Rudolf Steiner (soccer player, 1937)

Rudolf Steiner (born April 7, 1937 in Munich ; † December 3, 2015 in Passau ) was a German soccer player who, as an active member of TSV 1860 Munich, won the DFB Cup in 1963/64 and the German soccer championship in 1965/66 .

career

Clubs, 1947 to 1970

Like Franz Beckenbauer , Rudolf Steiner learned his training as a youth footballer at SC München 06 , on the local red clay court in the heart of Giesing . The young up-and-coming striker rose with the SC in the 1956/57 season in the 1st Amateur League South Bavaria, where he played his association games for two years. After relegation in 1958/59, a year in the regional league for the lightweight and fast striker followed and in the summer of 1960, the change to the "lions" in the Oberliga Süd came about. In the "Blauen" of 1860 Munich he played his first league game on August 14, 1960 in the 2-0 defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt on the right wing position. Another debutant was the goal scorer hope Rudi Brunnenmeier , who had come from SC Olching, on the side of Alfons Stemmer and Johann Auernhammer . The "lions" took sixth place in 1960/61 and the contact lens wearer Steiner made eleven appearances with two goals. In his second year in 1860, he increased his stakes to 17 league games. When it came to the nomination for the new Bundesliga in the last year of the Oberliga, 1962/63, Steiner, now playing as a defender, was one of the indispensable regular players in the master team of coach Max Merkel with his 30 appearances . 1860 won the southern title ahead of Nuremberg, local rivals FC Bayern, Eintracht Frankfurt and Karlsruher SC and made it into the final round of the 1963 German soccer championship. In the final round, the left defender was not missing in any of the six matches against competitors Borussia Dortmund, Hamburger SV and Borussia Neunkirchen. Dortmund won the decisive game on June 22, 1963 in front of 43,000 spectators in the Rote Erde stadium with 4-0 goals - two goals each from Friedhelm Konietzka and Jürgen Schütz - and made it into the final. Steiner had played 58 games with three goals in the Oberliga Süd for 1860 Munich from 1960 to 1963 and moved into the Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season with President Adalbert Wetzel 's team.

In the Bundesliga’s debut year, the defender, who is strong in two-way combat, played all 30 league games with the “blues”, who finished seventh at the end of the round. At the season opening on August 24, 1963, he defended together with Manfred Wagner in a 1-1 home draw against Eintracht Braunschweig. The games for the DFB Cup 1963/64 were more successful for the “lions”. After successes against Borussia Dortmund, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 1. FC Saarbrücken and FC Altona 93, the men around goalkeeper Petar Radenković moved into the final on June 13, 1964 in Stuttgart against Eintracht Frankfurt. The "Löwen" won the final with 2-0 goals and Steiner kept Eintracht right winger Helmut Kraus in check.

In the Bundesliga season 1964/65 Munich moved up to fourth place in 1860 and reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup . Steiner made 20 appearances in the Bundesliga and also played his first six games in the European Cup against Union Sportive Luxembourg, FC Porto and Legia Warsaw. With newcomer Bernd Patzke , Steiner last defended on March 6, 1965 in a 2-0 win against Hannover 96. Patzke suffered a fractured tibia and fibula in the international match against Cyprus on April 24, 1965 in Karlsruhe and Steiner was unable to reach the semi-finals due to injury against AC Turin and on May 19, 1965 in London in the final against West Ham United for the "Lions".

When Munich succeeded in winning the German championship in the 1965/66 round, Steiner only played nine games for the “lions”. In the fourth year of the Bundesliga, 1966/67, the "blues" won the runner-up, he was back with 23 appearances in the regular line-up and also defended together with Bernd Patzke in the two European Cup games in November 1966 against Real Madrid , where the Munich defenders did it had to do with the Real wings Amancio and Gento . Under coach Albert Sing , the 31-year-old ran in 28 Bundesliga games for 1860 in the 1967/68 round and tried to prevent the 1966 champion from falling. Rudolf Steiner played his last Bundesliga game on the final day of the 1968/69 round, on June 7, 1969, in the 1: 2 away defeat against Eintracht Braunschweig. Before the round, Rudi Brunnenmeier, Ludwig Bründl and Hans Küppers had left the “lions” and with Steiner and Peter Grosser two more master players ended their careers at 1860 Munich after this round. Rudolf Steiner took over MTV Munich 1879 as a player-coach for the 1969/70 round . From 1963 to 1969 he played 118 Bundesliga games for TSV 1860 Munich and scored two goals.

Selection appointments, 1964

In the last international match for national coach Sepp Herberger in Germany, the left defender from 1860 Munich made his debut in the German national soccer team . On May 12, 1964, the DFB team with the final triangle Hans Tilkowski - Hans Nowak and Steiner won a 2-2 draw in Hanover against Scotland in front of 65,000 spectators. Steiner was part of the squad for the international match on June 7, 1964 in Helsinki against Finland and was then injured. On September 15, 1964, he defended the South German selection in a friendly against the national team. With the game on October 6, 1964 in Düsseldorf - he defended the national team against Sheffield Wednesday together with his club colleague Bernd Patzke - his appearances in the DFB-Elf ended, where from 1965 Horst-Dieter Höttges was to become a long-standing figure in the defense .

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 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
• Matthias Kropp: Triumphs in the European Cup. All games of the German clubs since 1955 (= AGON-Sportverlag statistics. Volume 20). AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-75-4 .
• Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Web link

• Rudolf Steiner in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary