Helmut Röpnack

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Hellmuth Adolph August "Helmut" Röpnack (born September 23, 1884 in Läsikow , † August 19, 1935 ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Having learned to play football at BF Phönix Berlin , Röpnack switched to BTuFC Viktoria 89 for the 1903/04 season , for which he played point games in the championships organized by the Association of Berlin Ball Game Clubs - as a half-striker and was four times Berlin champion.

From 1911 to 1914 he played in the championships now organized by the Association of Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs . At the end of the 1912/13 season he won the Berlin championship again.

Due to the successes, he also took part in the respective finals for the German Championship and scored a remarkable quota in 14 games with 14 goals. After he lost the final against Freiburg FC 1: 3 in Mannheim on May 19, 1907 , he and his team won 3: 1 against FC Stuttgarter Cickers on June 7, 1908 in Berlin . On May 30, 1909, the final was lost again - this time with 2: 4 against Karlsruher FC Phönix . He won his last championship on June 4, 1911 in Dresden with a 3-1 victory over VfB Leipzig . In the defensive position , where he also demonstrated his qualities in the following years, he played explosively, skillfully, and quickly and for years was one of the strongest German defensive players. In the following two years he failed with the BTuFC Viktoria 89 each in the semifinals; on May 19, 1912 with 1: 2 a.s. at the later champion Holstein Kiel and on April 27, 1913 with 1: 3 at VfB Leipzig.

Selection / national team

As a player in the selection team of the Association of Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs, he also took part in the competition for the Crown Prince's Cup. At the premiere of the competition for regional associations' select teams, he scored three goals in the semifinals - in which he and his team moved by bye - in a 4-1 victory over the North German Football Association's selection team . The final held on April 18, 1909 in Berlin against the selection team of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs was lost with 1: 3. In total, he played 39 selection games for Berlin and Brandenburg.

His debut in the senior team , he gave up half left on March 13, 1909 in Oxford in 0: 9 loss to the amateur national team of England on Halbinks. In his second international match for the DFB on October 9, 1911 in Dresden in the 1: 2 defeat against the national team of Austria , he was already convincing in the defensive position. As participants in the Olympic soccer tournament in Stockholm he denied with 1: 5 lost against the National Austria round match of the main round and with 1: 3 against the National Hungary lost semi-final round of comfort . In 1912 and 1913 he played three more internationals, four of which were lost and two ended in a draw. In his last game in the national jersey, in the 2: 6 defeat against the Belgian national team in Antwerp , he led the team around Max Breunig , Gottfried Fuchs , Julius Hirsch , Adolf Jäger , Eugen Kipp and Karl Wegele as captain on the field.

successes

Others

The trained type founder ensured cohesion and atmosphere in his team through his cheerfulness and sociability; later he was made an honorary member of BTuFC Viktoria 89.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Helmut Röpnack on sports-reference.com
  2. ^ German Championship (1903-1923) , IFFHS magazine Libero No. 36. International Federation of Football History & Statistics , Wiesbaden, 2nd quarter of 2002.

literature

  • Raphael Keppel : Germany's international football matches. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sport- und Spielverlag, Hürth 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 .
  • Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 2: 1948–1963 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 29). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 .
  • Hardy Greens : From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 1 . AGON, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .