Paul Gorski

Paul Gorski (born July 4, 1913 ; † unknown) was a German football player . With 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 he won the championship in the Gauliga Bayern in the 1938/39 season and took part in the final round of the German soccer championship . After the Second World War , he completed 223 league games from 1945 to 1953 in the then first-class soccer Oberliga Süd, in which he scored 35 goals.

career

Gauliga Bavaria

Paul Gorski comes from Westphalia and started playing football at Preußen 04 Wanne and Sportfreunde Wanne-Eickel. Professionally, the two-footed man from the left wing ended up in Lower Franconia in 1935 , where he joined the FC 05 green and black team in Schweinfurt. At the side of the outstanding performers of the 05er, Andreas Kupfer and Albin Kitzinger , Gorski learned - he mostly played in the World Cup system at the time on the left on the half left or left winger - in the season 1938/39 the championship win in the Gauliga Bayern. On April 2nd, the decisive game against defending champion 1. FC Nürnberg was won with 2-1 goals. Eight days later, the Gaumeister from Bavaria started the final round of the German championship with a 4-1 away win against Warnsdorfer FK . Gorski scored two goals on the left winger. The first final home game was played on April 16 in Bamberg in front of 15,000 spectators against Dresdner SC . Gorski distinguished himself as a goal scorer for the 1-0 success against the men around Willibald Kreß , Walter Kreisch , Walter Dzur and Helmut Schön . In the 4-2 win against Warnsdorf in the second leg, he scored for the fourth time in the final in the opposing goal. On May 7th, Dresden played the decisive home game for group victory against Schweinfurt in front of 40,000 spectators in Chemnitz. Gorski did not score and the DSC prevailed with a 1-0 victory and decided tied on points - both 6: 2 points each - with the Bayern champions thanks to the better goal difference - 9: 3 Dresden and 9: 4 Schweinfurt - the Fight for group victory for yourself.

In 1938 and 1939 Gorski was appointed to several games in the Bavarian district selection. He played for Bavaria as part of the German Gymnastics and Sports Festival in July 1938 in Breslau and the surrounding area as well as in the competition of the Reichsbund Cup 1938/39 against Hesse and Saxony. In the semifinal success on February 5, 1939 in Munich against Saxony, he scored the 2-1 winner in the 110th minute in extra time.

Oberliga Süd, 1945 to 1953

After the end of the Second World War, the South German Football League was started on November 4, 1945 with the first game day . On October 14th, the Schweinfurters had already played a friendly game at 1. FC Bamberg. After 30 match days, the men around Gorski, Kitzinger, Kupfer and Jakob Lotz finished seventh in their debut round in 1945/46 with 33:27 points. When Nürnberg in 1946/47 in the "Mammut League" consisting of 20 clubs with a 13 point lead and a goal difference of 108:31 was able to win the championship ahead of SV Waldhof, Schweinfurt finished ninth. On the 35th matchday the "Schnüdel" on June 15, 1947 in front of 14,000 spectators had taken a point from the champions with a 2-2 draw. Fritz Käser reliably guarded the goal for the home team, the runner row with "Ander" Kupfer, Karl "Molli" Kupfer and Albin Kitzinger tried to support the offensive around Jakob Lotz, Robert Bernard and Paul Gorski in addition to defensive work.

In the 1947/48 season Schweinfurt took 13th place. Gorski had played 32 league games and scored six goals. With 49 goals scored, the Lower Franconia could not compete with the attack of the season, the storm of the Stuttgarter Kickers. In the season of 20, the “Blue” scored 113 goals and thus took third place in the south. Kurt Lauxmann (26), Edmund Conen (18), Siegfried Kronenbitter (13), Helmut Schmeißer (11) and Günter Soßna (11) were the most successful shooters in the Kickers.

In the 1950/51 round, the "Kupfer-Elf" led after the 3-0 home win in the catch-up game on November 12, 1950 against FC Singen 04, where Ernst Willimowski played in attack, with 17: 7 points in the league table Süd, but lost seven days later, on November 19, the table lead by a 1: 2 home defeat against Schwaben Augsburg to the same point competitors 1. FC Nürnberg and SpVgg Fürth. After the preliminary round, Schweinfurt was fourth with 22:12 points. On February 24, 1951, Gorski and colleagues defied champions 1. FC Nürnberg in the Willy Sachs Stadium in front of 20,000 spectators from a 1-1 draw. Gorski completed 32 league games and scored a goal as a left winger. At the end of the lap, Schweinfurt was seventh. For the first time he established himself with Fritz Meusel , he scored 23 goals for the green-whites, an offensive player from Schweinfurt in the top ranks of the southern goalscorer list. With eleven regular players - Fritz Käser (30), Josef Morgenroth (34), Paul Hippler (24), Andreas Kupfer (32), Ludwig Merz (32), Paul Gorski (32), Karl "Molli" Kupfer (33), Gotthardt Geyer (28), Fritz Meusel (34), Herbert Fischer (33) and Jakob Lotz (33) - this round was contested.

The following year, 1951/52, almost brought decline. The senior scored four goals in 26 league games. Overall, the 05ers were the weakest offensive in the league with 32 goals and were just able to leave the two relegated Swabians Augsburg and the Mannheim district club VfL Neckarau behind them. In his eighth league year 1952/53 the path of the 05er led forward in the table, Schweinfurt took fifth place. Gorski played his last league game on April 18, 1953 in a 1-1 home draw against Munich in 1860. With Ludwig Merz and Walter Lang , he formed the runner row. Erwin Aumeier now stormed on the left wing . The 39-year-old veteran ended his career in the summer of 1953 after a total of 223 games in the Oberliga Süd with 35 goals for Schweinfurt 05.

After his playing career, Gorski worked as a coach, including with the Würzburger Kickers and 1. FC 06 Bad Kissingen.

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 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): The German League Football 1903-2010, Nuttelmann-Verlag, Jade 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans Dieter Baroth : kick-off in ruins. Football in the post-war period and the first years of the upper leagues South, Southwest, West, North and Berlin. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1990. ISBN 3-88474-454-2 . Pp. 10/11.