Johann Herberger

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Johann Herberger
Johann Herberger (1960s) .jpg
Johann Herberger (1960s) in New York
Signature Johann Herberger
Personnel
Surname Johann Heinrich Herberger
birthday November 9, 1919
place of birth Wiesental ,  German Empire
date of death June 13, 2002
Place of death Altbach ,  Germany
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1927-1936 FV 1912 Wiesental
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1936-1939 Phoenix Karlsruhe
1937 VfL Neckarau 3 0(0)
1939-1940 Eintracht Frankfurt 4 0(1)
1940 CSC 03 Kassel
1940 SV Waldhof Mannheim 1 0(0)
1940 SG Anspach 1862
1941-1942 Blue-White 90 Berlin 15 0(4)
1942 "Red Jäger" military team
1942-1943 Phoenix Karlsruhe
1943 FV Saarbrücken
1943-1945 1. FC Nuremberg 50 0(0)
1945-1946 FC Bayern Munich 10 0(0)
1946 Phoenix Karlsruhe 3 0(0)
1946 1. FC Saarbrücken 2 0(0)
1946-1947 Karlsruhe FV 28 0(0)
1947-1949 VfB Stuttgart 62 0(8)
1949-1953 Stuttgart Kickers 103 (14)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1954-1956 SC Geislingen (player-coach)
1956-1964 DSC Brooklyn (player-coach)
1957-1970 German-American Football Association
1960 Junior All-Stars New York (selection team)
New York Hota
1964 United States
1965 New York Americans (selection team)
1 Only league games are given.

Johann Heinrich Herberger (born November 9, 1919 in Wiesental , today in Waghäusel , † June 13, 2002 in Altbach ) was a German football player and coach . As a player, Johann Herberger was active in various club teams during the 1940s and 1950s and became German runner-up. As a coach he was responsible for various American national teams in New York and coached the US national soccer team in 1964 . He was a nephew of the national and national trainer Sepp Herberger .

origin

Johann Heinrich Herberger was born as the eighth child of his parents Josef Herberger (1882–1953) and Emma Herberger (1892–1951) in Wiesental . Herberger's father worked as a factory worker in nearby Mannheim , his mother worked in cigar production in the local tobacco industry. After elementary school, Herberger began a commercial clerk at the German Reichsbahn . He was the second nephew of Reich and national coach Sepp Herberger . Sepp Herberger's father comes from Johann Herberger's birthplace. Because of his family relationship with the national and national trainer, he was often called "Seppl" himself and, based on his distinctive, red hair, "Roter Herberger".

Player career

Karlsruhe early days

Herberger began playing soccer when he was seven. At FV 1912 Wiesental , the soccer club based in his birthplace, he went through all age groups up to the age of 16, won the district championship with the A-youth, before he was signed by Phönix Karlsruhe in 1936 .

He played his first season in the senior division in the second-rate district league, to which the Karlsruhe team had previously been relegated; the promotion to the Gauliga Baden , the highest German league at the time, took place after only one year of abstinence in 1937 . In the fall of 1937, at the age of 17, he made three guest appearances for VfL Neckarau in the Gauliga Baden, where he fell as a "center forward [...] more and more as the length of the game increased". At Easter 1938 Herberger made a guest tour to Saxony with Phoenix Karlsruhe (0-2 against Guts Muts Dresden , 0-4 against Planitzer SC and 4-7 against Chemnitzer BC ). In 1938 Herberger also took part in the German Cup for the first time, in which Karlsruhe was eliminated early on against VfB Stuttgart on their place on the Wasen (1: 7). Herberger established himself as a regular for the blue-blacks in 1938: Herberger was used as the “right defender. This measure has proven itself, because Herberger was up to his task and contributed a lot to the victory through his commitment. “The last pre-war season ended for the Karlsruhe team with a record of 5 wins, 5 draws and 8 draws in seventh place in the table. In June 1939, Lazio made a guest appearance at Phönix (0-2): "Herberger stood out in defense," wrote the Baden press about the game, despite his "failure" that led to 0-2.

Herberger as a player at Phönix Karlsruhe (1938).

After the outbreak of war in September 1939, Herberger initially stayed in Karlsruhe, where he competed with his club at the local city championships and won them 5-3 in the final against Südstern Karlsruhe on October 15 in front of only 300 spectators in the home stadium. Ten days later, Herberger was registered as a soldier and drafted into a construction battalion. “The outbreak of war took all of our first team's material from us, as it seldom did a club. The fact that this or that of the soldiers (especially [...] Johann Herberger, who always fights with full commitment [...]) is available to us from time to time, has contributed to achieving satisfactory results so far, and we want to hope that we will still have a certain player base for the episode, ”complained Professor Karl Wegele , chairman of the traditional Karlsruhe club and former national player about the circumstances after the outbreak of war. On November 19, the Gauligame Championship in Baden, which was divided into five regional relays due to traffic challenges, began with a delay . On November 25th, Herberger appeared again as a player at Phoenix (in a 2: 3 against Karlsruher FV ).

The problems surrounding the use of the scarce players who had been assigned to other regions soon pushed for more flexibility in playing rights. The answer to this was a pragmatic guest right that allowed every soldier to play for the local clubs without having to formally leave his home club. Due to the frequently changing stationing of Herberger, he was active for various associations until the end of the war.

Guest players in Hessen: Frankfurt, Kassel and Anspach

In December 1939 and on January 7, 1940 Herberger denied four point games in which he scored a goal for those in the sports class Southwest , Season Hesse , playing Eintracht Frankfurt . After Herberger's first, disappointing competitive debut against Union Niederrad (1: 1), the sports magazine “Kicker” judged critically on December 12, 1939: “The new people of Eintracht: Herberger (a nephew of the Reich trainer) and Warnsdorfer Wiese are in the unfamiliar environment not yet settled ”. In the top game against Kickers Offenbach, Johann Herberger could not prevent the "preliminary decision in the championship race" from falling to the disadvantage of Eintracht, despite an increase in performance. Offenbach led 1-0 in the decisive game. The "Eintracht [came] into play for a quarter of an hour and then was just lucky to be able to behead a header from the empty goal." After a controversial scene ("Herberger broke through, was 'placed', the penalty was missed") Offenbach scored 2-0 and 3-0. “Shortly before the break, Herberger was treated unsportingly. There was a penalty that Herberger promptly converted himself ”. The kicker judged the young man from Baden: "Herberger, this time fitting himself more skillfully into the whole of Eintracht". However, Eintracht lost 4-1 in front of 3,000 spectators, awarded the championship in the Gau and thus participation in the German championship finals . In the 1-0 win against city rivals FSV Frankfurt on Christmas Day 1939, Herberger was "in the storm [...] again stronger and happier, a blinding rogue".

Only five days after Herberger's last appearance in the Eintracht jersey, Herberger returned to Phönix Karlsruhe, which was fourth of six places in the Mittelbaden group . In the game against Mühlburg, in which Herberger participated again, the "black and blue" achieved a 2-2. Phönix Karlsruhe "finally knew [...] how to defend an advantage to the end, because only because of the [...] Phoenix defense in the second half of the game, with the involvement of the entire row of runners and the striker Herberger, Mühlburg was unable to score any more" .

In February 1940 Herberger joined the Hessian Gauliga champion CSC 03 Kassel in the Hessen sports class . After the Hessian Gaume Championship was played on a single track for the last time in the preseason, there was also a split in this Gau into a north and south group, each with six teams. In the northern group, Herberger's “Rothosen” won the championship with confidence and unbeaten, ahead of SV 06 Kassel-Rothenditmold . Kassel won the playoffs for the Gauliga championship in Hessen against the champions of the southern group, 1. FC Hanau 93 . For Kassel, Herberger completed all six final round matches from April to June 1940 in the subsequent final round of the German soccer championship. There, however, the Hessians only reached fourth and thus last place in the group stage behind FC Schalke 04 , Düsseldorf Fortuna and Mülheimer SV 06 .

Two months after the last preliminary round match for CSC Kassel, Herberger was back at Phoenix Karlsruhe in August 1940 and played in the first round of the Tschammer Cup against FSV Frankfurt (4-2). After two games for Phönix, Herberger played as a guest player alongside Ludwig Siffling in a competitive game for SV Waldhof Mannheim (0-3 against VfR Mannheim ). “Herberger introduced himself well with a few well-calculated headers and was otherwise valuable as a breaker and daredevil in attack. Nevertheless, the new man in the storm leadership was unable to drag the Waldhof storm into a brisk, space-consuming attack game ”. Curiously enough, Herberger came with his parent club Phönix Karlsruhe two weeks later, on September 15, 1940, in Karlsruhe for Phönix against the Mannheimers and was sent off after 60 minutes of play. “The Waldhöfer were the technically superior team from the start” and won the game 6-0 in front of 1,500 spectators.

In 1940 he also made several guest appearances for the football department of TV 1862 Anspach when he came to the village for a short time through a vacation offer for soldiers. Since it was forbidden for him to leave the place as a soldier at that time, he took part in away games of the club under a false name ("Henrici"). a. in Kirdorf.

Third in the championship with Blau-Weiß Berlin

After another vacation and competitive game in Karlsruhe, Herberger was transferred to Berlin in January 1941. In April 1942 he was assigned as a corporal in the staff battery of the flak teaching and testing department of the Flak Cartillery School III in Berlin-Heiligensee . The school trained soldiers here for the radio measurement service of the flak weapon. From 1941 he worked in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg for Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin , first becoming Gauligame champion with the club and thus prevailing against local rivals Hertha BSC and Tennis Borussia Berlin . For Herberger's first game, the Berlin Football Week reported: “Herberger football family! Yesterday the guest member Herberger played half left for Blau-Weiß - not the Reich trainer personally, but his nephew, who has the same name (Herberger). [...] He is a strong, well-built young man [...] but seems to be more of a runner or defender ”. The magazine “Fußball-Woche” shows Herberger on the cover on August 12, 1941 with the following caption: “In contrast to his more famous uncle [...], the Blau-Weiß-Herberger is a rather cumbersome player. But a good footballer who sometimes has surprisingly strong moments. In the cup game against TeBe (3-2 for Blue-White) he scored the first goal for his team with an incredibly beautiful shot ”.

Eligible for the final round of the German championship in 1942 , Herberger met the “blue-whites” at LSV Pütnitz , an air force sports club of the Pütnitz air base near Damgarten , which was founded in 1936 . Against the Pommernmeister , the Berliners won 3: 1, in the subsequent round of 16 against the Gaumeister Mitte SV Dessau 05 with 3: 0. In the quarter-finals he prevailed with the Berliners 2-1 against VfB Königsberg , the series champion in the East Prussian sports class. In the ranks of the Königsberger team, Theo Sommerlatt was another regular player of FC Phönix Karlsruhe, to whom Herberger paid special attention: "Herberger in particular looked after Sommerlatt very carefully and left the small center forward of the guests no leeway [...] Sommerlatt was able to deal with the physically superior Herberger do not do much ”. In the semifinals, Blau-Weiß Berlin Vienna Vienna lost 3-2 in front of 80,000 spectators in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. With the 4-0 win against Kickers Offenbach , in which Herberger scored the opening goal in the 18th minute, he was third in the championship . Blau-Weiss Berlin traveled to the finals in the central Slovakia according Baťovany and won on July 26, 1942, around 5,000 spectators a friendly against SK Baťovany (3: 1). The goal for the Slovaks was scored by Anton Beles (1920-1992), who also played four months later with Slovakia against the German national team , in their last international match before the game was closed. Herberger played almost 40 games for Berlin.

In September 1941 Herberger worked as a supporting actor during the shooting of the film “The Big Game”, which premiered on July 10, 1942 in the Berlin Capitol am Zoo . The feature film " The Big Game " was a commissioned work by the Nazi regime that was issued shortly before the start of the Russian campaign and served as a distraction from the war. Johann Herberger can be seen in the final of the film, where, among other things, he initiates the kick-off and scores the second goal. As captain of the fictional "FC Nord", the opponent of "Wupperbrück", a fictional Ruhrpott club based on FC Schalke 04 , he competes in the film against the hero Werner Fehling René Deltgen . In addition to Johann Herberger, the actors Gerd Graf , Hoffmann and Seibert from Blau-Weiß Berlin also took part . Sepp Herberger, who advised the director, gave almost 20 players a leave of absence “for this special mission from the military”.

In the Gauliga Baden, which was played again in one class in the 1942/43 season, Herberger was on October 18, 1942 against FC Rastatt 04 and in the next but one point game against Freiburg FC on November 1 as a middle runner for Karlsruhe.

Red hunters

In 1942/43 he played a few friendly matches for the Rote Jäger , a military team founded by Luftwaffe officer Hermann Graf during the Second World War . On January 28, 1943, Herberger joined Graf's team (nominally as the selection of the 5th Flak Regiment) in the Marassi Stadium in Genoa against an Italian coastal guardian. The German team consisted mainly of German Gauliga players who were assigned to the local battalion as air force soldiers (including Heinrich Nehlsen from Dessau and Georg Bayer from Munich). The players of the Italian team - u. a. the national players Vittorio Sardelli and Sergio Marchi  - the majority came from the clubs CFC Genoa and AC Liguria .

German runner-up with FV Saarbrücken

In the autumn of 1942, Herberger moved to the Saarbrücken FV . In the Gauliga Westmark in particular 1. FC Kaiserslautern , Borussia Neunkirchen and FV Metz were among the Saarlanders' biggest competitors. As early as November 22, 1942, he played representative of the Gau Westmark against the Paris soldiers (3: 3) and was slightly injured. The start of the season in Saarbrücken was ambivalent for Herberger: After a 1-1 at home against Borussia Neunkirchen, TuRa Ludwigshafen won 4-0 against Saarbrücken. After that the Saarbrücken lost - "extremely happily complemented [...] by a number of excellent guest players, of whom the Karlsruhe Herberger should be mentioned in the first place" - but only once again (in January 1943 against Kaiserslautern). After 18 games, 47:22 goals and 29: 7 points, the Saarlanders were champions of the Gauliga and qualified for the championship finals . They relegated FV Metz to second place in the Gauliga table, just one point behind. The “top-class” Karlsruhe (FC Phönix) regular players Herberger, Binkert and Baier were the team's potential for success, because they could be used continuously. "The Saarlanders had an undeniable advantage over other teams: As if by a miracle, they regularly create a well-rehearsed team around the national player Wilhelm Sold , which is reinforced by some top-class guest players". The sports magazine Kicker judged Herberger “23 years old, guest player from Phoenix Karlsruhe, then Blau-Weiß Berlin. A tremendously effective player. Right runner “During his home leave, Herberger played on April 23, 1943 in Karlsruhe for Baden against Württemberg (0: 3). After guest player Herberger was able to eliminate SV Viktoria Köln , the champions of the Cologne-Aachen region, with the Saarlanders in the second round , Herberger's team narrowly prevailed against VfR Mannheim (3: 2) in the quarter-finals . After the Mannheim team took the lead, the Saarbrücken "runner row [...] got better into the game and Herberger's wide assist put Dorn in the gate". The subsequent semi-final victory against First Vienna Wien (2-1) brought Herberger into the final of the German championship for the first time . During the stay in the final, the Saarbrücken team stayed at the “Russischer Hof” hotel at Friedrichstrasse station . Herberger's ex-club, Blau-Weiß Berlin, made its facilities in Mariendorf available to the Saarbrücken residents as training and stand quarters. The final on June 27, 1943 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium took place against the Dresdner Sportclub , the master of the Saxon sports class. There Herberger had to admit defeat against the “smarter and more technically mature playing” Dresdner SC with 0: 3 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium . Herberger still managed a "murderous [r] picket shot [...] that Willibald Kreß hardly saw flying", but the Dresden team quickly determined the game after defending defender Karl Decker was injured.

Third in the championship with 1. FC Nürnberg

In the summer of 1943, Herberger joined the traditional Franconian club 1. FC Nürnberg after being transferred again. Previously he was assigned to the 8th Battery, Heavy Flak Division 522. The 5th to 8th batteries in the department were reorganized in 1943. Since 1943, the department functioned as the Platnersberg flak sub-group in Nuremberg.

The cup final in Sportgau Franconia was one of Herberger's first competitive games (August 8, 1943). In front of 6,000 spectators, the club won there in the 141st Frankenderby against Spielvereinigung Fürth 7-0. Herberger opened the scoring 1-0 in the 43rd minute, followed by four goals from his teammate Max Morlock . In the round of 16 of the German Cup , the Nuremberg team won 5-1 at MSV Brno after a three-and-a-half-day journey, but were eliminated in October 1943 against Vienna Wien.

From October to December 1943, Herberger was on vacation in Karlsruhe, just like a year earlier. On October 31, 1943, he joined his parent club, which was now known as the "Kriegsspielgemeinschaft Phoenix / Germania Karlsruhe" (KSG for short), a syndicate between FC Phoenix and Germania Durlach (1: 3 against Karlsruhe FV). On December 9th it was enough to make it 1-1 against FV Daxlanden .

Back in Nuremberg, Herberger met the Stuttgart selection on February 22, 1944 as part of the “Nürnberg / Fürth” city selection. “A strong row of runners decided the game. The bony Herberger towered over them all. He appeared everywhere, heaved the balls away and also knew where to go. He had to toil for the two defenders, who were often off balance, but he still brought the Stuttgart attacks to a halt. Where the ball was, was Herberger, and where Herberger was, the ball came. "

In the Gaume Championship the “club” was still the measure of all things despite the difficulties caused by the war. The Nürnberger won the Gaume Championship South Bavaria with 28: 8 points. On Good Friday 1944, the Rote Jäger performed with Fritz Walter in Nuremberg. Against the superior storm of the military team "the generic defense with Billmann, Herberger, Wintjes, Herder and Walz" found no recipe (0: 7).

During the last war championship , there was an increased lack of assets and money (soldiers were not required to pay contributions). Allied bombings increased, sports magazines became steadily thinner due to a lack of paper and many clubs had to stop playing. Within the teams, "strange [...] age differences of sometimes over thirty years" arose. Military associations increasingly appeared. Among the 31 teams qualified for the championship finals were seven soldiers' teams and war communities. Herbergers Nürnberger also met in the first qualifying game against such: The Nürnberger played against the National Socialist gymnastics community Brüx from the Gauliga Sudeten (8: 0). With the "Club", Herberger and national player Max Morlock were able to reach the semi-finals of the German championship after victories over VfR Mannheim (3: 2) and KSG FV / Altenkessel Saarbrücken (5: 1) . Parts of Nuremberg's old town were already destroyed during the game against Mannheim. In Saarbrücken there was a reunion for Herberger with his teammates from the previous year. The Saarbrücken were weakened by the early injury of the player Biewer and did not get into the game.

However, as in the previous year, Herberger was stopped against defending champion Dresdner SC. "How the DSC beat the most attacking 1. FCN was a textbook example of a victory with a carefully secured defense". Before the game, the defending champion received unexpected reinforcements from national players Walter Dzur and Fritz Machate . In any case, the Saxons were able to hold their team, which won the trophy in 1940 and 1941 and the German championship in 1943, almost completely together. Seven national players were active at the DSC at that time. In the semifinals in Erfurt, Dresden went into the game as the clear favorite in front of 30,000 spectators. As expected, Dresden took an early 2-0 lead. One minute before the break, Hettner made the connection with a penalty. “Then only the people from Nuremberg pushed. The balance was in the air, but didn't want to fall ”. The game seemed to be open until Nuremberg's Billmann collided with Machate. Helmut Schön converted the subsequent penalty and decided the game. The Saxons finally won 3-1 thanks to the tactical masterpiece of coach Köhler . The game for 3rd place in the German championship against HSV Groß Born was canceled because Born decided not to play (1. FC Nürnberg was third in the championship without a fight). The fear of bomb attacks was a constant companion of the people of Nuremberg. Herberger's teammate Billmann recalls: "During the games we were always afraid that planes would come and drop their bombs". Herberger's wife Lina died on February 8, 1945 at the age of 29 in Nordrach .

Attitude in the dictatorship

Herberger's ideological position during the Nazi dictatorship is not explicitly passed down. In Jürgen Leinemnann's Sepp Herberger biography, Johann Herberger states only about his "uncle" that he never believed that the war "could not be won by the Germans [...] from the very first minute". However, as a prominent soccer player, Herberger was part of an area of ​​society that inevitably also contributed to the “distraction from social and political reality” simply because of its importance. He actively put himself in the service of such a distraction - whether consciously, unconsciously or only out of opportunistic moves in order to avoid military action - when he took part in the shooting of the film "The Big Game". Herberger's teammate from Nuremberg's days, Willi Billmann, puts the role of Nazi politics in club football into perspective (“our club chairman Müller was a party member, Streicher's adjutant König and Oberführer Wurzbacher went to our games, and the carpenter from the local health insurance fund had political affairs with us after training Training courses held. But that was all ",) joins the ranks of footballers like Helmut Schön and Fritz Walter, who are criticized by sports historians as representative of the widespread unreflective and naive mentality of football players. Analogously, one can also assume that Herberger, unaffected by the dictatorship, concentrated on everyday life, "which usually consisted of the fixed points sport, family" and accepted Nazi politics as an accepted reality, especially since he was 13 years old grew up in the Nazi state. Herberger was not the defendant in any denazification proceedings.

At zero hour at Munich Bayern

According to the list of returnees after the end of the Second World War, Herberger reported back to Wiesental on August 8, 1945. According to the registration files Kirrlach and Waghäusel, Johann Herberger registered three months later on November 19, 1945 from Wiesental to Munich , where he was hired by FC Bayern Munich . In the south of Germany, the football community quickly organized and with the Oberliga Süd , Germany's first first-class football league emerged. The first game day of the newly founded Oberliga Süd was noted on November 4, 1945. Fürth was able to come up with most of the spectators on the first post-war match day, where Herberger played his first compulsory post-war match with FC Bayern Munich and was narrowly defeated by 1: 2. FC Bayern Munich was one of the “best-catered teams in the south”, as Herberger's teammate Herbert Moll recalled. Some bakers and butchers acted as patrons, the club director Heilmannseder was an innkeeper. On the 7th matchday, Johann Herberger won with FC Bayern 5: 3 against his former club Phönix Karlsruhe. On the 10th match day (January 6, 1946), the Karlsruher FV and FC Bayern Munich parted with 1: 1. Herberger injured himself at “Bayern”, so he was out in the next two months.

Back in Karlsruhe and Saarbrücken

In February 1946 he left FC Bayern Munich after just ten league games and returned to his home in Baden. On February 4, 1946, he registered again in Wiesental from Munich. On February 27, Herberger married for the second time in Kirrlach.

Johann Herberger also had frequent contact with his "uncle" Sepp Herberger during the development phase of football. In addition to the FSV and Frankfurter Eintracht, which Sepp Herberger advised at the time, he drove with Johann Herberger on his motorcycle, a 350 NSU , to the countryside in Öhringen to train a club there. Its president ran a butcher's shop as well as a restaurant and supplied the two of them with fresh food, which was very popular in the post-war period. Sepp Herberger coached TSG Öhringen in the promotion games. The Öhringer rose in 1947 in the Württemberg regional league , in the second highest division.

In January 1946, when Herberger helped out again for a short time at his long-term club Phönix Karlsruhe, he placed a number of players with the club. With his teammate Hans Gizzi, who was employed in the fleet of the US Army stationed in Durlach , he picked up promising talent from the area for training sessions (including Phoenix goalkeeper Herbert Jene). During the development phase, Herberger was known as “Jack of all trades. […] There was nowhere gasoline, Herberger always had enough for his vehicle […], he even supplied many a Oberligaelf omnibus with fuel so that the championship games could be played on time ”. In order to make rapid progress with his car in the post-war infrastructure, which was characterized by controls, barriers and exit bans, he put the sign “test drive” on his car. The non-smoker Herberger stored entire batteries of tobacco products and cigarettes, the first "post-war currency", in his vehicle.

After a meniscus injury, Herberger resigned from April 1946 for six months. In October 1946 he tried to gain a foothold with his ex-club FV Saarbrücken - now 1. FC Saarbrücken - and graduated there a. a. two league games. Presumably, the better nutritional situation in Saarbrücken also played a role in Herberger's commitment (so-called “potato” or “ calorie games ”, in which attractive guest teams were paid in kind).

Herberger returned to the capital of Baden on December 1, 1946, but this time switched to the Karlsruher FV (KFV), where he was again active in the Oberliga Süd. Under the coach and former national player Max Breunig , he played here with the later national player Kurt Ehrmann and the ex-Nuremberg player Albert Janda. “In terms of nutrition, the KFV was so badly at a disadvantage compared to the Bavarian and Württemberg clubs that one can confidently say today that the nutrition problem was a main reason for the subsequent decline. So z. B. the team suffered a catastrophic defeat against 1860 Munich after they had been on the bus all night long in the cold and without food or sleep ”. After the initially poor performance of the KFV in the Oberliga Süd, Herberger and the rest of the team were able to improve during the season. “The Karlsruhe team surpassed their opponent in terms of team unity. The losers showed calmer, more fluid interaction [...] The cause? The opposite example: KFV was extraordinarily strong, especially in the key positions, here was the outstanding player of the day: the robust, prudent, technically adept Herberger as the model of a modern outrunner. ”But after a defeat against VfR Mannheim, the Karlsruhe team could not meet save more: "The insecurity of the back team, which affects the otherwise cautious Herberger, was primarily to blame for the defeat of the Karlsruhe team". For the Karlsruher FV he completed 28 point games by the end of the 1946/47 season. In the last game of the season, Herberger and KFV faced his future club, VfB Stuttgart , which he made it easy: in the eighth minute he was sent off by the referee (3: 3).

Stuttgart years

In the summer of 1947, Herberger started working for VfB Stuttgart and moved to Bad Cannstatt . At the time, US soldiers were still playing baseball in the Neckar Stadium , the old Adolf Hitler arena. The season opened in September. Herbergers VfB alternated between 5th and 8th place in the top group. The high point of the preliminary round was the inner-city "local fight" against the Stuttgarter Kickers , which VfB Stuttgart won 4: 3. Herberger proved himself as a regular player "self-confident and strong". The Allgemeine Sportzeitung wrote about the game on April 6, 1948 against VfB Mühlburg: “It was surprising that the Stuttgart more or less resigned after the Mühlburg leading goal and only […], Herberger […] in the runner row […] great ability up to at the final minutes kept [n] ”. At the end of the game year, VfB Stuttgart took 5th place.

Despite repeated warnings from FIFA , the military government and the SFV organized three so-called “International City Games” on October 10, 1948, to which three Swiss city teams traveled to Munich, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. Herberger was part of the Stuttgart city selection that played against Zurich .

In Herberger's second year in Stuttgart, VfB was already in fifth place after completing the first third of the round, and fourth in the table after the preliminary round. After May 1st, however, VfB almost only suffered defeats. A majority of the players had become contract players during this time, who received compensation for their performance and, in some cases, were planning to change clubs. In the end, VfB Stuttgart took 6th place. After the round of 1948/49 , VfB complained in its club news: “There were some players in our team who crawled too much in front of the god Mammon and therefore forgot every manly posture and every sporting dignity. Under the threat of a club change, they wanted to put their previous club under pressure, while at the same time negotiating with the neighboring club, which happened to be under pressure ”. It is not known whether Herberger also belonged to this group. In addition to Langjahr and Deyhle , Herberger also moved to the Stuttgarter Kickers after this season in Degerloch .

In 1949/50, Herberger played in the last country cup held in all of Germany, alongside Toni Turek , Robert Schlienz and Siegfried Kronenbitter with the selection of North Württemberg against Saxony-Anhalt (7: 1) in the round of 16 and against Hamburg (1: 2) in the quarter-finals (“Das Glanzstück However, the ice-cold Stopper Herberger, a cousin of Seppl Herberger, by the way, a red-haired nature boy is particularly playful. He will form the heaviest bulwark for the Hamburg inner storm ”).

Herberger in front of his “Seppl Herberger” gas station at the Neckartor in Stuttgart (1949).

Emil Melcher , who was born in Karlsruhe and who had also been an assistant to Reich trainer Sepp Herberger until 1943, was Kickers coach in Herberger's hapless debut season in Degerloch . Johann Herberger was able to quickly integrate into the new team. Already on the third match day (Stuttgarter Kickers - SpVgg Fürth 1: 1, September 25, 1949) the press wrote: “Vetter delivered a fine game and was only surpassed by Herberger as a middle runner, who together with his right-hand assistant, Siegfried Kronenbitter, did the main earnings in a draw. ”In 16 games, however, the Kickers had to admit defeat. Resignation ("Langjahr and Herberger are still 'there', but unfortunately you can no longer see what they were able to do in the past [...] We believe that we cannot give the Degerlochs great hopes for the future") alternated with frustration ( "The fast, mostly direct play with a confusing change of position stalled surprisingly often today against the multi-legged Kickers defense. Certainly the men around the sure-footed, agile and impressively fair stopping Herberger often did too much of a good thing"). The uncertainty on the part of Degerloch grew during the course of the season. In January 1950, the Kickers led 4-1 in the game against Schwaben Augsburg , but only ended the game with a 4-4 draw. Another low point followed on March 5, 1950. In the away game against VfR Mannheim Herbergers Kickers led 1-0 with a goal from Sälzler in the 8th minute. The Mannheim first turned the game to 2: 1, before the blue-whites could equalize again to 2: 2 in the 56th minute. After the four Kickers players Sälzler, Kronenbitter, Fauser and Stehlik could no longer play due to injuries and Herberger and Langjahr were sent off because of insults from the referee, the Kickers captain Edmund Conen broke off the game on the part of the Stuttgart team. The father of the player Gottfried Sälzler, who scored the first goal for the Kickers, was so upset that he died of a heart attack a few hours later. In the summer of 1950, the Kickers finally had to go to the second division as bottom of the table for the first time in their club's history. Local rivals VfB Stuttgart meanwhile became German football champions for the first time.

Herberger as captain of the Stuttgarter Kickers in the friendly against Espanyol Barcelona (1953).

Herberger's main job was to run the “Seppl Herberger” gas station at the Neckartor in Stuttgart in 1949 and 1950 . In the II. Division , Herberger scored particularly many penalty goals. On the 1st and 3rd matchday he converted a hand penalty against Hessen Kassel (2: 2) or against Freiburg FC (5: 1) and in the game against 1. FC Pforzheim he scored three penalty goals (final result 6: 3) Successful within a game. With a big lead over a non-promotion place and a 10: 1 victory over the penultimate VfL Konstanz on the last day of the game, Herberger managed to get promoted again with the Stuttgart team.

In the 1951/52 season , Herberger finished the game with the Stuttgart team in 12th place, despite a strong start. In the following summer break in 1952, Herberger went on a trip to the USA with the Kickers. As part of this "tour", mostly friendly matches were played against local teams. The first game against a selection eleven of the "German-American Soccer League" (GASL), at that time one of the germ cells and power cells of the United States Soccer Football Association , attracted 25,000 spectators (4: 3). With 2: 5 (2: 3) the blue-whites lost in the game against the English champions Manchester United . At a meeting on May 17, 1952 in Philadelphia , Herberger met his future third wife, Martha (1928-2015).

In Herberger's fourth year of play with the Stuttgarter Kickers, the team made it into the quarter-finals of the South German Cup after victories against Karlsruher SC, Eintracht Frankfurt and BC Augsburg, where the blue-whites were defeated 1: 2 by 1. FC Nürnberg . In the league, the Stuttgart were able to secure relegation. On August 24, 1952, the radio broadcast for the first time nationwide four league games, including the game of 1. FC Nürnberg against Herbergers Kickers, which won the game 5-2. In October 1952 Herberger was briefly absent due to an injury, so that Lechler moved to his position. In 1952/53 , "the unadorned effective Herberger" finally played his last season in the Oberliga Süd and ended on April 26, 1953 (30th matchday) in the 2-0 defeat against the already relegated football department of TSG Ulm 1846 his last Play as an active footballer.

In the same year Herberger worked as a talent scout for the Stuttgarter Kickers. Among other things, he placed Rolf Geiger from FV Salamander Kornwestheim in Stuttgart in this role . He later promoted Geiger to national coach Sepp Herberger: “I'm particularly happy that Rolf Geiger has now made it, although many of the Kickers never believed it when I predicted his future. My uncle couldn't believe it either, although I called him in Hohensachsen and recommended Geiger for the Olympic selection. He must have invited him to a course, but he was ignored. ”Geiger made eight international appearances between 1956 and 1964, in which he scored two goals.

National team

Herberger never played an international match for the senior national team , although he regularly took part in courses from 1937 to 1944. Despite the relatives, Reichstrainer Herberger only found out about the existence of his football-playing nephew from the sports teacher Ferdinand Fabra . From March 26th to April 2nd, 1944, Herberger took part in the DFB course in Luxembourg “for the purpose of starting over again when building a national soccer team”. For this last DFB course before the end of the war, the Reichstrainer appointed his nephew a. a. also the FCK guest player Heinz Jergens and the players Bauchrowitz and Werner Kohlmeyer . The course - actually a junior course - was concluded with a game against a team from the Moselle region in which Herberger u. a. Max Morlock, Fritz Walter and Hermann Eppenhoff were used. Herberger was denied an A international match. Reich trainer Sepp Herberger did not want to give the impression of nepotism by setting up a relative, so he is said to have said once about his relative: “If I put you up, it'll be said right away, that's his nephew. Therefore you have to be twice as good as the others ”. Last but not least, international game operations were stopped in 1942. When the German national team played against Saarland in qualifying for the 1954 World Cup , Johann Herberger advised his uncle in the run-up to the game, as he already knew the Saarlanders from his playing days.

Coaching career

Herberger took his first coaching position in Geislingen an der Steige at the local SC Geislingen , whose player he was also in personal union. The Geislingers played in the 1st Amateur League Württemberg. The club expanded its clubhouse at the beginning of the 1950s, creating a day restaurant with two apartments and another training area. Only slowly could the membership of 174 from 1939 be reached again: 80 players had fallen. The association was proud of the “first floodlight system in Württemberg”. The Geislingers only achieved 14th and 12th place under Herberger: “Herberger went to his new position with Schneid and Arbeitsfreunde. But Fortuna was not kind to his work. The initial, but not the lasting successes came about ”. With a 3-0 win against VfR Aalen , the Geislingers put the line under the 1954/55 season and Herberger's tenure.

Fascinated by his trip to the USA with the Stuttgarter Kickers, Herberger emigrated to the United States in New York in 1956 . He gave up his Toto acceptance point in Stuttgart, which had been run until then. Herberger, who was a part-time soccer player, worked for a petroleum company, ran a gas station and lived with his third wife in Glendale, Queens . From then on he called himself "John" in the USA. August Steuer, chairman of the German-American Soccer Association, head of the league and publisher of a newspaper, became a kind of mentor and foster father of Herberger. Tax was New York City's Honorary Commissioner of Public Events and later an immigration advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson .

His first coaching position in the USA at the 1st New York Sport Club was mediated by the German-American Soccer Association. Shortly thereafter, he was player-coach for the district club DSC Brooklyn - until 1964. Herbergers DSC Brooklyn played in the German American Soccer League (GASL), one of the two major East Coast leagues at the time that had the fan monopoly in the New York triangle of states , New Jersey and Connecticut owned. Herberger was also involved in the competing American Soccer League . In those years, US football was closely interwoven with European émigré culture, which could be seen in the names of the teams, which were often composed of a certain ethnic group. Herberger was initially well integrated into the community of immigrated Danube Swabians and Hungarian Germans. In the first season 1956/57 Herberger took over DSC Brooklyn in fifth place in the second-rate Premier Division South. After fourth place in the following season, the DSC rose to the top of the table in 1958/59 in the major division. In the first year, the DSC reached fourth place out of ten. 1962/63 Brooklyn rose from bottom of the table, the direct rise followed a year later.

Herberger was also the coach of the GASL selection team, which was made up of the best players in this league. In 1964 Herberger was also active as a player-coach at New York Hota. As coach of the GASL team he was able to celebrate a respectable success against 1. FC Kaiserslautern on May 5, 1957 , when he won 1-0 with his "GAL All Stars" in the stadium on Randalls Island , New York, in front of 26,000 spectators. Four world champions from 1954 played in the ranks of the Palatinate. The Palatinate came to New York at the invitation of the German-American Soccer Association, accompanied by national coach Sepp Herberger. This defeat was the only one of the Palatinate, who then won all other games in the USA. The newspaper “Rheinpfalz” reported on “[Josef] Herberger's congratulations for [Johann] Herberger” due to the relationship between the two coaches. Even the Karlsruher SC had in 1961, the Hamburger SV enter 1964 Herberger's team beaten.

With a team selected from the German-American Soccer League, the "Junior-All-Stars", Herberger began a tour of Germany in July / August 1960. The Americans beat Eintracht Frankfurt, the German football champions of the previous year, 6: 5. At the break, the favored Eintracht led 5-1 against the selection of the German-American Football Association. It was only in the last minute of the game that the Americans managed to score 6: 5 after they recognized the defensive weaknesses of Frankfurt and the game took a turn ("If you weren't there, you won't believe it. My neighbor asked after 28 minutes: How much do the Americans have Lost in Berlin, 7: 1? They get 15 things here! It was at least 5: 1, and Eintracht had played that it was splendid. That the guests from overseas understood something about football should also be the last of the 5000 Spectators at the final whistle have become clear. There is only one such sensation in years. ") After the successful tour, u. a. the participating players Kenneth Finn, Joseph Krische and Carl Fister were appointed to the US national team in the same year.

In the summer of 1961, Herberger coordinated the selection team of the Baden Football Association when they visited the USA. In "recognition of outstanding services to the sport of football" he was awarded the silver pin of honor by the association .

On June 17, 1962, Herberger competed in front of 7,000 spectators in Randall's Island Stadium with his GASL selection team against the German national soccer team , which was on its way back to Germany after being eliminated from the 1962 World Cup and stopped in New York. The Americans took the lead in the sixth minute through Carl Fister, but ultimately had to admit defeat 2: 7. In addition to Heinz Strehl , who scored four goals, Uwe Seeler and Willi Koslowski, among others, also played on the German side .

Herberger as a selection coach of the German American Soccer League in New York (1960s).

In 1962, Herberger looked after the SSV Reutlingen team in the USA, which had also accepted an invitation from the Americans and took part in the International Soccer League . After the game against Hajduk Split , the team spent an evening at DSC Brooklyn, where Herberger received the silver badge of honor from SSV Reutlingen. The Reutlingen team traveled to the USA with 16 players, including world champion Ulrich Biesinger and national player Karl Bögelein .

On May 19, 1963, Schalke 04 won 3-1 at New York's Downing Stadium against Herberger's selection in front of almost 14,000 spectators.

For an international match , Herberger was the official selection coach of the US national team , which lost 0:10 in a friendly against England's selection on May 26, 1964 in New York's Downing Stadium in front of 5,000 spectators . The later world champion played u. a. with Gordon Banks , Roger Hunt (who scored 4 goals in the game) and Jack Charlton . Before Herberger's brief engagement, the US national team had no full-time coach from 1961 to 1964 and did not play an international match in 1962 and 1963. George Meyer trained a selection team in 1964 to qualify for the Olympic Games in Tokyo, which did not succeed after the defeats against Suriname (0: 1) and Mexico (1: 2). The majority of the players in the Olympic qualification came from the St. Louis area and were almost completely replaced by Herberger. Herberger trusted players from the GASL and ASL from the New York area and Philadelphia, who were not up to the task ( “I was somewhat experienced in playing a few foreign teams, but I never expected to play against England. I was shocked and surprised to be on the same field as Bobby Charlton […]. The English players were all in extremely good shape. […] At the end of the game, my legs were so sore that I could hardly even walk. We weren't prepared for such a game ” .)

Herberger remained one of the supervisors of the US national team in the 1960s, although his official role was often unknown to him and the head coach was often only named very late by the chaotic association.

In 1965, Herberger was employed as a coach in the International Soccer League (ISL), a soccer league in the United States that existed from 1960 to 1965. Divided into two groups, different renowned European teams played in it every year during the summer break. Herberger trained the "New York Americans", again a selection team of the "German-American Soccer League". With the team he was able to beat West Ham United twice, as well as Portuguesa from Brazil. In the final, the Americans were defeated by Polonia Bytom , the Polish champions from 1962 (1: 5 on two legs).

Return to Germany

At the age of 51, Herberger returned to Germany with his wife in the fall of 1970, because he “hadn't liked it there recently” and he suspected the commercialization of US football. In June 1970 he was awarded the “Honor Pin in Gold for extraordinary and faithful service rendered to the Sport of Soccer” in New York. He and his wife moved to Altbach in the district of Esslingen in Stuttgart Region .

For the 1972/73 season Herberger was appointed director of the contract players department of the Stuttgarter Kickers. The Stuttgarter played in the second-rate Regionalliga Süd and were eleventh in the preseason. With Herberger and trainer Willibald Hahn , who won the cup with Bayern Munich in 1957, the team started successfully, but then fell back to 8th place in the table in the second half of the season. Herberger also competed as a footballer in the Stuttgart area for the “Dreadfully Old Kickers Athletes” (FUAKL), a representative old men’s team.

As part of the ICE naming for the 100th birthday of Sepp Herberger on April 18, 1997, he met former companions like Fritz Walter again.

He lived in Altbach with his wife until his death on June 13, 2002.

successes

As a player

As a trainer

literature

  • Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football: The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. 2016, pp. 339-340. (Portrait of Johann Herberger).
  • FV Wiesental 1912 e. V. (Ed.): 100 years of FV 1912 Wiesental from the beginning to the present. 2012. (Portrait of Johann Herberger)
  • 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. 142. (Portrait of Johann Herberger).

Web links

Individual evidence

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  36. ↑ The place of residence of the defendant in the period from 1946 to 1948 was always decisive for the jurisdiction of a tribunal. In the tribunal in Bruchsal, to which Herberger's hometown Wiesental / Waghäusel belonged, there are no files on Herberger and you will not find anything in Karlsruhe ( Information from Dr. Treffeisen, Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, March 2013). Johann Herberger is also unknown in the Ludwigsburg State Archives, in which files on criminal prosecutions for criminal offenses in the Third Reich can be found (information from Ulrike Leuchtweis, Baden-Württemberg State Archives, Ludwigsburg State Archives, April 2013). In Munich, where Herberger was registered after the war in 1945, there are also no ruling files.
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  60. ↑ Final result of qualification North and Central America on rsssf .com
  61. ↑ Alexandre Ely: From Hell To The National Hall Of Fame. Xlibris Corporation, 2011, p. 58.
  62. ^ "On occasion, Roy remembers that the players weren't even sure who the head coach was when they arrived at practice. On one trip to Bermuda in the mid-1960s, the coaches also didn't know. Both John Herberger and George Meyer tried to run practice only to find out neither of them knew who really had the top job. ",
  63. ^ "Willy Roy's National Team Experience" on ussoccerplayers.com
  64. ^ Wangerin, David (2006): Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America's Forgotten Game, p. 139; "The players were not even shure who was managing the team. Geza Henni [...] had been appointed as an assistant, but soon clashed with Chicago-born manager George Meyer. [...] On a preparatory tour of Bermuda the players were eventually exposed to what had been a private feud between the two men. "
  65. ^ New York State Newspaper and Herold. June 30, 1965, No. 155, p. 16; Svoboda: The Ukranian Weekly. August 7, 1965, No. 144, p. 3.
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personal data
SURNAME Herberger, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herberger, Johann Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesental , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2002
Place of death Altbach , Germany