Werner Cornelissen

Werner Cornelissen (born November 25, 1922 ) is a former German football player . From 1947 to 1955, the offensive player played a total of 141 league games with 41 goals in the football upper league West at the Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Rot-Weiss Essen clubs . In 1952 and 1955 he was a member of the RW Essen championship teams and also made eight appearances with the team from Bergeborbeck with three goals in the finals of the German soccer championship . When he won the DFB Cup in 1953 , he was not in the final due to injury, but Cornelissen had previously played in the successful games against VfL Osnabrück , Hamburger SV and in the semifinals against SV Waldhof Mannheim (3-2).

career

Cornelissen developed as a footballer in Essen at Adler Union Frintrop . After the 1946/47 season he moved from the Ruhr district class, Group 1, where he had finished 2nd with Frintrop, to Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. The "Kleeblatt-Elf" had been included in the newly introduced Oberliga-West for the 1947/48 season. With RWO he finished fifth after 24 league games, of which he had completed 22 and topped the internal goalscorer list with 12 goals. Under coach Karl Winkler and alongside players like Willy Jürissen , Erich Juskowiak and Werner Günther , Oberhausen won the home games against the top teams of Borussia Dortmund (1-0), Sportfreunde Katernberg (5-2) and TuS Horst also 5-2 Gates. After the debut round of the Oberliga West, he joined the Oberliga climber Rot-Weiss Essen and thus returned to his hometown for the 1948/49 season.

In the first year he reached the runner-up in the western league with RWE and therefore took part with his team in the qualifying game for entry into the final round of the German championship. However, the team of "Macher" Georg Melches lost on May 29, 1949 in Braunschweig with 1: 4 goals against FC St. Pauli. Cornelissen scored the honorary goal for the western vice-president.

In his second year at RWE, 1949/50 , the offensive player , who was mostly used on the half left or on the left winger in the World Cup system that was maintained at the time, completed 29 league games and scored eight goals alongside goal scorer Hans Kleina . The red and whites took third place and were thus again qualified for the final round of the German soccer championship, which the DFB held this year with 16 participants. Cornelissen was in both games against the "Walter-Elf" from 1. FC Kaiserslautern in May 1950 on the field. The first game ended in Karlsruhe after extra time with 2-2, in the replay in Cologne Fritz Walter's team prevailed with 3-2 goals in extra time.

After a weaker season in 1950/51, Essen won the championship in the west in 1951/52 ; Cornelissen had contributed three goals in 29 league games. The two wingers Helmut Rahn and Bernhard Termath had each scored 20 goals. In the final round of the German championship, the half-left came in the games against Tennis Borussia Berlin, VfL Osnabrück and VfB Stuttgart on five missions in which he scored two goals.

When the DFB first played the DFB Cup in 1953 after the end of the Second World War , RW Essen prevailed on May 1, 1953 in Düsseldorf in the final against Alemannia Aachen with 2-1 goals and brought the cup to Essen. In the semifinals, on March 8, 1953, Essen prevailed in the attack line-up with Helmut Rahn, Franz Islacker , August Gottschalk , Cornelissen and Bernhard Termath with 3-2 goals at SV Waldhof Mannheim. In the final, Fritz Abromeit replaced the injured Cornelissen on the half-left.

In the year of RWE's greatest success, 1954/55 , Cornelissen only made seven league appearances (1 goal) and was not used at all in the final round.

He played his last round in higher-class football in 1955/56 at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen in the 2nd League West . RWO finished eighth and Cornelissen had scored eight goals in 27 league appearances. In later years he worked as a coach, among other things he trained in 1964/65 in the then second-class regional football league West Eintracht Gelsenkirchen .

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 , p. 53.
• Georg Schrepper, Uwe Wick: “… RWE again and again!” The story of Rot-Weiss-Essen. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-467-7 .