Rudolf Bast

Rudolf Bast (born February 11, 1937 ; † September 28, 2019 in Speyer ) was a German football player who led the list of goalscorers in the 1958/59 round with 25 goals - together with Helmut Kapitulski - in the Oberliga Südwest . The strong central and winger played a total of 190 league games at the clubs FV Speyer and VfR Mannheim in the top leagues Southwest and South, respectively , and scored 106 goals.

career

Oberliga, 1954 to 1963

FV Speyer, 1954 to 1959

With Rudolf "Rudeller" Bast grew up in the mid-1950s in the cathedral city on the Rhine, the local soccer club in the Oberliga Südwest , the FV Speyer , from their own youth department, a real scorer. Although the 17-year-old could not do anything against relegation from the league in his two debut appearances in the last two game days against Tura Ludwigshafen and Saar 05 Saarbrücken on April 17 and 24, 1955, but immediately Resurgence from the 2nd division, he contributed twelve hits in 1955/56. From year to year, the 1.80 cm tall, head ball and two-way striker increased his hit rate in the southwest league. Bast did not succeed in this in a top team that played for the championship year after year and whose game was mostly offensively oriented, no, his personal increase in performance happened with a team that had to fight for relegation every round and who found it very difficult to score. When Rudolf Bast scored 25 goals for FV Speyer in the 1958/59 season and, together with Helmut Kapitulski from FK Pirmasens, topped the list of goalscorers in the southwest, the team around captain Heinz Lang from the Rosssprung stadium scored a total of 42 goals. Ludwig Glaiber with six and Arnold Nibler with five goals followed in the internal Speyr goalscorer list. Pirmasens won the championship with 95:32 goals ahead of Borussia Neunkirchen (Werner Emser, 23 goals) with 95:35 goals and 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 3rd place with 99:44 goals, where Friedel Späth also scored 23 goals brought. The duels with the middle runners Hermann Laag (FKP), Erich Leist (Neunkirchen) and Werner Liebrich (Lautern) were among the special challenges of the center forward from FV Speyer in this round.

Although Bast received a specific offer from 1. FC Kaiserslautern - through Fritz Walter - his three goals in the 4-5 home defeat on November 16, 1958 in front of 14,000 spectators had impressed those responsible from the "Betze", he switched to the round in 1959 / 60 in the Oberliga Süd to VfR Mannheim . Speyer brought it 16,000 DM into the box office and at the end of the round 1959/60 as bottom of the table - with 29 hits - the descent into the 2nd league southwest. Bast moved to the Mannheim district of Neuostheim, where the VfR provided him with the so-called “center striker apartment”, where Werner Baßler and Ernst-Otto Meyer, two proven goal getter, had previously resided. Overall, the "Rudeller" had completed 72 games with 49 goals for FV Speyer in the Oberliga Südwest from 1955 to 1959.

VfR Mannheim, 1959 to 1963

After the round in 1958/59, the lawn players said goodbye to long-time top performers Kurt Keuerleber , Ernst Langlotz and Rudolf de la Vigne and were thus faced with a change in the team. Since the previous top scorer Ernst-Otto Meyer was at the end of his contract playing career, the 0: 8 point start in the 1959/60 round was hardly surprising. In the South German Cup, on the other hand, the VfR was in the final on September 6, 1959 in Karlsruhe against the German champions Eintracht Frankfurt. Bast stormed in the 1-0 success of Mannheim in the center forward position. Mannheim lost the semi-final match in the DFB Cup on October 3, 1959 with 1: 2 goals at Borussia Neunkirchen. With his 16 goals in his first round in Mannheim, Bast confirmed his scoring qualities in the Oberliga Süd against the well-known performance of the local middle-runner guild around Herbert Erhardt , Rudi Hoffmann , Friedel Lutz , Ludwig Landerer , Helmut Sattler , Alfons Stemmer and Ferdinand Wenauer . When the talent Hans Arnold reinforced the attack in 1960/61 and the local rival SV Waldhof returned to the league, the man from Speyer took fourth place in the scorers list in the south with 18 goals behind Rudolf Brunnenmeier and Erwin Stein with 23 each and Heinz Strehl with 22 goals. But even in Mannheim, the man for commitment and hits could not go on the hunt for goals in a top team. The VfR Mannheim belonged in the rounds 1959/60 to 1962/63 always in the lower midfield and had nothing to do with the front half of the table. Rudolf Bast played 118 games and scored 57 goals.

Since VfR Mannheim was unable to qualify for the new Bundesliga due to its placements in the Oberliga Süd in recent years , the "Rudeller" played with VfR in the Regionalliga Süd from the 1963/64 season. With the new coach Hans Pilz , the VfR came in sixth place in the final table and Rudolf Bast took 3rd place in the list of goalscorers with 27 goals. Jendrosch and Ohlhauser, who stood in front of Bast, belonged to the master and runner-up teams of the 1963/64 regional round, which had each scored over 100 goals. In the Regional League game year 1964/65 Bast increased his hit rate to 32 goals, but with his team he could not improve sixth place last year. Only Rainer Ohlhauser and Gerd Müller from the new champions and promoted FC Bayern Munich - 146: 32 goals - with their 42 and 33 goals respectively, exceeded the goals scored by VfR Mannheim - 66:53 goals - this season. Rudolf Bast played 69 games with 59 goals for VfR Mannheim from 1963 to 1965 and at the age of 28 moved to 1. FC Nürnberg in the Bundesliga for the 1965/66 round .

Football Bundesliga, 1965/66

When he moved to 1. FC Nürnberg in 1965, the Palatinate striker decided against the other contract offers from 1. FC Kaiserslautern and FC Schalke 04 . At the "Club" he made nine appearances in the Bundesliga under coach Jenő Csaknády and scored his only goal in the 1965 round in the catch-up match on December 29, 1965 in the Wedau Stadium against MSV Duisburg - Nuremberg won 2-1 goals / 66. He played his last game on matchday 20, January 29, 1966, in the 0-0 home draw against Eintracht Frankfurt. Whether Bast was well advised in the summer of 1965 to move to Noris as another center forward alongside Franz Brungs from Borussia Dortmund , there was Heinz Strehl, a renowned inner striker and goalscorer who, as a four-time national player, was far more than average is questionable. In addition, it was not easy to switch to the wing positions with the offer of wingers - Anton Allemann , Manfred Greif and Georg Volkert . After a year, Bast prematurely terminated his two-year contract and returned to the Regionalliga Süd by signing a contract with SSV Reutlingen 05 .

End, 1966 to 1971

The regional league champion of 1965 tried with coach Richard Schneider and purchases such as Dieter Höller , Harald Braner , Willibald Mikulasch and Bast to enable promotion to the Bundesliga. This did not succeed, however, and Rudi Bast experienced two unsatisfactory sporting rounds - he only made 13 appearances with four goals - and returned to his home country in 1968 at the age of 31, to FV Speyer. The blue-whites had just been promoted back to the Regionalliga Südwest. Under his old teammate from the league days, Günther Ratzel , who now acted as coach, Bast finally came back to constant stakes and paid back with corresponding hits. In 1968/69 he contributed 16 hits to the 11th rank of the climber. When the footballers from the cathedral city moved up to 5th place in 1970, the "Rudeller" was 18 times goalscorer out of 42 hits by the FV team. These included the decisive goals for the successes against FK Pirmasens (November 30, 1969; 2: 1; both goals from Bast), Mainz 05 (March 22, 1970; 3: 2; two goals from Bast) and the winning goal for 2-1 home win on April 26, 1970 against Borussia Neunkirchen. In his third season in Speyer - 1970/71 - he also took over the role of player-coach from February 14, 1971 and was able to keep the class with 14th place. In total, the veteran played in his second section at FV Speyer from 1968 to 1971 again 75 games with 40 goals in the Regionalliga Südwest.

The trained printer and later active in sales in the car industry from the Electorate of Palatinate retired from contract football to the amateur camp in the summer of 1971 and took over the position of player-coach at SV Viktoria Herxheim for the 1971/72 round . In the 1974/75 round he was a coach in the Bruchsal football district at FV 1912 Wiesental .

literature

• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. History of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963 . Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. History of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963 . Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 .
• Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1965/66. Volume 3: Newcomers cause a sensation. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-085-5 .
• Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Speyer ex-striker Rudi Bast is dead
2. ↑ Rudi Bast's memorial page. Retrieved March 29, 2020 . 
3. ^ Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 39