Kurt Birkner

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Kurt Birkner (born December 28, 1916 in Dresden ; † unknown) was a German football player who won the runner-up in the GDR Oberliga as the goalkeeper of SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt in the 1949/50 round .

career

Before World War II, until 1945

When Radebeuler BC the career of the goalkeeper Kurt Birkner began. When the fast-reacting goalkeeper with the blue and white of Guts Muts Dresden played his association games in the Gauliga Sachsen in the 1938/39 round , he joined the association selection of Saxony in the cup competition of the Reichsbundpokal in Munich at the semi-final match against Bavaria on February 5, 1939 the 1: 2 defeat after extra time. Due to the circumstances of the war, Birkner also played for Mülheimer SV 06 , Brandenburg 05 and BC Hartha . For the Gaumeister des Mittelrheins, Mülheimer SV 06, he ran in the final round of the German football championship 1940 in the two matches against Schalke 04 and Fortuna Düsseldorf. Reich coach Sepp Herberger called him three times to national team courses, including the course from March 17 to 21, 1941 in Berlin, which was used to view the international match against Hungary on April 6, 1941 in Cologne.

After the war, until 1953

When the ball started rolling again, Birkner guarded the gate of SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt, the successor club of the Dresdner SC . In the 1948/49 season he and player-coach Helmut Schön celebrated the championship in the Dresden district league in the replay against SG Mickten , won the Saxony championship ahead of SG Meerane and Industrie Leipzig and lost 2-1 in the final round of the eastern zone championship against the ZSG Union Halle . When the championship was played for the first time in the GDR Oberliga (zone league / DS league) in 1949/50, Kurt Birkner played all 26 league games for Friedrichstadt. Behind master Horch Zwickau - Zwickau won the decisive championship game with 5-1 goals in Dresden - Friedrichstadt came in second. The goalkeeper of the Dresden city eleven was appointed on February 26, 1950 by coach Schön in the goal of the GDR selection for the test match in Rostock against Mecklenburg. On March 26th he guarded the housing of Saxony during the game against Berlin. When coach Fred Schulz used in Zwickau on April 23, 1950 in the game of Saxony against the GDR team Birkner in the predecessor eleven of the GDR national soccer team , Kurt Birkner was without a club, as SG Friedrichstadt had been dissolved by DS a few days earlier, and Birkner had not joined Tabak Dresden . On May 14, in the training game GDR A against GDR B, and on May 28, 1950, in the game of the GDR selection against the Prague city team, there were two more missions for the GDR before Birkner moved from Dresden to Berlin and Hertha BSC joined. Professionally, he worked in Dresden as a representative of a fountain pen company.

In his first year in the Berlin Stadtliga , 1950/51, Birkner finished third with Hertha BSC and played all 26 league games. He was in the Berlin selection for the first time on October 15, 1950. In the second season 1951/52 he came fourth with Hertha and was used again in all 26 league games. In addition, he also appeared in several city games for Berlin, for example against Munich, Hamburg and southern Germany, but also on November 21, 1951 in front of 80,000 spectators against the city selection of London. In the 4-5 home defeat against Vienna on February 17, 1952, the Berlin goalkeeper met the strong Austrian offensive players Gerhard Hanappi , Ernst Stojaspal and Ernst Melchior . When after the round 1952/53 the team of coach Jupp Schneider had to relegate as 13th from the city league Berlin, Kurt Birkner did not end his active career with 72 league appearances for Hertha BSC with 36 years, but joined Wattenscheid 09 , where he in the 2nd League West came to 4 missions. He later returned to the GDR.

statement

Kurt Birkner's former teammate at SG Friedrichstadt Dresden, Hans Kreische , made a statement in an interview on December 3, 1982 in an IFFHS special edition about German football with the statement:

“ His strengths were on the line, good responsiveness and good ball observation. Sometimes he held the most impossible balls ... "

The football week initially criticized, in addition to a lot of praise for "great robinsonades", a tendency to show:

“ When Franz defeated Birkner, who was again bumbling around a lot (...), it didn't look like a handball result. "

literature

  • Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
  • Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 73.
  • Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 308.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DSFS (ed.): Football in West Germany 1952-1958 , Berlin 2012, page 64
  2. ↑ IFFHS (ed.): 11 , special edition on German football, Wiesbaden o. J. (approx. 1986), page 104
  3. ↑ Football Week of September 10, 1950, page 7. Hertha BSC had won a friendly game against VfL Nord 8-2 with "eight Saxons" (including Hans Kreische) .
personal data
SURNAME Birkner, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century