund. The fame, the dream and the money. In: Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-89533-110-4 , p. 384.
personal data
SURNAME Bracht, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bracht, Jockel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2011
Place of death Seppenrade