Robert Neumaier

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Robert Neumaier
Karlsruher FC Phoenix 1909.jpg
Neumaier (standing, center)
and teammate of the Karlsruher FC Phönix
as German champion 1909
Personnel
birthday April 14, 1885
place of birth Karlsruhe ,  German Empire
date of death March 13, 1959
Place of death Karlsruhe,  Germany
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1902-1912 Karlsruher FC Phoenix
1912-1915 Karlsruher FC Phönix (Phönix-Alemannia)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1909-1912 Germany 3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Robert Neumaier (born April 14, 1885 in Karlsruhe ; † March 13, 1959 ibid) was a German football player who won the German championship with the Karlsruhe FC Phönix in 1909 and who had played three international matches for the senior national team by 1912 .

Career

societies

In 1902 Neumaier switched from the dissolving “FC Fidelia” or “FC Fidelitas” - together with Fritz and Otto Reiser - to FC Phönix. The predecessor club of Karlsruher SC was founded in 1894. The left defender formed the Phoenix defense together with Ernst Karth and center runner Arthur Beier when regular league games in the still young sport began in southern Germany soon after the turn of the century . He went through a steep rise with the club, in which the blue-blacks gradually stepped out of the shadow of the local rival Karlsruhe FV from 1905 . The defenders Neumaier / Karth were ascribed absolute class: “They were the ideal defender couple. On the one hand the sturdy, somewhat robust Karth, on the other hand the lightweight, elegant Neumaier, radiating a great deal of calm and security ”.

In the 1908/09 championship round of the southern district, Phönix was able to place itself for the first time on the southern district level in front of the KFV, also left last year's champion Stuttgarter Kickers behind and then secured the southern German championship title for the first time. In the final round of the German Championship in 1909 , Phönix clearly beat Munich-Gladbacher FC 94 and SC Erfurt 1895 , but still competed as an outsider in the final against defending champion BTuFC Viktoria 89 . But despite the exhausting journey to the Silesian Breslau and an early deficit, the team around captain Arthur Beier was able to prevail against the Berlin star ensemble around Helmut Röpnack and Willi Worpitzky with 4: 2 and thus brought the first German championship title to Karlsruhe. In the 1909/10 season that followed, Phönix had to bow to the Karlsruher FV at the local level , who won the southern district championship in a decider in front of 5,000 spectators - for comparison: 1,500 visitors had seen the German final the year before - but it was again qualified as defending champion for the championship finals. In the semifinals, the FC Phönix had to play again against the KFV. With 8,000 spectators, this game, which was played on the KFV-Platz on Moltkestrasse, was the best-attended final round of a German football championship to date. The local rivals prevailed 2-1 and moved into the final. For Neumaier and his teammates, this was the last participation in a German championship round, because in the following years the Phoenix team gradually fell apart - Neumaier no longer played regularly from 1911 - and could no longer assert itself in the heavily occupied southern district league.

Selection / national team

Neumaier was used in the 1909/10 season in the quarter and semi-finals for the Crown Prince's Cup, which his team - after the 3-0 win on October 10, 1909 in Mannheim against the selection team of the West German Game Association and on November 14 1910 6: 2 against the selection team of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs - won on April 10, 1910 in Berlin 6: 5 afterwards against the selection team of the Association of Berlin Ball Game Clubs .

Between 1909 and 1912 he played three international matches for the senior national team. He made his debut on April 4, 1909 in Karlsruhe in a 1-0 victory over the Swiss national team . This was followed by the match that was lost 3-0 against the Belgian national team in Duisburg on May 16, 1910, and the friendly against the Swiss national team that was won 2-1 on May 5, 1912 in St. Gallen .

successes

Others

The lean, slim Neumaier impressed with his calmness and overview as well as his good positional play. In the football book “Tor für Deutschland” published in 1941 he was described as “one of the best who ever stood on the left defensive post of the German team”.

From 1911 Neumaier gradually withdrew from the first team and later worked as an auditor for the association.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlsruhe death register, 1959, entry no.698
  2. ^ Staisch: The German Masters. P. 116
  3. ^ Staisch: The German Masters. P. 117
  4. ↑ Hardy Greens: 100 Years of the German Championship. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2003. ISBN 3-89533-410-3 . P. 65
  5. ↑ Hardy Greens: 100 Years of the German Championship. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2003. ISBN 3-89533-410-3 . P. 68
  6. ↑ IFFHS: LIBERO , No. D3 1992. pp. 40/41
  7. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 274 .
  8. ↑ Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 335 .

literature

  • Thomas Alexander Staisch: The German Masters. 1909 - a forgotten championship. BadnerBuch-Verlag BBV. Rastatt 2014. ISBN 978-3-944635-09-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Neumaier, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1959
Place of death Karlsruhe