Karl Vetter (soccer player)

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Karl Vetter (* 18 March 1917 in Mannheim , † 8. December 1984 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German football player and coach . The goalkeeper played actively from 1938 to 1950 in the Gauliga Baden and the Soccer League South at VfR and SV Waldhof Mannheim . From 1938 to 1944 he played 16 games for the Mannheim lawn players in the finals of the German soccer championship and Vetter is featured in Ebner's Gauliga documentation with 50 Gauliga games. After the end of his playing career in the Oberliga Süd, he was still active as a coach in football for years, including in Luxembourg at CS Fola Esch and Austria at SV Austria Salzburg .

career

Youth and Gauliga Baden, until 1945

At the age of 15, Vetter started playing football at SC Käfertal . After moving to VfR Mannheim, he made his debut in the finals of the German soccer championship 1937/38 in the goal of the Baden Gauligameister. In the group game on April 3, 1938 against Berliner SV 92 in a 1: 3 away defeat in Berlin, he was used for the first time in a competitive game. The previous goalkeeper of the VfR, Rudolf Edelmann , broke a hand three times in the first group match against SV Dessau 05 (6: 1), which led to the end of the selection keeper's career. In his second final round game, on April 18, 1938 in Gelsenkirchen, the new number 1 of VfR Mannheim was one of the deciding factors for the 2-1 surprise success at FC Schalke 04. In front of 40,000 spectators in the Glück-Kampfbahn, he showed a big game against the Schalke attackers Ernst Kuzorra , Fritz Szepan , Ernst Kalwitzki and Ernst Poertgen . Together with Albert Conrad , Eugen Rößling , Philipp Henninger , Otto Kamenzin and Werner Feth , he formed a dense defensive network, which only allowed the host to score in the 86th minute. Vetter and his teammates lost the point ahead of Schalke in the last group game in a 1-1 draw in Dessau; as a result, the Westphalians with equal points moved into the semi-finals before the Gaumeister from Baden.

In the next two rounds of the war, 1938/39 and 1939/40, he was able to play most of the round games for his club despite the difficulties caused by the further course of the war, but this was no longer the case from 1940/41. In the Baden region, the goalkeeper of VfR Mannheim came to several missions from 1939 to 1941, including games against Ligue de Lyonnais, Württemberg, Sudetenland, Mark Brandenburg and Saxony. With his use on March 19, 1944 in the 3-1 home win against VfB Mühlburg, Karl Vetter's Gauliga operations ended. During the Second World War he was also a war guest player at LSV Pütnitz (Gau Pommern) and LSV Wurzen (Gau Sachsen).

Oberliga Süd, 1945 to 1954

The first football game in Mannheim after the end of World War II was played on September 9, 1945 on the VfR-Platz at the breweries between the VfR and Waldhof Mannheim. In Waldhof's 3-1 victory, Vetter was in the goal of VfR and Kurt Langenbein and Werner Feth formed the defenders in front of him. On November 4th, VfR Mannheim started with a 2-1 win against Kickers Offenbach in the Oberliga Süd. Waldhof prevailed against VfR in both derbies (3: 0, 3: 1). Waldhof finished 4th at the end of the round and VfR Mannheim 14th and Vetter had been in goal in 24 league games. On February 17, 1946 he represented the city game of Mannheim against Stuttgart (4-0) together with his teammates Feth and Karl Striebinger, the blue-white-red colors of the VfR. The last time he played as a VfR player was at the end of the Association Day of the Badischer Fußball-Verband on July 7, 1946 in Eppelheim in the city game against Karlsruhe (1: 1) in the dress of the Mannheim city team. For the second league season 1946/47 he moved to the blue-blacks from SV Waldhof.

Before the start of the association round, the host's two city teams met on August 17, 1946 in Ludwigshafen, and Mannheim and Vetter stood in the gate of the Mannheim team that won 2-1 goals. On September 4th, he represented the colors of North Baden in the game against the Lower Rhine (1-0).

In the second league year Waldhof and goalkeeper Karl Vetter reached the runner-up in the Oberliga Süd, 13 points behind champions 1. FC Nürnberg, but at least three points ahead of Eintracht Frankfurt in 3rd place. In addition to goalkeeper Vetter, the attacking players Georg Herbold , Reinhold Fanz , Paul Lipponer , Willi Rube , Ludwig Siffling and Werner Hölzer in the team of coach Herbert Pahlke stood out. The local rivals VfR - Hermann Jöckel as successor to Karl Vetter, Philipp Rohr , Rudolf de la Vigne , Kurt Stiefvater - and VfL Neckarau - Fritz Balogh , Willi Preschle , Günter Sosna , Karl Gramminger , Martin Gramminger - landed on the 12th and 16. Rank in the table. Waldhof won both local derbies against VfR 3-0. After the first half of the season, Vetter and colleagues were only eighth with 21:17 points. In the second half of the season, Waldhof played his way forward with a 21: 1 series of points from the 26th to the 35th round day up to the runner-up. Vetter was also in the goal of Baden when the selection lost on May 7, 1947 in Stuttgart against Württemberg with 1: 3.

When 1. FC Nürnberg was able to win the first German football championship after World War II in 1948 , the Waldhöfer in the Oberliga Süd had won the champions from Franconia in the home game on September 21, 1947 in front of 20,000 spectators with a 3: 1 Success both points removed. Vetter and his Waldhof colleagues won the first derby of this season against VfR on December 7, 1947 at VfR 2-1. After the 19 games of the first half of the season, Waldhof showed 27:11 points and finished in 4th place. The top game on February 22, 1948 was lost 1-0 against leaders 1. FC Nürnberg. Until the 79th minute, goalkeeper Vetter's defense had withstood the pressure of the hosts. In the course of the round, the goalkeeper completed 29 league games and also scored two penalty goals in the games against the Stuttgarter Kickers (4: 2) and Munich 1860 (2: 2). His deputy in goal, Gerd Skudlarek , had been able to prove his skills in nine league games. The blue-black landed on the 6th place in the final table.

In the fourth league round in 1948/49 Waldhof landed with a goal difference of 54:43 goals in 5th place in the table and Vetter had once again acted as the goalkeeper in the goal of Waldhof. Since the local rival VfR Mannheim qualified as runner-up for the final round of the German championship in the south and surprisingly was able to bring the German championship to Mannheim on July 10, 1949 in Stuttgart against Borussia Dortmund , the performance of the Waldhöfer almost went under. Both local derbies were close games: In the first half of the season VfR prevailed 2-1 at the Waldhof, in the second leg they split on March 6, 1949 in front of 20,000 spectators with a 1-1.

With the two appearances on December 18, 1949 at the Stuttgarter Kickers (0: 4) and the 1-1 home draw on January 8, 1950 against VfB Stuttgart, Vetter said goodbye to the Oberliga Süd and after a total of 112 league appearances (2 goals) ended his playing career.

Trainer

From the beginning of 1950 he worked as a trainer at Amicitia Viernheim. This was followed by positions at FC Olympia Lampertheim, SV Darmstadt 98, VfR Frankenthal, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Fola Esch and Austria Salzburg. For reasons of time, he ended his coaching activity in 1961; his magazine business with an attached Toto Lotto acceptance point in Mannheim's water tower passage required more time than the coaching work allowed. At the end of March 1970, however, he again took on a coaching position: VfR Mannheim, at risk of relegation, had dismissed coach Heinz Elzner in the second -rate regional soccer league South and persuaded Vetter to take up his coaching activity again. It succeeded at the end of the round in 1970/71, the league, but in mid-December 1970 the extra keeper from VfR Mannheim was dismissed.

literature

  • Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. Football archive Mannheim, Mannheim 1994, ISBN 3-929295-05-9 .
  • Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945–1970, Football Archive Mannheim, 1995, ISBN 3-929295-14-8 .
  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
  • Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2016, ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 , p. 428/429.

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. 401 .
  2. ↑ Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. P. 428/429
  3. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's soccer sport 1945-1970. P. 12
  4. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's soccer sport 1945-1970. P. 23
  5. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's soccer sport 1945-1970. P. 25
  6. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's soccer sport 1945-1970. P. 31
  7. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's soccer sport 1945-1970. P. 31
personal data
SURNAME Cousin, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1984
Place of death Offenbach am Main