Max Fischer (soccer player, 1927)

Max Fischer (born February 11, 1927 in Karlsruhe ) is a former German soccer player who played 243 games in the soccer league south from 1947 to 1956 for VfB Mühlburg and after the merger with Phönix in 1952 for Karlsruher SC , including eight Scored goals. With KSC he won the DFB Cup in 1955 and was in the 1956 final of the German soccer championship .

career

Mühlburg, until 1952

Under youth leader Fritz Herzer, outstanding players grew up in the Karlsruhe district association VfB Mühlburg with Hugo Rastetter , Georg Seeburger , Oswald Traub and the unrelated namesakes Eugen and Max Fischer, who after the Second World War carried the flag of Karlsruhe football instead of the "old masters" of 1909 and 1910 , Phönix Karlsruhe and Karlsruher FV , were able to hold up in the new football league south. The former Gauligist was placed in the second-class Landesliga Süd in North Baden and won the championship there in 1946/47 with 54: 6 points and a goal difference of 138: 15 in front of 1. FC Pforzheim , VfR Pforzheim and local rivals ASV Durlach . In the promotion games against the champions of the northern season, ASV Feudenheim from Mannheim, Mühlburg prevailed with a 1-0 and 4-2 success and was promoted to the southern football league. Since, despite the league that was increased to 20 clubs in 1946, Phönix and KFV occupied the last two places in the top division and were relegated to the amateur camp, VfB Mühlburg represented Karlsruhe football alone in the major league from the 1947/48 round .

On the first day of the league round 1947/48 , on September 7, 1947, the Stuttgarter Kickers made a guest appearance in the newly built stadium on Honsellstrasse . Friedel Moser exercised the office of chairman of the game committee, Robert Kraft trained VfB and Max Fischer, Georg Seeburger and Hugo Rastetter formed the inner storm of Mühlburg. At the end of the round, the Kickers finished third with 113 goals and were individually very well positioned with Edmund Conen , Helmut Jahn (goalkeeper), Kurt Lauxmann , Siegfried Kronenbitter , Helmut Schmeißer , Reinhard Schaletzki , Albert Sing and Günter Sosna . The "blues" prevailed against the promoted team with 3-0 goals. In the 3-1 home win against 1. FC Nürnberg on matchday seven, Max Fischer stormed to the right wing. Toni Turek stood in the goal of Ulm 1846, Richard Herrmann shone in the FSV attack, Ernst Lehner stormed for Viktoria Aschaffenburg, the Janda brothers Albert and Ludwig faced each other in the duels Mühlburg against 1860 Munich and Fritz Balogh was the outstanding player personality at VfL Neckarau. On the 37th matchday, June 13, 1948, Mühlburg played a decisive game for relegation against SpVgg Fürth . Max Fischer and Oswald Traub formed the Mühlburg's right attacking side. “Ossi” Traub converted the half-time score of 1: 2 goals into a 3: 2 win in the 89th minute of the game and the Karlsruhe team were able to secure their league with 14th place. When seventh place was reached in the 1949/50 round, the outside runners Max and Eugen Fischer formed the VfB runner row together with the stopper Heinrich Gärtner from Frankfurt .

With coach Hans Tauchert and the newcomers Horst Buhtz and Heinz Trenkel , Mühlburg made it to the top of the table in the Oberliga Süd in the 1950/51 round . After the first half of the season, Max Fischer and his teammates were at the top of the table with 24:10 points in front of FSV Frankfurt , VfB Stuttgart and 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 . In the final standings, Mühlburg took third place with 44:24 points behind the champions 1. FC Nürnberg (47:21) and vice SpVgg Fürth with 45:23 points. Max Fischer had played 32 of 34 league games in various positions. From the right defender to outside runners, half-strikers and center-strikers, he was used in this successful round for VfB. The "Club" decided on March 27, 1951, the preliminary game in Mühlburg in front of 33,000 spectators with 4: 3 goals. In the last round of the independent VfB Mühlburg, 1951/52 , Rudi Fischer, the third “fisherman” came to Karlsruhe, along with Edmund Adamkiewicz and Bernd Oles . Max scored three goals in 28 appearances, Rudi immediately established himself as a regular goalkeeper and Eugen Fischer was nearing the end of his career with only three league games. The round ended with ninth place and, through the merger with FC Phönix from October 16, 1952 to form Karlsruher SC, the independent history of VfB Mühlburg also ended.

Karlsruher SC, 1952 to 1956

In 1952/53 , Max Fischer took over the role of head of defense in the merger club, playing center stage. The games continued to take place in the stadium on Honsellstrasse, the expansion of the Wildpark Stadium was not completed by the City of Karlsruhe until the summer of 1955. With Heinz Beck another player of the FV Daxlanden ( Lothar Bechtel , Herbert Dannenmeier ) found the way to Mühlburg and with Kurt Sommerlatt the FC Phönix brought a sportily valuable deposit into the merger. The KSC immediately took fourth place and Max Fischer was an integral part of the regular cast. Mostly he formed the KSC runner series together with the outside runners Sommerlatt and Dannenmeier. This was followed by two fifth places in 1954 and 1955. However, the game year 1955 was crowned by the success in the DFB Cup . KSC prevailed against FSV Frankfurt, 1. FC Nürnberg, VfB Stuttgart and after two games in the semifinals against Altona 93 . Against FC from Hamburg-Altona, the KSC defensive had to do in particular with their offensive forces Werner Erb , Dieter Seeler and Heinz Bung Bottle . In the final on May 21, 1955 in Braunschweig, Karlsruhe won 3-2 goals against FC Schalke 04 . Max Fischer played right defender, Siegfried Geesmann, the newcomer from SV Sodingen , had taken over the center stage. It was definitely the last season on the traditional square on Honsellstraße, from the round 1955/56 the expanded Wildpark Stadium was the home of the Karlsruher SC. The final farewell to the stadium in Mühlburg took place with an international friendly against Inter Milan on June 25, 1955.

In his fourth league round with the KSC, 1955/56 , Max Fischer formed the Baden defenders together with Walter Bauis . They won the southern German championship with a three-point lead over VfB Stuttgart. In 25 games, the Mühlburger was accrued in the league. In the final round of the German championship in 1956 , he played all six group games against Schalke, Kaiserslautern and Hanover and moved into the final with the KSC. There he had to deal with the nimble left wing of Borussia Dortmund, Helmut Kapitulski , on June 24th in Berlin . But Dortmund won the final with 4-2 goals. Previously, Fischer was still active in the semi-final game of the DFB Cup on May 6, 1956, in the 5-1 away win against FK Pirmasens. In the second victory in the DFB Cup, on August 5, 1956 in the local Wildpark Stadium against the young Hamburger SV team, Max Fischer was no longer there; he had ended his active career in the summer of 1956.

swell

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