Hugo Rastetter

Hugo Rastetter (born October 11, 1919 - † June 24, 1990 ) was a German football player. From 1947 to 1955, the offensive player played a total of 172 games for the two clubs VfB Mühlburg and Karlsruher SC in what was then the first-class soccer league south and scored 46 goals. He had previously played a total of 76 league games with 44 goals in the Gauliga Baden for Mühlburg from 1936/37 and was runner-up three times in 1940 , 1941 and 1942 .

career

Rastetter, who grew up in the Karlsruhe district of Daxlanden , initially played at DJK Daxlanden as a teenager, until Fritz Herzer, the youth leader of VfB Mühlburg , brought him to the Gauligist club in 1934 . Just one year later, in a 3-2 draw against Eintracht Frankfurt, Rastetter was on the field for the first time for the club's first team and soon fought for a regular place. The outstanding talent made his debut in the Gauliga on September 27, 1936, in a 2-2 home draw against VfL Neckarau. Shortly before his 17th birthday, he also scored his first league goal - with a penalty kick. With its peers Seeburger , Fischer , Rothermel and Neuhäuser as well as experienced players like Moser, Schwörer, Gruber or Rink, the team mostly left the local rivals Phönix and KFV , who had dominated in Karlsruhe up until then, behind in the following years . In the Mühlburg game system, he was the playmaker behind four strikers. Physically inferior to his opponents, he often kept the upper hand in duels thanks to his technique.

Before the start of the Second World War, he was appointed several times to the Karlsruhe and Baden teams, and it is possible that only his recruitment to the Wehrmacht prevented a career as a national player. Rastetter made his debut in the regional selection of Baden on July 24, 1938 in a game against Lower Saxony. Baden won the tournament game as part of the German Gymnastics and Sports Festival with 4: 3 against Lower Saxony and the VfB player formed the attack of Baden alongside Fritz Hack , Kurt Langenbein , August Klingler and Karl Striebinger . In the competition for the Reichsbundpokal 1940/41 he scored in the first round, on October 6, 1940 in Teplitz in the game against Sudetenland, the 3-2 winning goal in extra time, center forward Josef Erb from SV Waldhof distinguished himself as a two-time goalscorer. When Baden threw Brandenburg 2-0 out of the running on November 3 in Mannheim, Rastetter formed the trio of Baden team members with Erb and VfB colleague Eugen Fischer. In the semifinals, the later cup winner Saxony won 7-2 against Baden on March 9, 1941 in Dresden's Ostragehege in front of 17,000 spectators. Half-forward Rastetter scored both goals against DSC goalkeeper Willibald Kreß for Baden. With Mühlburg, Rastetter took second place in the Gauliga Baden three times in a row in 1940, 1941 and 1942. His personally most successful round was there in 1940/41, when he scored 16 goals for the runner-up in 14 league games. In the first half of the season they defeated the eventual champions VfL Neckarau 1-0 and VfR Mannheim 7-0, and Rastetter scored four goals in a 10-0 win on November 10, 1940 against old champions Karlsruher FV. Neckarau won the decisive second round match on March 2, 1941 4-1 and became champions ahead of Mühlburg.

As a soldier he was stationed in Berlin in 1940, he played for Minerva 93 and the city selection there in the first years of the war , before he was posted to Russia in 1942.

After the end of the war he returned to Karlsruhe and to his former club in June 1945. With VfB Mühlburg he rose in 1946/47 as a master of the Landesliga Nordbaden in the upper league , where the Mühlburg established themselves until the merger with the KFC Phönix to the Karlsruher SC . The debut in the Oberliga Süd was not a good star, Rastetter and Mühlburg lost the opening game on September 7, 1947 3-0 against the Stuttgarter Kickers. At the end of the round he had scored 12 goals in 34 league appearances and also demonstrated his class in the Oberliga Süd. In his fourth league year, 1950/51 , he played another outstanding round and just missed the championship with VfB in third place. At the side of fellow players such as Horst Buhtz , Ernst Kunkel and Heinz Trenkel , the playmaker scored 17 goals in 32 league appearances. He played for KSC until the end of the 1954/55 season . Rastetter had his last league appearance on September 12, 1954 in a 3-0 away defeat at VfB Stuttgart. In the World Cup system at that time, he formed the KSC attack for the last time on half-left with Oswald Traub , Wilhelm Dimmel , Antoine Kohn and Ernst Kunkel. Despite some protracted injuries, Rastetter completed almost 600 games for VfB Mühlburg and Karlsruher SC in the course of his career. He was an honorary member and honorary captain of VfB Mühlburg and received the Great Golden Badge of Honor there, as at KSC.

After his active career, he was from 1956 coach of the regional division club FC Berghausen , which he led to the 1st amateur league in North Baden. In 1966 he had to give up his coaching job for health reasons.

Rastetter worked at the Badenwerk in Karlsruhe, he was married and had two daughters.

literature

• 100 years of Karlsruher SC, Karlsruhe 1994, p. 66
• 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. 306.
• Matthias Kropp: Germany's big soccer teams, part 11: Karlsruher SC. AGON Sportverlag. Kassel 1998. ISBN 3-89609-115-8 . Pp. 42/43.
• 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 .
• Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Publishing house regional culture. Ubstadt-Weiher 2016. ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 . Pp. 391/392.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grüne, Knieriem: Spiellexikon 1890–1963. P. 306
2. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. Pp. 391/392
3. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 392; 600 games seem completely unrealistic to Ebner