Horst Kiow

Horst Kiow (born December 4, 1919 in Stettin ; † September 19, 2010 in Lübeck ) was a German football player and coach who took part in the German championship with VfL Stettin and played for VfB Lübeck in the Oberliga Nord.

Career

societies

Kiow began playing football at age ten and already stood at 18 years for the first time in the list of VfL Stettin, who at that time as a freshman in Gauliga Pomerania , one of initially 16 and later spiked to 23 Gauligen the era of National Socialism as a uniform top flight in the German Reich , played. Emerging from the West section as the winner , he and the team played the two-legged Gaume Championship final against SV Viktoria Stolp , the winner of the East section. Since both clubs won their away game 2-1 and 1-0, a third game necessary for the decision was played, which Kiow and his team won 5-2 on April 21, 1940 in Stettin. With the success for the final round of the German championship, he came in four games of Group 1a twice against SC Union Oberschöneweide and VfB Königsberg , but scored none of the five Szczecin goals. In 1940 he was also used in three games for the 1935 newly introduced competition for the Tschammer Cup . He made his debut on August 25 in the 3-2 first-round victory over PSV Chemnitz .

After the end of the war, he first spent a few years in Salzwedel before moving to the Hanseatic city of Lübeck in 1950 . Within a very short time he became a regular at the local VfB, with whom he had to relegate to the Schleswig-Holstein amateur league at the end of the season 1953/54 , as well as at the end of the season 1957/58 when the promotion was successful and he was also the team's coach . By the end of his career in 1958, he played more than 200 games for VfB Lübeck, 79 of them in the first-class Oberliga Nord at the time .

Selection team

Before the outbreak of the Second World War, he also played ten times for the Pomeranian national team .

successes

• Gaumeister Pomerania 1940

Others

Kiow died at the age of 90 in a senior citizens' home in Lübeck . In 2010 he was elected to the legendary eleven of VfB Lübeck supporters .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lübecker Nachrichten of September 24, 2010, accessed on July 4, 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

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 , p. 189.
• Guido Eschholz, Thomas Nöllen: VfB - A love in green and white , page 85