Oswald Pfau
Oswald Pfau (born January 7, 1915 , † January 3, 1969 in Dortmund-Lütgendortmund ) was a German football goalkeeper and coach.
Career as a player
Since the mid-1930s, Pfau's path as a football player has run through several Gauligen , the highest football classes in the Third Reich. First he played in the Gauliga Pommern , with the clubs Hubertus Kolberg and MTV Pommerensdorf . Later Pfau went to Frankfurter Eintracht , which played in the Gauliga Südwest . After the outbreak of World War II, he moved to Hertha BSC in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg . With Hertha, Pfau won his only goalkeeping title, the Brandenburg Championship in 1944. From 1945 to 1948 he worked as a player-coach at SG Vorwärts Grimmen / Vorpommern.
Activity as a trainer
Pfau began his long coaching career at the age of 30 immediately after the end of the war in Grimmen / Western Pomerania, where he led the team of the Grimmen sports club into the district league after two years. His achievements as a goalkeeper in the two games against the national league team of BSG Greifswald (each 0: 5) will not be forgotten. A very good junior team developed under his influence. When he left in 1948, SG Friedrichstadt (East German champions) played in Grimmen (1: 8). Then Pfau trained the upstairs building goods , a team that played in the Mecklenburg State League. In addition, he also held the office of association trainer in Mecklenburg. In 1949 he was in the goal of the state selection in the game against Brandenburg (3: 4). In 1951 he moved to the GDR Oberliga , the highest East German soccer class. There he took over the training of Lok Stendal's team , which had played league football since 1949. At the beginning of the 1954/55 season, Pfau coached the Empor Lauter team , which was based in a small town in the Ore Mountains , but had also played in the league since 1952. In the past two seasons, the Lauterer had conquered the ranks 10 and 9, and even under Pfau's leadership, the Erzgebirge played well in the league and had established themselves in the top field after a third of the season. In October 1954, the GDR sports management surprisingly decided that the team would have to play as SC Empor Rostock in the Baltic Sea city of Rostock . On November 14th, the upper league point game Empor Rostock - Chemistry Karl-Marx-Stadt took place in the new Rostock Ostseestadion . Since not all players had taken part in the move from Lauter to Rostock, Pfau initially only had a rump team available, but the Rostock team nevertheless reached ninth place in the league at the end of the season. In order to secure relegation at all, Pfau had handled his players hard, which earned him the nickname "Sergeant". In the transitional round of the league in the fall of 1955 to introduce the calendar year season, Pfau surprisingly led his team to 2nd place. His work was recognized by the soccer section, the highest body of GDR soccer at the time, and so Pfau became on April 1st In 1956 appointed to the coaching staff for the GDR selection teams. However, this episode was short-lived; After a few weeks Pfau left the GDR for West Germany.
His first stop in West Germany from July 1, 1956, were the Stuttgarter Kickers , who had barely escaped relegation from the Oberliga Süd , one of the five top divisions in the German Football Association at the time , in the past season . He immediately made headlines when he succeeded in bringing Ernst Lindner , the Stendal national player and top division shooter king of 1956, who he had previously trained, to Stuttgart. Pfau was able to hold the class in 1956/57, but could no longer prevent relegation in the 1957/58 season.
He then moved to TuS Bremerhaven 93 for a year and on July 1, 1959, took over the coaching position at 1. FC Cologne , who had just missed the final in the final round of the German championship as second in the preliminary round. Under Pfau things went better in the 1959/60 season, the Cologne team won the West German championship with ease and moved into the final of the German championship as group winners. There they were defeated by Hamburger SV 2: 3. In 1961, 1. FC Köln were again West German champions under Pfau's leadership, but this time they failed again in the finals.
After a one-year short guest game at FK Pirmasens ( Oberliga Südwest ), which Pfau also led into the championship finals, he took over Alemannia Aachen for the 1962/63 season , most recently 11th in the Oberliga West . Aachen wanted to qualify for the new Bundesliga, but Pfau's team missed the goal of fifth place by one place. In 1964 they won the Regionalliga West, but failed in the Bundesliga promotion round. In October 1965 the club separated from Pfau.
From 1966 to April 1968 Pfau worked for the regional league club VfR Mannheim , with whom he achieved the best result in 1967 with rank 5 in the Regionalliga Süd. On April 18, 1968, the Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund signed Pfau as a new coach. The Dortmunders were in acute danger of relegation, but at the end of the season Pfau had managed to secure their relegation with 14th place. Oswald Pfau did not live to see the end of the 1968/69 season; because he died of a heart attack on January 3, 1969 in the Lütgendortmund hospital .
Career history
| Overview of trainer stations | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1945-1948 | SG Forward Grimmen | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania regional league |
| 1948-1949 | Up building goods | Landesliga Mecklenburg, Association coach Mecklenburg |
| 1951-1953 | Locomotive Stendal | DDR-Oberliga |
| 1954 | Motor Warnowwerft Warnemünde | District League Rostock |
| 1.6.1954 - 31.10.1954 | Up louder | DDR-Oberliga |
| 1.11.1954 - 31.3.1956 | SC Empor Rostock | GDR Oberliga, GDR selection coach |
| July 1, 1956 - June 30, 1958 | Stuttgart Kickers | Oberliga Süd |
| July 1, 1958 - June 30, 1959 | Bremerhaven 93 | Oberliga Nord |
| July 1, 1959 - June 30, 1961 | 1. FC Cologne | Oberliga West |
| July 1, 1961 - June 30, 1962 | FK Pirmasens | Oberliga Südwest |
| July 1, 1962 - October 1965 | Alemannia Aachen | Oberliga / Regionalliga West |
| 1.7.1966 - 18.4.1968 | VfR Mannheim | Regional league south |
| April 18, 1968 - December 16, 1968 | Borussia Dortmund | Bundesliga |
| successes | ||
|---|---|---|
| as a player | ||
| 1944 | Brandenburg Championship | Hertha BSC |
| as a trainer | ||
| 1954 | Champion district league Rostock | Motor Warnowwerft Warnemünde |
| 1960 | West German champion, German runner-up | 1. FC Cologne |
| 1961 | West German master | 1. FC Cologne |
| 1964 | West German master | Alemannia Aachen |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peacock, Oswald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1915 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd January 1969 |
| Place of death | Dortmund-Lütgendortmund |