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Herbert Rappsilber , called "Teddy" (* 2. April 1925 in Brachstedt / Saalkreis; † 2003 in Öhringen / Hohenlohekreis) was a German football player and football coach who in 1952 with turbine hall , the football championship in GDR football won.

Career

East Germany, 1932–1955

Herbert Rappsilber started playing soccer in the youth department of FC Wacker Zörbig 04 when he was just seven years old. His father was also active there. As a school boy, he played soccer every day. The player, who was mostly used as a center forward in his youth, was appointed to the district and area selection due to his outstanding talent. At the age of fifteen, he made his debut in Wacker Zörbig's first team. One of his teammates was his father. In 1942 he moved to the Gauligist Hallescher FC Wacker. This change was influenced by the acquaintance with football players he met in the aircraft factory in Halle. Here he was trained as a metal aircraft maker. In the spring of 1944 Herbert Rappsilber came to Lyon as a paratrooper. As early as December 27, 1944, he was wounded and taken prisoner in Bastogne, Belgium. Until April 1946 Herbert Rappsilber was interned in a reception camp for Europeans in the American state of New Jersey. There he had the opportunity to play football. In April 1948 Herbert Rappsilber came back to his parents in Zörbig from a camp in the south-west of England. There he immediately joined the footballers of SG Zörbig.

Freiimfelde / Union / Turbine / SC Chemie Halle-Leuna, 1948–1955

Despite the years of war-related interruption in his hopeful career, the 23-year-old was a recognized player in Eastern Zone football from the start. With Freiimfelde Halle he won the championship of Saxony-Anhalt after a 2-0 victory against BW Stendal on April 10, 1949. Both teams were renamed in April 1949 in ZSG Union Halle and SG Eintracht Stendal. Halle won the final of the second Eastern Zone Championship on June 26, 1949 in Dresden's Ostragehege with two goals from Herbert Rappsilber with 4-1 goals against Fortuna Erfurt . Helmut Nordhaus , one of the best middle runners of the time, was his direct opponent. The fifth and sixth places in the rounds of 1949/50 and 1950/51 were followed by an increase in performance in the third league year. The team from Halle became champions of the GDR in the league in 1952 - ahead of VP Dresden and Chemie Leipzig . Herbert Rappsilber, used by coach Alfred Schulz as an all-rounder, played all 36 league games and scored eight goals. Rappsilber and his Turbine teammates Karl Gola , Erich Haase and Otto Knefler were loudly supported by an average of 22,170 spectators. Rappsilber preferred to hold the position of the middle runner. However, as an outside runner, he formed a well-complemented pair with Otto Knefler. Both dominated the interplay between defensive and offensive. In the round of 1952/53 "Teddy" was active in 32 games, but he could not prevent the defending champion from falling to 13th place in the table. The away weakness was blatant with 8:24 points. In the summer of 1953 the players Knefler, Heise, Ebert, Kegel and Haase moved to Werder Bremen . Herbert Rappsilber stayed in Halle, played an outstanding round and finished the round in eighth place with Turbine. After the team of coach Sepp Herberger won the soccer world championship in Switzerland in 1954 , the sports clubs were installed in financially strong large plants in the GDR. The state amateurs should connect to the top international performers under professional conditions. The SC Chemie Halle-Leuna was launched in Halle . After 17 missions in the 1954/55 round, this chapter was over for Herbert Rappsilber. With the mediation of the ex-national goalkeeper Willibald Kreß , he moved to the Federal Republic for FSV Frankfurt / Main in the Oberliga Süd . In total he had played 169 games with 43 goals for Halle in the Oberliga from 1949 to 1955 in the East Zone / GDR. In the Saxony-Anhalt state selection, he was used in seven games with six goals from 1948 to 1951. From 1949 to 1953 he had six missions for the German East Zone and the GDR. Among them was the game of the B-Elf on June 14, 1953 in Sofia against Bulgaria. For political reasons, he was not nominated for the GDR national soccer team . Rappsilber says: “Too much was seen after politics and too little kept an eye on football. The opinion of the players was not respected enough in the former GDR ”.

statement

His former teammate Karl Gola commented on the footballer Herbert Rappsilber: "He was a very good player, powerful shot, strong at the ball, strategist, good stopper and all-round player".

FSV Frankfurt / Ausklang as a player, 1955–1963

In the round of 1955/56 the man from Saxony-Anhalt played alongside Richard Herrmann , Berthold Buchenau and Hans Strittmatter in the Oberliga Süd. The FSV finished ninth at the end of the lap. The ex-Halle had contributed six goals in 18 games. He played his first game in the Oberliga Süd on August 27, 1955. The opponent, BC Augsburg, was defeated 3-1. From 1956/57 to 1962/63 Herbert Rappsilber played for VfR Heilbronn and Amicitia Viernheim in the 2nd League South. Then he ended his active playing career. Herbert Rappsilber played casually, skillfully and dynamically at the same time. He could pull a team away. He was a goalscorer, had technical ability and tactical ability. From the defender to the left winger, he was able to hold every position at a high level.

Trainer

After the first stations in the amateur football - at SB Heidenheim and TSV Tailfingen - took Herbert Rappsilber for the season 1967-68 in the then second-class Regionalliga Southwest the TuS Neuendorf . Koblenz had unsatisfactorily finished the round in 1966/67 with 14th place. Herbert Rappsilber immediately led the men around Werner Hölzenbein and Hans Sondermann to second place in the table and thus to the Bundesliga promotion round in 1968. In his second season in Neuendorf, he only missed the championship due to the poorer goal difference to defending champion SV Alsenborn . In the promotion rounds, the Southwest runner-up had to experience the superiority of the rivals from the south and west. After three rounds, the job at TuS Neuendorf came to an end and Rappsilber moved to Schwäbisch Hall for family reasons.

Professional

Herbert Rappsilber was a civil servant. The sports facility administration fell under his responsibility. Tennis became his hobby.

swell

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 381.
• Hanns Leske: The GDR league players. A lexicon. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , p. 396.
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 , p. 512.
• Hardy Greens: German Associations, AGON, 1995, ISBN 3-928562-48-7 .
• IFFHS: Libero, No. D4, Wiesbaden 1992, GDR football.

Web links

• Herbert Rappsilber in the database of the German Football Association