Helmut Sievert

Helmut Heinrich Karl Sievert (born May 12, 1914 in Hanover or Ahlten , † March 28, 1945 in Beneschau ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

Sievert belonged from 1932 to 1941 Hannover 96 as a midfielder , for whom he was active in the 1932/33 season in the North German Football Association in one of the regional highest divisions, the Oberliga Südhannover-Braunschweig .

From 1933 to 1941 he played in the Lower Saxony Gauliga , one of 16 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the highest uniform league in the German Reich . In the following season he was Gaumeister with his team, as in 1938 . In the off-season 1939/40 played out in two groups Championship, he lost to Hannover 96 in the final match to the Gaumeisterschaft the VfL Osnabruck , winner of Group North , 4: 5 after home and away. In the following season Sievert's club retaliated 4-2 after the return leg.

In the Gauliga Südhannover-Braunschweig next to the Gauliga Weser-Ems , which resulted from the division of the Lower Saxony Gauliga due to the war , he played the 1943/44 season for Eintracht Braunschweig , at the end of which the Gaume Championship was won.

Due to the number of successes, he also took part in the finals for the German championship. In the 1934/35 season he played all six games in Group B and retired from the competition as second in the group behind FC Schalke 04 . He ended the 1937/38 season after nine final round matches as German champion, with the semi-final against Hamburger SV 3-2 only being won in extra time and the final that on June 26 in Berlin against the high favorites FC Schalke 04 after The 3: 3 tie, also after extra time, did not find a winner, was only decided on July 3rd at the same place with 4: 3 after extra time.

In the final round of the German championship in 1940/41 he played four more games for Hannover 96 and his last (for Eintracht Braunschweig) on ​​April 16, 1944 in the 1: 2 defeat in the first round match after extra time against Wilhelmshaven 05 .

National team

He played his only international match on September 27, 1936 in Krefeld in a 7-2 win against the Luxembourg national team .

successes

• German champion 1938
• Gaumeister Lower Saxony 1935 , 1938 , 1941
• Gaumeister Südhannover-Braunschweig 1944

Others

Helmut Sievert, who was called up for military service due to World War II , fell near Prague shortly before the end of the war.

literature

• 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. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Heinrich Karl Sievert. In: Gravesearch. Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge , accessed on April 12, 2020 .