Philipp Henninger

Philipp Henninger (born December 17, 1917 in Mannheim ; † July 15, 1986 there ) was a German football player. The midfielder and defender, who was mostly used as a runner or as a defender in the World Cup system then practiced , won the championship in the Gauliga Baden twice with VfR Mannheim in 1938 and 1939 . In 1949 he won the German championship as a captain with his teammates . In the three finals for the German championship in 1938, 1939 and 1949 he played a total of 15 games for the red-white-blue lawn players and won 59 Gauliga appearances (1936 to 1940/41) and 85 games in the Oberliga Süd (1946 until 1950).

Career

Playing time in the Gauliga

Philipp Henninger started school in the spring of 1924 and at the end of the 1920s the student joined VfR Mannheim as a youth footballer. He successfully passed through the school and junior teams of the VfR and learned the profession of lathe operator. When Albert Conrad , Werner Feth and Anton Lutz, three high-performing newcomers to the blue-white-red lawn players, came for the 1936/37 season, it was time for VfR's own generation at the side of the other young talent, Philipp Rohr . He made his debut under coach Max Breunig on October 18, 1936 in the game against old master Karlsruher FV in the Gauliga Baden. In the home 2-1 win, the game-defining runner series Henninger, Otto Kamenzin and Feth played together for the first time . The young player completed 15 of 18 point games in his first round of Gaulig and VfR reached the runner-up behind local rivals SV Waldhof Mannheim . He was used in all four games against the inner-city rivals SV Waldhof Mannheim and VfL Neckarau, including the 4: 7 defeat on February 28, 1937 in front of 18,000 spectators against the eventual champions from Mannheim.

In his second year as a Gauliga player, 1937/38, he won the championship in Gau Baden with the VfR. He had played all 18 games for the champions. With a two point lead over their toughest rival 1. FC Pforzheim they won the title with 28: 8 points. In the decisive game, Henninger and his teammates prevailed 1-0 against their rivals from Pforzheim on March 20, 1938. In the final round of the German Championship, the two games on April 18 and 30, respectively, against FC Schalke 04 stood out. “Auf Schalke” achieved a 2-1 win and in the second leg they defied the stars around Fritz Szepan and Ernst Kuzorra with a 2-2 draw. Schalke and VfR Mannheim each finished the group with 8: 4 points; whereby the "Knappen" had the better goal difference. The 1-1 draw on the last group matchday, May 8, at SV Dessau 05 prevented Mannheim from making it into the semi-finals. In all six group games, Henninger was used as the right wing runner. Due to his excellent performance, the VfR outside runner also represented the colors of the Baden / Württemberg selection team against the selection of Alsace in the 4: 3 victory on February 20, 1938 in Strasbourg; Teammate Feth was left runner in this game.

When he defended his title in 1938/39, Henninger was missing in just one game. The VfR celebrated the championship after 18 games without defeat with 30: 6 points and 41:12 goals. In the derby victory on November 13, 1938 2-1 against SV Waldhof Mannheim in front of 30,000 spectators, he formed the runner-up with Feth and Rohr. In the final round in 1939, the reliable outside runner played all six games against SV Dessau 05, the Stuttgarter Kickers and SK Admira Wien. The Viennese prevailed with 7: 5 points in front of the Stuttgarters with equal points, followed by VfR Mannheim and SV Dessau 05 with 5: 7 points each. In the outstanding 3-0 win on April 23, 1939 in the home game against SK Admira Vienna acted as a middle runner and was supported by Rohr and Feth on the side runner post.

Henninger was available to VfR Mannheim until the 1940/41 season and played his last Gauliga game on February 23, 1941 in the 1-0 defeat against VfL Neckarau. From 1936 to 1941, Henninger was listed for Mannheim with a total of 65 Gauliga deployments. Due to the circumstances of the Second World War, from March 1941 the game operation for VfR Mannheim was no longer possible.

Interruption of gaming operations

Corporal Henninger had undergone his military training with the engineers in Mannheim, was a member of the Panzer Pioneer Battalion 33, which was subordinate to the 15th Panzer Division and was shipped to Tripoli ( Italian Libya ) in spring 1941 , from where the Advance along the coast to the east was started. During the later capture of Tobruk , somewhere in the Libyan-Egyptian border area, Henninger fell into British captivity in 1942 and was shipped to Lethbridge, Canada . In the internment camp at Camp 133 he met his compatriots Hermann Jöckel , Ernst Langlotz , Jakob Müller , Herbert Senck and the Sudeten German Rudolf de la Vigne . At the end of 1946, Henninger was released to go home.

Playing time in the major league

In the second year Oberliga Süd , 1946/47, Henninger was able to start his comeback at VfR Mannheim after a five-year break on December 22, 1946 in a goalless draw in the home game against SpVgg Fürth . He plays the central role and Jakob Müller and Philipp Rohr were in action as the outer runners. At the end of the season, Rudolf de la Vigne was also part of the VfR squad, which finished the season in twelfth place. In the 1947/48 season the “blue-white-reds” improved to 8th place and even reached the runner-up in 1948/49. In the final round of the German championship, after the 5-0 win over Hamburger SV and the 2-1 win over the South German champions Kickers Offenbach on July 10, 1949, the sensation was achieved: Mannheim won 3-2 after extra time against Borussia Dortmund the German championship. Henninger formed the Mannheim defenders pair with Eugen Rößling . After finishing 4th in 1949/50 and a total of 85 games in the Oberliga Süd, Henninger ended his football career in the summer of 1950.

Others

Henninger, who has been married since 1947, initially lived with his wife in Lützelsachsen, moved to Mannheim in 1950 and worked there in the post office of the Rheinische Hypothekenbank .

Web links

• Philipp Henninger in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hardy Green, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. P. 141.
2. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. Pp. 336 to 338
3. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. P. 207
4. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. Pp. 337/338
5. ↑ Raphael Keppel: The German Football League 1946–1963. Volume 2: Southwest, South, Finals. Sports and games publisher Edgar Hitzel. Hürth 1989. ISBN 3-9802172-3-X . P. 189

literature

• Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Publishing house regional culture. Ubstadt-Weiher 2016. ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 , pp. 336–338.
• Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. Football archive Mannheim. Mannheim 1994. ISBN 3-929295-05-9 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 141.
• Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 (= AGON-Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 28). AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-106-9 .
• Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 2: 1948–1963 (= AGON-Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 29). AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 .
• 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 .