Matthias Mauritz

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Matthias Mauritz (2008)

Matthias "Matthes" Mauritz (born November 13, 1924 in Düsseldorf ; † November 21, 2016 there ) was a German football player . He took part with the German national soccer team of amateurs at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Mauritz was also successful as a hockey and tennis player .

career

Fortuna Düsseldorf, 1945 to 1961

As a field hockey player at the Düsseldorfer SC 99 , Mauritz won the German youth championship in 1940 and completed two appearances in the field hockey national youth team. In autumn 1945 he returned to his hometown in Düsseldorf from an English captivity. One day in October he was sitting with his former classmates from the Rethel School in a café on Königsallee and they were talking about football. The classmates had arranged a game against Fortuna's "third party" and he was persuaded to play along. Coincidence would have it that Hans Körfer , head of the contract players' department at Fortuna Düsseldorf and later chairman of the DFB's game committee , was an eyewitness to this insignificant football game on this Saturday afternoon. And Körfer was amazed at the running class and the ball feeling of the young hockey player Mauritz. And since Toni Rudolph, the landlord from the Benrather Hof, who had an important word to say at Fortuna Düsseldorf for a long time, was also present at the game and was also impressed by the young Mauritz, the surprised hockey player received an offer that Mauritz could not resist : "If you come to Fortuna, you will get two pounds of meat, two loaves of bread and a dinner every week." However, the switch to football meant a lot of additional ball training on the house wall in order to develop the ball feeling that could be improved in addition to his speed.

From autumn 1945/46 the trained baker and confectioner Fortuna Düsseldorf belonged and played with Fortuna from the 1947/48 season in the football league West . He made his debut in the western league on the first game day, September 14, 1947, in a 4-2 home win against Prussia Dellbrück at the side of the Düsseldorf football icons Paul Janes and Kurt Borkenhagen . His achievements led the sports all-rounder on May 8, 1949 in the selection of West Germany, which played a representative game against North Germany in Bremen. At the side of his club defender couple Borkenhagen and Janes, he stormed 1-1 on the right wing of the West selection, where he had to take care of the offensive together with Clemens Wientjes , August Gottschalk , Georg Gawliczek and Bernhard Klodt . Since "Matthes" Mauritz never signed a contract as a footballer, he was also a member of the successful Lower Rhine team in 1951, which won the first final for the national cup of amateurs with 5: 4 goals after extra time against Berlin . Seven years later, in 1958, he was again in the amateur national cup in a winning team from the Lower Rhine. When national coach Sepp Herberger tested candidates for the new amateur soccer team for the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki at the B international match against Switzerland with Georg Stollenwerk , Willi Schröder and Kurt Sommerlatt in Basel on October 14, 1951 , Mauritz was also right-winger the team in the 2-0 win. He scored one goal. On May 14, 1952, he wore the dress of the selection supervised by Sepp Herberger at the amateur national team's debut game in his home town of Düsseldorf. As captain he led the DFB amateurs onto the field, the game was won with 2-1 goals against Great Britain and initiated the phase immediately before the Olympic adventure in Finland. In the Olympic tournament itself, he was active in the preliminary round in the 3-1 win against Egypt and in the 1-3 loss in the semifinals against Yugoslavia. Four years later, he took part in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne with the DFB amateurs . On November 24, 1956, he stormed right winger at the side of half-forward Rolf Geiger against the later Olympic champion Soviet Union . The German team was eliminated from the tournament after the 1: 2 defeat after the first game.

With Fortuna, he moved into the DFB Cup final in 1957 and 1958 . The finals were lost on December 29, 1957 in Hanover with 0-1 goals against FC Bayern Munich and on November 16, 1958 in Kassel with 3-4 goals after extra time against VfB Stuttgart . In the 1958/59 season - Mauritz completed all 30 league games and scored six goals - he finished third with Düsseldorf under coach Hermann Lindemann, tied with vice 1. FC Köln as the best place. He formed the runner row with Günter Jäger and Karl Hoffmann . On the offensive, the men around Jupp Derwall shone with a record of 89 goals, 29 goals more than champions Westfalia Herne and runner-up 1. FC Köln. The 3: 4 home defeat on the 28th matchday, April 5, 1959, against the billy goats from the cathedral city in front of 56,000 spectators, brought Cologne on the home straight into the wafer-thin - minimal goal margin of 0.13 - advantage. However, national coach Sepp Herberger ensured the personal high point in the football career of the Dusseldorf player when he was called to the international match of the senior national team against Poland on May 20, 1959 . With this appointment, Mauritz is the oldest “real” debutant in the history of the German national soccer team at 34 years of age; Born in Austria, Karl Sesta was one year older when he played his first game after the Anschluss in 1941, but had already played more than 40 international matches for Austria in the nine years before. Mauritz formed the defender pair in the 1-1 draw against Poland in front of goalkeeper Günter Sawitzki together with his club-mate Erich Juskowiak .

In the first few weeks of the 1959/60 round, on September 16 and 23, 1959, the Düsseldorf veteran was a member of the DFB amateur team, which defeated the GDR national A team in two qualifying games and thus qualified for the 1960 Summer Olympics qualified in Rome against Finland and Poland. With his 13th amateur international match against Finland on November 11, 1959 in Siegen / Westphalia, "Matthes" Mauritz said goodbye to the DFB selection. In the 2-1 success he formed the German runner row together with Willi Schulz and Herbert Schäfer .

For the red and whites from Flinger Broich, Fortuna Düsseldorf, the extremely versatile all-round athlete played a total of 760 games from 1945 to 1960, in which he scored 108 times, including 297 games in the Oberliga West with 44 goals.

Hockey and tennis

In hockey he won the German youth championship in 1940 and made two appearances in the national youth hockey team. As a tennis player, his highest position in the German rankings was 11th. He also won the title of Niederrhein Champion once. After finishing his football career, he continued the tennis sport in the senior sector and came to 21 German championships in this class and won the senior European title four times.

Honors and functionary

Mauritz, who was also a passionate golfer, was made an honorary member of Fortuna Düsseldorf in 1979 and was vice-president of the association between 1981 and 1982. He later ran a sports shop in Düsseldorf with his old tennis friend Otto Stuhldreier.

literature

  • Michael Bolten, Marco Langer: "Everything else is just football". The story of Fortuna Düsseldorf . Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89533-711-6 .
  • 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 .
  • Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Werner Raupp : Toni Turek - "football god". A biography. Hildesheim: Arete Verlag 2019 (1st, reviewed edition) ( ISBN 978-3-96423-008-9 ), pp. 73–97 u. ö.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fortuna mourns Matthias "Matthes" Mauritz. Fortuna Düsseldorf website, November 22, 2016, accessed on November 22, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 307 f .
  3. ↑ Bolten / Langer: "Everything else is just football". P. 97.
  4. ↑ Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): "Helmut, tell me that goal!" New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963 . Klartext-Verlag, Essen, 1993, ISBN 978-3-88474-043-9 , p. 146.
personal data
SURNAME Mauritz, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mauritz, Mathes (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2016
Place of death Dusseldorf