Robert Gebhardt

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Robert Gebhardt , called "Zapf" ​​(born September 20, 1920 in Nuremberg , † February 8, 1986 ibid) was a German football player and coach . As a player in 1. FC Nürnberg , he won the German championship in 1948 .

Career

player

From 1939 Gebhardt played for 1. FC Nürnberg. In the Second World War without winning the title in the Gauliga Bayern and in 1943 and 1944 at the Air Force Sports Club Hamburg . With this selection team he was in the cup final against Vienna Wien in 1943 and in the final of the German soccer championship against Dresdner SC in 1944 . From 1945 to 1950 Gebhardt completed 125 games in the Oberliga Süd and scored 22 goals. On August 8, 1948, “Zapf” became German champions after their 2-1 win against 1. FC Kaiserslautern with 1. FC Nürnberg.

In representative games he had been used four times for the south from 1946 to 1949. After winning the title, he moved to Hamburg for FC St. Pauli in 1950 . In the Oberliga Nord he played 59 games and scored two goals for the eleven from Millerntor. Coach Helmuth Johannsen brought him to Bremerhaven 93 in 1953/54. When Johannsen took over Holstein Kiel in 1954/55 , Gebhardt was coach on the Zollinlandplatz in the Bremerhaven district of Lehe. Surprisingly, he led the team to 2nd place in the Oberliga Nord and thus to the final round of the German soccer championship. There, the team of the young coach Gebhardt had to deal with Rot-Weiss Essen , Offenbacher Kickers and Wormatia Worms . RW Essen prevailed sovereignly, but Bremerhaven did not disappoint with 6: 6 points. In 1956 he also passed the soccer teacher exam.

The player Robert Gebhardt is described as follows:

“The always slightly overweight outrunner impressed with technique, overview and shot strength. Thanks to his parents' economy and his good relationships with the slaughterhouse, he ensured the supply of the first team during the hunger years after the war. "
“Was the most interesting player of 1. FC Nürnberg after the Second World War, an outsider of stature and great offensive power. Maybe a bit too idiosyncratic. "

Trainer in the Oberliga and the regional league

He stayed in Bremerhaven until 1958, before moving to the west for two rounds to SV Sodingen , where he was unable to prevent relegation in 1958/59, but in the Herne district of Sodingen in the Glück-Auf Stadium in the following season 1959 / 60 brought about the immediate resurgence. In the 1960/61 round he coached BC Augsburg in the 2nd League South. Together with the national player Helmut Haller , he succeeded in the championship and thus promotion to the Oberliga Süd. Now it went to the Bergisches Land, he moved to Wuppertaler SV where he was able to take 2nd place in the 1963/64 round in the Regionalliga West behind Alemannia Aachen . As a result, the WSV had to play qualifying games against the south-west second FK Pirmasens to participate in the promotion round to the Bundesliga. Both games were lost by the Gebhardt team. He stayed at the Zoo Stadium until the 1964/65 round. There followed a season with Arminia Bielefeld and then he went back south. In the two rounds in 1966/67 and 1967/68 he tried his luck at SpVgg Fürth , and in his first year at the Ronhof with the third place he achieved, he not only convinced his old friends in Nuremberg.

Coach in the Bundesliga

On July 1, 1968, Robert Gebhardt was coach of MSV Duisburg in the Bundesliga . He was responsible for the "zebras" for two rounds. With the players Michael Bella , Detlef Pirsig and Willibert Kremer he was able to keep the class, but the prospect of a sporting upswing was not evident from the 15th place in the 1969/70 season. The next station led him to Werder Bremen . In the 1970/71 season he reached 10th place with 41:40 goals and 33:35 points. That hadn't made anyone happy, so a lot of money was invested in the Weser for the 1971/72 round. The national players Peter Dietrich and Herbert L Genealogie from Borussia Mönchengladbach , Willi Neuberger and Werner Weist from Borussia Dortmund came . This had brought quality into the squad, now places in the upper table should be realistic, the Werder officials hoped in any case. After a weak start with 8: 8 points after eight games, Robert Gebhardt was dismissed as coach on September 26, 1971 after the 2: 3 home defeat against VfB Stuttgart . Simply buying the success hadn't worked. At FC Wacker Innsbruck, however , Robert Gebhardt celebrated winning the double in 1973. He became Austrian champion and cup winner. Ex-Hofer Wolfgang Breuer was the top scorer with 22 goals. In the short winter break of the 1978/79 round, Robert Gebhardt took over the bottom of the Bundesliga, 1. FC Nürnberg. Bayern star Uli Hoeneß was signed as another bearer of hope in addition to the old master player . “Zapf” brought significantly more momentum to the ranks around Norbert Eder and Bertram Beierlorzer , but he couldn't prevent the relegation. President Michael A. Roth brought the Belgian Jef Vliers to the club as the new coach for the 1979/80 round. For the promotion from the 2nd division was set on fresh wind. Gebhardt was demoted to "consultant". Already after the 2-2 draw at home on August 18, 1979, the luckless Vliers with his points scoring of 1: 5 were handed the papers. As a result, Gebhardt was again head coach in the Noris from August 20th and was able to work towards the goal of immediate promotion. In fact, by winning the championship, he was promoted to the Bundesliga for the 1980/81 season. Three weeks before it began, Gebhardt resigned from his coaching post after disagreements (mainly because of the appointment of the assistant coach) with the presidium.

Addendum

"Zapf" ​​Gebhardt, former player and coach of the "Club" as well as the operator of the "Zum Hippel" business, died in 1986 at the age of 65. He found his final resting place in the Nuremberg West Cemetery .

swell

  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
  • Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
  • Matthias Weinrich: 25 years 2nd division. The second division almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-145-2 .
  • Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
  • 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 .
  • Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The legend of the club", Die Werkstatt, 1996, ISBN 3-89533-163-5 .
  2. ↑ Kirn / Natan, "Fußball", Ullstein TB, 1958, Frankfurt / Main.
  3. ↑ Robert "Zapf" ​​Gebhardt at glubberer.de
personal data
SURNAME Gebhardt, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1986
Place of death Nuremberg