Herbert Pohl

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Herbert Pohl (born September 18, 1916 in Hainsberg near Freital ; † November 21, 2010 in Bochum ) was a German football player and coach.

Player career

youth

Pohl grew up as the son of a communist MP and completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter after completing school. As a schoolboy he played in the communist soccer club ASV Freital, which, due to the lack of its own youth department, put him in the first team at the age of 15. After the club was banned by the National Socialists in 1933, he joined the Dresden-Löbtau game association. There it was discovered by the Dresdner SC (DSC), which took it over in the summer of 1937. There Pohl played with football greats such as Richard Hofmann , Willibald Kreß and Helmut Schön . With these players, the DSC grew alongside Schalke 04 into one of the strongest teams in the early 1940s.

Dresdner SC

On December 1, 1940, one year after the start of the Second World War, the DSC won the German soccer cup (Tschammerpokal) for the first time with Pohl as a right midfielder after a 2-1 victory over 1. FC Nürnberg. A year later, the DSC was able to defend the cup with a 2-1 win over Schalke 04; Pohl played again on his regular position right runner. In 1941, Pohl's two games with the German national team also fall . On October 5, 1941 he was in Helsinki as the right runner in the international match Finland - Germany (0: 6) in the German selection and completed in the same position after two international matches without him in his second selection match in the encounter Germany - Slovakia (4: 0) on December 7, 1941 in Breslau. In 1943 and 1944, the Dresdner SC won the German championship. Pohl was in the final on June 27, 1943 (3-0 over FV Saarbrücken) and on June 18, 1944 (4-0 over LSV Hamburg). Also in these two games Pohl was used on the right side of midfield. Since 1943, Pohl only played one-armed after his left arm was torn off by a German aerial bomb during a mission at the front in Tula, Russia in 1942 .

SG Friedrichstadt

After the end of the war, all previous sports clubs were banned in East Germany at the instigation of the Soviet occupying power. In place of the Dresdner SC, the Friedrichstadt Sports Association , which was initially only allowed to host local competitions. Several DSC players, including Herbert Pohl and Helmut Schön, came together in it. After the relaxation of sports traffic in the Soviet occupation zone, SG Friedrichstadt became champion of the Dresden district in 1946/47, was among the last four of the Saxon championship in 1948 and took part in the 2nd East Zone Championship in 1948/49, where they won the quarter-finals Union Halle with 1 : 2 defeated. By participating in the quarter-finals, the Friedrichstadters had qualified for the new East German GDR league , which began with the league game in the summer of 1949. SG Friedrichstadt was one of the top teams and had the chance to become the first GDR champion until the last day of the match. After controversial referee decisions and crowd riots, SG Friedrichstadt lost the last game in front of their own audience against Horch Zwickau with 1: 5 and had to leave the championship to the Zwickauers. The spectator riots and the boycott of the championship celebration by the Dresden players took the East German sports leadership as an opportunity to dissolve the SG Friedrichstadt and transfer the players to a company sports community . Most of the players then went to West Berlin.

Coaching career

Herbert Pohl had already gone to West Germany after he had played 15 league games for Friedrichstadt. At the same time, he had been the coach of the provisional GDR national team. Since it had not yet been accepted into FIFA , it could only play unofficial international matches. When Pohl realized that the GDR selection should be used politically and that no adequate medical treatment was possible for his son with heart disease in the GDR, he left the GDR in January 1950. The 33-year-old became a player-coach at the second-class SSV Wuppertal , and later he coached other amateur clubs in Wuppertal, which he led into the next higher class.

Others

In 2006 Herbert Pohl celebrated his 90th birthday as the last survivor of the DSC championship teams in Wuppertal.

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personal data
SURNAME Pohl, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Hainsberg (Freital)
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2010
Place of death Bochum