Karl-Heinz Steinbeck

Karl-Heinz Steinbeck
Personnel
birthday	March 21, 1919
place of birth	Berlin-Schöneberg ,  Germany
size	187 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
1927–	BFC Prussia
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	SV Nordring Stettin
0000-1945	BFC Prussia
1945-1946	SG Kreuzberg-Ost
1946-1953	Tennis Borussia Berlin
1953-1956	Hertha 03 Zehlendorf
1 Only league games are given.

Karl-Heinz "Bubi" Steinbeck (born March 21, 1919 in Berlin-Schöneberg ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper who was active in the Berlin area for many years and was four times Berlin champion with Tennis Borussia Berlin .

career

Karl-Heinz Steinbeck began his career in the youth department of the BFC Preussen and was in goal there from an early age. As a 17-year-old, he first appeared in the club's first team, as regular goalkeeper Fritz Hengesbach was out due to injury. Steinbeck took advantage of this opportunity and established himself as the goalkeeper of the BFC Preussen in the second highest division in Berlin.

His career as a footballer in Berlin was suddenly interrupted by the beginning of the Second World War. In 1939 Steinbeck was part of the attack on Poland and, according to his own information, was able to play several games for SV Nordring Stettin in the Gauliga Pomerania . When he was about to be assigned to the Russian campaign in 1941 , Steinbeck broke his arm on his home leave in Berlin in a game for the BFC Preussen. This turned out to be a stroke of luck for him, because in the hospital in Berlin-Köpenick he found a job in the administration there and was able to play for the BFC Preussen again and again during his one year employment. In December 1944, Steinbeck was seriously injured in the left forearm by a shot near Narva , which finally took him to Schleswig-Holstein via the Danzig-Elbing military hospital. There Steinbeck saw the end of the war and moved to Berlin, where he arrived in late autumn 1945.

Back at home, Steinbeck went to the Kreuzberg sports department and expressed the wish to be able to play football again. Steinbeck described the process in 1988 as follows:

"The head of the sports department, a certain Erwin Booser, he is still in office and dignity with the Berlin Association, came out of his study, hugged me and said:" You play at Kreuzberg-Süd. "Well, I thought, the main thing You are playing somewhere. No sooner said than done, I was hardly an hour home when a delegation of six men was already standing in front of my door and made it clear to me that I live on Skalitzer Strasse and therefore would have to play at Kreuzberg-Ost. "

With SG Kreuzberg-Ost Steinbeck just failed in the qualifying round for the Berlin City League and in the following season joined Tennis Borussia Berlin , which operated under the name SG Charlottenburg between 1945 and 1949. During his time with the Lila-Weißen, Steinbeck was four times Berlin champion , twice Berlin cup winner and was three times in the finals of the German soccer championship with players like Gerhard Graf , Horst Schmutzler and Hans Berndt . Tennis Borussia never made it past the group stage in these finals, but the home games were true crowd pullers. In 1951, for example, they played in front of 85,000 spectators in the Berlin Olympic Stadium against 1. FC Nürnberg (final score: 2: 3) and in 1952 even 95,000 people attended a 1: 1 against VfB Stuttgart . Steinbeck was in the starting line-up in all thirteen finals of Tennis Borussia between 1950 and 1952.

There were also large numbers of viewers every now and then in his seventeen games for the Berlin city selection. In his last game as goalkeeper of the city selection in February 1951, 90,000 spectators in Berlin's Olympic Stadium witnessed a 2-2 win against Young Fellows Zurich . Steinbeck was also active as the captain of the Berlin amateur team, because when contract playing was introduced in Berlin in 1950, the Schöneberger did not sign a contract with Tennis Borussia. Steinbeck's explanation on this:

“I wasn't allowed to sign! At that time, my employer, the police chief, was still against such a contract. So outwardly I remained an amateur, but received the same remuneration as my comrades, under the palm of the hand. I had been working as a detective since December 1, 1945. "

Steinbeck also attracted national attention in selected teams. Reich trainer Otto Nerz invited him to courses twice before the Second World War, and Sepp Herberger also had Steinbeck in his field of vision. In the end, however, it was not enough for more than one nomination for an international match against Turkey in June 1951. Steinbeck remained without an international appearance.

In 1953 Steinbeck moved to Hertha 03 Zehlendorf in Berlin and was there until 1956 in the Berlin City and Amateur League. After his playing career, Steinbeck continued to work for several years on the board or as press spokesman for Tennis Borussia, but withdrew from club activities in 1964 and worked as a detective until his retirement in 1977.

literature

• German football magazine Libero No. 3, Oct./Nov. 1988, p. 36 ff., Author: Alfredo W. Pöge, Wiesbaden.
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ German soccer magazine Libero No. 3, Oct./Nov. 1988, p. 36, author: Alfredo W. Pöge, Wiesbaden
2. ^ German soccer magazine Libero No. 3, Oct./Nov. 1988, p. 37, author: Alfredo W. Pöge, Wiesbaden
3. ↑ German football magazine Libero No. 3; Oct./Nov. 1988, p. 40, author: Alfredo W. Pöge, Wiesbaden