Karl Wegele

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Karl Wegele
Karlsruher FC Phoenix 1909.jpg
Wegele (seated, left)
and teammate of the Karlsruher FC Phönix
as German champion in 1909
Personnel
birthday September 27, 1887
place of birth Karlsruhe ,  German Empire
date of death November 14, 1960
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1902-1912 Karlsruher FC Phoenix
1912-1923 Karlsruher FC Phönix (Phönix-Alemannia)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1910-1914 Germany 15 (2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1932-1938 Karlsruher FC Phönix (Phönix-Alemannia)
1946-1947 Karlsruher FC Phönix (Phönix-Alemannia)
1 Only league games are given.

Karl Wegele (born September 27, 1887 in Karlsruhe ; † November 14, 1960 ) was a German football player who became German champion in 1909 with the Karlsruhe FC Phönix and played 15 international matches for the senior national team between 1910 and 1914 .

Athletic career

Club career

Karl Wegele completed his entire football career at FC Phönix Karlsruhe . At the age of 16 he played in the Phönix senior team as a teenager. He is considered Germany's first big right winger and impressed with his quick acceleration, light footing and good dribbling. He was also an above average cross giver and corner kick taker. He was later said to have invented the change of position, because no one mastered the castling with the inner strikers as well as Wegele. In their Ullstein-TB from 1958, Kirn / Nathan describe the striker as follows: “The name belongs to Phoenix Karlsruhe. Wegele on the right wing, Oberle on the left wing became a mental connection. His flanks came mathematically accurate. ”He quickly drew attention to himself with his skills and contributed to the fact that Phönix Karlsruhe could play for the German championship with his special performance in attack . In the southern district league, the “blue-blacks” first left the Stuttgarter Kickers , 1. FC Pforzheim and local rivals Karlsruher FV behind them in the 1908/09 season , and then won the southern German championship before 1. FC Nürnberg . Wegele celebrated the greatest success with his club in the subsequent final round in 1909 . Phönix reached the final via the stations FC Mönchengladbach and SC Erfurt. On May 30th, Baden won the final of the German championship in Breslau with 4-2 goals against the favorite and defending champion Viktoria 89 Berlin . The wing tongs Karl Wegele and Emil Oberle (5 international matches) could not be eliminated in the long run by the defense of the Berliners. National players Paul Hunder and Willi Knesebeck in defense of Viktoria 89 could not do that either. As defending champion, Phoenix took part in the final round again in the 1909/10 round. In the semifinals, Wegele and his comrades failed at the Karlsruhe FV with 1: 2 goals.

Because of his outstanding achievements, Wegele was nominated twelve times for the selection of the South. He was three times in a row with this team in the final of the " Crown Prince Cup", which was held by the national teams. He was able to celebrate the final success twice, in 1910 and 1912, and once - in 1911 - he suffered a 2-4 defeat by the north. In the southern selection, the cooperation with the national players of local rivals Karlsruher FV worked perfectly. Max Breunig , Ernst Hollstein and Wilhelm Gros held the defense together with Karl Burger from Fürth and the KFV-Innensturm shone in the attack with Fritz Förderer , Gottfried Fuchs and Julius Hirsch , staged by the submissions of the right winger Karl Wegele von Phönix. He ended his club career at the age of 35 in the district league southwest. Then he played in the AH von Phoenix. Later he made outstanding contributions to his club as a coach and chairman.

Selection bets

Before the First World War he was one of the most successful national players. From 1910 to 1914 he played 15 times in the national team and scored two goals. A year after winning the German championship, the man from FC Phönix made his debut on April 3, 1910 in Basel in a 3-2 win against Switzerland as a right-winger in the German national team. It was the seventh official international match for a DFB team. Paul Hunder from Viktoria 89 Berlin acted as team captain, Eugen Kipp from the Stuttgarter Sportfreunde (two) and Marius Hiller from 1. FC Pforzheim stood out as scorers. A match report states: “Wegele was a particular asset on the right wing. His tight ball control, dribbling, the quick acceleration and the cut flanks were enthusiastic. "

In the year of the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 he reached his peak in the national team; he played seven games that year alone. The “Karlsruhe Combination KFV / Phönix” (Hollstein, Breunig, Gros, Wegele, Förderer, Fuchs, Hirsch, Oberle) opened on March 24th, supplemented by Adolf Werner ( Victoria Hamburg ), Helmut Röpnack (Viktoria 89 Berlin) and Karl Burger (SpVgg Fürth) with a 5: 5 in Zwolle against the Netherlands the international game year. In April and May, the academic stormed two more international appearances against Hungary and Switzerland. On June 29, 1912, the German team lost the preliminary round match at the Olympic tournament in Stockholm against Austria with 1: 5 goals. Unfortunately, the Phönix striker was also involved in the consolation round match on July 3 in the 1: 3 defeat against Hungary, so that the celebration of the Olympics was not exactly a success for him personally and for the DFB footballers. After the tournament he played with the national team in October against Denmark and in November against the Netherlands.

On April 5, 1914 in Amsterdam, the German national team played the last international match before the First World War. In the 4: 4 draw against the Netherlands, the man on the right flanked captain Adolf Jäger von Altona 93 - in his 15th international match - seconds before the final whistle, the deserved equalizer. He is listed as the best national player of 1913/14.

successes

Further career and appreciation

As early as 1920, the former student of mathematics and chemistry obtained his professorship in education. He had passed his state examination at the University of Heidelberg . He worked as a teacher at the Karlsruhe Kant-Gymnasium. Wegele was considered a pedagogue who imparted knowledge to his students in the most vivid and understandable way possible. Conscientious preparation for the lessons was a matter of course for him. His tips and advice were later not only asked for by the footballers, but he also took care of the training and further education of the next generation of tennis players at the Karlsruhe ice skating and tennis club. Professor Karl Wegele was more than a successful athlete: With his work on and next to the squares, he set a monument for himself during his lifetime.

literature

  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
  • Hardy Greens : From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 1 . AGON, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
  • Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 28). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-106-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Karl Wegele - International Appearances . RSSSF.com . May 20, 2020. Accessed May 25, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Wegele, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1960