Otto Mierzowski

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Otto Mierzowski (born February 19, 1924 in Gleiwitz , † February 8, 2012 in Münster ) was a German football player . The goalkeeper completed 134 league games for Prussia Munster in the Oberliga West from 1948 to 1954 and was in the final of the German soccer championship with the Prussians on 30 June 1951 .

career

Gliwice

Mierzowski began playing soccer at Vorwärts-Lawn Sport Gleiwitz . As a master of the sports class in Silesia , he took part with the club in the German championship in 1940 ; you reached second place in the first round - in front of the NSTG Graslitz and behind the SK Rapid Wien - and were eliminated in the group phase; Mierzowski played the last group game against Graslitz (4: 4) with the green-whites as a 16-year-old on June 9th. In the following year you could qualify as a Silesian master again for the final round of the German championship . The club was able to prevail against LSV Stettin (3: 1 and 2: 3) and Prussia Danzig (0: 0 - not used in the 4: 1 in the second leg), but lost both group finals against Dresdner SC (not used) . The talented goalkeeper completed four final rounds of the German championship in 1940 and 1941 for VR Gleiwitz with fellow players Wilhelm Kroppa , Alfred Wydra , Ernst Plener and Reinhard Schaletzki . In the Tschammer Cup competition he took part in the games against Breslau SpVg (6: 1) and in the round of 16 against FK Austria Wien (0: 8) on August 3 and 24, 1941 . He learned a lesson in Vienna from Austria experts around Karl Sesta , Johann Mock , Leopold Neumer and Josef Stroh .

Münster, 1946 to 1954

After returning from captivity, the 1.93 meter tall goalkeeper found a new sporting home near Prussia in 1946. In the 1947/48 season he celebrated with his teammates the championship in the Landesliga Westfalen, Group 2. After five promotion games against the champions of Group 1, SuS Recklinghausen, he won the Westphalia Championship under coach Willi Multhaup and thus promotion to the Oberliga West . The provincial capital and with it the whole of Münsterland now had a representative in the top class of the West German Football Association. The outstanding goalkeeping performance of the Prussian goalkeeper was recognized by his deployment on April 4, 1948 in Cologne at the representative game between West Germany and North Germany. In the 3-0 success of the West selection, he played with defender Paul Janes , outside runner Georg Gawliczek , center runner Otto Tibulski and center forward August Gottschalk . The goalkeeper won the first league game with the Eagle Bearers on September 12, 1948 1-0 against Fortuna Düsseldorf. The western relay started in 1948/49 with 13 clubs and the climber took fourth place. Mierzowski completed all 24 round games. On May 8, 1949, the backing of the Prussian eleven was in the goal of the western selection, which played a representative game against northern Germany in Bremen. The game ended 1: 1 and the defensive formed in front of the goalkeeper with Paul Janes, Kurt Borkenhagen , Paul Mebus , Paul Matzkowski and Erich Schanko .

For the round of 1949/50, Josef Lammers and Siegfried Rachuba were two reinforcements for the offensive to the Prussian eleven. With the other newcomers Felix Gerritzen , Alfred Preißler and Rudolf Schulz for the 1950/51 season, the so-called "Hundred Thousand Mark Storm" was complete. As runner-up in Oberliga West in 1950/51 , the team around goalkeeper Mierzowski qualified for the German championship finals . He had completed 29 of 30 round games under coach Ferdinand Fabra . The captain stood between the posts in all six preliminary round matches (2: 1 and 6: 4 - 3: 1 and 1: 5 - 2: 3 and 8: 2). In the final of the German championship, 1. FC Kaiserslautern finally lost 1: 2 in front of 107,000 spectators after a 1-0 lead in Berlin's Olympic Stadium . Coach Willi Multhaup was brought back to Münster especially for the finals. In the 1952/53 season, Mierzowski came to a DFB Cup appearance for Münster . The multiple student national player completed the last games for Münster in the Oberliga West in the early weeks of the 1953/54 season. It was the first six rounds against Bayer Leverkusen (4: 0), Schwarz-Weiß Essen (1: 1), STV Horst Emscher (3: 0), Prussia Dellbrück (2: 0), Alemannia Aachen (1: 2) and on September 20, 1953 against Meidericher SV . With the 3: 3 draw against the "Zebras" the civil engineer ended his sporting career and devoted himself intensively to his structural engineering office.

Mierzowski died in early February 2012 at the age of 87; he was buried in the central cemetery in Münster .

Data on the finals for the German championship

literature

  • Hubert Dahlkamp, ​​Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Preußen Münster. Football between felt and fans. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-89533-141-4 .
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Mierzowski ( German ) In: weltfussball.de . Retrieved March 15, 2012.
  2. ^ Dahlkamp, ​​Schulze-Marmeling: Preußen Münster. Football between felt and fans. P. 50.
  3. ^ Dahlkamp, ​​Schulze-Marmeling: Preußen Münster. Football between felt and fans. P. 53.
  4. ↑ Season 1952/53 ( German ) In: ksc-stats.de . Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 15, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ksc-stats.de
personal data
SURNAME Mierzowski, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Gliwice , Germany
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2012
Place of death Munster , Germany