Siegfried Geesmann

Siegfried Geesmann (born November 20, 1926 - † November 17, 2010 in Todtnau , Black Forest) was a German football player. As an active player in Karlsruher SC , the defensive player won the DFB Cup in 1955 and 1956 .

career

In the west until 1954

"Sigi" Geesmann grew up sporty with the green and white team of SV Sodingen in the shadow of the Mont-Cenis colliery . In 1949/50, the Herne district association managed to move up from the Landesliga Westfalen to the 2nd League West and celebrated winning the championship and thus promotion to the football team in the second year - 1951/52 - ahead of its competitors VfB Bottrop and Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. Oberliga West . Geesmann had the role of center runner in the "miners' club" and directed the defense alongside goalkeeper Alfred Schmidt, defenders Leo Konopczynski , Alfons Nowak and outside runners Karl-Heinz Edler and Gerhard Harpers . The first league game played Sodingen with center runner Geesmann on August 24, 1952 in front of 18,000 spectators in the Glück-Auf-Kampfbahn against SpVgg Erkenschwick . The game ended in a 2-2 draw. Sodingen finished 11th and Geesmann had completed 24 games. In the year of the Football World Cup in 1954, he played in all 30 rounds of games for Sodingen, but fought with his teammates continuously against relegation and was only able to leave the Rheydter Spielverein and STV Horst-Emscher behind in the table. At round 1954/55 he accepted an offer from the southern German upper division club Karlsruher SC - he got a job at the LVA in Karlsruhe - and moved to Baden.

In the south, until 1962

For the new fusion club KSC he ran for the first time in the derby against VfB Stuttgart on September 12, 1954 in the Stuttgart Neckar Stadium. He acted on the left wing position and could not prevent the 3-0 defeat against the "Reds" from the state capital. However, he quickly asserted himself in his usual role of center runner and, together with goalkeeper Rudi Fischer and the defenders Max Fischer and Walter Bauis, formed the Badeners' reliable defense and finished fifth in the south at the end of the round. However, the games for the DFB Cup advanced to the sporting highlight. In the semifinals, the protégés of coach Adolf Patek needed two games against Altona 93 and after the 3-0 victory in Karlsruhe they moved into the final on May 21, 1955 in Braunschweig against FC Schalke 04 . In the final, Geesmann mainly had to deal with the striker Helmut Sadlowski, who was fully committed to fighting . The Patek-Elf prevailed with a 3-2 win against the Frühwirth troupe from Schalke and brought the DFB Cup to Karlsruhe.

The game year 1955/56 followed in which the man from Sodingen was in action in all 30 league games in the southern league for KSC. Geesmann and his teammates won the southern championship in front of VfB Stuttgart, VfR Mannheim and Kickers Offenbach and made it into the final round of the German championship . The defense of the Karlsruhe was formed by goalkeeper Rudi Fischer, the defender couple Max Fischer and Walter Bauis, as well as the standard runner series with Heinz Ruppenstein , Geesmann and Werner Roth . In the group games, the KSC prevailed against Schalke 04, Kaiserslautern and Hannover 96 and thus moved into the final on June 24 in Berlin against Borussia Dortmund . For the Karlsruher defensive boss, the successful confrontation with the goal-threatening Dortmund interior trio Alfred Preißler , Alfred Kelbassa and Alfred Niepieklo was the top priority if there was a realistic chance of victory against the Western representative. The "three Alfredos" scored one goal each and coach Helmut Schneider's team prevailed with 4-2 goals and brought the title to Dortmund.

In the DFB Cup, KSC won the semi-finals on May 6th with 5-1 goals at FK Pirmasens and was in the second final. That was only played at the beginning of the 1956/57 game year on August 5, 1956 in the Wildpark Stadium at home against Hamburger SV . KSC prevailed with 3-1 goals and Geesmann celebrated their second cup victory with Karlsruhe. Although Uwe Seeler was able to bring Hamburg 1-0 up early in the first half, the KSC defense brought the dangerous HSV internal storm with Klaus Stürmer , Seeler and Günter Schlegel better and better under control and thus decided the game for the people of Baden.

For the round in 1956/57, Ludwig Janda, a new trainer came to the wildlife park, and with Werner Hesse from Westfalia Herne , the Karlsruhe team also lured a recognized man to Baden to take on the role of chief defense. Geesmann completed the first nine games in the league and then with his tenth appearance on April 14, 1957, in the 3-0 defeat by Viktoria Aschaffenburg, he played his last league game for Karlsruher SC. Hesse, the man from Herne, played all 30 rounds for the KSC and Siegfried Geesmann changed in the summer of 1957 to the league relegated Freiburg FC and then played with the Breisgau-Elf in the 2nd League South.

The veteran ended his long playing career in the Möslestadion only after the 1961/62 season. With coach Hans Wendtland and goalkeeper talent Peter Kunter , the FFC had come in sixth and the 35-year-old was now in for the end of his active career.

In later times, at the age of 70, he was still active as a referee for the southern Baden football association.

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 .
• 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 Kropp: "Germany's great soccer teams, part 11: Karlsruher SC", AGON-Sportverlag, 1998, ISBN 3-89609-115-8 .
• 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 .