Josef Famula

Josef Famula (born November 23, 1919 in Silesia; † June 22, 1985 ) was a German football player who played 219 games with eleven goals in the Oberliga Nord for FC St. Pauli from 1947 to 1959 .

career

After the end of the Second World War, several high-performance players came to FC St. Pauli thanks to the provision of meals in Karl Miller's butcher's shop and the contacts of his son Karl in the Dresden and Berlin football scene. In addition to Heinz Hempel , Walter Dzur , Heinrich Schaffer , Heinz Köpping , Fritz Machate , Rolf Börner , Hans Appel and Heinz Lehmann , the former player from Beuthen 09 , Josef Famula, was one of them. It was not without good reason that the team from 1947 to 1952 was given the term “wonder elf”. St. Pauli fought for the championship with Hamburger SV , and the team made it to the runner-up stage four times between 1948 and 1951. The versatile Famula - from defender to striker his field of activity ranged; On October 3, 1948, he even stood in the goal of the association game against Concordia Hamburg and kept the goal clean in the 2-0 win - he was a substitute player in the first few years. In the 1950/51 season he belonged for the first time with 25 missions and two goals to the regular line-up of the northern runner-up. He came in the finals for the German championship in 1949 and 1951 in eight games. Only after the round of 1958/59, the family who earned his bread as a vulcanizer, played on April 12, 1959 in the catch-up game against VfV Hildesheim as a right defender, his last league game, at the age of 39, "Jupp" ended his career.

literature

• Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .