Rudolf Schulz (soccer player)

Rudolf Schulz
Personnel
birthday	September 8, 1926
place of birth	Lünen ,  German Empire
date of death	August 6, 2014
position	Forward / midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1949-1950	Borussia Dortmund	30 (10)
1950-1964	Prussia Munster	299 (30)
1 Only league games are given.

Rudolf Schulz (born September 8, 1926 in Lünen ; † August 6, 2014 ) was a German football player .

Career

Borussia Dortmund

Schulz first played as a striker for Borussia Dortmund , for which he played the 1949/50 season in the Oberliga West , in one of five seasons as the highest German division. He made his league debut on September 11, 1949 (2nd match day) in the 1: 2 defeat in the away game against STV Horst-Emscher , he scored his first goal on October 2, 1949 (5th match day) at 4: 1 win in the home game against Hamborn 07 with the goal to make it 1-0 in the sixth minute. At the end of his first season - he completed all 30 season games in which he scored ten goals - he emerged with the team as champions of the Oberliga West. As a result, he was also used in the final round of the German Championship , but after only one game he was eliminated with the team from the competition. Against the reigning champions VfR Mannheim the last sixteen was lost on May 21, 1950 in Gladbeck .

Prussia Munster

From 1950 to 1962 he played 299 point games for the league rivals Preußen Münster as a midfielder and scored 30 goals.

He made his debut on August 27, 1950 (1st matchday) in a 3-1 win in the away game against the Rheydter Spielverein , and scored his first goal on September 3, 1950 (2nd matchday) in a 1-0 win at home against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen with the goal to the final score in the 24th minute.

As runner-up in the 1950/51 season, just one point behind the champions of the Oberliga West, FC Schalke 04 , he and his team - and they too - qualified for the only time as a participant in the finals for the German championship .

In the final, which was held in two groups of four teams each, and whose group winners contested the final, he was used seven times. He played the last five games in Group 2 , which he finished with his team as a winner and thus reached the final. In the last group game on June 10, 1950 in an 8-2 win at Tennis Borussia Berlin , he scored his only goal, the 1: 2 goal in the 30th minute.

The final held on June 30, 1951 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium against 1. FC Kaiserslautern , despite the 1-0 lead by Felix Gerritzen in the 47th minute, was still 1: 2 by Ottmar Walter's two in the 61st and 74th . Minute goals scored lost; it is the greatest sporting success to date that a team from Preußen Münster has achieved.

He also denied a two games in the DFB Cup Competition, first on 17 August 1952 in the first round , the 3: 5 after extra time against VfB Mühlburg was lost, then on April 8, 1964 - also in the 1 Round - which was lost 3-1 against Karlsruher SC .

With the use on the last match day of the 1962/63 season, on April 7, 1962, in a 4: 4 away draw at champions 1. FC Cologne, Rudolf Schulz ended his long career in the league. He ran again as the left wing runner in the then practiced World Cup system at the side of players such as Klaus Bockisch , Hermann Lulka , Manfred Pohlschmidt and Harald Beyer . From 1963 to 1968 he coached the amateurs of SC Prussia, then he took over the game association Erkenschwick and rose to the second -rate regional football league West . After a stopover in Riesenbeck, Schulz came to TuS Hiltrup in 1973, where he worked in the youth department for years.

successes

• Second in the German championship in 1951
• Champion of the Oberliga West 1950

literature

• Hubert Dahlkamp, ​​Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Preussen Münster. Football between felt and fans. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Münster 1995. ISBN 3-89533-141-4 , pages 82-84.
• Lorenz Knierim, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Lexicon of players 1890-1963 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , page 355.

Web links

• Rudolf Schulz in the database of weltfussball.de