Helmut Rühle

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Helmut Rühle (born May 6, 1934 - April 11, 2016 ) was a German soccer player who played 155 games and scored 20 goals in the Oberligen Süd and Südwest from 1952 to 1960 .

career

Coming from his own A-youth, the 18-year-old young player Helmut Rühle was taken over into the league team of the Stuttgarter Kickers for the 1952/53 season . At the side of the top performers Siegfried Kronenbitter , he was used in his first round Oberliga Süd in 16 games and scored four goals. At the end of the round - the Kickers had just been able to fend off relegation as 14th - the offensive player was appointed to the German national soccer team of amateurs . On June 13, 1954, the young man from Stuttgart made his debut on the left wing at the international matches of the DFB amateurs in Wuppertal against France. In the 1-0 success he formed the attack of the German amateur selection together with Georg Stollenwerk , Winfried Herz , Hans Zeitler and Heinz Wozniakowski . In the Oberliga Süd, the Stuttgarter Kickers fought permanently to stay in the league in the next few rounds. When Rühle had completed a convincing season in 28 missions with four hits in the 1956/57 round, he received an offer from third-placed Karlsruher SC in the summer of 1957 and then moved to Baden. Rühle had played 98 games with 14 goals for the Stuttgarter Kickers.

The KSC succeeded in the 1957/58 season winning the championship title in the south before 1. FC Nuremberg and Eintracht Frankfurt . At the start of the season on August 11, 1957 at 1860 Munich, which Karlsruhe lost with 1: 2 goals, the newcomer from Stuttgart played on the left wing position. In the further course of the lap, however, Rühle only made ten more missions. He could not hold his own against the competition in the midfield of the KSC with Pál Csernai , Werner Roth , Heinz Ruppenstein , Max Schwall and Gustav Witlatschil . In the final round of the German football championship in 1958, he was not called up.

Now two rounds followed in the Oberliga Südwest at 1. FC Saarbrücken . With 24 and 22 appearances, respectively, Rühle belonged to the main formation of the Saarlanders in the rounds of 1958/59 and 1959/60, which with fourth and third rank also belonged to the top group in the south-west.

In the summer of 1960 his path took him to the Brötzinger Tal in Pforzheim. At 1. FC Pforzheim he got to know the quality of the 2nd Division South. In the last three rounds in the old league system until 1963, it was not enough for promotion to the Oberliga Süd, but with third and fourth place in 1962 and 1963, 1. FC Pforzheim managed with Helmut Rühle in midfield, Oswald Traub in attack and Coach Gustav Mohn qualified for the new Regionalliga Süd for the 1963/64 season. In the 1963/64 regional round, the “Club” was about staying up from the beginning to the end. After the 1: 4 away defeat at Bayern Munich on October 20, 1963 , coach Karl Striebinger was replaced by Erich Bierbrodt . With 15th place in the final table, relegation was mastered. Helmut Rühle, who was mostly active as a left wing runner, played 30 games in this round and ended his engagement in Pforzheim after the end of the round and withdrew from contract football.

literature

  • Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
  • History of the Oberliga Süd. Klartext, 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
  • Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ zvw-trauer.de: Helmut Rühle - obituary in the Waiblinger Kreiszeitung (April 26, 2016) , accessed on February 2, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Rühle, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1934
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 2016