Nikolaus Biewer

Nikolaus Biewer (born January 24, 1922 , † November 1980 ) was a German soccer player who was in the final of the German soccer championship with his club 1. FC Saarbrücken in 1952 . From 1945 to 1955, the defender played a total of 122 league games (3 goals) in what was then the first-class Oberliga Südwest . With the selection of the Saarland , Biewer played eleven international matches from 1950 to 1954, including the two World Cup qualifiers against eventual world champions Germany in 1953 and 1954 .

career

Altenkessel and KSG Saarbrücken, until 1945

With his hometown club SC Altenkessel , a Saarbrücken district club, the 20-year-old defender Nikolaus Biewer reached the Gauliga Westmark in the summer of 1942 with 7: 1 points in the promotion round . The climber rose immediately with the 10th place in 1942/43 . For the round 1943/44 Altenkessel and the FV Saarbrücken formed the KSG Saarbrücken and won the championship in Gau Westmark. In the final round of the German soccer championship in 1944, "Nickel" Biewer ran in the three games against Göppingen (5: 3), FC Mülhausen (5: 3) and 1. FC Nürnberg (1: 5) as a middle runner in the then World Cup -System on.

1. FC Saarbrücken, 1945–1955

Oberliga Südwest-Nord, 1945–1948

Organizationally, post-war football began on November 25, 1945 with the political dissolution of FV Saarbrücken and the simultaneous renaming of FVS to 1. FC Saarbrücken. On January 6, 1946, the new division, the Oberliga Südwest Gruppe Nord, premiered in the French occupation zone with ten founding members in a so-called "spring round". Saarbrücken prevailed 4-2 at FSV Mainz 05. The team led by Wilhelm “Bubi” Sold started with 12: 0 points and won the championship with 31: 5 points and one point ahead of 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Then in two games against FV Rastatt (5: 0, 4: 4) also the championship of the French zone. In the 1946/47 round, the Lauter team and playmaker Fritz Walter prevailed for the first time , with the defending champion taking third place. On March 9, 1947, Saarbrücken lost 6-0 in Kaiserslautern and on May 4, 1947 won the home game against the new champions 2-1. Under the eyes of FIFA President Jules Rimet , the first international post-war game took place on the Kieselhumes with 1. FCS against Stade Reims (3: 5). With the runner-up, the men around Biewer ended the round in 1947/48; The second championship of 1. FC Kaiserslautern was superior with a five point lead. The first round match was lost by Saarbrücken on January 18, 1948 6-0 in Kaiserslautern, in the second leg it was enough on May 30, 1948 to a 0-0. In Paris, the resolutions were passed that from May 20, 1948, friendlies between the Saar clubs and German clubs would no longer be possible, the four top division clubs 1. FC Saarbrücken, Borussia Neunkirchen, Saar 05 and SG Völklingen may still play the season to the end, but then have to retire from the Oberliga Südwest.

2nd division in France / Saarland Cup, 1948–1951

Before the start of the points round in 1948/49, 1. FC Saarbrücken had major problems to deal with. On July 25, 1948, the Saarland Football Association was founded, which should join the Fédération Française de Football (FFF) according to the ideas of the pro-French Saar government . The game traffic with the teams in the Oberliga Südwest had become almost impossible due to the political and economic separation of the Saarland. Participation in championship games only within the narrow borders of the Saarland would not have been a sporting basis. A lucky circumstance helped 1. FC Saarbrücken. The AS Angoulême , a club of the professional division 2 in France, was not able to provide a team for the championship round at short notice. The Saarbrücken-based company applied to the FFF for permission to take the vacated space. This application was granted with the restriction that Saarbrücken could participate as a guest, i.e. unofficially. Biewer and his comrades became a "travel team". Criss-cross they passed the corridors of France. The Malstatter traveled 23,314 km by train. After 37 games this season , the team of coach "Ossi" Müller, FC Sarrebruck, had won 26 games, drew seven and lost four. The goal difference was 148: 50 with 59 points. Sarrebruck was not listed in the table, and his games were not counted for the opponents either: officially, the D2 played with only 19 teams, champions Racing Lens and Bordeaux as second each had 53:19 points and were promoted to Division 1 .

For the 1949/50 round, Saarbrücken's application to officially participate in the championship was rejected. The International Saarland Cup was held as a way out. This competition, to which Saarland's industry donated two million francs, was held under the protectorate of the High Commissioner and the Saarland government. The following teams competed against 1. FC Saarbrücken in the qualifying matches: FC La Chaux de Fonds, Standard Liège, Stade Reims, Elfsborg-Boras, BK Copenhagen, Hajduk Split, Austria Vienna, FC Nancy, AC Bellinzona, JF Degerfors, Rapid Vienna , FC Sète, UC Santiago de Chile, FC Metz and Toulouse FC. The finals took place on June 10 and 11, 1950 in Kieselhumes. Biewer and his teammates won the 1st International Saarland Cup with a 4-0 win over Stade Rennais UC . The contract players included:
Jockel Balzert , Karl Berg , Nikolaus Biewer, Herbert Binkert , Kurt Clemens , Franz Immig , Herbert Martin , Peter Momber , Hermann Monk, Waldemar Philippi , Theo Puff , Heinrich Schmitt, Robert Schreiner and Erwin Strempel .

For round 1950/51 it continued in the same form. The 2nd International Saarland Cup was played and more friendly games were added. From the fall of 1950, Biewer and colleagues got to know Auguste Jordan's art of coaching . In February 1951, however, the defender experienced the impressive appearances against AS Cannes-Grasse, Atlético Bilbao, Deportivo La Coruna, Real Madrid and FC Rouen as top performers in the defense. The 4-0 success on Wednesday, February 21, 1951 at the Estadio Chamartin, later renamed the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, is described as "the most beautiful and successful game ever to be shown by a Malstatt team". In June followed a trip to the north with games in Denmark and Sweden. That was the end of three rounds without a league game, but which had provided impressions that were remembered for a lifetime.

Oberliga Südwest, 1951–1955

After a three-year break, the DFB and the Saarland Football Association (SFB) had achieved the return of at least 1. FC Saarbrücken and Borussia Neunkirchen to the game operations of the Oberliga Südwest for the round 1951/52. Biewer, Binkert, Momber and Co were able to experience the charm of a points round again. The internationally experienced Saarlanders won the championship in the southwest with 50:10 points. TuS Neuendorf was runner-up with 44:16 points ahead of the knocked-down Walter -Elf from Kaiserslautern. With a goal difference of 80:27, the FCS defensive stood out as the best in the southwest. As a middle runner, Biewer directed the defense of the blue-blacks in front of goalkeeper Erwin Strempel as head of defense. The runner-up Neuendorf parted with two draws (0-0, 1: 1) and the 1: 3 away defeat against 1. FC Kaiserslautern on February 17, 1952 remained due to the surprising 2-4 defeat of the Walter team on March 23, 1952 in the local derby against VfR Kaiserslautern without negative consequences. In the final round, the team around center runner Biewer prevailed against 1. FC Nürnberg, Hamburger SV and FC Schalke 04 and thus moved into the final on June 22, 1952 in the Südwest Stadium in Ludwigshafen against VfB Stuttgart.

The protégés of coach Georg Wurzer prevailed with 3-2 goals. Otto Baitinger decided the game for the Swabians with his goal to make it 3-2 in the 73rd minute. Injuries made the game difficult for Saarbrücken: Outrunner Karl Berg injured himself shortly after the break and hobbled around on the left wing as an extra and FCS goalkeeper Strempel was eliminated with a broken arm, so that left-back Theo Puff had to help out in goal.

In the next three rounds - 1952/53 to 1954/55 - Biewer failed to make it into the final with the 1st FCS. With the 3rd place in 1954/55, the defender had again played in 20 league games in the upper league, the former player of the Gauliga Westmark said goodbye to 1. FC Saarbrücken in the summer of 1955 and joined his home club SC Altenkessel in the Saarland amateur league. Despite the three-year break from 1948 to 1951, the outstanding header player and defensive specialist with a great positional play played 122 league games for 1. FC Saarbrücken in the Oberliga Südwest and scored three goals.

literature

• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• Hardy Greens: 100 years of the German Championship. The history of football in Germany. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2003. ISBN 3-89533-410-3 .
• Hardy Greens : From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 1 . AGON, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• Gerhard Reuther: 1. FC Saarbrücken 1903–1983. Dasbach publishing house. Taunusstein 1983.

Web links

• Karel Stokkermans: International Saarland Cup , Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Skrentny (Ed.): Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg. P. 156