Karl Bielmeier

Karl Bielmeier (born May 8, 1915 in Mannheim , † December 11, 1941 in Russia ) was a German football player . With SV Waldhof Mannheim , the offensive player in the Gauliga Baden won the Baden championship four times in 1934, 1936, 1937 and 1940 and was involved in the finals of the Tschammer Cup in 1939. The half-striker in the World Cup system at that time scored 54 goals for the blue-blacks from Waldhof in 89 Gauliga appearances from 1934 to 1940.

Career

"Billes" Bielmeier, who was born and raised on the Waldhof , is mentioned for the first time in the documentary by Gerhard Zeilinger about Mannheim football in 1928 as a student player of SV Waldhof. On the "Youth Day in Mannheim" there was also a C youth game between Mannheim North and Mannheim South. In the 3-1 success of the northern formation, Bielmeier played in attack and Ernst Heermann from FC Phönix as right runner. At the age of 18, the Waldhof talent was first used on March 4, 1934 in the Gauliga Baden. The blue-blacks won the home game against VfB Mühlburg from Karlsruhe with 2: 1 and the debutant immediately scored a goal at the side of striker Otto Siffling and Heermann. This was followed by two more appearances against VfR Mannheim (2-2) and the 3-0 against SC Freiburg, where he again scored a goal. In the debut round of the Gauliga 1933/34 he came on three missions and scored two goals when winning the championship title. In the final round of the German football championship, the young player was only used in the group game against Union Böckingen. In the 6-0 home win, he scored two goals on half right.

From 1933 to 1940 he played in the Gauliga Baden, in one of 16, later 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the uniform top division in the German Reich , 89 point games and scored 54 goals for Waldhof. His achievements led the blond, stocky attacker from the "Waldhof School" to the Baden district selection as early as June 3, 1934. In Pforzheim Baden prevailed 4-0 against the southwest selection and Bielmeier was active on the half left, Heermann as the right wing runner and the local hero Erich Fischer scored three hits on the right wing.

In the Gauliga season 1934/35 - Waldhof took fourth place and Bielmeier had scored three goals in eleven league games - the games for the Tschammer Cup stood out. After successes against Eintracht Kreuznach (6: 1, one goal), Wormatia Worms (5: 1, two goals), a 3: 0 away win, again with a Bielmeier goal, against Fortuna Düsseldorf, the German champions of 1933, In the round of 16, a 1-0 home win in the quarter-finals against the Dresdner Sportfreunde, the successful move was only stopped in the semifinals on November 24, 1935 at the later cup winners (2-0 against Schalke 04) 1. FC Nürnberg with a 0-1 defeat . In the next two rounds in 1935/36 and 1936/37, two championship titles followed in Baden; Bielmeier had only missed one Gauliga game and scored 23 goals for Waldhof in these two seasons.

In the games for the German football championship in 1935/36 and 1936/37 he took third place in the group with Waldhof, where he and his teammates had to compete against the reigning German champions 1. FC Nürnberg in 1937. In the Tschammer Cup in 1937, the path led to the semi-finals, which were lost 1: 2 on December 5, 1937 at FC Schalke 04 in front of 37,000 spectators. Schalke also prevailed 2-1 against Fortuna Düsseldorf in the final. In the following year 1938, Waldhof failed on November 27th in the quarterfinals with 2: 3 in the home game in front of 25,000 spectators against the eventual cup winners Rapid Vienna with their attackers Franz Binder and Georg Schors . When they made it into the final in the Tschammerpokal in 1939, "Billes" Bielmeier was only in the first two main rounds due to circumstances caused by the war against Admira Vienna (1-0) and Eintracht Frankfurt (1-0 afterwards) as a right half-forward in action, with center forward Josef Erb scoring the winning goal, as well as in the first semi-final game on March 31, 1940 in Mannheim against SC Wacker Vienna. The game ended 1-1 after extra time in front of 25,000 spectators and the two opponents competed twice more to determine the finalists: Both other games also ended in a draw and Waldhof entered the final by drawing lots. There, as well as in the two other semi-finals, Bielmeier could no longer participate.

The enthusiastic half-striker played his last competitive game for Waldhof on April 21, 1940 in the Baden finals in the home game against VfR Achern (10: 1), where he contributed two hits to win the Baden championship. In the final round of the German football championship in 1940, he could no longer participate.

Bielmeier ran three times for the Baden district selection: on June 3, 1934 against the southwest (4: 0), on March 21, 1937 in Dijon against a Burgundy selection (3: 2, two goals) and on December 18, 1938 in Vienna the Ostmark in a 1: 4 defeat with a team around Franz Binder and Wilhelm Hahnemann . In Vienna he had attacked alongside August Klingler and Karl Striebinger .

Together with Ernst Heermann, Bielmeier ended up in Berlin in May 1941, where they joined SV Blau-Weiß Berlin as a war guest player after their return from the Balkan campaign . On March 22nd, 1942, in the game between SV Waldhof and VfB Mühlburg, the flags were waved at half-mast, and the Waldhof-Elf wore a black ribbon in memory of two of their best - Karl Bielmeier and Ernst Heermann.

successes

• Tschammerpokal - Finalist 1939
• Gaumeister Baden 1934 , 1936 , 1937 , 1939 , 1940
• Gaumeister North Baden 1940

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 285
2. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. Odenwälder printing works. Buchen-Walldürn 1994. ISBN 3-929295-05-9 . P. 93
3. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Green: German Cup History since 1935. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2000. ISBN 3-89784-146-0 . P. 57
4. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 336

literature

• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 30 .
• Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Publishing house regional culture. Ubstadt-Weiher 2016. ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 .

Web links

• Karl Bielmeier in the database of weltfussball.de