Werner Bassler

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Werner Baßler (born October 2, 1921 in Trippstadt ; † October 21, 1999 ) was a German football player . As a striker of 1. FC Kaiserslautern , he won the German soccer championship in 1951 .

career

Gauliga, until 1944

Werner Baßler's football career began in 1930 with Fritz Walter and Richard Schneider in the 1. FC Kaiserslautern student eleven. He was an all-rounder who played handball, did athletics and also competed in cycling. As early as 1939/40 he was part of the first team of the FCK, which was champion of the Gauliga Südwest, Saarpfalz season. Young Fritz Walter was one of his teammates at the time. When in the next few years with Ernst Liebrich (1923-2001), Werner Kohlmeyer (1924-1974) and Ottmar Walter (1924-2013) other outstanding young players from the FCK youth found their way into the senior team, 1941/42 could after Winning the championship title in the Gauliga Westmark - 21 goals by Werner Baßler - to be drawn into the finals of the German soccer championship for the first time. On May 10, 1942, Kaiserslautern defeated SV Waldhof Mannheim with 7: 1 goals - one goal from Bassler - and then moved to Schalke 04 - the men around Ernst Kuzorra and Fritz Szepan won the sixth championship title - a clear 3: 9 defeat. With these two encounters, the "Red Devils" from Betzenberg opened the round of their final round matches, which only ended in the last year of the football league, 1962/63.

Werner Baßler was drafted into the navy in 1942 and completed as a so-called war guest player in the two rounds 1942/43 and 1943/44 in the Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein association games for Holstein Kiel . With the “Storks” he moved into his second final round of the German championship in 1944 by winning the championship. Again he only came to two missions, as he was with Kiel after the 3-2 win in Dessau - two hits by "de Baas" - in the second game by a 2-4 defeat on May 7, 1944 at Hertha BSC - with the future Fritz Balogh from Neckarau - left the competition. In the 1943/44 season, Bassler was able to play for FCK again for a short time as a “vacationer”. The bassist interned in Marne (Holstein) returned home to Kaiserslautern in July 1945 from captivity.

Oberliga, until 1960

For 1. FC Kaiserslautern began on January 13, 1946 with a 10-0 home win over Phönix Ludwigshafen in a so-called "spring round ", the football league Southwest , group north 1945/46. Baßler, the dangerous attacker with a powerful shot, hit the net of the Phoenix-Elf three times. At the end of the round, Fritz Walter's team landed in second place behind champions 1. FC Saarbrücken and Werner Baßler had taken the top scorer's crown with 33 goals. Especially for a single game - the alleged final for a place in the finals for the North German championship against Eckernförder SV - Baßler and Rudolf Jennewein were reappointed to the Holstein-Kiel squad in July 1946; the game ended 4-2 for Holstein - but it didn't count because it wasn't approved by the military authorities. Up to round 1950/51 there were four more championships in series for bassists with the Lauterern in the southwest. In the 1947/48 season Kaiserslautern captured the southwest title with 151: 18 goals and Werner Baßler landed with 28 goals on the fourth place on the scorers list, which was led by club mate Ottmar Walter with 51 goals. In the final round, after clear 5: 1 successes against TSV 1860 Munich - 2 goals from Baßler - and TuS Neuendorf - one goal from Baßler - the first time in the final of the German soccer championship. 1. FC Nürnberg won the final in Cologne with 2-1 goals. Werner Baßler contributed the record mark of 54 goals to the championship trick in 1949 . Ottmar and Fritz Walter followed with 32 and 30 hits respectively. In the final round Lautern failed after a 1: 4 defeat in the replay at Borussia Dortmund . Baßler scored the consolation goal for the Palatinate in the 50th minute . In the 1949/50 round, Baßler defended his top scorer's crown in the southwest with 47 goals and celebrated the fourth championship in a row. In the final round, the striker failed with his team after a 2-5 defeat at VfB Stuttgart , which won the final on June 25, 1950 with a 2-1 win over Kickers Offenbach . In 1951, Baßler finished second in the Southwest Oberliga with 25 goals behind Ottmar Walter who scored 28 goals. In the final round, six goals by the sturdy goal scorer made it into the final on June 30, 1951 in Berlin against Preußen Münster . In the 2-1 win in the final, the bass player playing on the half-left cannot distinguish himself as a goalscorer - Ottmar Walter twice - but that does not reduce his share in winning the first German championship with 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

In 1951 he and the FCK team were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf .

Werner Baßler scored 199 goals in the six rounds in the southwest from 1945/46 to 1950/51. For round 1951/52 he took an offer from VfR Mannheim from the Oberliga Süd. The 30-year-old confirmed with his 22 goals in the south in the round 1951/52 - he was third in the south scorer list behind Morlock and Preisendörfer - his scoring qualities. After a disappointing second year - VfR fought for relegation - he returned to Kaiserslautern in 1953.

The almost 32-year-old returned to Betzenberg for the 1953/54 world championship round as a "goal scorer", but from the catch-up game on December 13, 1953 - Lautern clearly won 8-2 goals against 1. FC Saarbrücken - he had to defeat make friends with the position of right-back. The championship was decided by the Lauterer on the last day of the match, April 11, 1954, with a 4-0 home win against FK Pirmasens , who had come to the Palatinate with one point ahead of the leaders. The returnees Baßler played 27 missions and scored thirteen goals. Once again, he and his comrades from 1. FCK celebrated four championship wins in a row: Kaiserslautern won the Southwest Championships from 1954 to 1957 and made it to the finals of the German soccer championship two more times in 1954 and 1955. With Kaiserslautern, Baßler played in 38 finals between 1942 and 1957, scoring 15 goals. In the Oberliga Südwest he played 215 games from 1945 to 1957 and scored 226 goals. The veteran played the last competitive game for the "Red Devils" in the 1957 finals on June 9th in Hanover, against the defending champions Borussia Dortmund , when Lautern lost 2: 3 goals in front of 75,000 spectators and he and the 23-year-old Borussia- Left winger Helmut Kapitulski had to deal with. In the summer of 1957 Werner Baßler ended his career at 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

From Betzenberg to Erbsenberg, 1958 to 1960

After the league relegation of local rivals VfR Kaiserslautern in the round 1957/58 Werner Baßler took over VfR in the 1958/59 season in the 2nd Southwest League as a player-coach and celebrated the championship in front of Ludwigshafener SC and the return to the league. He contributed 28 goals, but he did not hold the unpopular defender position. On the last day of the league season 1959/60, on April 24, 1960, the 39-year-old bass player finally said goodbye as an active player with two goals. At 1. FSV Mainz 05 he distinguished himself as a double goal scorer in the 2-2 draw, but was unable to prevent VfR Kaiserslautern from being relegated - one point behind Eintracht Trier .

In 22 games he had scored eleven goals and thus expanded his overall brand in the major leagues to 295 games with 263 goals. According to his own statistics, however, he scored up to 40 more league goals - and Ottmar and Fritz Walter a few less - so that he is possibly the top scorer in German league history .

Werner Baßler scored seven goals each in the 14-0 and 16-1 victories against Eintracht Trier and SpVgg Weisenau in 1948/49 , which was the record of the league era after Ottmar Walter's eight goals in the 13-0 victory of 1. FC Kaiserslautern against SpVgg Andernach . However, according to Baßler's statistics, Ottmar Walter did not score eight goals in the game.

job

At the sewing machine manufacturer Pfaff in Kaiserslautern, Baßler was employed as a construction mechanic and after his return from Mannheim also ran a lottery and toto acceptance point. According to his own records, Baßler has scored at least 1,388 goals in the course of his career.

literature

  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
  • Günter Rohrbacher-List, The Red Devils are back, The story of 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Verlag Die Werkstatt, 1998, ISBN 3-89533-221-6 .
  • Lorenz Knieriem, Torjäger, AGON Sportverlag, 2005, ISBN 3-89784-264-5 .
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Rohrbacher-List, The history of 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Verlag Die Werkstatt, 1998, page 156, ISBN 3-89533-221-6 .
  2. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Torjäger, AGON Sportverlag, 2005, page 161, ISBN 3-89784-264-5 .
  3. ↑ BT-Drucksache 7/1040, page 58, accessed on February 7, 2017 (pdf)
  4. ↑ Werner Skrentny, Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg, The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963, p. 26.
personal data
SURNAME Bassler, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES de Baas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Trippstadt , Germany
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1999