Helmut Schubert (soccer player)

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Helmut Schubert (born February 7, 1916 ; † July 24, 1988 in Hemer ) was a German national football player who, as an active member of the Dresdner SC , won the German championship in 1943 and 1944 and the Tschammer Cup in 1940 and 1941 and in 1950 the ZSG Horch Zwickau the GDR championship has won.

career

Associations until 1945

Having grown up in football in his hometown club Planitzer SC , Helmut Schubert experienced his character in the Gauliga Sachsen from 1933/34 to 1939/40 as a strategist who was equally strong at fighting and intelligent games. In the performance-enhancing championship games in Saxony with the black and yellow from Planitz against the competitors Dresdner SC , PSV Chemnitz , VfB Leipzig and BC Hartha , he created the playful basis for after his move to Dresdner SC in 1940, with his new teammates like Herbert Pohl , Walter Dzur , Richard Hofmann and Helmut Schön to be able to achieve the highest titles in Germany. The director, acting in the positions of outrunner and half-striker, already played in the Saxon Gau selection in the Reichsbundpokal at the age of 20 . In some games he had his club mates Herbert Seltmann and Herbert Weigel by his side. The last game in the Reichsbund Cup as an active player from Planitzer SC was played by Schubert on June 30, 1940 in Augsburg in the final against Bayern, which was lost 1: 3 goals. He was drafted into the Wehrmacht in Dresden in 1940 and therefore played for the DSC in the semifinals against Rapid Vienna and in the final of the German football championship against Schalke 04, which was lost 0-1 goals, in the Tschammer Cup on 1. December 1940 with a 2-1 win against 1. FC Nürnberg his first title win with Dresden.

In the 1940/41 season, Schubert and Dresden in Bytom lost the semi-final game in the finals with 1: 2 goals -  Franz Binder was a two-time goalscorer - against Rapid Vienna and had to be content with third place in the German championship. In contrast, the revenge against Bavaria was successful in the Reichsbund Cup. On September 7, 1941, Saxony won the final in Chemnitz with nine players from Dresdner SC with 2-0 goals. The year 1941 was crowned by defending the title in the Tschammer Cup. On November 2nd, Schubert and his team-mates from DSC prevailed with a 2-1 win over Schalke 04.

In the two successful finals of the German soccer championship in 1943 and 1944, Helmut Schubert was active in his traditional position of left outer runner. In total, he completed 17 games in the finals from 1940 to 1944 and scored one goal.

National team, 1941

Schubert's first direct contact with the national team came from an invitation to the DFB course from March 24th to 29th, 1941 before the international match against Hungary on April 6th in Cologne and his appointment to the squad for the international match on March 15th. June 1941 in Vienna against Croatia. In the 5-1 success against the Balkan-Elf after two goals from Ernst Lehner and Fritz Walter as well as a goal from Ernst Willimowski , Schubert and his club-mates Dzur, Miller and Pohl, who also belong to the squad, were not used.

Schubert made his debut in the national team on October 5, 1941 in Helsinki against Finland. National coach Sepp Herberger carried out a "double game day" - the A-Elf competed with Kupfer, Rohde, Kitzinger, Lehner, Hahnemann, Walter and Schön in Stockholm - and therefore tested the debutants Herbert Burdenski , Lothar Richter , Herbert Pohl and Schubert in Helsinki . Since Walter Dzur also acted as a stopper, the entire row of runners from the Dresdner SC was in action in the convincing 6-0 success. The game report notes about the development game by Pohl and Schubert:

“ The two Dresden outside runners pushed the German storm forward again and again and shone with skillful moves. "

Schubert made his second international appearance on November 16 in Dresden against Denmark. Together with Andreas Kupfer and Hans Rohde , he formed the German runner-up in the 1-1 draw. Helmut Schubert's national team career ended with his third international match in a row, on December 7, 1941 in Breslau against Slovakia. The Herberger-Elf won the game with 4-0 goals and offered a convincing performance. Club mate Herbert Pohl, Eimsbüttler Rohde and Schubert formed the runner row. The game report states:

“ The entire German attack and the two driving Dresden outside runners played brilliant football. "

After World War II, until 1954

When it was possible to play football again after the end of the war, it was possible for Schubert in Zwickau. For the first time on September 26, 1948, the veteran played in the state selection of Saxony. By 1951, the top performer, who is now mostly a defensive middle runner, had nine selection appointments. Among them was the game on September 14, 1949 in front of 50,000 spectators in Leipzig in the regional cup competition of 1949/50, when Saxony and coach Helmut Schön were able to defeat the Lower Rhine with 2-1 goals. The Saxon runner series with Pohl, Schubert and Hans Kreische prevailed against the Lower Rhine inner trio with Clemens Wientjes , Karl Klug and Karl Hetzel .

Schubert recorded his first national success in the club in 1949 when he and Horch Zwickau were able to prevail in the second replay for 3rd place in the FDGB Cup in Dessau with a 5-1 win against FC Carl Zeiss Jena . In the first year of the GDR Oberliga, 1949/50, he won the championship with Zwickau by two points over SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt . Schubert played 18 games alongside fellow players Karl Dittes and Heinz Satrapa . His good playful qualities, his combative nature, his tactical behavior, his balance in the game enabled him to support and lead the championship team. In 1951 and 1953 Schubert finished third with Horch twice before ending his playing career after the round in 1953/54 after a total of 95 league games. With a 2-0 victory on June 20, 1954, Motor Zwickau with center runner Schubert prevailed in the FDGB Cup of 1954 against Empor Wurzen and moved into the final. In front of 15,000 spectators in the Heinz Steyer Stadium in Dresden, Zwickau lost the final on July 3, 1954 with 1: 2 goals against ZSK Vorwärts Berlin and Helmut Schubert finally set the end of his career as a player.

successes

  • German champion: 1943 and 1944
  • Cup winners: 1940 and 1941
  • GDR champion: 1950
  • Reichsbund Cup winner: 1941
  • National player: 1941, three appearances

After the career

The trained book printer stayed in the GDR until 1959, before moving to Duisburg via Berlin. Helmut Schubert spent his twilight years in Hermer, where he played in the SV 08 senior team until 1976 and died in 1988 after a serious illness.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Raphael Keppel: Germany's international football games from 1908–1989 , p. 160.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 162 .
personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1916
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1988
Place of death Hemer