Hugo Egon Kubaseck

Hugo Egon Kubaseck (* 1881 ; † June 8, 1956 in Argentina ) was a football official from Hamburg at the pioneering days of football in Germany . Active as an athlete and chairman for FC Victoria from 1895 , he took on positions in various local and national football associations in the first years of the 20th century. Most recently, he was a board member of the German Football Association (DFB) until 1909 and, as its chairman of the game committee in 1908, played a key role in the organization of the German national team's first official international match .

Life

Kubaseck (far right) in 1906 as a member of the DFB board.

Kubaseck (far right, with cylinder) as chairman of the DFB game committee at the DFB-Elf's first international match in 1908

Kubaseck was active in the 1890s as a football player and referee as well as in athletics as a successful short-distance runner for Hamburg's FC Victoria from 1895 . He co-founded this association as a 14-year-old student and was its first chairman from June 1895 - as the successor to Hartung, who was in office for just under two months - until 1900. As an athlete, he excelled as a runner rather than a football player at the club, which was based on the Heiligengeistfeld at the time , while his brother Otto Kubaseck was temporarily in goal with Victoria. Hugo E. was influential as its club chairman and soon afterwards as a functionary in football associations.

After his first activities in the Hamburg-Altona Football Association and in Magdeburg, where he lived temporarily from 1902 for professional reasons and took over the chairmanship of the local football association in 1903, he was one of the pioneers of the North German Football Association (NFV). Before it was founded on April 15, 1905, he was a representative of FC Victoria alongside Rudolf Köhn and Heinrich Thran (both from St. Georger FC ) and later Gustav Siegmund ( Sperber ) member of the commission that drafted a statute and an organizational plan in December 1904 had first called for the unification of the North German associations. In 1907 Kubaseck was elected first chairman of the NFV, which he held until 1909 and in this function he was responsible for the new version of the association's statutes that he initiated.

The "organizer of format" also acted since 1904 at the German Football Association (DFB) as the second secretary in the five-person board. In the DFB he was a vehement supporter of reforms, which earned him the following comment in the 1908 DFB yearbook:

“ One of the most hostile board members is the second secretary. Judging by the number of his opponents, you have to consider him very capable. "

Kubaseck was also appointed chairman of the game committee in the DFB, which was responsible for putting together the first German national soccer team , which was to host the first official international match of a German team on April 5, 1908 in Basel . The coaching position was still largely unusual in German football at that time, and the DFB's game committee put together the national team until the late 1920s. In this function, however, Kubaseck had little influence on the selection of players, as these were determined by the regional associations. He traveled to Basel with the only North German player, Victoria player Hans Weymar , and is also represented on the team photo of the team at the time, who lost the game 3: 5 against Switzerland.

Soon after leaving his office, a few years before the outbreak of the First World War , he emigrated to Argentina, where he built up a trading business. From 1929 to 1939 Kubaseck was German Vice Consul in the South American country, later the owner of a sheep farm. Kubaseck left behind a report "Estancia Lago Pueyrredon. Our life, work, customs and considerations", which has now been published as an e-book on Amazon by his great-nephew Christopher Kubaseck, with an introduction and a description of the family history by his brother Wilhelm Kubaseck. In addition to his professional activity, Kubaseck also campaigned for the organization of football in Argentina. In 1955 Kubaseck returned to Germany on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of his home club and the 50th anniversary of the NFV. On this occasion, he was awarded the Golden Pin of Merit by his association, which had made him an honorary member in 1905. He died in Argentina the following year.

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• Bernd Jankowski, Harald Pistorius, Jens Reimer Prüß : Football in the North. 100 years of the North German Football Association. History, chronicle, names, dates, facts, figures. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-270-X .
• Carl Koppehel: History of the German Football Sport. German Football Association (Ed.), Frankfurt am Main 1959.
• Horst Reinecke (Red.): 100 years of Victoria Hamburg. History and stories of the Sport-Club Victoria Hamburg from 1895 e. V. Kruck-Sportverlag, Hamburg undated [1995].

References and comments

1. ^ Reinecke, 100 Years of Victoria Hamburg , p. 157.
2. ↑ after Jankowski / Pistorius / Prüß, Fußball im Norden , p. 194. This is likely to have been the Association of Magdeburg Ball Game Clubs .
3. ↑ Jankowski / Pistorius / Prüß, Fußball im Norden , p. 12.
4. ↑ after Jankowski / Pistorius / Prüß, Fußball im Norden , p. 194; Association days with elections p. 392.
5. ^ Andreas Meyer, Volker Stahl, Uwe Wetzner: Football Lexicon Hamburg . Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-477-1 , p. 196 (396 pages).
6. ↑ after Jankowski / Pistorius / Prüß, Fußball im Norden , p. 194.
7. ↑ Andreas Meyer, Volker Stahl, Uwe Wetzner: Fußball-Lexikon Hamburg . Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-477-1 , p. 196 f . (396 pages).
8. ^ Reinecke, 100 Years of Victoria Hamburg , p. 156/157.