Herbert Schroer

Herbert Schroer (born November 1, 1928 in Kindsbach ; † January 13, 2015 ) was a German soccer player who played as an offensive player from 1949 to 1960 in the then first-class Southwest soccer league with a total of 262 league games and 97 goals for the clubs VfR Kaiserslautern , Wormatia Worms , 1. FC Kaiserslautern and FK Pirmasens . From 1956 to 1960, the attacker belonged to the championship team of the Oberliga Südwest for five rounds in a row; He won the first two championships in 1956 and 1957 with the FCK, followed by three titles with Pirmasens from 1958 to 1960. The versatile striker scored eight goals in 26 final rounds of the German soccer championship .

career

League football, 1949 to 1960

Herbert Schroer learned to play football at his home club FV Kindsbach . After the round of 1948/49, the game between the football clubs from Kindsbach and Vogelbach was played as his farewell game at the sports festival . Schroer joined the 1949/50 round of VfR Kaiserslautern , who had been promoted to the Oberliga Südwest . At Vogelbach, the young attacker Horst Eckel stood out in the Schroer farewell game with six hits in Vogelbach's 8: 4 win. Overall, the offensive player from Kindsbach completed 94 league games in four rounds for the team from the Waldstadion am Erbsenberg from 1949 to 1953 and scored 30 goals. From 1951, Ernst Willimowski stormed by his side at the "Blue" ex-national player and goal scorer . On March 23, 1952, both attackers were also in action together in the outstanding 4-2 home win against local rivals 1. FC Kaiserslautern for the Walter brothers.

For the 1953/54 season, Schroer Wormatia Worms joined. In the 1954/55 season he won the runner-up in the Southwest Oberliga with Wormatia. The move into the final round was brought about against the equal points 1. FC Saarbrücken but only with the better goal difference. It was only after three qualifying games against Bremerhaven 93 and SSV Reutlingen that the players from the Nibelungenstadt were accepted into preliminary group II against Offenbach, Rot-Weiss Essen and Bremerhaven. Schroer played eight games and scored two goals alongside other players like Horst Löb , Hans Mechnig , Helmut Müller and Richard Sehrt . The two games against the later new German champions from Essen were outstanding. Wormatia reached a 1-1 draw on Essen's Hafenstrasse and in front of 30,000 spectators in Worms on Alzeyer Strasse, Helmut Rahn's men prevailed with 3-1 goals. After two rounds with 55 additional league appearances with 18 goals, he was drawn back to Kaiserslautern, but now to FCK.

In his first round with the "Red Devils" from Betzenberg, 1955/56 , the team led by Fritz Walter won the Southwest Championship with a ten point lead. In 26 league appearances, Schroer scored 14 of the 108 goals of the FCK, which had all "world champions" from 1954. Willi Wenzel led the internal goalscorer list with 23 goals, ahead of the tied-on goal Walter brothers with 16 goals each. On December 31, 1955 he was in the "legendary" game for the Südwestpokal against FC Saarbrücken at 7: 7 (6: 6, 2: 4) after extra time to the FCK goal scorers. In the final round of the German football championship , FCK started with a 1: 3 away defeat at FC Schalke 04. Schroer scored the next goal in the 66th minute to make it 1: 2. After the subsequent 5-2 success in the Niedersachsenstadion against Hannover 96, the FCK seemed to have picked up speed, but the 0-1 home defeat in front of 83,000 spectators in Ludwigshafen against the south champion Karlsruher SC threw the Walter-Elf back decisively. Left winger Schroer contributed a goal to the 4: 4 draw in the second leg against Schalke. In the 1-0 away win at Karlsruher SC, he stormed the right wing, as well as in the final 5: 3 home win - again in Ludwigshafen - against Hanover. Equal with 7: 5 points each, Schroer and colleagues had to let KSC and Schalke go first.

In his second season with FCK, 1956/57 , he experienced the win of the second championship title. The southwest round ended Kaiserslautern on April 28, 1957 with a 12: 6 home win against TuS Neuendorf. As a right winger, he scored two goals. After the championship round, the FCK accepted an invitation to the USA with games in New York, St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia. In the 4-1 victory over the New York Hungarians, Scheffler, Eckel, Liebrich and Schroer were injured one after the other. The Lauterer opened the final on June 2 in Wuppertal with a 14-1 victory in front of 42,000 spectators in the stadium at the Zoo against Hertha BSC . He again played on the right winger and took part in the "Schützenfest" with two goals. FCK lost the decisive group game against the reigning German champions Borussia Dortmund on June 9th in Hanover in front of 75,000 spectators with 2: 3 goals. In the attack, the protégés of trainer Richard Schneider with Schroer, Fritz Walter, Ottmar Walter, Willi Wenzel and Friedel Späth competed. Again after two years, Schroer moved to his fourth league station in the southwest. For the round 1957/58 he laced the kick boots for FK Pirmasens.

At FKP, the master maker from Dortmund, Helmut Schneider , took over the coaching position and brought Helmut Kapitulski with him from Borsigplatz to the shoe city. After the first half of the season, Pirmasens led the Oberliga Südwest with 27: 3 points. At the side of the outstanding attacker Kapitulski (24 goals), the storm colleagues Hans Breitzke, Karl Brunn , Heini Seebach and Emil Weber, Herbert Schroer celebrated the championship with 22 league appearances and six goals at the end of the round . In the shortened final round of the German championship because of the World Cup in Sweden, Schroer ran in the three games against 1. FC Nürnberg (2: 2), 1. FC Köln (1: 1) and Hamburger SV (1: 2) each on right winger. In his second season in the stadium on Zweibrücker Strasse , 1958/59 , he improved his record in successfully defending his title to 22 league appearances with twelve goals. Overall, the attack scored 95 goals with Schroer, Brunn, Seebach, newcomers Richard Sehrt, Kapitulski and Breitzke in the southwest. In the 1959 finals , the FKP started on May 16 in Ludwigshafen in front of 60,000 spectators with a sensational 4-0 win against West Champion 1. FC Köln . Kapitulski (2), Seebach and Schroer stood out as goalscorers against the Cologne defense around Fritz Ewert , Herbert Dörner , Karl-Heinz Schnellinger and Hans Sturm . At the later German champions Eintracht Frankfurt, the Southwest representative lost 2: 3 goals in front of 81,000 spectators in the Waldstadion on May 23. In his third season, 1959/60 , the 31-year-old attacker scored 14 goals in the title hat trick in 24 league appearances. In the final round, however, the southwest champion did not convince with 1:11 points. In the 1: 3 away defeat against Werder Bremen, Schroer scored the Pirmasens consolation goal. After 68 league appearances for Pirmasens with 32 goals, he ended his high-class playing career in the summer of 1960 and returned to his hometown club FV Kindsbach in the amateur camp.

Herbert Schroer was a fixture in southwest German football for many years. He was an all-round striker with constant accuracy.

Selection appointments, 1955 to 1960

Schroer drew attention to himself in the Oberliga Südwest and the finals with his skills in attack. He had several appointments in the Southwest team for representative games or an assignment in a test match of the FCK against a DFB selection. On August 15, 1956, he stormed the FCK on right wing next to Fritz Walter in a test match against a DFB selection that lost in Ludwigshafen with 1: 2 goals against Kaiserslautern. On December 30, 1956 he scored a goal for the 3-1 success of the Southwest against the selection of West Germany. In the 2-5 defeat on November 18, 1959 in Saarbrücken against the southern selection, he scored both goals for the southwest selection. In March 1960, he represented the colors of the Southwest in the 0-0 draw against Northern Germany.

But it was not enough to play in the senior national team under national coach Sepp Herberger .

literature

• 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 .
• Horst Eckel , Volker Neumann: The 84th minute . Agon, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-253-X .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Web links

• Player profile
• obituary

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eckel, Neumann: The 84th Minute . P. 23.
2. ↑ Werner Skrentny (Ed.): Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg. P. 162.
3. ↑ Werner Skrentny (Ed.): Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg. P. 164.
4. ↑ Werner Skrentny (Ed.): Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg. P. 166.