Jakob Lotz

Jakob Lotz (born November 4, 1918 ) is a former German soccer player . The offensive player - he was mainly used as a half-forward or winger in the World Cup system practiced at the time - took part in the finals with his home club 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 in 1939 and as a Wehrmacht soldier in 1942 with Werder Bremen and in 1944 with the Air Force Sports Club Hamburg to participate in the German soccer championship . Overall, Lotz completed 13 games in the three finals and scored two goals. With LSV Hamburg he was in the final of the Tschammer Cup in 1943 and in the final of the German championship in 1944 .

Career

Beginning

Jakob Lotz grew up sporty with the green-whites of 1. FC Schweinfurt 05. In the period of regional performance concentration by the Gauligen introduced in 1933, the young player in the Gauliga Bayern experienced against the competition for 1. FC Nürnberg, TSV 1860 Munich , FC Bayern Munich, SpVgg Fürth, BC 1907 Augsburg, Swabia Augsburg and SSV Jahn Regensburg its suitability for competitions. With the legendary pair of outside runners Albin Kitzinger and Andreas Kupfer in the 05er ranks, the young player already had outstanding role models by his side during club training.

After defending champion 1. FC Nürnberg, Schweinfurt took second place in 1936/37. When Lower Franconia won the game with 2-1 goals at defending champion 1. FC Nürnberg on April 2, 1939, they were able to win the 1938/39 Gaume Championship with one point ahead of TSV Munich 1860 and thus advance to the final round of the German championship Celebrate soccer championship.

In the final round, the winger completed all four games (1 goal) against competitors Dresdner SC and Warnsdorfer FK . The Bayern champions won the first leg against Dresden in front of 15,000 spectators in Bamberg with 1-0 goals, the second leg was lost on 7 May in Chemnitz in front of 40,000 spectators with the same result. Equal on points with Helmut Schön -Elf from Dresden - both showed 6: 2 points - Schweinfurt only got second place in the group with one more goal and was eliminated from the final round. Nevertheless, Lotz and his teammates Kitzinger, Kupfer, Walter Meining, Karl Spitzenpfeil, Robert Niederhausen and Paul Gorski represented the Gauliga Bayern first-class.

continuation

After the outbreak of the Second World War, Lotz was stationed as an air force soldier in a flak division in the Bremen area. The "doer" of Werder Bremen, Albert "Abbi" Drews, brought in addition to Lotz the other flak soldiers Richard Ackerschott , Willi Gornick , Reinhard Heinrich and from 1942 also Reinhold Münzenberg to the Green-Whites in the Weserstadion. Werder became champions in Lower Saxony in 1941/42 and thus entered the final round of the German championship. The man from Schweinfurt came in the games against SV Hamborn 07 (1: 1 a.s.), Eimsbütteler TV (4: 1) and on June 7th in Frankfurt in the 3: 4 defeat against Kickers Offenbach, each as left winger , for use. In the autumn series, Lotz was also a member of the successful Werder team, which FC Schalke 04 did not stop in the Tschammer Cup in 1942 until the semifinals on October 25, 1942. In the Schalker Glückauf-Kampfbahn Bremen was on the offensive with Alexander Ziolkewitz, Ewald Fehrmann, Willi Gornick, Hans Tibulski and Jakob Lotz.

On the way in which the Luftwaffe flak soldier Munzenberg left Werder Bremen for Hamburg, Klingebiel records in his contribution to "Werder's History from 1899 - 1963" circumstances that probably also apply to the change of Schweinfurters Lotz to LSV are: “In order to bring the Luftwaffe closer to the German population and to combine military necessities with enthusiasm for football, a central team with strong players should be built with the 'Luftwaffen Sportverein Hamburg' (LSV) founded in 1943. Without being able to go into the special conditions in more detail, it can be stated that Munzenberg was assigned to this "association" in Hamburg. "

In the 1942/43 season , the Luftwaffen-SV represented the Gaues Hamburg in the “Tschammer-Pokal” , the forerunner of the DFB-Pokal. After victories over SpVgg Wilhelmshaven 05 (1: 0), Luftwaffen-SV Pütnitz (3: 2), Holstein Kiel (4: 2) and Dresdner SC (2: 1), Hamburg reached the final in Stuttgart. In this, however, Vienna Vienna retained the upper hand 3-2 after extra time and won the last competition held until the end of the war. Lotz had played all five competitive games and scored one goal. In Stuttgart he had mostly dealt with the international Otto Kaller .

Lotz and his playmates belonged to the Gauliga Hamburg with the LSV in the 1943/44 season . The selection trained by ex-national player Karl Höger won the championship in Hamburg with 35: 1 points and 117: 13 goals. On January 16 and March 19, 1944, the LSV and the Rote Jäger soldiers carried out two propaganda games in Hamburg. As almost always, Lotz stormed the left wing; In January the LSV lost 2: 3 goals, in the second leg they achieved revenge with a 5: 1 win.

The unrivaled team in Hamburg, due to numerous player commitments from all over the Reich - including Willy Jürissen , Heinrich Gärtner , Robert "Zapf" ​​Gebhardt , Ludwig Janda , Karl Miller , Heinz Mühle , Reinhold Munzenberg , Walter Ochs - defeated the German team in the final round Championship one after the other Wehrmacht-SV Celle (4: 0), SpVgg Wilhelmshaven 05 (1: 1 after extra time and 4: 2), war syndicate Duisburger SpV and TuS 48/99 Duisburg (3: 0) and Heeres-SV Groß Born (3: 2) and was thus in a final again after the cup final of the previous year. In front of 70,000 spectators on June 18, 1944 in Berlin, however, it was not enough to win the title this year: the Dresdner SC took revenge for the semi-final defeat in the Tschammer Cup and clearly beat LSV Hamburg 4-0. Lotz was on the left wing in all six finals for the military team.

The End

After the end of the Second World War, the South German Football League was started on November 4, 1945 with the first game day . On October 14th, the Schweinfurters had already played a friendly game at 1. FC Bamberg. After 30 match days, the men around Kitzinger and Kupfer occupied, Lotz now belonged to his home club again, with 33:27 points in seventh place in the debut round 1945/46. When Nürnberg in 1946/47 in the "Mammut League" consisting of 20 clubs with a 13 point lead and a goal difference of 108:31 was able to win the championship ahead of SV Waldhof, Schweinfurt finished ninth. On the 35th matchday the "Schnüdel" on June 15, 1947 in front of 14,000 spectators had taken a point from the champions with a 2-2 draw. Fritz Käser reliably guarded the goal for the home team, the runner row with "Ander" Kupfer, Karl "Molli" Kupfer and Albin Kitzinger tried to support the offensive around Lotz, Robert Bernard and Paul Gorski in addition to defensive work.

In the 1947/48 season Schweinfurt took 13th place. Lotz had played all 38 league games and scored nine goals. He led the internal goalscorer list before Gorski with six goals. With 49 goals scored, the Lower Franconia could not compete with the attack of the season, the storm of the Stuttgarter Kickers. In the season of 20, the “Blue” scored 113 goals and thus took third place in the south. Kurt Lauxmann (26), Edmund Conen (18), Siegfried Kronenbitter (13), Helmut Schmeißer (11) and Günter Soßna (11) were the most successful shooters in the Kickers. In the season of 16 in the 1948/49 season, Lotz again completed all 30 league games and led the internal goalscorer list with 13 hits. Center forward Fritz Meusel followed with 12 goals and Schweinfurt reached 10th place. Personally, Lotz learned from his appointment on September 18, 1949 to the selection of Bavaria in the competition of the regional cup 1949/50 in the game in Berlin in front of 70,000 spectators against the Berlin selection, a deserved confirmation of his still existing performance. In the 3-0 win he played on the left wing and center forward Horst Schade scored two goals.

In the 1950/51 round, the team led to "Ander" Kupfer and attacker Lotz after the 3-0 home win in the catch-up game on November 12, 1950 against FC Singen 04, where Ernst Willimowski played in attack, with 17: 7 points Table in the Oberliga Süd, but lost seven days later, on November 19, the table lead by a 1: 2 home defeat against Schwaben Augsburg to the same point competitors 1. FC Nürnberg and SpVgg Fürth. After the preliminary round, Schweinfurt was fourth with 22:12 points. On February 24, 1951, Lotz and colleagues defied champions 1. FC Nürnberg in the Willy Sachs Stadium in front of 20,000 spectators from a 1-1 draw. Lotz played 33 league games and scored eight goals. At the end of the lap, Schweinfurt was seventh. For the first time he established himself with Fritz Meusel , he scored 23 goals for the green-whites, an offensive player from Schweinfurt in the top ranks of the southern goalscorer list. With eleven regular players - Fritz Käser (30), Josef Morgenroth (34), Paul Hippler (24), Andreas Kupfer (32), Ludwig Merz (32), Paul Gorski (32), Karl "Molli" Kupfer (33), Gotthardt Geyer (28), Fritz Meusel (34), Herbert Fischer (33) and Lotz (33) - this round was contested.

The following year, 1951/52, almost brought decline. The 33-year-old scored five goals in 29 league games. Overall, the 05ers were the weakest offensive in the league with 32 goals and were just able to leave the two relegated Swabians Augsburg and the Mannheim district club VfL Neckarau behind them. The veteran ended in the summer of 1952 after a total of 213 games in the Oberliga Süd with 71 goals for Schweinfurt 05 his career in the Oberliga and joined 1. FC Bamberg in the 2nd League South for the 1952/53 season .

successes

• 1939 master of the Gauliga Bayern; Final round of German championship with Schweinfurt 05
• 1942 master craftsman in Lower Saxony; Final round of the German championship with Werder Bremen
• 1943 finalist in the Tschammer Cup with LSV Hamburg
• 1944 finalist for the German championship with LSV Hamburg

Web links

• Jakob Lotz in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald Klingenbiel. Contribution to “Green and White Wonderland.” The story of Werder Bremen. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-89533-621-8 . P. 332.
2. ↑ Harald Klingenbiel. Contribution to “Green and White Wonderland.” The story of Werder Bremen. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-89533-621-8 . Pp. 332/333.
3. ^ Hans Dieter Baroth : kick-off in ruins. Football in the post-war period and the first years of the upper leagues South, Southwest, West, North and Berlin. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1990. ISBN 3-88474-454-2 . Pp. 10/11.

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 .
• 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 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): The German League Football 1903-2010, Nuttelmann-Verlag, Jade 2010.