Kurt Sommerlatt

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Kurt Sommerlatt
Personnel
birthday December 25, 1928
place of birth Karlsruhe ,  German Empire
date of death February 8, 2019
Place of death Karlsruhe,  Germany
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
0000-1950 SV Blankenloch
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1950-1952 Karlsruher FC Phoenix
1952-1957 Karlsruher SC 132 (27)
1957-1959 FC Bayern Munich 56 (25)
1959-1962 FC La Chaux-de-Fonds 74 (35)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1951-1956 Germany B 4 0(0)
1952 Germany amateurs 7 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1959-1962 FC La Chaux-de-Fonds ( player-manager )
1962-1965 Karlsruher SC
1965-1967 FK Pirmasens
1968-1969 VfR Frankenthal
1969-1971 Borussia Neunkirchen
1971-1972 FC 08 Homburg
1972-1973 SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg
1973-1974 FK Pirmasens
1 Only league games are given.

Kurt Sommerlatt (born December 25, 1928 in Karlsruhe ; † February 8, 2019 there ) was a German football player and coach . He was the only player to win the DFB Cup three times in a row : twice with Karlsruher SC (1955 and 1956) and once with FC Bayern Munich (1957). He was the first Bundesliga coach for Karlsruher SC.

Player career

societies

Sommerlatt, who grew up in Blankenloch , north of Karlsruhe, began playing football at the local SV Blankenloch and from 1950 to 1952 belonged to the Karlsruhe FC Phönix in the 1st Amateur League North Baden, the second highest division at the time. As a result of the merger with the district club VfB Mühlburg , which played in the Oberliga Süd , he was an active member of the newly formed Karlsruhe club, Karlsruher SC, from the 1952/53 season .

On August 24, 1952, the first matchday of the Oberliga Süd of the 1952/53 season was played, and Sommerlatt, like Heinz Beck, who had come from FV Daxlanden , wore the new KSC jersey in the 7-1 success against TSG Ulm 46 . The "athlete with the horse's lungs and the hard shot" quickly advanced to become the thinker and leader of the KSC game. He was the mainspring and pivotal point in the attack, and an always tireless fighter and driver. On May 21, 1955 he was also involved with a goal in the 3-2 win against FC Schalke 04 in the DFB Cup . In the 1955/56 season , Sommerlatt and his teammates were able to improve. They won the title in the Oberliga Süd, moved into the finals of the German Cup against Borussia Dortmund and defended on August 5, with the 3: 1 win against Hamburger SV to Cup win last year. Kurt Sommerlatt was the tireless driver.

After the 1956/57 season , which ended with a third place for Karlsruher SC, he said goodbye to Karlsruhe and moved to league rivals FC Bayern Munich . On December 29, 1957, he won the DFB Cup for the third time in a row . The Munich team won the cup final 1-0 against Fortuna Düsseldorf for the first time on December 29th . After his second season - 1958/59 - and a fourth place in the table, he ended his career in the Oberliga Süd. In the period from 1952 to 1959 he played 144 league games for KSC and scored 32 goals; for Bayern Munich he played 56 league games and scored 25 goals.

In a contemporary book about football from 1958, the chapter "Gallery of great players" explains:

“Outstanding in the build-up of the game, extremely hard-working and selfless, but also followed by a lot of bad luck. Still the most valuable attack force of the 'Bayern' 1957/58. "

He joined in 1959 as player-manager in Switzerland for FC La Chaux-de-Fonds and won there in 1961, the Swiss Cup against by Jupp Derwall trained FC Biel-Bienne .

Since summer 2013, Sommerlatt has been one of 13 trophy heroes who have been immortalized on the Olympiaplatz in Berlin on the so-called "Walk of Fame".

National team

Sommerlatt made his international debut through national coach Sepp Herberger , even before his time as a player at Karlsruher SC . On October 14, 1951 he won - as a player in the 1st amateur league - with the B national team in Basel with 2-0 against the Swiss team.

In the amateur national team , he was a member of the team that won the very first international match on May 14, 1952 in Düsseldorf with 2-1 against the United Kingdom. In the following six other encounters he was also used; including the four of the 1952 Olympic football tournament in Helsinki . Within 13 days he and the team completed the round of 16 won 3: 1 against the selection of Egypt , the quarter-finals won 4: 2 afterwards against the selection of Brazil , the semifinals lost with 1: 3 against the selection of Yugoslavia and the 0: 2 lost game for bronze against the selection of Sweden . Kurt Sommerlatt's well-known players were Kurt Ehrmann , Matthias Mauritz , Georg Stollenwerk , Willi Schröder and Herbert Schäfer .

In the book Games I Never Forget by Fritz Walter (Copress-Verlag, Munich 1955) Sepp Herberger wrote:

“Dear Fritz! They ask me about the game that I will most never forget. From the multitude of individual images, the soccer tournament of the Olympic Games in Helsinki and the World Cup in Switzerland arise - outshining everything. Helsinki ... for me this is our young Olympic team, which emerged from nowhere, whose outstanding achievements and successes were supported by the forces of camaraderie and team spirit. "

Coaching career

After the disappointing 9th place in the 1961/62 season, the decision was made to change coach at Karlsruher SC. They bet on the ex-KSC player Kurt Sommerlatt, the time of the Austrian Eduard Frühwirth was up. In the senior year of the Oberliga Süd, 1962/63 , Sommerlatt led the KSC to 5th place in the table. The nomination for the new Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season was achieved. He had instructed the newcomer Otto Geisert from Eintracht Nordhorn to 15 goals and successfully built the two UEFA youth selection players Rolf Kahn and Horst Wild into the regular formation. The Karlsruhe team ended the season with a trip around the world, which the coach reported in the then Sport-MAGAZIN (e.g .: May 27, 1963) and was also used in some games (Hong Kong) himself.

In the first year of the Bundesliga , however, the Karlsruhe team found it very difficult to change the previously accustomed regional league requirement for the significantly increased concentration of forces in a league of the 16 best. After an extremely weak start with 0:10 points and 2:17 goals, at the end of the round it was only possible to occupy the 13th place, tied with Hertha BSC in 14th place. Overall, reaching relegation in the Bundesliga was seen as a success. The framework conditions in Karlsruhe were still far removed from the conditions that are associated with the term professional football today.

An excerpt from the Sport-MAGAZIN of September 9, 1963, p. 16/17, under Bundesliga telegrams on the situation of the KSC in the start phase 1963/64:

“The Karlsruhe coach Sommerlatt was recently asked what he attributed the poor condition of his protégés to. His explanation: All KSC players are fully occupied during the day. They no longer have the necessary strength for a sharp training session at 5:30 p.m. "

In the second season, 1964/65 , there was no improvement. After the 2-0 defeat on January 23, 1965 in the home game against Werder Bremen , KSC finished 16th after matchday 19 with 13:25 points and thus graced the table as the bottom of the table. Kurt Sommerlatt was then released as a trainer on January 26, 1965 in Karlsruhe. The KSC finished this round with the penultimate place in the table, but did not rise due to the subsequent increase to 18 clubs.

Already at the beginning of February 1965 Sommerlatt replaced Alfred Preißler as coach on the Pirmasens "Horeb" in the then second-class Regionalliga Südwest at the local FK Alfred Preißler . He showed his skills as a coach by winning the championship in the 1965/66 season . In the promotion round to the Bundesliga he failed with his team only because of the poorer goal difference to Fortuna Düsseldorf . On June 1, 1968 he became a coach at VfR Frankenthal.

With Borussia Neunkirchen he also won the championship at the end of the 1970/71 season , but failed again in the promotion round to Fortuna Düsseldorf.

With the renewed engagement with FK Pirmasens in the last regional league season 1973/74 he then ended his coaching activity.

Others

Sommerlatt, who never worked as a professional trainer, but rather exercised his passion as a trainer in addition to setting up and running a sports shop in his home town of Blankenloch , always practiced a disciplined approach to work and sport. The bond with the Karlsruher SC was not only maintained through the quarterly meetings of the alumni; Visits to the stadium at home games were the rule for many years, and the KSC itself, through President Hubert H. Raase, commemorated the trophy heroes of 1955 and 1956 with an evening of honor on May 21, 2005.

Kurt Sommerlatt died five weeks after his 90th birthday as a result of an operation that became necessary after a fall at home.

successes

player

Trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Great grief at KSC: Legend Kurt Sommerlatt has passed away. In: ka-news.de. February 11, 2019, accessed February 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Richard Kirn, Alex Natan: Soccer: Past and present, rules and terms . Ullstein Taschenbücher-Verlag, Frankfurt a. {{Subst: nnbsp}} M. 1958, DNB  452421306 .
  3. ↑ Sport-90.de: Kurt Sommerlatt's resignation as a coach at Karlsruher SC 1964/1965. Retrieved November 8, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Sporthaus Sommerlatt GmbH Stutensee-Blankenloch on sporthaus-sommerlatt.de.

literature

  • Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 2: 1948–1963 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 29). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
  • Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
  • Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
  • 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 .
  • Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1963/64. Volume 1: Triumphal procession of the billy goats. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-083-9 .
  • Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1964/65. Volume 2: Werder's surprise coup. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-084-7 .
  • Lorenz Knierim, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Lexicon of players 1890-1963 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , page 370.
personal data
SURNAME Sommerlatt, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2019
Place of death Karlsruhe