Helmut Rasch

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Helmut Rasch
Personnel
birthday October 8, 1927
place of birth East Prussia , German Empire
date of death March 3, 2016
position Right defender , striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1950-1952 1. FC Kaiserslautern 33 (1)
1952-1960 SV Darmstadt 98
1 Only league games are given.

Helmut Rasch (born October 8, 1927 in East Prussia ; † March 3, 2016 ) was a German football player . In 1951 he was German soccer champion with 1. FC Kaiserslautern .

Life

Originally from East Prussia , Helmut Rasch played in his youth at SV Viktoria 1916 Allenstein . At the age of ten, he had started club football there and reached the final of the school championship in Königsberg in 1938 . During the Second World War , he and his family fled to what would later become the Soviet occupation zone . From Burg near Magdeburg he came to the west in April 1950 to visit his sister-in-law's family in Kaiserslautern . Helmut Rasch's brother Herbert (1915–1940) had come to Kaiserslautern as a soldier in 1936 and played for 1. FC Kaiserslautern . After two weeks in Kaiserslautern, Helmut Rasch decided to stay there. Due to the war, he did not have a high school diploma, but had a talent for football. First his brother Willy, who had come to Kaiserslautern shortly after him, tried to put him in contact with the Bergisch Gladbach 09 club , but this did not materialize. After all, it was his sister-in-law, who Fritz Walter knew personally, who referred him to 1. FC Kaiserslautern. A joint training session was agreed between Fritz Walter and Helmut Rasch, in which Walter Rasch's ability was to be assessed. Talent was quickly certified and an offer was made to first gain experience with the amateurs. In June 1950, during a game of the amateur team, which was reinforced by three players from the first team - the rest of them attended the game as spectators - Rasch was able to draw attention to himself with seven goals scored in a 14-0 victory. A short time later, Rasch became a contract player for FCK. The club helped him find a career when he was still an amateur player. He found a job as a fitter at the casting and armatures factory in Kaiserslautern. After becoming a contract player, he began working as a skilled worker in sewing machine construction at Pfaff AG . His teammates Horst Eckel , Ernst Liebrich , Werner Baßler and Heinz Jergens already worked there .

Previously playing in the position of the striker, he was soon converted into a defender at the Lauterern and played on the right side next to Werner Kohlmeyer . In 1951 he was German champion with the “Red Devils”. In the final they beat Preußen Münster 2-1.

For this he received the Silver Laurel Leaf on July 1, 1951 with the entire team.

After a total of 40 competitive games for FCK, 33 of them in the league (one goal) and seven in the final round of the German championship, he went to Darmstadt , began studying mechanical engineering and joined SV Darmstadt 98 . Until 1960 he played for SV Darmstadt in the 2nd Oberliga Süd.

Helmut Rasch had a total of four brothers and three sisters. All of his brothers were soccer players. Up until old age he regularly attended the FCK games in the Fritz Walter Stadium.

Works

  • Volker Neumann, Helmut Rasch: The Walter-Elf - The golden years of 1. FC Kaiserslautern . Agon Sportverlag, 2010, ISBN 3-89784-285-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary
  2. ↑ a b c "Fritz Walter - Captain for Germany", p. 137
  3. ↑ Markwart Herzog: The "Betze" under the swastika , p. 59
  4. ↑ Volker Neumann: The Walter Elf, p. 21
  5. ↑ see youtube link
  6. ↑ Sports Report of the Federal Government of 29 September 1973, the Bubdestag - Printed matter 7/1040 - Page 57
personal data
SURNAME Quickly, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH East Prussia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2016