Herbert Binkert

Herbert Binkert
Herbert Binkert (1976)
Personnel
birthday	September 3, 1923
place of birth	Karlsruhe ,  Germany
date of death	4th January 2020
Juniors
Years	station
-1942	Karlsruher FC Phoenix
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1942-1945	FV Saarbrücken
1945-1946	Karlsruher FC Phoenix	(22)
1946-1948	VfB Stuttgart
1948-1960	1. FC Saarbrücken
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1951-1956	Saarland	12 0(6)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1960-1965	SV Röchling Völklingen
1965-1970	FC 08 Homburg
circa 1972	VfB Theley
1975-1977	SV Röchling Völklingen
1979	Borussia Neunkirchen
1 Only league games are given.

Herbert Binkert (born September 3, 1923 in Karlsruhe ; † January 4, 2020 ) was a German football player and coach . In 1943 and 1952 he was with FV Saarbrücken and 1. FC Saarbrücken in the finals of the German soccer championship .

Career

Beginning

Herbert Binkert, who was born in Karlsruhe's Oststadt in 1923 and grew up on Durlacher Strasse, learned to play soccer in the youth department of the Karlsruhe FC Phönix and learned the ABC in the Tulla school. On the sports fields in the wildlife park, close to Karlsruhe Castle, he went through various age groups in the youth department of the master of 1909. He played his first game in the Gauliga Baden two days before his 17th birthday, on September 1, 1940, against 1. FC Pforzheim. Between 1940 and 1944, the talented attacker played around 20 Gauliga games for FC Phönix, scoring eleven goals. Due to the effects of the Second World War he came to Saarland - he was with his unit (flak battery) at Kieselhumes, only a few stones throws away from the stadium, where he played in the Gauliga Westmark from the 1942/43 round at FV Saarbrücken . With the soldiers Hans Plückhan, Herbert Dorn and Herbert Bayer, the FV Saarbrücken strengthened itself in important positions and thus came to a surprisingly successful round. Saarbrücken won the championship by one point ahead of FV Metz. As a 19-year-old Binkert experienced in the final round - which was initially "drawn" according to regional criteria because of the distance problem - at the side of the national player Wilhelm Sold , after successes over FC Mülhausen , Kölner SV Victoria, VfR Mannheim and First Vienna FC 1894 Vienna , the entry into the final of the German soccer championship in 1943. He contributed five goals. Before the final, the people of Saarbrücken lived in the “Russischer Hof” in Berlin. The chairman of SC Blau-Weiß Berlin, Ludwig Zeitz, made his club's facility available as a training camp and location. In the final on June 27th in Berlin in the second half , the Dresdner SC prevailed with 3-0 goals. In the 6th minute, Saarlanders' right defender Decker was so badly injured in the foot that after the break he was only an extra on the right wing and the regular winger Kurtsiefer had to defend. A year later, in 1944, the title was defended in Gau Westmark in front of FV Metz - the sporting conditions were no longer worthy of a final round - KSG Saarbrücken failed with center forward Herbert Binkert in the quarter-finals with 1: 5 goals at 1. FC Nürnberg.

Oberliga Süd, 1945-1948

In the American zone - in the main part of southern Germany - a directive had already been issued on August 27, 1945, which allowed the resumption of sports activities at the district level. In view of the relative freedom of movement in the American zone, the Oberliga Süddeutschland was approved as early as November 4, 1945. Herbert Binkert lived again in his hometown Karlsruhe and competed for FC Phönix. It was enough to win at home against VfB Stuttgart, TSV 1860 Munich, SpVgg Fürth and VfR Mannheim, but since abroad only two points could be scored at Kickers Offenbach and local rivals Karlsruher FV , Phönix came with the 22-time goalscorer Binkert and the strong half-forward Theo Sommerlatt only took 15th place in the final table at the end of the round. The young striker with scoring qualities moved in the summer of 1946 to VfB Stuttgart , the champions of the 1945/46 season. However, Binkert did not defend his title with VfB in 1946/47. 1. FC Nürnberg prevailed in the south. Against his hometown club FC Phönix Karlsruhe, Stuttgart lost both matches in this round. In the second season at VfB Stuttgart, Herbert Binkert scored 20 goals in 34 appearances. Together with Robert Schlienz (31 goals) he was the most dangerous attacker for the Swabians. Despite his excellent hit rate, he turned his back on the Oberliga Süd and signed as a contract player for the 1948/49 round with 1. FC Saarbrücken. Herbert Binkert tied delicate bonds to the blue-blacks: he had married a woman from Saarbrücken in 1946 and now moved to Saarbrücken.

1. FC Saarbrücken, 1948-1960

2nd division in France / Saarland Cup, 1948–1951

Before the start of the points round in 1948/49, 1. FC Saarbrücken had major problems to deal with. On July 25, 1948, the Saarland Football Association was founded, which should join the Fédération Française de Football (FFF) according to the ideas of the pro-French Saar government . The game traffic with the teams in the Oberliga Südwest had become almost impossible due to the political and economic separation of the Saarland. Participation in championship games only within the narrow borders of the Saarland would not have been a sporting basis. A lucky circumstance helped 1. FC Saarbrücken. The AS Angoulême , a club of the professional division 2 in France, was not able to provide a team for the championship round at short notice. The Saarbrücken-based company applied to the FFF for permission to take the vacated space. This application was granted with the restriction that Saarbrücken could participate as a guest, i.e. unofficially. Herbert Binkert and his comrades became a "travel team". Criss-cross they passed the corridors of France. The Malstatter traveled 23,314 km by train. After 37 games this season , the team of coach "Ossi" Müller, FC Sarrebruck, had won 26 games, drew seven and lost four. The goal difference was 148: 50 with 59 points. Bordeaux was in second place with 108: 49 goals and 54 points. Herbert Binkert, like Bordeaux ' Luxembourg attacker Camille Libar , scored 41 hits. Sarrebruck was not listed in the table, and his games were not counted for the opponents either: officially, the D2 played with only 19 teams, champions Racing Lens and Bordeaux as second each had 53:19 points and were promoted to Division 1 .

For the 1949/50 round, Saarbrücken's application to officially participate in the championship was rejected. The International Saarland Cup was held as a way out. This competition, to which Saarland's industry donated two million francs, was held under the protectorate of the High Commissioner and the Saarland government. The following teams competed against 1. FC Saarbrücken in the qualifying matches: FC La Chaux de Fonds, Standard Liège, Stade Reims, Elfsborg-Boras, BK Copenhagen, Hajduk Split, Austria Vienna, FC Nancy, AC Bellinzona, JF Degerfors, Rapid Vienna , FC Sète, UC Santiago de Chile, FC Metz and Toulouse FC. The finals took place on June 10 and 11, 1950 in Kieselhumes. Binkert and his teammates won the 1st International Saarland Cup with a 4-0 win over Stade Rennais UC . Further friendlies were held between the Saarland Cup games. The encounters against Stade Français Paris, VfB Neunkirchen, Lausanne-Sports, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, TuS Neuendorf, FC St. Pauli, Eintracht Frankfurt, Kickers Offenbach, FC Old Boys Buenos Aires and FC Luzern should be highlighted. On February 26, 1950, 1. FC defeated Switzerland's senior national team with 2-1 goals in a training match. At Easter, Binkert and colleagues played in a tournament in Barcelona. On May 31, the Malstattern achieved a 4-1 win on the Kieselhumes against Liverpool FC with three goals from center forward Binkert. The contract players included:
Jockel Balzert , Karl Berg , Nikolaus Biewer , Herbert Binkert, Kurt Clemens , Franz Immig , Herbert Martin , Peter Momber , Hermann Monk, Waldemar Philippi , Theo Puff , Heinrich Schmitt, Robert Schreiner and Erwin Strempel .

For round 1950/51 it continued in the same form. The 2nd International Saarland Cup was played and more friendly games were added. From autumn 1950 Herbert Binkert learned the art of coaching from Auguste Jordan . On September 20, 1950, Herbert Binkert was injured so badly during a game at Tennis Borussia Berlin that he had to pause for weeks. In February 1951, however, Binkert experienced the impressive appearances against AS Cannes-Grasse, Athletico Bilbao, Deportivo La Coruna, Real Madrid and FC Rouen as a high-performance player. The 4-0 success on Wednesday, February 21, 1951 in the Estadio Chamartin, later renamed the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, with a goal by the ex-Karlsruhe, is considered the "most beautiful and most successful game ever shown by a Malstatter team", described. In June followed a trip to the north with games in Denmark and Sweden. That was the end of three rounds without a league game, but which had provided impressions that were remembered for a lifetime.

Oberliga Südwest, 1951-1960

In the 1951/52 round, 1. FC Saarbrücken was again eligible to play in the Oberliga Südwest . Binkert, Momber and Co were able to experience the charm of a points round again. The internationally experienced Saarlanders won the championship in the southwest with 50:10 points. TuS Neuendorf was runner-up with 44:16 points ahead of the knocked-down Walter -Elf from Kaiserslautern. Nine years after his first appearance in a final of the German football championship, Herbert Binkert succeeded in this in 1952. In the group games of the final round, he contributed four goals. Despite the two away defeats at 1. FC Nürnberg and Hamburger SV, they made it to the finals. The decisive factor was the 3-1 home win on June 8, 1952 against 1. FC Nürnberg. The opponent in the final was VfB Stuttgart on June 22, 1952 in Ludwigshafen. The protégés of coach Georg Wurzer prevailed with 3-2 goals. Eight rounds of the Oberliga in the southwest followed for Herbert Binkert. As a representative of Saarland, 1. FC Saarbrücken also took part in the debut round of the 1955/56 European Cup. In the second leg on November 23, 1955 in Saarbrücken against AC Milan, Binkert scored the interim 1: 1 equalizer in the 32nd minute. Milan prevailed with 4-1 goals in the end. In 1957 he moved into the finals again with his comrades Herbert Martin and Theo Puff. He also took third place four times with 1. FC Saarbrücken. At the age of 37, Herbert Binkert ended his playing career at the end of the 1959/60 round. In his last round he had scored seven goals in 13 games. On the last match day, April 24, 1960, in the 4-0 home win against Eintracht Trier , he said goodbye to the audience in the Ludwigsparkstadion with the goal to make it 2-0 . Herbert Binkert is ranked 17th with 110 goals in the ranking of the top league goalscorer in the southwest. If you add the 54 goals in the Oberliga Süd from 1945 to 1948 at Phönix Karlsruhe and VfB Stuttgart, he comes up with 164 goals and is sixth in the ranking in the southwest. His goals in Division 2 in France and the two years of play for the International Saarland Cup have absolutely no effect on this rating. It would have exceeded the 200 mark by far.

International matches with Saarland, 1951–1956

In the 3-2 win on May 21, 1951 in Saarbrücken against Austria B, the center forward Herbert Binkert wore the jersey of the Saarland national soccer team for the first time . He also took part in the 1953 World Cup qualifying games against Norway and Germany with coach Helmut Schön . In the last game of the Saarland on June 6, 1956 in Amsterdam against Holland, he completed his twelfth international match. He scored six goals. It was not until July 7, 1956 that the SFB joined the DFB as the Saarland Football Association and became a simple regional association. On June 30, 1946, he had already played a representative role in the southern selection in Cologne against West Germany. A second game for southern Germany followed on May 19, 1948 in Frankfurt / Main against a north / west combination.

Trainer

As a trainer in Saarland, Binkert quickly made a reputation for himself as a specialist in advancement. After the end of his playing career, he took over SV Röchling Völklingen and rose in 1961 first in the 2nd Southwest League and in 1963 in the new Regionalliga Southwest. He led FC 08 Homburg in 1966 and VfB Theley in 1972 in the Regionalliga Südwest. After these successes in promotion, the fact that he knew how to keep the teams he had brought up there was counted as a no less big plus. Völklingen held out like the Homburgers, and Theley was also able to secure the class affiliation. In 1973/74 he came in second place with 1. FC Saarbrücken in the last regional league year and thus in the promotion round to the Bundesliga. With Röchling Völklingen and Borussia Neunkirchen , he proved his coaching qualities from 1975 to 1977 and 1979 in the 2nd Bundesliga . He combined a huge package of his own game practice with pedagogical skills, empathy for the psyche of the actors, and not least because of these characteristics Herbert Binkert was also association group chairman Southwest in the Association of German Football Teachers from July 1967 to June 1978. In 1963 he had a successful team with Jupp Derwall , Herbert Schäfer and Kurt Sommerlatt passed the soccer teacher exam. From 1978 he took the position of the 3rd chairman in the BDFL under the 1st chairman Herbert Widmayer . In 1996 he still held the position of vice-president for soccer teachers.

Work and private life

Binkert spent most of his professional career in the Saarland Ministry of the Interior . As Oberamtsrat he went to board . He and his family felt at home in Bischmisheim . His son, Dr. Gerhard Binkert (contract player at 1. FC Saarbrücken and FC Homburg), was most recently President of the Berlin / Brandenburg Regional Labor Court. His son, Manfred Binkert (player at Saar 05 Saarbrücken, German national student team), was the headmaster of the community school in Güdingen for 25 years.

Binkert died on January 4, 2020 at the age of 96.

Honors

Herbert Binkert was awarded honorary membership of 1. FC Saarbrücken and that of the Association of German Football Teachers. In 1980 he was awarded the Golden Merit Pin of the German Association of Sports Teachers. Prime Minister Oskar Lafontaine awarded him the Saarland Order of Merit in 1998.

statement

Kirn / Natan record in their Ullstein-TB from 1958 about the soccer player Herbert Binkert: "Technically fine conductor, in almost every Saar selection and still belonging to the elite."

swell

• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• 100 Years of the German Championship, The History of Football in Germany, Die Werkstatt Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-89533-410-3 .
• 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 .
• Lorenz Knierim, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Lexicon of players 1890-1963 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , page 32.
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• 50 years of 1. FC Saarbrücken 1903–1953: Chronicle. 1953.
• Gerhard Reuther: 1. FC Saarbrücken 1903–1983. The German football sport Dasbach Verlag GmbH, Taunusstein, 1983, DNB 890575428 .
• Richard Kirn , Alex Natan : Soccer: past and present, rules and terms (= Ullstein books No. 206). Ullstein Taschenbücher-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1958, DNB 452421306 .

Web links

• Herbert Binkert in the database of weltfussball.de
• Herbert Binkert in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Publishing house regional culture. Ubstadt-Weiher 2016. ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 . P. 293
2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Herbert Binkert - Goals in International Matches . RSSSF.com . January 15, 2006. Accessed January 12, 2020.
3. ^ Thomas Wollscheid: Saar soccer player Herbert Binkert died. In: sr.de . January 4, 2020, accessed January 4, 2020 . 
4. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 37 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken September 3, 1998, p. 782 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 244 kB ; accessed on June 22, 2017]).