Otto Kamenzin

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Otto Kamenzin (born November 10, 1909 in Durlach , † January 23, 1944 in Wilhelmshaven ) was a German football player who was active as a defensive player from 1933/34 to 1939/40 at VfR Mannheim in the Gauliga Baden . In 1935 , 1938 and 1939 , the defensive specialist , who was mostly used as a middle runner in the World Cup system then practiced, won three championships with the grass players from Mannheim. From 1935 to 1938 Kamenzin played 10 games in the final round of the German football championship for VfR Mannheim , before an eleventh assignment was added to the ranks of SpVgg Wilhelmshaven as a marine in 1943 .

Athletic career

District league Rhine and Gauliga Baden, 1929–1940

Otto Kamenzin was born as the second son of the businessman Karl Kamenzin in the Karlsruhe district of Durlach and where he went to school. At the beginning of the 1920s the family moved to Mannheim, where Otto joined VfR Mannheim and successfully ran through the school and youth teams of the blue-white-red lawn players. In the first junior team of the VfR, the talented defender played in 1927 with his later league colleagues Kurt Langenbein and Paul Hoßfelder.

From the 1929/30 season, the young defensive player was part of the VfR Mannheim team in the Rhein / Saar district, Rhein group. His first game in the district league was dated August 25, 1929, when the young player made his debut in a local derby in the VfR runner row in a 2-1 defeat against the reigning champions of the Rhine district VfL Neckarau. At Zeilinger, however, Kamenzin's participation in the derby on April 14, 1929 on the VfR pitch against Waldhof is already noted. He is listed there as a middle runner in the 2: 3 home defeat in the consolation round of the Northwest group in 1928/29 for the South German championship. In any case, Kamenzin quickly became a regular player, but could not conquer any top ranks with the VfR in the last four years of the district league from 1929/30 to 1932/33; the chapter of the old district league ended with fifth rank in 1932/33. With his achievements, the 1.86 m tall, excellent headball player, who was also equipped with a good overview of the game and a precise pass, played his way into the city selection of Mannheim. He was used in games against MTK Hungaria Budapest, Ludwigshafen and WAC Vienna from 1930 to 1933.

The more central Gauliga Baden started in the 1933/34 season and Kamenzin and his VfR team-mates played for the championship straight away. In their debut year, the blue-white-reds reached the runner-up championship one point behind SV Waldhof. Due to the success of the runner-up, Kamenzin also played in the various selection teams from Mannheim (city selection), Gau selection Baden, and on May 21, 1934 in Saarbrücken in the southern German selection with a 3-0 win against the selection of West Germany. He always acted on the central middle runner position. In the second year of the Gauliga, 1934/35, the long-time captain of the VfR and his teammates won their first championship by two points ahead of Phoenix Karlsruhe. In the first half of the season, the VfR lost the derby against SV Waldhof on November 18, 1934 with 1: 2, in the second half of the season on February 24, 1935 with a 2: 1 revenge. Previously, on January 13, 1935, VfR lost 2-1 to FC Phönix Karlsruhe in the “snow-covered wildlife park”. In the Allgemeine Sportzeitung you can read on January 14th: “Your best man was undoubtedly Kamenzin, who showed a very large center-half game. […] This player stood out triumphantly above all. He played a central game of such high quality as you rarely see it. All superlatives can be used for his game. He was absolutely great. ”In the final round of the German soccer championship, Kamenzin struggled with the VfR. The Gaumeister from Baden took third place with a weak 2:10 points, clearly trailing behind VfL Benrath and Phönix Ludwigshafen. With the Gau Baden, Kamenzin played games against the Gau Niederrhein, Lower Saxony, Württemberg and Brandenburg this season.

The title defense did not succeed in 1935/36 (4th place), in 1936/37 Kamenzin and colleagues moved up again with 2nd place. In the two local derbies against SV Waldhof on 6 December 1936 (1: 1) and 28 February 1937 at a high-scoring 4: made 7 defeat Kamenzin each with the defender couple Albert Conrad and Eugene Rößling and the two outer runners Philipp Henninger and Werner Feth the VfR defensive. Waldhof became champions and VfR was runner-up, four points behind. In the following round, 1937/38, the VfR celebrated the second win of the Gaume Championship with the standard runner series Henninger-Kamenzin-Feth. The main rival in this round was 1. FC Pforzheim. In the last round game, the blue-white-red lawn players prevailed against the “Club” from Pforzheim with a 1-0 home win in front of 20,000 spectators and thus decided the championship race. Here, too, Conrad and Rößling formed the defender couple and in the runner row the new champion with Henninger, Kamenzin and Feth had accumulated and kept the men around the two-time national striker Erich Fischer in check. In the final round of the German soccer championship, the Gaumeister from Baden played against FC Schalke 04, Berliner Sport-Verein 92 and Sport-Verein Dessau 05. The 2-1 away win on April 18, 1938 in front of 40,000 spectators was outstanding for Kamenzin and his teammates in the Glückauf-Kampfbahn after goals from Anton Lutz (73rd) and Karl Striebinger (81st), when the VfR defense fought the Schalke attack with Ernst Kalwitzki , Fritz Szepan , Ernst Poertgen , Ernst Kuzorra and Willi Mecke with great quality . The second leg ended on April 30 in a 2-2 draw in front of 34,000 spectators. Equal on points with Schalke 04, both teams reached 8: 4 points, VfR Mannheim took the ungrateful second group position due to the poor goal difference.

In the following round in 1938/39, Kamenzin was only able to take part in one Gauliga game, according to Ebner, he defended his title in the Gauliga Baden with the new coach Hans “Bumbes” Schmidt . In the final round of the German championship in 1939, however, VfR was unable to continue its usual consistency and clearly lost both games against the Stuttgarter Kickers (2: 3, 1: 4) and especially the second leg at Admira Vienna on May 14th with 3 : 8 goals. VfR Mannheim took third place in the group with 5: 7 points and the absence of the head of defense, Otto Kamenzin, was clearly noticeable.

The Second World War, which broke out on September 1, 1939, naturally also affected conditions in sports operations. Although different from club to club in terms of scope and intensity, missions at the front, casualties, catering situation and later the air raids increasingly affected the orderly game operation, often preventing a round under almost the same framework conditions. Due to the war, the Gauliga Baden was divided into three groups (north, center, south) in 1939/40 and the starting shot was given on November 19, 1939. In the group games of the north group, the VfR played ten games with 16: 4 points, according to Ebner. According to Ebner's list of stakes, only Philipp Rohr and goalkeeper Karl Vetter were among the top performers in all ten games, followed by Werner Feth and Kamenzin with eight stakes. After that it thinned out significantly: Eugen Rößling and Richard Spindler with three games each, Albert Conrad and Philipp Henninger with only one mission each and not available at all, the two attackers Anton Lutz and Karl Striebinger (the storm legend had Broken his shin in a selection game on November 12, 1939). Kurt Langenbein held up the flag for VfR in the offensive and won the top scorer's crown with 15 goals in nine games. In the final round of the Baden championship, the VfR took 3rd place with 11: 9 points; Kamenzin had played in six games, including on April 14, 1930 in the away game against 1. FC 08 Birkenfeld, where he played his last game for VfR Mannheim, according to Ebner. A total of 96 league games were recorded for Kamenzin from 1933 to 1940 in the Gauliga Baden.

Wilhelmshaven

The Mannheimer, who moved to Wilhelmshaven in 1940, made his debut for the zero five on March 9, 1941 as a substitute for national player Paul Janes against ASV Blumenthal (6: 3). Afterwards he did not appear again for weeks, only in the 4th regional cup round against Eimsbüttel (0: 2) he was back in the team on June 8th of the same year. Kamenzin came on May 16, 1943 for the champions of the Gauliga Weser-Ems 1942/43, SpVgg Wilhelmshaven, in the final round of the German soccer championship against FC Schalke 04 . On the side of teammates like Karl Barufka and Erich Ebeling , the game in Gelsenkirchen was lost with 1: 4.

The father of two had been employed in civilian life as a commercial clerk at the Verein deutscher Oelfabriken (VDO) in Mannheim. On January 23, 1944, Otto Kamenzin died in an accident in Wilhelmshaven. On the way to a soccer game, he lost his balance due to a storm, fell unhappily with his head against a rock, lost consciousness and was washed into the sea by the stormy waves. It was only days later that his body could be recovered and buried in Wilhelmshaven.

literature

  • Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945 . Publishing house regional culture. Ubstadt-Weiher 2016. ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 . Pp. 353/354.
  • Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 28). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-106-9 .
  • VfR Mannheim (Ed.): 100 Years VfR Mannheim 1896–1996. A traditional club on new paths . Zechnersche Buchdruckerei. Speyer 1996.
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 182.
  • Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold of Mannheim from 1920 to 1945 . Football archive Mannheim 1994. ISBN 3-929295-05-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 353
  2. ↑ Knieriem, Grüne: Spiellexikon 1890 to 1963. P. 182
  3. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. P. 61
  4. ↑ a b c Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 354
  5. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. P. 96
  6. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. P. 107, 123, 131
  7. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. P. 137
  8. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 90
  9. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. P. 143
  10. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 125
  11. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 130
  12. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. Pp. 152/153
  13. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 187
  14. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 185
  15. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 188
  16. ^ Klaus Querengässer: The German Football Championship, Part 1: 1903-1945. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1997. ISBN 3-89609-106-9 . P. 220
personal data
SURNAME Kamenzin, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Durlach
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1944
Place of death Wilhelmshaven