Rudolf Jennewein

Rudolf Jennewein (born April 19, 1922 ) is a former German soccer player who took 3rd place with Holstein Kiel in the final round of the German soccer championship during the Second World War in 1943 . From 1946 to 1952, after the end of the Second World War, the player , who was mostly used in the runner row in the World Cup system at the time, played a total of 140 league games (3 goals) in what was then the first-class South Football League at VfL Neckarau and VfR Mannheim .

career

Football during the war in Kiel and Hamburg, until 1945

The two reference works by Ebner and Zeilinger on football in World War II in Baden and Mannheim do not contain any information about the games played by the young Jennewein at VfL Neckarau in the Gauliga Baden . On the other hand, Jennewein appeared at Kiel from 1941 and later in Hamburg as a player during the Second World War. Like many other marines, he came to Kiel and appeared for the first time in the Tschammer Cup of 1941 in the list of blue-white-reds from the Fördestadt. In the club of President Carl Friese and player-coach Franz Linken , the 19-year-old belonged as an outside runner to the Holstein-Elf on July 12, 1941, which threw Hamburger SV out of the cup competition with a 2-1. This was followed by successes against SV Werder Bremen (2: 1), Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin (4: 0) and 1. SV Jena (2: 1), before a 0: 6 swat in the semi-finals at FC Schalke 04 the road to the final was over. Mostly the young man from Neckarau played right outside runner at the side of center runner Kurt Krüger . In the 1942/43 season Holstein Kiel won the championship in the Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein with 34: 2 points and moved into the final round of the German football championship. The 4-1 victory on May 30, 1943 in front of 18,000 spectators against FC Schalke 04 went down in the annals of the Fördeelf. At the side of players like Krüger, Alfred Boller , Linken, Leo Möschel and Ottmar Walter , Kiel failed only in the semifinals with 1: 3 against Dresdener SC. The game for 3rd place was decided by the blue-white-reds on June 26th 4-1 against First Vienna Wien - with Karl Decker and Rudolf Noack - for themselves. Just two months later, on August 29, 1943, Jennewein and Kiel competed in the Tschammer Cup in 1943 against Eintracht Braunschweig (5: 4). In the 3-0 away win at Hertha BSC, Werner Baßler from Lauter also stormed for Holstein. On October 3rd, however, the competition for Kiel was over after a 2: 4 defeat against LSV Hamburg.

Due to the circumstances of the war, Jennewein played in the last two rounds of the war in 1943/44 and 1944/45 as a guest player at Hamburger SV. In February and March 1944 he played under player-coach Otto Rohwedder at Erwin Seeler's side for HSV in the two Gauliga games against Eimsbütteler TV (3-0) and in the 2-2 against LSV Hamburg. He also made two appearances in the Tschammer Cup at the end of April / beginning of May 1944 against Barmbeck SG (4-0) and FC St. Pauli (9-0) in which he scored five goals. In the last round of the war in 1944/45 Jennewein played six league games for HSV and scored nine goals alongside Erich Ebeling and Esegel Melkonian .

VfL Neckarau and VfR Mannheim, 1946–1958

According to Knieriem / Grüne and Prüß / Irle, the path from Jennewein led to Karlsruhe after the end of World War II. He is said to have played in the regional league North Baden in 1945/46 for the local district club VfB Mühlburg . At Zeilinger he was listed on May 12, 1946, in a 2-0 away win against Amicitia Viernheim, which meant the championship win for VfL Neckarau, as the right defender of the men around Fritz Balogh . An interesting incident can be read about this period in the Holstein Kiel anniversary book. On July 10, 1946, a playoff between Holstein Kiel and Eckernförder SV took place on the Kieler Waldwiese to determine the participant in the North German Championship. Holstein had strengthened the 2-0 success in front of 10,000 spectators with the former guest players Werner Baßler and Rudolf Jennewein. The use of so-called "zone jumpers" was tolerated in the upper league until the end of 1947, although contrary to the statutes.

Neckarau started in the 20 league of the Oberliga Süd 1946/47 on September 29, 1946 with a 3-0 away win against FC Phoenix Karlsruhe. VfL conceded their first home defeat on January 12, 1947 with a 1: 2 in the local derby against VfR Mannheim. Jennewein acted as right defender in front of goalkeeper Otto Diringer and star striker Balogh had equalized VfR's early 1-0 lead by Karl Striebinger in the 29th minute , but VfR center forward Otto Bardorf scored the winning goal for VfR in the first half . Only with the 3-2 away win on July 13, 1947 at Munich 1860, Neckarau was able to secure relegation as 16th at the end of the round.

In the second Neckarau Oberliga year, 1947/48 , the defensive player was on the pitch in 31 league games (1 goal), but in particular the two defeats on June 6, 1948 against the clearly beaten bottom Sportfreunde Stuttgart (1: 3) and SpVgg Fürth on June 27th with 1: 2, led in the summer of 1948 to relegation to the amateur camp. This was followed by the runner-up in 1948/49 in the Landesliga Nordbaden, failing in the promotion round to the Oberliga Süd and being called to the Baden selection for a game on June 25, 1949 in Mannheim against Lower Saxony (3-2). In the second attempt in 1949/50 the championship succeeded and after a play-off on June 25, 1950 in Heilbronn in front of 10,000 spectators against TSG Ulm 1846 with a 3-0 return to the league. Balogh stood out as a three-time goal scorer, Jennewein directed the VfL defense as a center runner and the hat-trick scorer was actively supported in the attack by the Gramminger twins Karl and Martin .

As a climber, Neckarau finished in a satisfactory 11th place and Jennewein had scored one goal in 33 league appearances. The round was overshadowed by the accidental death of Fritz Balogh on January 14, 1951. The weakened VfL rose to 16th place in 1951/52 from the league and the defensive player Jennewein closed after a total of 119 league appearances for Neckarau with three goals for the 1952 season / 53 to the VfR Mannheim. After two rounds with the blue-white-reds with another 21 league appearances, he returned to VfL Neckarau in the summer of 1954. There the veteran and head of defense celebrated the championship in the 1st Amateur League North Baden in the 1957/58 season , but could not assert himself with VfL in the promotion games to the 2nd League South. He then ended his playing career and became a coach in the amateur field. Among other things, he coached SpVgg Fortuna Edingen in the 1960/61 round in the 2nd amateur league Rhein-Neckar.

literature

• 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 .
• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne: Spiellexikon 1890-1963. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2006. ISBN 978-3-89784-148-2 . P. 174.
• Patrick Nawe, Hardy Grüne, Norman Nawe, Christian Jessen, Raymond Madsen, Christian Callsen: 100 years of Holstein Kiel. Sports publishing house Berlin. 2000. ISBN 3-328-00891-8 .
• Jens R. Prüß, Hartmut Irle: goals, points, players. The complete HSV statistics. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-89533-586-0 .
• Gerhard Zeilinger (Ed.): Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970. Odenwälder printing works. Buchen-Walldürn 1995. ISBN 3-929295-14-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grune: Player Lexicon 1890-1963. P. 174
2. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933 to 1945 and Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945.
3. ↑ Prüß, Irle: Goals, Points, Players. Pp. 78-80
4. ↑ Prüß, Irle: Goals, Points, Players. Pp. 81/82
5. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970. P. 20
6. ^ P. and N. Nawe, Raymond Madsen, Hardy Grune, Christian Jessen, Christian Callsen: 100 years Holstein Kiel. P. 64
7. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970. P. 58