Herbert Dannenmeier

Herbert Dannenmeier (born May 11, 1926 in Karlsruhe-Daxlanden ; † May 16, 2008 in Malsch (Karlsruhe district) ) was a German football player who played 149 games in the Oberliga Süd for VfB Mühlburg and Karlsruher SC from 1948 to 1956 and scored seven goals in the process.

career

Youth and amateur at VfB Mühlburg, 1935 to 1952

Herbert Dannenmeier grew up playing football in the youth department of his home club FV Daxlanden , where he also began club football at the age of nine. He developed into a technically outstanding development player who was also equipped with a great feel for the ball, header game and tackling skills. On his 15th birthday, he played his first game in the Daxlanden first team alongside his idol August Klingler . In the 1942/43 season he played six league games in the Gauliga Baden . After the Second World War , the "Dannes" called Dannenmeier played with Daxlanden from 1945/46 to 1947/48 in the Landesliga Nordbaden. The Karlsruhe district club VfB Mühlburg rose as champions of the year 1947 in the Oberliga Süd and signed the 22-year-old outside runner and half-striker for the 1948/49 round.

In the first year of the league, Dannenmeier first had to get used to the higher level of the league as well as to that in the VfB Mühlburg squad and therefore only made two appearances. He played his first round game in the Oberliga Süd on March 27, 1949 in the 2-0 away defeat at Bayern Munich. Dannenmeier made his debut on half right next to the storm partners Max Fischer , Georg Seeburger , Hermann Lehmann and Werner Roth . From the second year, 1949/50 , the ex-Daxlander belonged with 21 missions and three hits to the regular cast of Mühlburg, which in 1950 was seventh in the south. When "Dannes" played 30 games for the team from the stadium on Honsellstrasse in the 1950/51 season , the offensive forces around Horst Buhtz (21), Hugo Rastetter (17), Hermann Lehmann (17) and Ernst Kunkel (16) at 94 Even more goals scored than champions 1. FC Nürnberg, VfB Mühlburg advanced to third place in the south. After the 4-2 home win in the catch-up game on December 25, 1950 against Kickers Offenbach, VfB even topped the table with 24:10 points. Dannenmeier was personally honored by being called to the South German selection at the game on November 12, 1950 in Frankfurt against West Germany. In the 5-4 success of the south, he formed the runner row together with Heinrich Gärtner and Karl Barufka . In the last year of Mühlburg's independence, 1951/52, it was only ninth place.

Karlsruher SC, 1952 to 1956

After the merger with Phönix Karlsruhe, Kurt Sommerlatt and Heinz Beck also wore the jersey of the Karlsruher SC from 1952/53 , the path of the new Karlsruhe top club led to fourth place. With Kurt Sommerlatt, Dannenmeier now formed one of the best outside runner pairs in the top leagues. In the 1955 DFB Cup , "Dannes" played in the two semi-finals in April and May against FC Altona 93 and in the final on May 21 in Braunschweig against FC Schalke 04 . In the 3-2 win against the Schalke "Knappen" he formed the KSC runner row together with Werner Roth and Siegfried Geesmann . When Karlsruhe won 2-1 goals in the last game of the KSC on the pitch in Mühlburg on Honsellstrasse on June 25, 1955 against Inter Milan, Dannenmeier scored with a volley from the edge of the penalty area, probably his best goal of his career.

Injuries prevented the KSC left runner from playing more than eleven games in the 1955/56 season. Nevertheless, the team from the Wildpark Stadium won the championship in the Oberliga Süd for the first time - ahead of VfB Stuttgart and VfR Mannheim - and thus made it into the finals of the German football championship. Dannenmeier played four games in the final against Schalke 04, Hannover 96 and 1. FC Kaiserslautern and was also part of the KSC formation that met Borussia Dortmund in the final on June 24, 1956 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium in front of 75,000 spectators . Together with Rudi Fischer (goal), Max Fischer, Walter Bauis , Heinz Ruppenstein and Siegfried Geesmann, he formed the Karlsruhe defensive team in the 4-2 defeat. In the semifinals of the DFB Cup in 1956 , he was also on May 6 with a superior 5-1 win at the "Horeb" in Pirmasens for the KSC. When Karlsruhe succeeded in defending the cup in the final on August 5, 1956 with a 3-1 win in the home stadium against Hamburger SV , Dannenmeier wore the TSG Ulm 1846 jersey in the 2nd League South at the end of his career .

End of the career

In the summer of 1956, the 30-year-old Dannenmeier moved to the 2nd league south to TSG Ulm 1846. In the first year, the promotion to the Oberliga Süd as third in the table was just missed behind the promoted 1860 Munich and SSV Reutlingen. In 1958, this goal was made up for with the runner-up. With goalkeeper Manfred Paul and the Kronenbitter brothers - Leo and Siegfried - the veteran achieved this success at the end of his playing career.

Later, Dannenmeier, who lives in the district of Karlsruhe in Malsch, worked as a trainer in the Baden amateur area. a. at FV Bad Rotenfels and FV Malsch.

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 .
• 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 .
• Matthias Kropp, Germany's major soccer teams, part 11: Karlsruher SC, AGON-Sportverlag, 1998, ISBN 3-89609-115-8 .
• Up, heroes! Magazine for Football Time Stories, No. 13, Verlag Block Eins (Ed.), Karlsruhe, 2008.
• 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 .