Josef Gauchel

Josef "Jupp" Gauchel (born September 11, 1916 in Koblenz - Neuendorf ; † March 21, 1963 in Koblenz) was a German soccer player who played 16 international matches with the German national soccer team from 1936 to 1942 , scoring 13 goals. In 1938 he took part in the 3rd World Cup in France.

career

Association until 1945

Josef "Jupp" Gauchel played with his club TuS Neuendorf in the Gauliga Mittelrhein and during the Second World War in the Gauliga Moselland. Neuendorf was not one of the top teams in the Middle Rhine League and the young attacker therefore constantly shuttled back and forth between the Gau and district leagues. With his club, Gauchel celebrated the first title wins in the Gauliga Moselland in 1942 and 1943, when his career in the national soccer team was over. His two appearances in the final round of the German football championship he experienced on May 2, 1943 against Victoria 11 Cologne and on April 16, 1944 against Schalke 04. Both games were lost.

From 1933/34 to 1942/43 only one representative from the Gauliga Mittelrhein or Moselland made it to the semi-finals - 1940/41 VfL Cologne 99 - for the German soccer championship. In the world championship year 1938, Gauchel even played in the district league again with TuS Neuendorf. He clearly owes his acceptance and membership in the national soccer team to his personal performance; he was not “brought into” the national team as a member of an outstanding German top team.

National player, 1936 to 1942

“Jupp” Gauchel was an athletic, enthusiastic, head-ball striker with a quick kick and a hard shot. Reich trainer Otto Nerz invited Neuendorf's striker hope - he had already drawn attention to himself in two Gau selection games in the Reichsbund Cup in 1935 for the Middle Rhine - in May 1936 to a screening game for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin against the English professional team FC Everton . From May 9th to 24th, the man from Moselle and Rhine played four tough games against Everton in Hamburg, Duisburg, Frankfurt and Nuremberg and was not only able to convince with two goals. Nerz then invited him to the final three-week course in July and nominated the 19-year-old with no international playing experience for the Olympic football tournament in Berlin in August 1936.

Gauchel made his debut in the national team on August 4, 1936 in Berlin in the preliminary round of the Olympics against Luxembourg. He stormed next to Elbern, Hohmann, Urban and Simetsreiter on half right and scored two goals in the 9-0 victory. Unfortunately, the tournament was over for the convincing debutant, as he was replaced by Otto Siffling in the second round match against Norway, which he lost with 2 goals . Before Gauchel was allowed to wear the eagle jersey again in an important international match, the so-called Breslau-Elf was formed on May 16, 1937 through the 8-0 win against Denmark. His fourth international match was on August 29, 1937 in the World Cup qualifier against Estonia in Königsberg. With two goals he helped the German team to a 4-1 success. Instead of the injured director Fritz Szepan , Sepp Herberger put Gauchel on half-left in the short-term “unofficial international match” on April 3, 1938 in Vienna against Austria. After German units of the Wehrmacht marched into Austria on March 12, 1938, the game was far more important than just that of a normal international match, especially since the soccer world championship was held in France just three months later in June 1938.

At the jubilee international game (150th international game of the DFB) and the last international game before the World Cup on May 14, 1938 in Berlin against England, coach Herberger played almost completely with the "Breslau-Elf", he only took Gauchel for Siffling and Pesser for Urban the team. In the 6: 3 success of the English, the German defense simply did not get the attack of the “teacher” - Matthews, Robinson, Broome, Goulden, Bastin - under control. Gauchel scored the 2-4 goal shortly before half-time. Immediately after the international match, three training games were played against Aston Villa. In the only victory for the German team, on May 18 in Düsseldorf with 2-1 goals, Hahnemann, Gellesch, Gauchel, Szepan and Pesser formed the attack. Gauchel and Pesser were the goalscorers of the Herberger-Elf. One week after the clear 3: 6 home defeat of the German eleven against England, the World Cup opponents Switzerland - led by captain Severino Minelli and the "lagging" center forward Alfred Bickel - defeated the British with 2-1 goals and in Zurich on May 21 thus caused additional unrest in the German ranks. Gauchel played his seventh international match on June 4 in the World Cup preliminary round match against the Swiss. In the 29th minute he converted a low cross from left wing Pesser to the 1-0 lead. The game ended 1-1 after extra time and the replay was played on June 9th. In the 2: 4 defeat against Switzerland and the elimination from the other World Cup tournament, Herberger did without Gauchel.

In the first international match after the World Cup in 1938, on September 18, 1938 in Chemnitz against Poland, the man from Neuendorf indicated with his three goals in the German 4-1 success how valuable he could be for the national team. The tenth international match for Gauchel was a sporting highlight. On March 26, 1939, the German team challenged the reigning world champion Italy in Florence. In the attack, coach Herberger relied on Lehner, Hahnemann, Gauchel, Schön and Pesser. The duels with middle runner Miguel Andreolo and the defenders Alfredo Foni and Pietro Rava showed the Neuendorfer striker how the real world class went to work. Italy won the game 3-2 goals.

With his 16th international match on July 19, 1942 in Sofia against Bulgaria, the international career of "Jupp" Gauchel ended. With the attack formation Herbert Burdenski , Karl Decker , Fritz Walter , Gauchel and Willi Arlt the game was won with 3-0 goals. He belonged again to the last DFB course in February 1943, which also included a training game against Hessen-Nassau on February 14th. After that, due to the advanced Second World War, it was no longer possible for Reichstrainer Herberger to get his national players released for courses.

In addition to being appointed to the national soccer team, “Jupp” Gauchel played twelve games and scored seven goals in the regional selection of the Middle Rhine in the Reichsbund Cup from 1935 to 1939.

Player-coach, 1946 to 1954

When football started rolling again after the Second World War, the ex-national player worked as a player-coach at his home club TuS Neuendorf from the game year 1946/47. On June 30, 1946 he was active in the representative game in Cologne for West Germany against the southern selection in the attack. The blue-black from Neuendorf moved into the finals of the German soccer championship in 1948 and 1950 and won the runner-up in the soccer league southwest in 1952 and 1953 . After winning the final on June 20, 1953 in the Southwest German Cup against Eintracht Trier, the Gauchel team defeated 1: 1 in the first DFB Cup main round in 1954 on August 2, 1953 in front of 20,000 spectators in the Oberwerth Stadium with 2-1 goals. FC Nürnberg through - Gauchel played on half left - and was thus in the semi-finals. The opponent was VfB Stuttgart . On December 13, the game in Stuttgart ended after extra time with a 2-2 draw. The replay was played again in Stuttgart on March 24, 1954, when the team of coach Georg Wurzer prevailed against the team of player- coach Gauchel with 2-0 goals. In both semi-finals, the old national player had participated in the attack of his team. VfB won the DFB Cup in 1953/54 three weeks later with a 1-0 after extra time against 1. FC Köln.

His last league game completed "Jupp" Gauchel on March 21, 1954 in the 2: 7 away defeat at leaders FK Pirmasens . After 100 league games with 63 goals, the 37-year-old ended his playing career in 1954 and successfully passed his soccer teacher exam.

Trainer

Rudi Gutendorf remembers the player and coach "Jupp" Gauchel in Werner Skrentny's book about the Südwest Oberliga with the following words:

“ The then Reich coach Professor Nerz and his assistant Sepp Herberger appointed my role model, Neuendorfer Jupp Gauchel, to the national team in 1936. […] When Jupp Gauchel was nominated for the national team, I was ten years old, and his calling had a great influence on my life. […] When I was 16 years old, I took part in the training of the 1st team. A few months later I was allowed to take part in a big game in the Koblenz stadium for the first time due to the wartime period when players were constantly being sent to the front. I cannot express in words the excitement that grabbed me when I walked into the stadium, where there were almost 15,000 spectators, with national player Gauchel, who was playing next to me in the half-right position. […] It was particularly valuable for me, and it should be for every active player in his first games, that I was able to play alongside an understanding comrade like Jupp Gauchel, who through his experience and the mistakes that one inevitably makes as a beginner picking up his skills and 'serving' a ball that he might as well have booked as his success. […] Through regular training under Jupp Gauchel, we had great successes after the Second World War. Gauchel did everything in training exactly as he was taught in the national team. I was absolutely convinced that it was the best training, so I took notes and scribbled sketches in a blue penny school notebook that I still keep like a relic today. I still use one of Gauchel's forms of training, as it is unsurpassed, to this day: eight against eight, across the pitch, without goals. When the opponent is in possession of the ball, everyone covers their personal opponent, sticks to him like a postage stamp. If his own team has the ball, it must be released from its personal opponent in a flash so that it can be played. Good and hard training with a charismatic personality like Gauchel as a trainer could achieve incredible things. "

In the 1955/56 season Gauchel coached the FV Engers in the Oberliga Südwest to then exercise the coaching position at his club, TuS Neuendorf, from 1957 to 1959. The connection between Gauchel and TuS Neuendorf ended with a serious rift. After the club and the chairman were punished by the football association for running a “black box”, the supposed whistleblower was excluded from the club for “behavior that was harmful to the club”.

job

For many years Jupp Gauchel worked as an employee in a wine company before he later made his living in the Rhein-Fernwettstelle Rhein des Sporttoto Rheinland-Pfalz. He died of a heart attack at the end of March 1963.

Honors

In Koblenz-Oberwerth , the “Jupp-Gauchel-Straße”, on which the Oberwerth stadium is located, is reminiscent of one of the best footballers in the club's or city's history.

literature

• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenz heads. People from the city's history - namesake for streets and squares. 2. revised u. exp. Edition. Publishing house for advertising papers, Mülheim-Kärlich 2005, p. 192.

See also

• Germany at the 1938 World Cup in France

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl-Heinz Jens, Der omwissende Fußball, Sport-Magazin, 1962, p. 171.
2. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.), Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg, The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963, p. 82/83.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 100 .