Karl Schmidt (soccer player, 1932)

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Karl Schmidt (born March 5, 1932 in Wabern ; † July 10, 2018 in Göttingen ) was a German football player , administrative officer and sports official . Between 1955 and 1957 Schmidt played nine senior international matches in the German national soccer team and for the clubs KSV Hessen Kassel , 1. FC Kaiserslautern and FK Pirmasens in the soccer Oberliga Süd and Oberliga Südwest from 1953 to 1963 a total of 231 league games with 16 goals.

Career as a footballer

societies

The young footballer played for his home club Tuspo Wabern until 1951 , before he joined KSV Hessen Kassel for the 1951/52 season on the initiative of ex-national player Heinrich Weber . After a year in the district class in the second team from KSV, the fast, powerful man from Wabern, who was still mainly used in attack at the time, was already part of the runner-up team of Hessen Kassel in the 1952/53 season , which enabled promotion to reached the first class of the Oberliga Süd. Schmidt had played 32 league games and scored nine goals alongside the two top performers Karl Hutfles and Karl-Heinz Metzner . In the Oberliga Süd, Schmidt made his debut on August 23, 1953 in a 1: 2 away defeat against Viktoria Aschaffenburg. He stormed on the right wing and scored the consolation goal for Kassel. With the 13th place the class was just kept. Schmidt had scored seven goals in 25 league games. In the second league year, 1954/55, the player, now mainly used as a defender, was active in all 30 round games (3 goals) for KSV, but with 18:42 points, relegation could not be realized. Kassel rose as 15th in the table in the 2nd League South. Schmidt signed a new contract with the Fritz Walter Club 1. FC Kaiserslautern for the 1955/56 season and moved to the Palatinate.

At the side of the Walter brothers, Horst Eckel , Werner Kohlmeyer and Werner Liebrich, he won two championships in the Oberliga Südwest in 1956 and 1957 , and at least from his second season in 1956/57 he was the sporting successor of Kohlmeyer in the club as well as in the national team and experienced the challenge of the final round of the German soccer championship twice with FCK. If they failed in 1956 with the same number of points at the finalists Karlsruher SC, the obsolescence of the “Red Devils” in 1957 with the 2: 4 points balance in the final round could no longer be denied. As south-west runner-up in 1958, Schmidt and his FCK colleagues lost the final qualification against 1. FC Köln (3: 3 a.s., 0: 3) and in the last two rounds in Kaiserslautern, 1959 and 1960, they landed in the south-west 3rd rank.

A highlight for Schmidt and his FCK colleagues was the USA tour from May 1, 1957 with 14 players and various companions. The most prominent companion of the group was national coach Sepp Herberger. Fritz Walter took the ship to New York because of his fear of flying. From May 5th to May 21st, the FCK played six games in New York (2), St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia. The most sought-after contact person on official occasions was national player Karl Schmidt, who was the only one who spoke English. In his letters to the “Sport-Magazin” he described in detail the social and sporting aspects of their mission.

The era of the first-class league ended the man from Northern Hesse from 1960 to 1963 on the "Horeb" at FK Pirmasens. In the year of the soccer world championship in 1961/62 Schmidt was runner-up with the FKP and moved into the final round again. But this turned into a disaster : In the three games without a win against Hamburger SV (3: 6), Eintracht Frankfurt (1: 8) and the eventual German champions 1.FC Köln (0:10), Pirmasens started with the former national defender 24 Conceded a.

After a total of 231 league appearances (16 goals) and 12 final round matches, Schmidt ended his career as a contract footballer in 1963 . The last stop of his active football career was the 1963/64 season as a player-coach at the amateur league club SC Baden-Baden . When he was transferred as a government official to the Kaiserslautern District Office, he took over the coaching position of VfL Neustadt / Weinstrasse, which played in the 1st Amateur League Southwest .

National team

Schmidt, who came to the Palatinate from south relegated Hessen Kassel, completed his first league game at 1. FC Kaiserslautern on September 4, 1955 in a 2-1 home game against VfR Frankenthal. In the same month, on September 25, he was appointed to the national team by national coach Sepp Herberger at the international match in Belgrade against Yugoslavia. As a left defender in the World Cup system at the time, he formed the German final triangle together with Fritz Herkenrath (goalkeeper) and Jupp Posipal ; But the hosts prevailed 3-1 against the world champions of 1954. In November (Norway, 2-0) and December (Italy, 1: 2), two more appointments to the national team followed. The defender then belonged to the three winless DFB teams in 1956, which did not appear as high-performance "world champions" against the Netherlands (1: 2), Soviet Union (1: 2) and Switzerland (1: 3). Above all, the home defeats against the Netherlands and Switzerland were appearances in which the reigning world champion disappointed. Werner Skrentny, on the other hand, stated in the book about the national team after the 1: 2 defeat in Hanover against the Soviet Union: “After the final whistle in Hanover, praise was given to the young law student Karl Schmidt from 1. FC Kaiserslautern, a defender and his teammate Fritz Walter and Eckel vom Betzenberg and stated that the time of 'continent stopper' Posipal in the national team was over. Schmidt, whom the audience considered a 'hostel darling', had been whistled before the start. "

Only in his seventh international match, on March 10, 1957 in Vienna against Austria, did the Herberger protégés pick up speed again and stop the downward trend in 1955 and 1956, when the defending champion each had a negative international match record, and mediated with a 3-2 Success Hope for a conciliatory World Cup appearance in 1958 in Sweden. Herkenrath was in goal in Vienna and Schmidt defended together with Erich Juskowiak . The revenge on April 3rd in Amsterdam with a 2-1 win against the Netherlands as well as the 1-0 home win on November 20th against Sweden in Hamburg confirmed the positive signals of the Herberger protégés in 1957. The defending champion was back in Come on and Schmidt was probably one of the sure candidates for the World Cup in Sweden, especially since he was registered in the DFB's 40th list to FIFA in mid-April 1958. But the law student no longer took part in the final World Cup course in Munich from May 12 to 24, 1958, he had already canceled the national coach because of the “upcoming state examination and thus waived participation in the World Cup for professional and family reasons”. After nine international matches, Karl Schmidt's national team career was over.

Profession and functionary

After his playing career, the administrative lawyer was involved in various DFB committees from 1966. He was a member of the then Bundesliga committee, the tax and economic committee and the organizing committee for the 1972 Olympic football tournament and the 1974 World Cup. From 2001 to 2007 he was Vice-President for social and socio-political issues of the German Football Association . Schmidt was a member of the DFB board for more than 20 years; In 1995 he was awarded the Association's Golden Badge of Honor. He was also President of the Southwest Football Regional Association for 17 years . Professionally, Schmidt rose to the position of ministerial director in the Ministry of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate and retired in 1994.

He was married to Friederike Hock-Schmidt and last lived in Göttingen .

death

Karl Schmidt died on July 10, 2018 in Göttingen.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ handelsblatt.de: DFB honorary vice-president Karl Schmidt died  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 13, 2018@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.handelsblatt.com  
  2. ↑ 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. 341 .
  3. ^ Dominic Bold: 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The Chronicle. P. 136
  4. ↑ News in brief in Sportmagazin No. 28A of July 13, 1964, p. 10
  5. ↑ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling (ed.): The history of the national soccer team. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-89533-578-5 . P. 146
  6. ^ Dominic Bold: 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The Chronicle. P. 139
  7. ↑ DFB mourns Honorary Vice President Karl Schmidt
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Wobble
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 2018
Place of death Goettingen