Rolf Baier

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Rolf Baier (born November 27, 1918 ) is a former German soccer player from FC Schweinfurt 05 , who played a total of 126 league games for the Green-Whites from Lower Franconia from 1945 to 1950 , mostly in the World Cup system as a right defender in the then first-class soccer Oberliga Süd has completed. He had previously won the championship in the Gauliga Bayern with Schweinfurt in 1939 and then played in the final round of the German soccer championship .

career

At the age of 20, the young talent Rolf Baier celebrated winning the championship with FC Schweinfurt 05 in the Gauliga Bayern in the 1938/39 season. On April 2, 1939, the Schweinfurters won 2-1 at defending champions 1. FC Nürnberg and were Gaumeister before TSV Munich 1860 and the three teams of SSV Jahn Regensburg, Neumeyer Nürnberg and 1. FC Nürnberg with equal points. In the final round of the German soccer championship, the Gaumeister from Bavaria had to face the champions from Saxony (Dresdner SC) and Sudetenland (Warnsdorfer Fußball-Klub) in the group stage. After the two opening successes in Dresden (3: 1) and Schweinfurt (4: 1) against Warnsdorf it was clear that the decision had to be made in the two games of the winning teams. On April 16, Albin Kitzinger and Andreas Kupfer won the home game in front of 15,000 spectators in Bamberg 1-0 (goal scorer Paul Gorski ) against DSC and in the second leg the Saxons also retaliated with a 1-0 in the 78th minute by Heinrich Schaffer in front of 40,000 spectators in the Chemnitz stadium. The 20-year-old Baier played the right-back role in all four games. There was a tie of 6: 2 between Dresden and Schweinfurt and both teams had scored nine goals each; With one less conceded goal, the team around Willibald Kress , Heinz Hempel , Walter Dzur , Heiner Kugler , Heinrich Schaffer, Helmut Schön and Heinz Kapitän then became group winners and the final round was over for the Bayern champions.

In the Oberliga Süd, which began after the end of the Second World War, Baier and Ludwig Merz , who was five years younger than goalkeeper Fritz Käser, usually formed the zero-five defender pair. In the runner row, the outside runner pair of the glorious "Breslau-Elf", Albin Kitzinger and Andreas Kupfer, dominated. With middle runner Karl Kupfer (born February 27, 1921) and again Karl Kupfer (born July 12, 1921) an all-rounder but called "Molli", three regular players with the family name Kupfer were in action with the Green-Whites at the same time. Baier and colleagues did not play for the top spots in southern Germany, but were able to keep the class year after year based on the solid cover work.

The last league game of the former Gauliga player dates from March 5, 1950, when Schweinfurt lost the home game against 1. FC Nürnberg in front of 12,000 spectators with 1: 2. In the summer of 1950 he ended after years in the Gauliga Bayern, the Second World War and five rounds Oberliga Süd, with a total of 126 league appearances his playing career.

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 , p. 16.
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , p. 183.
  2. ^ Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 (= AGON-Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 28). AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-106-9 , pp. 176-177.
personal data
SURNAME Baier, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1918