Ludwig Siffling

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Ludwig Siffling (born October 7, 1921 in Mannheim ; † July 1, 2020 ) was a German football player for SV Waldhof Mannheim . The attacker, who was mainly used as a winger in the World Cup system practiced at the time , played 150 games in the South Football League from 1945 to 1954 and scored 35 goals. Following his playing career, he worked as an amateur coach.

career

Youth and Gauliga Baden, until 1945

The cousin of the Waldhof legend Otto Siffling made his debut in the Gauliga Baden on December 25, 1939 at the age of 18 . In a 6: 1 against SpVgg Sandhofen , the attacker who can be used on both wings scored three goals. The attack of the blue-blacks had accumulated in the occupation with Siffling, Reinhold Fanz , Josef Erb , Karl Bielmeier and Ludwig Günderoth . 24 hours later, on December 26th, his second Gauliga assignment was due; Waldhof defeated the newcomer FG Kirchheim 17-0 and the young player scored three goals again. In the group stage in North Baden, Siffling was used in the games against VfL Neckarau (2: 1), VfR Mannheim (1: 2) and in the catch-up game on June 22, 1940 against Viernheim (6: 1, one goal). In the final round of the championship in the Gauliga 1939/40 he joined the Waldhof in the games against VfR Achern (4: 1), Freiburg FC (1: 1), 1. FC 08 Birkenfeld (4: 0) and in Home game against Achern 10: 1 - two-time goalscorer - on April 21, 1940 and won the championship with his teammates. The backward championship game against VfR Mannheim (0: 3) was only played at the beginning of the new season on September 1, 1940, only for statistical reasons. Waldhof opened the group stage in the final round of the German soccer championship with right-winger Ludwig Siffling on May 12, 1940 with a 0-1 away defeat at the Stuttgarter Kickers. In the second leg on June 9, he distinguished himself as a three-time goalscorer in a clear 7-2 home win. The Waldhöfer prevailed with 8: 4 points in the group against the Stuttgarter Kickers, 1. FC Nürnberg and Kickers Offenbach and advanced to the semi-finals . That took place on July 14th in Stuttgart against the favored FC Schalke 04 with their stars Hans Klodt , Otto Tibulski , Herbert Burdenski , Hermann Eppenhoff , Fritz Szepan , Ernst Kuzorra and Ernst Kalwitzki . Royal Blue prevailed 3-1 and also won the final on July 21 in Berlin 1-0 against Dresdner SC. In the games for 3rd place against Rapid Vienna (4: 4 a.s. .; 2: 5 reps) Ludwig Siffling was unable to participate due to an injury. Since he had been in the Reich Labor Service camp in Kleinblittersdorf in Saarland since February 1940 and was only assigned to the Kaiser Wilhelm barracks in Mannheim at the end of the year, he was also unable to participate in the successful games for the Tschammer Cup in 1939 .

In the 1940/41 season he was able to play nine more Gauliga games for Waldhof, but then the circumstances of the war also had a massive impact on Ludwig Siffling. With the 132nd Infantry Division , as a member of a telecommunications unit, he ended up in the Crimea , for the fighting for Leningrad and then in Courland . He was wounded in fighting back in Lithuania and was able to escape from East Prussia on one of the last ships.

In September 1944, a round with six clubs was started in the Mannheim area. However, in the final phase of the war it could no longer come to an orderly game operation. KSG Käfertal / Phönix had to stop playing in October 1944, and FG Union Heidelberg was excluded from playing after not playing against Waldhof and VfR Mannheim. Ebner noted three appearances for Siffling, including the game on December 31, 1944 against VfR Mannheim, where Willi Rube, who had come from Käfertal, was the goal scorer to make Waldhof 1-0 against VfR Mannheim and Ludwig Siffling had helped out as a center forward. SV Waldhof became champions of the association round.

Overall, Ludwig Siffling was played at Ebner from 1939/40 to 1944/45 (no stakes in 1941/42 and 1943/44 due to the Second World War) with 24 games and 15 goals in the Gauliga Baden.

Oberliga Süd, 1945 to 1954

The first football game in Mannheim after the end of the Second World War was held on September 9, 1945 on the VfR-Platz at the breweries between the VfR and Waldhof Mannheim. In Waldhof's 3-1 success, Ludwig Siffling also distinguished himself as a goal scorer. On November 4th the start of the Oberliga Süd took place with a 1-1 draw at FSV Frankfurt. Waldhof finished 4th at the end of the round and VfR Mannheim 14th.

In the second league year Waldhof even reached the runner-up in the Oberliga Süd, 13 points behind champions 1. FC Nürnberg, but at least three points ahead of Eintracht Frankfurt in 3rd place. In addition to goalkeeper Karl Vetter , the attacking players Georg Herbold , Reinhold Fanz , Paul Lipponer , Willi Rube , Ludwig Siffling and Werner Hölzer in the team of coach Herbert Pahlke stood out. The local rivals VfR - Hermann Jöckel , Philipp Rohr , Rudolf de la Vigne , Kurt Stiefvater - and VfL Neckarau - Fritz Balogh , Willi Preschle , Günter Sosna , Karl Gramminger , Martin Gramminger - ended up in 12th and 16th place in the table. Waldhof won both local derbies against VfR 3-0. The Waldhof attack formation was often made up of Herbold, Fanz, Lipponer, Rube and Siffling. After the first half of the season, Siffling and colleagues were only eighth with 21:17 points. In the second half of the season Waldhof played in a 21: 1 series of points from the 26th to the 35th day of the round for the runner-up.

When 1. FC Nürnberg was able to win the first German football championship after World War II in 1948 , the Waldhöfer in the Oberliga Süd had won the champions from Franconia in the home game on September 21, 1947 in front of 20,000 spectators with a 3: 1 Success both points removed. The home win was achieved with the 1946/47 successful attack formation with Herbold, Fanz, Lipponer, Rube and Ludwig Siffling. In the scoring 6: 4 home win on matchday 36, June 6, 1948, against SpVgg Fürth , left wing Siffling scored the fifth goal for the Waldhöfer. In total, he ran in the 1947/48 round in 20 league games and scored three goals. The blue-black landed on the 6th place in the final table.

In the fourth league round in 1948/49 , Waldhof landed in 5th place in the table with a goal difference of 54:43 goals. Siffling had only missed one of the 30 league games and scored six goals. Striker colleague Georg Herbold led with 19 goals - together with Emil Maier from the champions Kickers Offenbach and Otto Thanner from TSV 1860 Munich - the top scorer list in the Oberliga Süd . Since the local rival VfR Mannheim qualified as runner-up for the final round of the German championship in the south and surprisingly was able to bring the German championship to Mannheim on July 10, 1949 in Stuttgart against Borussia Dortmund , the performance of the Waldhöfer went wrong. Both local derbies were close games: In the first half of the season VfR prevailed 2-1 at the Waldhof, in the second leg they split on March 6, 1949 in front of 20,000 spectators with a 1-1. Waldhof ran aground with the tried and tested attack with Siffling, Herbold, Lipponer, Rube and Holz.

From the 1950/51 season, the "Waldhof boys" went down in the table. In the year of the soccer world championship 1954 Waldhof rose as the table penultimate from the Oberliga Süd. The "warriors" from the Gauliga and top performers in the first years of the Oberliga Süd were getting on in years. The technician with a talent for combination, Ludwig Siffling, who has been a regular player on both wings for years, was only able to play two games due to injury in 1952/53, ended with the game on November 22, 1953 at Viktoria Aschaffenburg (0: 2) due to another injury , his career as a player in the Oberliga Süd.

Trainer

As an active player at the end of the 1940s, Siffling had already been a coach at SV Sandhausen . Later he worked as a trainer at SpVgg Sandhofen, FV 08 Hockenheim, SC Pfingstberg, SC Olympia Lorsch and VfR Bürstadt . He took over Bürstadt in 1954 and took it to the first amateur league in Hesse in 1956.

Life

The honorary member and honorary ring bearer had been a member of SV Waldhof since February 1, 1933. Professionally, he was a commercial clerk at Daimler-Benz in Mannheim and later in Wörth am Rhein, where he also lived from 1972. In 1983 he retired and attended Waldhof's home games for many years.

literature

  • Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. Football archive Mannheim, Mannheim 1994, ISBN 3-929295-05-9 .
  • Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945-1970. Football Archive Mannheim, 1995, ISBN 3-929295-14-8 .
  • 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 .
  • Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football: The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 2016, ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 , p. 418.
  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 365 .

Web links

  • Stefan Reiser among others: Ludwig Siffling. In: waldhof-mannheim-07.de. 4th July 2020 .;

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mourning the footballer Ludwig Siffling. In: morgenweb.de . July 2, 2020, accessed July 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football: The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933-1945. P. 418
  3. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football: The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933-1945. Pp. 281-283
  4. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's soccer sport 1945-1970. P. 12
personal data
SURNAME Siffling, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 2020