Helmut Jahn (soccer player)

Helmut Jahn
in a game scene from 1943
Personnel
birthday	October 22, 1917
place of birth	Berlin ,  German Empire
date of death	March 18, 1986
Place of death	Ludwigsburg ,  Germany
position	goal
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1925-1934	Spandauer SV
1934-1935	Brandenburger 03 Berlin
1935-1937	Hertha 06 Charlottenburg
1938-1945	Berliner SV 1892
1945	FC St. Pauli
1945	VfB Stuttgart	7 (0)
1946-1948	Stuttgart Kickers	90 (0)
1948-1951	TuS Neuendorf	45 (0)
1951-1952	VfB Lützel
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1939-1942	Germany	17 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1951-1952	VfB Lützel ( player-coach )
1 Only league games are given.

Helmut Jahn in a game scene from 1942

Helmut Jahn (born October 22, 1917 in Berlin , † March 18, 1986 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German football player . The goalkeeper played a total of 17 international matches for Germany between 1939 and 1942 .

Career

societies

Before the Second World War , Helmut Jahn's career took place in his hometown of Berlin. Through the stations Spandauer SV (1925–1934), Brandenburger 03 Berlin (1934–1935) and Hertha 06 Charlottenburg (1935–1937) his path led him to Berliner SV 1892 , where he was active until 1943. With the “Störchen” from Wilmersdorf-Schmargendorf he competed in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg and won two championships in 1938 and 1943. In the final round of the 1943 German soccer championship , he played three games against LSV Püttnitz (with a repeat game) and Holstein Kiel with the "guest player" Ottmar Walter from Kaiserslautern. After the war he was first hired by FC St. Pauli in Hamburg. Helmut Jahn married in Ludwigsburg in 1945. He moved to VfB Stuttgart and played seven games in the top division there. After the actual goalkeeper "Gummi-Schmid" wanted to go back into the goal (he played in the field before), he switched to the Stuttgarter Kickers . There he played a total of 90 games in the football league south by November 1948 . From 1948 to 1951 Helmut Jahn completed 45 games for TuS Neuendorf in the Oberliga Südwest . On May 21, 1950, he played a final round game for the German championship against FC St. Pauli with the south-west third. The then "wonder" eleven around Hans Appel , Walter Dzur , Harald Stender and Alfred Beck won the game in Hanover with 4-0 goals. The goalkeeper ended his career as a player- coach at VfB Lützel from 1951 to 1953 .

Selection bets

In November 1939 Helmut Jahn completed two games with the city ​​selection Berlin against Sofia (4: 2) and Bucharest (0: 1). His performances confirmed his international class and he was a member of the national team from December.

The Berlin goalkeeper played his first international match in the national team on December 3, 1939 in Chemnitz against Slovakia. In the 3-1 success he played alongside Hans Rohde , Albin Kitzinger , Ernst Lehner and Helmut Schön . After his debut in the national team, the man from BSV 92 was in reserve behind Hans Klodt from FC Schalke 04 until mid-1941 . In the middle of the Second World War, he became number one in the goal of the national team under Reich coach Sepp Herberger . From June 15, 1941 (5-1 win in Vienna against Croatia) to November 22, 1942 in Pressburg against Slovakia (5-2 win), Jahn added another 14 games. With the 198th international game in the history of the DFB, the international game activity of the German national soccer team ended for eight years due to the circumstances of the Second World War. In addition to Jahn, Paul Janes , Karl Miller , Andreas Kupfer , Hans Rohde, Albert Sing , Edmund Adamkiewicz , Karl Decker , Ernst Willimowski , Fritz Walter and August Klingler also ran against Slovakia .

At the beginning of the league era, Jahn came to two appointments in representative games of the regional associations. On May 19, 1948, he guarded the goal of southern Germany in a 2-1 win in Frankfurt against a Northwest representative and on November 11, 1950 he was the goalkeeper of the Southwest team, which in Ludwigshafen in front of 60,000 spectators a 2-2 draw against Reached southern Germany. A chronic shoulder injury forced him to end his active career.

Others

• Jahn played the role of a soccer goalkeeper in the sports film "The Big Game" produced by Robert Adolf Stemmle in 1941 and published in 1942 .
• At the end of the 50s, Helmut Jahn was chairman of the game committee of the Stuttgarter Kickers .

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 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 214 f .

Web links

Commons : Helmut Jahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Helmut Jahn in the database of weltfussball.de
• Helmut Jahn in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Tauber: German national soccer players. Player statistics from A to Z. Updated and advanced Edition. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-89784-366-0 , p. 87.
2. ^ Gilbert Bringmann (ed.): Football Almanach 1900–1943. Kassel sports publisher. Kassel 1992. ISBN 3-928562-13-4 . P. 61
3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Helmut Jahn - International Appearances . RSSSF.com . March 25, 2020. Accessed March 25, 2020.