Matthias Billen

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Matthias "Mattes" Billen (born March 29, 1910 in Hamborn ; † July 1, 1989 ) was a German national soccer player. The offensive player was active before and during the Second World War in the Gauligen Niederrhein and Lower Saxony and in 1947/48 came again as a veteran at VfL Osnabrück in the Football Oberliga Nord , where he scored four goals.

career

societies

Footballer Matthias Billen grew up on the Lower Rhine with the black and yellow "lions" of SV Hamborn 07 . Even before the beginning of the Gauliga era , his outstanding offensive qualities brought him into the West German selection . He belonged, for example, to the WFV selection in 1932, which reached a 3-3 draw in Lille against a Northern France selection. The leading teams in the Gauliga Niederrhein in the early years were VfL Benrath and Fortuna Düsseldorf . With teammates like Josef Rodzinski and Willi Suchy , he was able to attract the attention of Reich coach Otto Nerz in the team from the stadium on Buschstrasse . He was part of the DFB squad for the World Cup qualifying match against Luxembourg on March 11, 1934, but was not yet used. In a training game of a Hamborner combination in Duisburg-Wedau at the beginning of April 1934 as part of a preparatory course against the national team (4: 3) before the 1934 World Cup , he, like his teammates Paul Zielinski and Rodzinski, continued to attract the attention of national coach Otto Nerz and became for nominated the extended roster. The second course took place in mid-April and also included a test match of a DFB selection against Fortuna Düsseldorf. In the 1-0 success of the DFB-Elf, he played half right. In the last World Cup course from May 7th to 19th with 38 players, however, he could not play in the final squad. But on June 24, 1934, a match in Königsberg in the 4-0 win in the Lower Rhine selection against East Prussia is noted in the fighting game cup.

As a soldier he came to Osnabrück in 1936 and switched to VfL Osnabrück . Here he was one of the pillars that made the club a serious rival of Hannover 96 in the Lower Saxony Gauliga . In the round of 1936/37 the immediate return to the Gauliga succeeded with the purple-whites and in 1937/38 as a climber the runner-up behind the eventual German champion Hannover 96 could be achieved. In 1939 and 1940 he won the Lower Saxony Gau championship with the Osnabrückers and took part in the games for the German championship. On February 26, 1939, the "Gartlager-Elf" under coach Walter Hollstein managed a decisive victory against Hanover when they won the first Gauliga championship. In the final round of the German championship in 1939, a second place was achieved in the group games behind Hamburger SV. The "Purple-Whites" won their second championship title in 1940 through two playoffs between the season winners North versus South (3: 2, 2: 2) against Hannover 96. Overall, Billen is in the two finals with eleven inserts and two goals for Osnabrück.

But he was also active in the Tschammer Cup with the Bremer Brücke team . In the 1938/39 season they eliminated VfB Bielefeld (3-1) in the first main round, defeating FC Schalke 04 3-2 on November 19, 1939 with their parade strikers Hermann Eppenhoff , Fritz Szepan , Ernst Kalwitzki and Ernst Kuzorra and Karl Barufka , before bidding farewell to the competition with the inner storm Billen, Adolf Vetter and Friedel Meyer with a 4-0 defeat at SV Waldhof Mannheim .

After the Second World War, “Mattes” Billen was one of the driving forces behind the reconstruction of VfL. He played for VfL Osnabrück up to and including the first league season in 1947/48, then ended his career after a broken leg. In 1952 he completed his training as a football teacher. Billen then worked for years as a coach of lower-class teams - including at SV Bad Oeynhausen, Ballsport Eversburg, Raspo Osnabrück , Ibbenbürener Spvg , TuRa Grönenberg Melle , Sportfreunde Oesede - in the Osnabrück area.

Selection teams

On September 27, 1936 Billen came to his international match. At the same time, two games of the German selection took place and Billen ran in Krefeld in the DFB-Elf, supervised by Sepp Herberger , against Luxembourg . In the 7-2 success, however, the half right did not score in the interior storm next to center forward Ernst Poertgen and half left Ernst Kuzorra . Billen was the first national player for VfL Osnabrück. Although Billen no longer played for the national team, he was regularly nominated for games in the Lower Saxony selection. With the Lower Saxony selection he came in July 1938 after successes against Saxony (2: 0), Brandenburg (3: 1; 1 goal) and Southwest (4: 1; 1 goal) in the final at the German Gymnastics and Sports Festival tournament in Wroclaw . In front of 70,000 spectators, the NFV selection with Heinz Flotho , Heinz Ditgens , Albert Sukop , Werner Schulz , Billen, Ludwig Pöhler and Matthias Heidemann had in the 1: 4 defeat against the "Ostmark" - it was the former Austrian national team with Peter Platzer , Karl Sesta , Willibald Schmaus , Karl Zischek , Wilhelm Hahnemann , Josef Stroh , Leopold Neumer and Johann Pesser - no chance.

literature

  • Jürgen Bitter : Purple and white. The football history of VfL Osnabrück. Self-published, Osnabrück 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 47 .
  2. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 31 .
  3. ↑ IFFHS. LIBERO . Special German: Gau selection competitions (1933–1942). No. D17. Wiesbaden 1998. pp. 50-56.
personal data
SURNAME Billen, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Billen, Mattes (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamborn
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1989