Karl Habets

Karl Habets
Personnel
birthday	January 16, 1928
date of death	December 30, 2013
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1951	Prussia Dellbrück	at least 65 (6)
1951-1958	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	at least 137 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Karl Habets (born January 16, 1928 - December 30, 2013 ) was a German football player. The defensive player played a total of 203 league games at Preußen Dellbrück and Bayer 04 Leverkusen from 1947 to 1956 in what was then the first-class football Oberliga West , in which he scored six goals. In the 1949/50 season , the defender with Prussia Dellbrück was runner-up in the Oberliga West.

Career as a footballer

With the 1st place in 1946/47 in the Rhine district league season 2 and 3rd place in the subsequently played association championship, Prussia Dellbrück qualified for the Oberliga West, which started in 1947/48. On the first league match day, September 14, 1947, Dellbrück joined Fortuna Düsseldorf and lost 4-2. The 20-year-old Habets stormed the right wing. In the course of the round he came to 15 league appearances and scored five goals. The Prussians' top scorer with 14 goals was Josef "Jupp" Schmidt . Due to the 3-0 home win on April 18, 1948 against TSG Vohwinkel 80, the Prussians reached a tie with 19:29 points each. There was therefore a playoff between these two teams to determine the third relegated team. Only in the fourth game was the decision in favor of Vohwinkel with a 1-0 after extra time, Dellbrück made his way to the amateur camp.

In the Rhein district Bezirksliga Group 1, the team from the stadium "Et Höffje" on Bergisch-Gladbacher-Strasse in 1948/49 came second, won the game for 3rd place against SC West Cologne in the 4: 3 after extra time Association championship Rhine district and was thus qualified for the relegation games to the Oberliga West. In Group 1, Dellbrück prevailed 2-1 against SpVgg Herten and Fortuna Düsseldorf and thus returned immediately to the Oberliga West.

Dellbrück took the momentum of the relegation into the start of the top division round in 1949/50. The round started with 6: 0 points, with 18:12 points they finished 3rd after the first round. Habets and Hans Paffrath formed the defender pair in front of goalkeeper Fritz Herkenrath . The last away game was surprisingly lost 6-0 at Preußen Münster on the penultimate game day, with the 4-1 home win on the last round game, May 7, 1950, against the guests from Würselen, Dellbrück reached the runner-up with 39:21 points . Local rivals 1. FC Köln lost 3-2 at Alemannia Aachen and even had to let Rot-Weiss Essen overtake them with 33:19 points. Thus the SC Prussia moved into the final round of the German soccer championship. Habets had completed 28 rounds under coach Kurt Winkler .

In the final round, the West Vice-Chancellor first had to face the second in the French-occupied zone, SSV Reutlingen, in Koblenz on May 21. Left winger Walter Severin decided the game 1-0 for Dellbrück with his goal in extra time. With Herkenrath in goal, Habets and Paffrath in defense, as well as Willi Schlömer, Heinz Schlömer and Hermann Drost , the defensive held up; so the game for Dellbrück could be decided with one goal. On June 4th, the reigning German champions VfR Mannheim were waiting for Prussia Dellbrück in Frankfurt am Main. In front of 40,000 spectators in the Waldstadion, Drost decided the game for Dellbrück with his goal to make it 2-1 , while the final round was over for the defending champions from Mannheim around Rudolf de la Vigne , Kurt Keuerleber , Franz Islacker and Ernst Langlotz . The semi-final game took place in Stuttgart on June 11th. Opponents were the Kickers Offenbach, who had prevailed 3-2 against Hamburger SV in the second round. The striker row of the Elf vom Bieberer Berg with Gerhard Kaufhold , Horst Buhtz , Emil Maier , Heinz Baas and Willi Weber pushed the Hessians to the role of favorites. The later national goalkeeper Herkenrath held everything that got through the good Prussian defense on the Dellbrücker gate. After 120 minutes they parted with 0: 0; the replay took place on June 18 in the Niederrheinstadion in Oberhausen. Dellbrück, who had to contest the finals without the sure attacker Kurt Hardt , fell behind in the first minute of the game in front of 45,000 spectators. In the second half, Offenbach finally prevailed with two more goals to a 3-0 victory and moved into the final. For Habets and the Prussians, reaching the semi-finals at the German soccer championship in 1950 was the greatest success in the club's history.

It was followed by the 1950/51 round with Dellbrück, where Habets came to another 23 league games (1 goal) and the Prussians took eighth place. For the 1951/52 season he accepted the offer from Bayer 04 Leverkusen and moved to the second division champions and league promoters.

With a 5-3 away win at Spfrde. Katernberg, the league promoted Leverkusen started the round on August 19, 1951; Habets ran as a right defender in front of goalkeeper Fredy Mutz . On the fifth match day, September 16, there was another 1-0 away win at his home club Dellbrück. Together with Mutz, Hans Frömmel, Walter Nussbaum and Franz Wichelhaus , Habets completed all 30 rounds. Leverkusen finished 6th in the table at the end of the round. In the fourth round in Leverkusen, 1954/55, Habets even played at the top of the table with the team from the Ulrich Haberland Stadium . Bayer is in 3rd place with 36:24 points. Habets completed 22 league appearances under coach Josef Kretschmann alongside teammates like Mutz, Leo Bering (8 goals), Josef Cesar, Waldemar Langwagen, Nussbaum (11 goals), Horst Schultz (10 goals) and Fritz Thiede (13 goals). The 4-0 home win on April 10, 1955 in front of 16,000 spectators was one of the special appearances in this round, including the 2-2 home draw against the immediate rivals for 2nd place, SV Sodingen, on April 17th 18,000 spectators. Completely surprisingly, Leverkusen rose in the following season, 1955/56, in the 2nd League West; Defender Habets played again in 26 rounds for Bayer. A young striker named Udo Lattek also appeared in six games and scored two goals for the relegated man.

Habets was still in the 2nd league, came in 1956/57 when reaching 4th rank under coach Emil Melcher on 17 second division appearances and ended his playing career in the summer of 1958.

literature

• Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): "Helmut, tell me that goal ..." New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext Verlag. Essen 1993. ISBN 3-88474-043-1 . Pp. 57-60.

Web links

• Karl Habets in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 124 .