Herbert Rasch

Herbert Rasch
Personnel
birthday	January 8, 1915
place of birth	Allenstein ,  German Empire
date of death	June 9, 1940
Place of death	Amblimont ,  France
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1936	SV 1910 Allenstein
1936-1939	1. FC Kaiserslautern
1 Only league games are given.

Herbert Rasch (born January 8, 1915 in Allenstein , † June 9, 1940 in Amblimont ) was a German football player .

Soccer player and soldier

The soccer department of SV 1910 Allenstein , in the town of the same name, today's Olsztyn in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , quickly began playing soccer. Of his seven siblings, all four brothers also played soccer. Helmut , the youngest, later played like him at 1. FC Kaiserslautern . In the course of his football career, he became a representative of the city team and was a member of the East Prussian district selection.

Professionally, he initially belonged to the SA and then became a professional soldier . In 1936 he was transferred to the 36th Infantry Division in Kaiserslautern and in the same year joined 1. FC Kaiserslautern . He first started in the reserve team and then moved up to the first team. After he had initially been active with her in the district class, the 1937/38 season was promoted to the southwest division , one of the 16 highest German divisions. After only one year of membership, he rose with the team in the district class and for the 1939/40 season back up in the area class.

He had to his activity as a footballer in Kaiserslautern at the start of World War II quit because he as a soldier ( Sergeant / Kapitulant ) of the 13th Company of the Infantry -Regiments placed under 118, the 36th Infantry Division, the Western campaign participated. On June 9, 1940, he was so badly wounded in front of the " Toter Mann " height off Verdun that he succumbed to his injuries the following night at the Amblimont main dressing station, southeast of Sedan . A “hero's grave” was quickly given to the cemetery of honor in Amblimont. On the part of 1. FC Kaiserslautern he was honored as one of the "best active players who made an outstanding contribution to the sporting successes and the glamorous promotion" .

Web links

• Herbert Rasch in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Neumann: The Walter Elf, p. 21

literature

• Markwart Herzog : The "Betze" under the swastika: 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the time of National Socialism. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-541-X , p. 59.