Paul Koschmieder

Pat Koschmieder
Personnel
Surname	Paul Koschmieder
birthday	April 10, 1922
place of birth	Dortmund ,  German Empire
size	180 cm
position	Middle runner
Juniors
Years	station
	Borussia Dortmund
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1947-1955	Borussia Dortmund	167 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Paul "Pat" Koschmieder (born April 10, 1922 in Dortmund ) is a former German soccer player. The middle runner in the World Cup system practiced at the time , won the West German championship four times with his club Borussia Dortmund in the first-class football Oberliga West in 1948-50 and 1952/53. As a captain, the trained car mechanic led BVB into the final of the German soccer championship in 1949 .

Career

The two-footed and headed middle runner, who comes from the BVB youth team with whom he won the Westphalia Championship (HJ regional championship) in 1938/39, was the dormant pole in the black and yellow defensive for years after the end of the Second World War and, according to Kirn / Natan the "defender of English format". On May 18, 1947, he was part of the team of coach Ferdinand Fabra , who won the Westphalia Championship with a 3-2 win against FC Schalke 04 in the stadium at Strünkede Castle in Herne, in front of 30,000 spectators, and thus the previous dominance of the " Royal Blues ”broke through. In cooperation with the outside runners Max Michallek and Paul Janowski , he formed the basis for the offensive game of the attack series around Herbert Sandmann , Alfred Preißler , August Lenz , Friedrich Ibel and Franz Podgorski . The final of the British Zone Championship was lost on July 13, 1947 in Düsseldorf in front of 60,000 spectators with 0-1 goals against Hamburger SV.

At the debut match day of the newly introduced first-class Oberliga West, on September 14, 1947, "Pat" Koschmieder, as head of defense, was one of the guarantors of the 3-0 home win against the later runner-up Sportfreunde Katernberg . When winning the title, the middle runner completed 22 of 24 league games for Borussia. During the successful title defense in 1949, the captain was not missing in any of the 24 round matches. With the new coach Viktor "Edy" Havlicek, BVB won the second championship in the west with eight points ahead of vice Rot-Weiss Essen.

However, the sporting highlight was the games for the German soccer championship in June / July 1949. After the clear 5-0 success against Berliner SV 92, the West Champion needed two games in the semifinals against the "Walter-Elf" of 1. FC Kaiserslautern to be able to enforce. The first game ended in a 0-0 draw at the Grünwalder Strasse stadium in Munich on June 26, before Koschmieder and colleagues qualified for the final with 4-1 goals in the replay on July 3 in Cologne in front of 60,000 spectators in the Müngersdorfer Stadium. The argument with the game and goal dangerous Lauterer internal trio with Fritz Walter , Ottmar Walter and Werner Baßler was a special test for the Dortmund defensive conductor.

The final took place on July 10th in Stuttgart's Neckarstadion in front of 92,000 spectators and went down in football history as the “Heat Battle of Stuttgart”. The BVB captain formed the runner row with Willi Buddenberg and Erich Schanko . The men from the square town of Baden, trained by Hans “Bumbes” Schmidt , repeatedly pushed forward by Ernst Langlotz and Rudolf de la Vigne , prevailed in extra time with 3-2 goals and won the German championship in 1949.

With coach Hans "Bumbes" Schmidt, the 31-year-old Koschmieder won the fourth championship in the Oberliga West in the 1952/53 series. Heinrich Kwiatkowski had come as a new addition for the goal and Alfred Preißler had returned from Münster to Dortmund. Dortmund ended the group games with 10: 2 points. The only defeat suffered the Schmidt-Elf against VfB Stuttgart, which also showed 10: 2 points in the final accounts. The goal difference was also identical at 17: 7 (BVB) and 16: 6 (VfB). Due to the division process, however, the VfB Stuttgart team, trained by Georg Wurzer , qualified for the final with a 0.238 goal improvement. So Koschmieder failed after 1949 very close to the renewed entry into a final for the German championship. He had played all six group games against VfB Stuttgart, Hamburger SV and Union Berlin.

In the year of the football world championship in 1954 he again completed all 30 league games before he ended his playing career with the last three league appearances in the 1954/55 season after a total of 167 league games (1 goal).

In later years he was part of the BVB board. After his active career, he was still active for the traditional Borussia Dortmund team at least in 1997.

Web links

• Paul Koschmieder in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 , p. 120.
2. ↑ Sportfreunde Echo of May 25, 1997, p. 11.

literature

• Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling / Werner Steffen: Borussia Dortmund. The fame, the dream and the money. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-89533-110-4 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .