Kurt Tschenscher

Kurt Tschenscher (born October 5, 1928 in Hindenburg OS ; † August 13, 2014 in Schwetzingen ) was a German football referee . In the 1960s he was considered one of the world's best football referees. He headed 53 international matches, two European Cup finals, 126 Bundesliga matches, a DFB Cup final and the last final of a German championship before the introduction of the Bundesliga.

Life

Kurt Tschenscher played football as a teenager for Preußen Hindenburg in his home in Upper Silesia. After being released from American captivity, he came from Austria via Heilbronn to Mannheim , where he joined VfL Neckarau . He was soon entrusted with the management of the youth department. In August 1948 he passed the referee examination in the Mannheim soccer district. He became a FIFA referee in 1958 and directed his first international match that same year. In 1962 he whistled the replay of the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup Atlético Madrid against Fiorentina . A year later he was in charge of the last final of the German championship , in which Borussia Dortmund won against 1. FC Cologne . Another highlight of his career was leading the final for the 1966/67 European Cup between Celtic Glasgow and Inter Milan in Lisbon .

He was active in the Bundesliga from the first season in 1963/64 until the end of his career in 1975. From FIFA , he was the first umpire, nominated for three World Cups: 1966 World Cup in England , Mexico 1970 and 1974 World Cup in Germany . One of his most important missions was the semi -finals of the 1968 European Football Championship between Italy and the Soviet Union . The game ended 0-0 after extra time (winner Italy after a lottery ticket by tossing a coin).

At the 1970 World Cup, he was honored to whistle the opening game in Mexico City on May 31, 1970 between hosts Mexico and the Soviet Union. The game also ended 0-0. In this game he was the first referee ever to show a yellow card (to the Soviet player Kachi Assatiani ). He had to solve his most difficult task at the 1974 World Cup, when he was in charge of the decisive game for a place in the final between the Netherlands and Brazil on July 3, 1974 . The Netherlands won 2-0 in Dortmund . Kurt Tschenscher had to send the Brazilian team captain Luís Pereira off the field after a brutal foul in the extremely hard and hectic game . Kurt Tschenscher was a FIFA referee for 17 years. This is also a record to this day. He directed about 1,800 games, including 173 international games.

He also led the finals between Poland and Hungary at the 1972 Munich Olympics and the legendary 1973 DFB Cup final between Borussia Mönchengladbach and 1. FC Köln , in which Günter Netzer scored his most famous goal.

As a functionary, Tschenscher was involved as an instructor and deputy chairman of the Mannheim football club. He was chairman of the referee committee of the South German Football Association and a member of the DFB referee committee. For his services he received, among other things, the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 1975 and the gold pin of honor from the DFB.

literature

• Lutz Lüttig: Obituary: On the death of Kurt Tschenscher , DFB referee newspaper 6/2014, pp. 29–30.
• Hans Seitz (Red.): 75 years of the Mannheim District Referee Association . Laudenbach 1991.
• Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport: 1945 to 1970 . 2nd edition, Mannheim 1996, ISBN 3-929295-14-8 , p. 226.

Web links

• augsburger-allgemeine.de: “Watch out, Tschenscher”: Referee icon becomes 85 article on October 5, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The man who drew yellow for the first time
2. ↑ sc08reilingen.de: Kurt Tschenscher
3. ^ Ex-Bundesliga referee Tschenscher died . SID article on Focus Online , August 13, 2014.
4. ↑ mkszaborzezabrze.futbolowo.pl: "Historia do 1945 roku" (Polish)
5. ↑ Kurt Tschenscher in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)