Vitus Sauer
Vitus Sauer (born December 5, 1934 in Mainz ; † May 12, 2018 in Remscheid ) was a German football player . From 1955 to 1963, he played 77 league games for the Rot-Weiss Essen and Wuppertaler SV clubs in what was then the first-class West Football League , scoring eight goals.
career
As a 20-year-old amateur soccer player at SV Gonsenheim , the Mainz native was appointed to the squad of the newly established junior national team (U-23) of the DFB in June 1955 by national coach Sepp Herberger . In the debut game of the DFB youngsters on June 25, 1955 in Frankfurt against Yugoslavia, he was substituted on in the second half for Offenbach's Ernst Wade on the left connector position in attack. The German champion of the year 1955 , Rot-Weiss Essen, signed the fine technician for the round 1955/56, and Sauer became a contract footballer in the football league west. Under coach Fritz SzepanThe ex-amateur from Gonsenheim made his debut on the start day of the 1955/56 season, August 27, 1955, in the away game against Borussia Dortmund in front of 31,000 spectators in the Rote Erde stadium in the league team of RWE and the Oberliga West. On the side of the teammates Fritz Herkenrath , Heinz Wewers , Helmut Rahn and Willi Vordenbäum the game was lost with 1: 4 goals. The losses of Bernhard Termath - he had switched to Karlsruher SC in the southern German league - and the end of the career of the "RWE legend" August Gottschalk were clearly noticeable. When, on the fourth match day, September 11, 1955, a 5-0 home win in the stadium on Hafenstrasse was successful against last year's runner-up SV Sodingen , the sporting turnaround seemed to have been initiated. Sauer entered the scorers list with the last goal in the home win against the Zechenclub from Herne . Three days later, on September 14th, the junior national player experienced the first appearance of a German team in the European Cup . In the 4-0 success of the Scottish champions Hibernian Edinburgh , the decimated Essen upper division footballers - without Rahn and Franz Islacker - but against the professionals from Scotland had no chance. In the second leg on October 12th at the Easter Road Stadium, Sauer experienced a 1-1 draw with Essen. At the end of the round, RWE finished fifth in the Oberliga West and newcomer Sauer had scored a goal in 14 missions. In his second year in Essen, he experienced the coaching work of Elek Schwartz . After that, the later boxing promoter Raymond Schwab was a two-round coach at Rot-Weiss. Sauer completed his last league game for Essen on April 22, 1959 in the 2: 3 home defeat against SV Sodingen. After 51 appearances in the major league with five goals he was drawn to the stadium at the zoo , he played from the 1959/60 round at Wuppertaler SV in the 2nd division west.
In the Bergisches Land he reached third place behind SV Sodingen and TSV Marl-Hüls in 1959/60 with coach Willibald Kreß and teammates Helmut Domagalla , Erich Haase , Günter Augustat , Erich Ribbeck and Werner Tönges, and the promotion to the upper league succeeded as Runner-up behind Bayer Leverkusen but not until 1961/62 under the new coach Robert Gebhardt . Sauer opened the last season of the old football league on the second day of the match, August 27, 1962, when they lost 3-1 at Westfalia Herne. The sure penalty taker ended the series 1962/63 on May 11, 1963 with the WSV with a 1-0 home win in front of 20,000 spectators against Borussia Dortmund. He had scored three goals in 26 rounds. Wuppertal was not accepted into the new Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season, the WSV played in the second -rate regional football league West . Before the start of the round, the 1963 DFB Cup was played. After successes against Hessen Kassel (2: 2 a.s./3:01) and in the quarter-finals in front of 22,000 spectators with 1: 0 against Borussia Neunkirchen, the northern series champions Hamburger SV made a 1-0 victory in front of 38,000 spectators in the stadium at the zoo on August 7th in the semi-finals, the entry into the cup final was canceled. The WSV competed in all cup games with Werner Tönges, Erich Haase and Vitus Sauer.
Sauer and colleagues were able to save the momentum from the cup games in the debut round of the Regionalliga. Alemannia Aachen won the championship in the west, but Wuppertal came second with two points ahead of Fortuna Düsseldorf. The ex-Mainz player had played 27 regional league games and scored three goals for Wuppertal. In the two qualifying games against the Southwest representative FK Pirmasens , the clearly favored West Germans then lost both games with 0: 2 and 1: 2 and were therefore unable to intervene for promotion to the Bundesliga.
Sauer ended his high-class career in the summer of 1964 and joined the amateur club Marathon Remscheid . The trained banker then looked after numerous lower-class teams as a trainer; At the beginning of the 21st century he was a regular guest in the stadium at the Zoo.
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 .
- Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): "Helmut, tell me about the gate ...". New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1
- Manfred Osenberg: The WSV will never go under! 50 years of the Wuppertal Sports Club 1954–2004. Edition Osenberg, Wuppertal 2004, ISBN 3-9808059-4-8
- Georg Schrepper, Uwe Wick: “… RWE again and again!” The story of Rot-Weiss Essen. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-467-7
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sour, Vitus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 2018 |
| Place of death | Remscheid |