Kurt Langenbein

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Kurt Langenbein (born November 4, 1910 in Mannheim ; † November 16, 1978 there ) was a German national football player . The fast and dangerous attacker scored 178 goals in 231 league games from 1927/28 to 1945/46 at his home club VfR Mannheim .

career

society

The right winger or center forward of VfR Mannheim was one of the most important players in his position in southern Germany in the thirties. He was the top scorer of the Gauliga Baden three times . In the 1927/28 round, the lawn players in the Rheinbezirksliga integrated the offensive talents Oskar Rohr and Kurt Langenbein into the blue-white-red league. As early as June 15, 1929, he played in the Mannheim city selection. In the second year of the Gauliga Baden, 1934/35 , he won the championship for the first time with the VfR and thus moved into the final round of the German championship. There he had a good personal record with six games and four goals, but the performance of his team was disappointing with five defeats and only one win. After the new Gaume Championship in 1938, the lawn players showed their best behavior in the finals and fought a balanced battle with FC Schalke 04 for first place in the group stage. The 1-1 draw on the last group matchday, May 8th, at SV Dessau 05, brought VfR to the group victory over the tied Schalke 04 because of the poorer goal difference and thus to the semi-finals.

With Andreas Ebner , the VfR striker is noted in the Gauliga Baden with 103 appearances and 103 hits. Langenbein was considered an intelligent footballer who belonged to the VfR league eleven for two decades, played over 1200 games for his club and is said to have scored more than 1400 goals. Like Oskar Rohr and Karl Striebinger , he was also a member of the VfR team that was active after the end of the war, on September 9, 1945, in the first soccer game in Mannheim against SV Waldhof in the 3-1 victory of the Waldhöfer. In the first season of the football Oberliga Süd , 1945/46, the VfR started with a 2-1 home win on November 4, 1945 against the Offenbacher Kickers in the round, the ex-national player completed six games and scored five goals.

After the Second World War he worked as administrative director for the Mannheimer Verkehrsbetriebe. He was named "honorary captain" by VfR Mannheim.

Selection games

On January 10, 1932, the VfR attacker was placed in the semifinal game of the Federal Cup 1931/32 in Saarbrücken between southern Germany and Brandenburg as the right winger in the southern selection. In the clear 8-1 win, he played alongside goalkeeper Willibald Kreß , Franz Schütz , Hans Stubb , Rudolf Gramlich and Edmund Conen . He lost the final with southern Germany on June 5, 1932 in Leipzig with 1: 2 goals against northern Germany. On March 6, 1932 he stood for the first time for the DFB selection on the field, when the selection of Switzerland was defeated 2-0. It was also the national team debut of his former VfR teammate Oskar Rohr, who now played for Bayern Munich. Although he was in the preliminary roster of 38 players for the 1934 World Cup , he found no place in the final squad. In his second and last international match against Latvia in Koenigsberg on October 13, 1935, he scored an international goal with the 3-0 final goal. Nevertheless, he was denied long-term success in the national team .

He also made 16 appearances in the South German selection, after 1932 he was also drawn into the semi-finals of the Reichsbund Cup in 1933 with South Germany and in 1935 and 1938 with the Baden region (58 games for Baden and the Mannheim city selection) .

source

  • Kicker Edition: 100 Years of German International Games, 2008

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933-1945. Publishing house regional culture. Ubstadt-Weiher 2016. ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 . P. 367
  2. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933-1945. Publishing house regional culture. Ubstadt-Weiher 2016. ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 . P. 93
  3. ↑ Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 278 f .
  4. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport. 1945 to 1970. Mannheim Football Archive. 1995. ISBN 3-929295-14-8 , p. 12
personal data
SURNAME Langenbein, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1978
Place of death Mannheim