Karl Hetzel

This article deals with the footballer, for the rose grower of the same name, see Karl Hetzel (rose grower) .

Karl Hetzel (born January 30, 1920 in Hamborn , † April 20, 1972 ) was a German soccer player who, in the 1951/52 game year as a center forward of the Meidericher Spielverein in the soccer Oberliga West, won the top scorer's crown with 25 goals .

career

Gauliga Niederrhein, until 1944

The fast center forward Karl "Bubi" Hetzel, equipped with enormous shooting power, celebrated his first successes with Westende Hamborn during the Second World War in the Gauliga Niederrhein . After relegation in 1941, he returned to the Gauliga immediately in 1942 and in the 1942/43 round the miners' club BSG Westende won the championship in Gau 10 in front of TuS Helene Altenessen. Defending champion and local competitor SV Hamborn 07 took fifth place. In the Tschammer Cup in 1942 , Hetzel had distinguished himself as a goal scorer in the three games against Borussia Fulda, Arminia Bielefeld and Schalke 04 . In the final game on May 16, 1943 at VfR Mannheim , he experienced a heavy 8-1 defeat against the lawn players - Walter Danner , Philipp Rohr , Karl Striebinger .

Beginnings after the Second World War, 1945 to 1949

After the Second World War, Hetzel continued his career at the Meidericher Spielverein. The first post-war football championship started in autumn 1945 at the district level. The different circles were then combined into districts and the district champions played for the district championship. The district champions then fought for the Lower Rhine Championship. In the final round of the city champions of the right Lower Rhine, the Meidericher SpV 1945/46 took second place behind SC RW Oberhausen. The center forward from Meiderich had drawn attention in these games and acted in the representative game of West Germany against South Germany on June 30, 1946 in Cologne as a center forward of the West selection. Hetzel scored a goal for the West in the 3-4 defeat. In the second year, 1946/47, he took fourth place in the District League Rechter Niederrhein with the MSV - behind Rot-Weiß Oberhausen , Hamborn 07 , Duisburger SpV - and switched to the 1947/48 round - the starting season of the new football league West "Löwen" to Hamborn.

The premier season of the western league started on September 14, 1947. Hamborn 07 received FC Schalke 04 with their inner storm Fritz Szepan , Herbert Burdenski and Ernst Kuzorra in the stadium on Buschstrasse in front of 33,000 spectators . "Burger" Hetzel scored the first league goal for Hamborn with his opening goal in the 30th minute. Supported by his teammates Bernd and Max Oles as well as Ernst Rupieta, he was able to secure the first point win in the new league with his second goal in the 57th minute through the 2-2 final result. The striker ended the round on April 18, 1948 in the 5-0 home win against relegated VfL Witten 92 with three hits and Hamborn was fourth in the final ranking, behind the debut champions Borussia Dortmund , Sportfreunde Katernberg and STV Horst- Emscher . In the zone championship (British zone) the Hamborner lost on May 9, 1948 in the Niederrhein Stadium in front of 40,000 spectators in Oberhausen with 0-1 goals in the quarter-final against Hamburger SV . In the second league round, 1948/49, Hetzel came sixth with Hamborn. After 38 league games with 19 goals, Hetzel joined the Meidericher Spielverein 02 again for the 1949/50 season, which played its association games in the 2nd League West, Group 2.

Meidericher Spielverein, 1949 to 1956

With the “Zebras”, “Burger” Hetzel managed under coach Willi Multhaup in the 1950/51 season as champions of the 2nd division West - before ETB Schwarz-Weiß Essen and Duisburg FV 08 - promotion to the Oberliga West. The goalscorer's achievements led him to attack the western team on November 12, 1950 at the game between the regional associations of South Germany and West Germany in Frankfurt. With Felix Gerritzen , Alfred Preißler , Hans Schäfer and Bernhard Klodt , he formed the offensive of the West selection in the 4-5 defeat. Like Gerritzen, Schäfer and Klodt, Hetzel scored a goal. With the league promoted Meiderich, Hetzel took eighth place in the table in 1951/52. With the 2-1 home win on December 30, 1951 against Preußen Dellbrück - 16th match day - Hetzel and his teammates Erwin Pajonk, Paul Hufnagel, Heinrich Kreienberg , Hans Krämer, Kurt Küppers, Ferdinand Mühlenberg, Erich and Kurt Neumann and Wilhelm " Ömmes “Schmidt is now fourth in the table with 20:12 points. Personally, "Burger" Hetzel triumphed with 25 goals in the West goalscorer list in front of the RW Essen trio with Bernhard Termath , Helmut Rahn (20 goals each) and August Gottschalk with 19 goals and Alfred Niepieklo from Dortmund with 19 goals as well. On October 14, 1951, he also led the attack - only Hetzel blew up the storm of Prussia Munster as a center forward - the west selection in the representative game in Kiel against northern Germany. In the 2-2 draw he distinguished himself as a goal scorer together with Siegfried Rachuba . In the second MSV league year, 1952/53 , Meiderich improved to fourth place and the 32-year-old goal scorer again proved his accuracy with 25 goals. This put Hetzel in second place in the list of goalscorers behind Hans Schäfer , who secured the top scorer's crown with 26 goals. On February 1, 1953, the Meidericher Sturmführer played another game in the west selection against southwest Germany. Here, too, he entered the scorers list as usual in the 3-5 defeat in Düsseldorf against the Südwest-Elf led by Fritz Walter .

When the 34-year-old again completed 27 league games for MSV in the 1954/55 season and scored ten goals, he could not prevent the relegation of the "Zebras" at the side of his teammates Kurt Carel, Paul Hufnagel, Kurt Küppers and Kurt Nolden . With the 2-0 defeat on May 1, 1955 - 30th matchday - at SV Sodingen , Meiderich slipped with 26:34 points - tied with Borussia Mönchengladbach and Westfalia Herne - to 15th place in the table and had to with the now 35-year-old Hetzel make their way to the 2nd division. From 1951 to 1955 Karl Hetzel had completed 100 games for the Meidericher Spielverein in the West Football League and scored 65 goals.

End of career and professional livelihood

Hetzel, who devoted himself to an exemplary lifestyle during his active time - no alcohol, no cigarettes - and cultivated cultural preferences for the theater and cabaret, ended his career in 1956 due to an injury. After that, he stayed with the MSV as a long-term club host. He died in April 1972 at the age of 52 from complications from a heart attack.

literature

• Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
• Raphael Keppel: The German Football League 1946-1963, Volume 1 , Edgar Hitzel Sports and Games Publishing House , 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-3-X
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .