Otto Schmid (soccer player)

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Otto Schmid (born January 9, 1922 - † March 16, 1963 ), epithet : Gummi-Schmid , was a German football player . The greatest success of the goalkeeper of VfB Stuttgart was winning the German championship in 1950 . From 1945 to 1951 Schmid, who could also be used as a field player, played a total of 189 league games in what was then the first-class soccer league south , in which he scored two goals and won the championship in his debut year 1945/46 .

career

The VfB-home-grown is already in the 1940/41 season in the Gauliga Württemberg as a player in the league eleven of the team with the ring on the chest. Ernst Schnaitmann was still the regular goalkeeper at this time and the young talent was therefore only twice as a goalkeeper, but 17 times as an outfield player, where he also scored two goals when he reached 2nd place behind the "blues" of the Stuttgarter Kickers. In the 1942/43 season Schmid won the Gauliga championship with the VfB “Reds” . In the final round of the German championship, however, he and his team lost 3-0 against Munich 1860 on May 2, 1943. In the following period, he was no longer available to VfB due to his front-line deployment in World War II.

After the end of the Second World War Schmid was one of the players with whom VfB could contest the debut round of the newly created Oberliga Süd in the 1945/46 season. The round began with a 3-1 home win on November 4, 1945 against the old master Karlsruher FV . On the last day of the round, coach Fritz Teufel's team decided the championship for Stuttgart with a 1-0 home win against rivals 1. FC Nürnberg. Center forward Robert Schlienz had scored 42 goals in 30 league games and Schmid scored two goals in 29 appearances. The class of the VfB goalkeeper was underlined by his use in the two representative games of southern Germany against western Germany in March and August 1946 in Stuttgart and Cologne, respectively. In Stuttgart, the south prevailed 3-0 and in Cologne 4-3. In the fifth league season, 1949/50, Schmid and colleagues reached the runner-up in the south with VfB and thus made it into the final round of the German soccer championship. Schmid had been in goal in 31 games; also on October 2, 1949 in Munich during the game of the southern German selection against northern Germany (2: 2). In the final round, VfL Osnabrück was eliminated 2-1 in the first game, 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the second round 5-2 and Südmeister SpVgg Fürth 4-1 in the semifinals. The clear successes against the team around Fritz Walter and Horst Schade brought VfB into the role of favorites before the final on June 25, 1950 in Berlin against the Offenbacher Kickers. After goals from Läpple (17th) and Bühler (27th), VfB went into the break with a 2-0 lead. Offenbach scored an early goal through Horst Buhtz in the 47th minute in the second half, but the stable Stuttgart defense around goalkeeper "Gummi-Schmid" withstood the onslaught of the team from Bieberer Berg and brought the result over the finish line and VfB Stuttgart was German champion.

It was not possible to defend the title after the 1950/51 round, due to the fourth place achieved, the reigning German champion could not move into the 1951 finals. Schmid had guarded the VfB housing in 33 league games in the Oberliga Süd. In June 1951 he went on a multi-week trip to North America with VfB, which had been arranged as a gift from the club management for the championship title in 1950 at the invitation of the German-American Football Association.

For the round of 1951/52 he was still officially part of the squad, but Karl Bögelein , brought from Bamberg , immediately became his successor. From 1952/53 Schmid was a youth coach at VfB.

death

The construction engineer died at the age of 41 after he released animals in a burning hall in a slaughterhouse and suffered a stroke due to lack of oxygen .

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , pp. 338-339.
  • Hardy Greens: With the ring on your chest. The history of VfB Stuttgart. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-89533-593-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hardy Greens: With the ring on the chest. The history of VfB Stuttgart. P. 270
  2. ↑ Hardy Greens: With the ring on the chest. The history of VfB Stuttgart. P. 50
  3. ↑ Hardy Greens: With the ring on the chest. The history of VfB Stuttgart. P.56
  4. ↑ Hardy Greens: With the ring on the chest. The history of VfB Stuttgart. P. 64

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personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1922
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1963