Hubert Schieth

Hubert Schieth's grave in the Catholic cemetery in Essen-Heisingen .

Hubert Schieth (born January 26, 1927 in Obersayn , † February 19, 2013 in Essen ) was a German soccer player and soccer coach . As a contract footballer , he completed 230 league games from 1948 to 1960 in the first-class soccer leagues south and west , scoring 88 goals. In the game year 1952/53 , the offensive player won the South German Championship as an active member of Eintracht Frankfurt and crowned his playing career in 1959 at ETB Schwarz-Weiß Essen by winning the DFB Cup . After the end of his playing career, he worked as a coach at VfL Bochum , SG Wattenscheid 09 and SW Essen in the West Regional Football League and the 2nd Bundesliga .

player

Oberliga Süd, 1948 to 1953

At the age of 20, the goal- scoring inner striker Hubert Schieth, from the Westerwald village of Obersayn , joined the Frankfurt district club Rödelheimer FC in the Hessen State League for the 1947/48 season . He celebrated in his first round with Rödelheim in 1948 before Hessen Kassel the championship and after the promotion round, together with BC Augsburg, promotion to the football league south . On September 11, 1948, he contributed both hits to TSG Ulm 1846 for the 2-1 victory in the league. He finished the round as a four-time goalscorer for a 4-1 home win on May 15, 1949 against 1. FC Nürnberg . In total, the man from the Westerwald completed 25 league games for Rödelheim and scored eleven goals alongside Alfred Pfaff , Herbert Kesper and Kurt Krömmelbein . With 17:43 points, the climber rose back to the bottom of the table immediately in the Hessian amateur camp. Schieth and his playmates Pfaff, Kesper and Krömmelbein accepted an offer from Eintracht Frankfurt, moved to the Riederwald and thus remained in the Oberliga Süd.

Schieth already showed himself from his best side in the game against FC Basel on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the club. In front of 30,000 spectators, the ex-Rödelheimer scored all goals in a 4-1 win over the Swiss in the stadium and scored twice a week later in a 3-0 win against the Austrian national division FC Wien. He also showed his scoring risk in the league and scored 15 goals among the best shooters in the southern league. But the team of coach Walter Hollstein and the chairman of the game committee Rudi Gramlich played a disappointing round and was only just able to prevent relegation. With ten points behind local rivals FSV Frankfurt , Eintracht finished 14th with 24:36 points, two points ahead of Regensburg, which had to accept relegation with 22 points. In 1950/51 Kurt Windmann took over the training management of the Eagle Bearers. In fact, there was a sporting improvement, Eintracht landed at the end of the round in eighth place in the table and Schieth had scored nine goals in 31 league games. The interesting trip abroad to Spain at Christmas 1950 with games against Atlético Madrid (4-3 win with two goals from Schieth) and FC Sevilla (3-5 defeat) also contributed to the good mood . After the end of the points round, the man from the Westerwald experienced a trip to America with Eintracht from May 2nd to June 3rd. During the trip, organized by the German-American Football Association (DAFB), a total of eight friendlies were played between May 6th and 30th, unforgettable impressions of life in America were taken and permanent international contacts were made.

The sporting increase in form of the Eintracht continued in the round 1951/52 , the team from Riederwald achieved fourth place with eleven Schieth goals behind champions VfB Stuttgart, runner-up 1. FC Nürnberg and main rivals Kickers Offenbach. The highlight of Schieth's time at Eintracht Frankfurt was the fourth season, 1952/53 , when the South German championship could be won with one point ahead of the defending champion from Stuttgart. With 27: 3 points, the foundation was laid in the 15 home games when, in addition to three draws, twelve home wins were achieved. On the 29th matchday, April 18, 1953, the decisive character was the 4-1 home win on the 29th matchday against the pursuers Karlsruher SC with three goals from Schieth and the simultaneous 3-1 defeat by VfB Stuttgart in Offenbach. That decided the championship race. In the final round of the German championship, Schieth played four games against 1. FC Köln, Holstein Kiel and 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The "Walter-Elf" from Betzenberg won both games against the Hessians and thus also moved into the final on June 21 in Berlin against the southern runner-up VfB Stuttgart and won the championship against the "Swabians" with a 4: 1 success. After 103 league games with 45 goals for Eintracht, Schieth joined the western league club Schwarz-Weiß Essen for the round in 1953/54 and at the same time took a job in the commercial area at Ruhrkohle AG .

Oberliga West, 1953 to 1960

With the team from Uhlenkrugstadion , Schieth could not follow the successes with Eintracht Frankfurt in the Oberliga Süd in the West Oberliga. At that time, the club was overshadowed by its big local rivals Rot-Weiss Essen , who even won the German championship title in the Ruhr metropolis in 1955, and after Schieth's fourth season at the ETB, 1956/57 , the black and whites even rose with 22:38 points in the 2nd League West . Equally on points, with a goal difference of three tenths worse than SV Sodingen , the path of coach Karl Winkler's team led to the second division. With the successor to coach Willi Multhaup in the second year, 1958/59 , he was able to return to the top division as runner-up in the 2nd division West. On the start day of the 1959/60 round , August 23, 1959, in the 4-0 home win against RW Oberhausen, “old champion” Schieth showed himself at his best with two goals at the side of the young striker Manfred Rummel . The start of the league was preceded by the games for the West German Cup. The final of the West Cup took place on August 8th in Bochum against the reigning league champions Westfalia Herne. The veteran led on half right together with the left connector Hans Küppers ETB to an unexpected 3-2 victory. In the 72nd minute, he converted a penalty against national goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski to the winning goal. Eight days later, on August 16, he prevailed in black and white with a 6-3 win in the qualifying round of the DFB Cup at Hertha BSC . On the 14th matchday in the Oberliga West, ETB landed a 3-1 away win at FC Schalke 04 on December 6, 1959 and was in sixth place in the table with 15:13 points. The regular 15th matchday on December 13th was postponed by the DFB for SWE as a catch-up matchday on December 20th, as the Essenes had to play the semi-final game on December 12th at Nordmeister Hamburger SV . Two goals by center forward Rummel brought the decision in Hamburg (2-1 after extra time) and ETB into the final. In the high of the Hamburg success, the protégés of coach Hans Wendlandt overran the table runner-up from Herne on December 20 in front of 20,000 spectators in Uhlenkrug with 5-0 goals and therefore drove in high spirits to Kassel, where on December 27, 1959 the DFB Cup final against Borussia Neunkirchen took place. With the attacking line-up Horst Trimhold , Schieth, Manfred Rummel, Hans Küppers and Theo Klöckner , the trophy was brought to Essen with a superior 5-2 win against the team from Saarland. For Schieth, one month before his 33rd birthday, it was his greatest success in his playing career. In the second half of the season, however, he experienced a memorable crash in the major league: From 15 games, Schwarz-Weiß Essen only managed 8:22 points and thus the DFB Cup winner in 1959 was relegated to the bottom of the league in 1960. Schieth had completed 102 games in the league for ETB from 1953 to 1960 and scored 32 goals.

The senior was still actively involved in winning the championship in the second division west in front of Fortuna Düsseldorf and Bayer Leverkusen in the 1960/61 season , but ended his playing career after his return to the league in the summer of 1961.

Trainer

Schieth started his coaching career at SSV Hagen before taking over VfL Bochum in the amateur league Westphalia from the 1963/64 season. With eleven points ahead of Lüner SV , he led VfL to the championship in the second year, 1964/65. The third playoff against SpVgg Erkenschwick ended after extra time with a 1-1 draw and the following coin toss brought Bochum to the West Regional Football League. Schieth led President Ottokar Wüst's team in their debut year to 12th place and improved to fourth place in the 1966/67 season. Then he handed over the training management for the boys from Castroper Strasse to ex-Schalke Hermann Eppenhoff .

For him there followed coaching years at SG Wattenscheid 09, where he also succeeded in promotion to the regional league in the 1968/69 season. After two rounds as a coach in the regional league, he moved to the managerial post of SG 09 in 1971/72. In January 1975, he took over the coaching post of his old club Schwarz-Weiß Essen in the 2nd Bundesliga , group north. Until the end of the 1976/77 round, he was a coach at Uhlenkrug, then Klaus Steilmann brought him back to Wattenscheid as a coach. From 1977 to February 1981 he worked again as a coach in the 2nd Bundesliga. From March 1981 to June 1983 he worked as a manager at VfL Bochum.

In Bochum he made a name for himself as the "man with a nose" and had primarily plowed the field of talent scouting. If he had hit the bull's eye with Wolfgang Patzke at Wattenscheid , it was VfL with Ralf Zumdick , Ivan Žugčić , Michael Kühn and Detlef Krella players who came to Bochum for little money (or for free).

literature

• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and sky striker. The story of Eintracht Frankfurt . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-427-8 (former title: Eintracht Frankfurt - Schlappekicker and Himmelsstürmer ).
• Markus Franz: The guys from Castroper Strasse. The history of VfL Bochum . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-506-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ VfL mourns Hubert Schieth ( memento from March 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 23, 2013
2. ↑ Mourning for ex-trainer Hubert Schieth ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Match report Eintracht Frankfurt - FC Basel 4: 1 (eintracht-archiv.de)
4. ↑ Matheja: Schlappekicker and Himmelsstürmer. P. 137.
5. ↑ Matheja: Schlappekicker and Himmelsstürmer. Pp. 139-142.
6. ↑ Markus Franz: The boys from Castroper Strasse. P. 92.