Otto Tibulsky

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Otto Tibulsky , often also Tibulski (born December 15, 1912 in Gelsenkirchen ; † February 25, 1991 ibid), also called "Ötte", was a German football player. With his club FC Schalke 04 , he won the German soccer championship six times from 1934 to 1942 and the cup in 1937 . The Schalke "legend" completed two international matches in the national team .

Career

societies

The younger brother of Hans Tibulsky learned to play football , like all boys at that time, mainly on the street, with the youth of Schalke 04 he primarily took part in regular games. At 17, Otto joined the first team in the “Knappen-Elf”. Together with Hans Bornemann and Hans Rosen , both born in 1913, Tibulsky came from a young age, from which Rudi Gellesch (* 1914) and Adolf Urban (* 1914) came up with great potential. He made his debut in the first team at the age of 19 on September 4, 1932 in a 2-0 win against SG Gladbeck. He started on the right winger, then came on as the right winger, a position that, as he later said himself, suited him and gave him pleasure. The middle runner position was occupied by Alfred Jaczek until the early 1930s and by Hermann Nattkämper after his retirement due to age and health . Only in the game for 3rd place in the final round of the German championship in 1936 on June 20, Berlin against VR Gleiwitz (8: 1), "Ötte" Tibulsky came under coach "Bumbes" Schmidt for the first time as a middle runner and conductor of the defense Commitment. He played big and was then placed as a middle runner under coach Schmidt. He became an elegant, technically adept and game-intelligent middle-runner and, alongside Ernst Kuzorra and Fritz Szepan, the decisive puller in the "Schalker Kreisel", whom he provided with brilliant passes from defense. Since he was always a "playing" thoroughbred footballer, he also took part in the build-up game like the outside runners. "I've never taken on the role of a stopper in today's sense," said Tibulsky as a veteran of his approach to the game, "I was far too much of a player and in love with the ball for that."

Ernst Kuzorra, who was not suspected of giving excessive praise, said of “Ötte” Tibulsky: “Ötte was unique in its kind. He participated in our combinations with the elegance and wisdom of a Franz Beckenbauer. He rounded off the Schalke roundabout and stayed calm to direct the defense together with goalkeeper Hans Klodt . ”The defense conductor put on the royal blue jersey over a thousand times - Schalke associates their proudest era with his name. In the three main competitions of his active time, the Gauliga Westfalen - the "Knappen" won the championship in series from 1934 to 1944 - he is with 162 league games with 18 goals, in the finals for the German championship with 77 games and seven goals and around the Tschammer Cup with 34 inserts and one goal. As a wartime guest player , Tibulsky was also active for other clubs. After being wounded on the Eastern Front and a stay in a hospital in Berlin, he laced his football boots for Hertha BSC for almost two months from November 16, 1941 to January 11, 1942 and played in seven rounds in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg , in 1942 once for Victoria Cologne and in 1943 three times for the FV Bonn 01 in the Gauliga Köln-Aachen.

Otto Tibulsky remained the defensive linchpin in the Schalke game until well into the league. In the first four representative battles of the regional associations after the end of World War II, in March and June 1946 between southern Germany and western Germany (3: 0, 4: 3) and in April and May 1948 between western and northern Germany (3: 0) and southern Germany against the north-west (2: 1) was the Schalke middle runner as head of defense of his regional association on the field. A serious injury at the home game on December 12, 1948 against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen suddenly ended his sporting career. He was in Bergmannsheil in Buer for seven weeks with a double fracture of the tibia, but since his ankle stiffened as a result of the fracture, it was no longer possible to continue his football career. At the end of the round in 1948/49, Schalke finished penultimate in a league 13 and can only save themselves to 16 clubs in the Oberliga 1949/50 with a qualifying round against Bayer Leverkusen and VfL Benrath.

National team

In 1936 and 1939 he played an international match for the German national team , in 1936 against Luxembourg and in 1939 against Yugoslavia . On October 2, 1938, he was used in an "unofficial" international match in Sofia against Bulgaria. In a 3-1 win, he was supported as head of defense by the outside runners Hans Rohde and Ludwig Männer . As successful as his career at FC Schalke 04 was, “Ötte” Tibulsky only made these two international matches. Until the end of the war he was considered one of the best German middle runners, but he was only 1.72 m tall and his style of play was not straight enough, as they said. He played too ornate and was too small. But he was undisputedly a great header player. Sepp Herberger gave preference to taller warriors and purely defensive defense lines such as Ludwig Goldbrunner and Reinhold Münzenberg .

Others

  • Tibulsky acted in the role of a football player in the sports film "The Big Game" produced by Robert Adolf Stemmle in 1941 and published in 1942 .
  • After his career, he and his wife Gertrud, a native of Stuttgart, whom he met at the 1935 final in Cologne against VfB Stuttgart, took over the restaurant at the Schalke clubhouse on the Glückauf-Kampfbahn. Later he ran a restaurant in Marl . He was buried in the Gelsenkirchen old town cemetery.
  • His brother Hans also played for Schalke from 1929 to 1933 before moving to Werder Bremen.
  • June 19, 2011 Tibulsky was in the Schalke honor cabin appointed.
  • The Ötte-Tibulsky-Weg on the Schalke 04 club grounds and a so-called “hospitality area” in the VIP zone of the Schalke stadium are reminiscent of Tibulsky.

Surname

The spelling Tibulsky is documented on the player's grave stone, on an autograph card , in the address book from 1951 and in the "Ehrenkabine" of Schalke 04. However, the spelling with i at the end is also very common, it can be found in the Gelsenkirchen address book of 1939 and 1955. There are no indications as to how the strongly fluctuating spelling can be explained.

death

He died a year after Ernst Kuzorra and in the same month as his former companion Ernst Kalwitzki . A large group of mourners accompanied his last journey to the old town cemetery.

literature

  • Jürgen Boebers-Süßmann: Eternity is royal blue. The best Schalke players of all time. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-89533-678-2 . Pp. 38-43.
  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 391 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 496 f .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boebers-Süßmann: Eternity is royal blue. P. 39
  2. ↑ Boebers-Süßmann: Eternity is royal blue. P. 40
  3. ↑ Boebers-Süßmann: Eternity is royal blue. P. 39
  4. ↑ Boebers-Süßmann: Eternity is royal blue. P. 38
  5. ↑ Harald Tragmann, Harald Voss: The Hertha Compendium. Publisher Harald Voss. Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-935759-27-4 . Pp. 191-193
  6. ^ Raphael Keppel: Germany's international soccer games. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sports and games publisher Edgar Hitzel. Hürth 1989. ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 . Pp. 175/176
  7. ↑ Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): "Helmut, tell me that goal ..." New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext Verlag. Essen 1993. ISBN 3-88474-043-1 . Pp. 114/115
  8. ^ Raphael Keppel: Germany's international soccer games. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sports and games publisher Edgar Hitzel. Hürth 1989. ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 . P. 137
  9. ↑ The big game on imdb .com
  10. ↑ Gravestone in the old town cemetery , website accessed on December 23, 2019
  11. ↑ autograph card
  12. ^ Gelsenkirchen address book from 1951
  13. ↑ https://schalke04.de/verein/tradition/schalke-legend/ehrenkabine/ .
  14. ↑ https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/periodical/titleinfo/2772400 address book from 1939, address book from 1955 .

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personal data
SURNAME Tibulsky, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tibulski, Otto; Ötte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1991
Place of death Gelsenkirchen