Werner Feth

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Werner Feth (born December 20, 1911 in Altrip ; † November 3, 1964 in Ludwigshafen ) was a German football player . The midfielder and defender, mostly used in the runner row in the World Cup system then practiced , won the championship in the Gauliga Baden twice with VfR Mannheim in 1938 and 1939 . In the finals of the German soccer championship , he played twelve games (1 goal) for the red-white-blue lawn players of the VfR and is listed in the Baden region with 92 Gauliga appearances (3 goals) and 14 appointments during this time. During the Second World War, twelve league games in the Gauliga Hessen-Nassau were added as a guest player at Eintracht Frankfurt from March 1943 to the end of the round in 1943/44 . At the beginning of the first-class league era from 1945 to 1948, the senior also played 56 rounds in the football league south for the clubs VfR Mannheim, Viktoria Aschaffenburg, VfB Stuttgart and VfL Neckarau.

Career

Gauliga, 1936 to 1944

When TuS Altrip , in a rural community dominated the south of the city of Ludwigshafen on the west bank of the Rhine opposite the right bank Mannheim , Werner Feth has become footballing great lies. In 1932/33 the championship success was achieved in the district league Unterbaden, but due to the new class division for the 1933/34 season with the new top performance of the Gauligen, promotion was not possible for formal reasons. Teammate Helmut Schneider therefore accepted the offer from FC Bayern Munich and switched to Gauliga Bayern . Feth stayed longer in Altrip before moving to SV Arminia Hannover . For the 1936/37 season he joined VfR Mannheim in the Gauliga Baden, where TuS colleague Richard Spindler had landed a year earlier.

On September 20, 1936, at a home game against the Karlsruhe district club VfB Mühlburg, Feth made his debut as the left wing runner in a 4-1 win under coach Max Breunig in the Gauliga Baden. With two points behind local rivals SV Waldhof, VfR reached the runner-up and Feth had completed all 18 rounds alongside the other newcomers Albert Conrad , Anton Lutz and the young player Philipp Henninger . The standard runner series of the VfR with Henninger, Otto Kamenzin and Feth established itself in this round. As early as November 22, 1936, the agile, fast midfielder, who was outstanding in the header game, put on the jersey of the Baden district selection for the first time. In Pforzheim, Württemberg lost 8-0 to Baden and Feth made a good debut as the left runner. Between 1936 and 1939 Feth was the only VfR player to complete all 54 competitive games in the Gauliga and also celebrated two championships in 1938 and 1939. He celebrated these successes alongside other players such as Philipp Henninger, Otto Kamenzin, Kurt Langenbein , Walter Danner , Eugen Rößling , Philipp Rohr and Karl Striebinger .

In 1938 and 1939 Feth took part in two finals for the German soccer championship . On April 18, 1938, the lawn athletes of VfR Mannheim celebrated a 2-1 away win over the favored defending champions Schalke 04 on the Glückauf-Kampfbahn . Schalke and VfR were tied with 8: 4 points after the group games. The "Knappen" only prevailed through a better goal difference against Mannheim. Even in the two finals, Feth was not absent from any game; he came on 12 missions and scored one goal (the 2-2 equalizer on April 30, 1938 in the second leg against Schalke 04).

Feth was available to VfR Mannheim until the 1941/42 season and played his last competitive game for VfR on December 28, 1941 in a 4-3 win against SpVgg Sandhofen. Overall, Feth is noted for Mannheim with 92 Gauliga missions and three goals from 1936 to 1941. Due to the circumstances of the Second World War, he was briefly active as a guest player at SC Posen and TuS Neuendorf before he played for Eintracht Frankfurt in the Gauliga Hessen-Nassau for a longer period from March 1943. He made his debut for Eintracht on March 13, 1943 in a 2-1 home win against Rüsselsheim on the position of center runner. In the 1943/44 season the man from Altrip came to ten Gauliga missions for Eintracht and the team from Riederwald took fourth place.

Feth played his 14th and last Gauliga selection game for Baden on November 9, 1941 in Karlsruhe in a game against the Lower Rhine (1: 3).

Oberliga, 1945 to 1948

After the end of the Second World War, the first friendly match between VfR and Waldhof was played in Mannheim on September 9th. Like Langenbein, Feth was part of the lawn players team. On February 17, 1946, the city team from Mannheim played against Stuttgart (4-0), Feth conducted the defense of Mannheim as a middle runner and Georg Herbold , Karl Striebinger and Paul Lipponer junior stormed in the attack . The VfR finished in 1945/46 with 19:41 points in 14th place in the football Oberliga Süd and Feth had played in 17 competitive games. In the second year in the Oberliga Süd, 1946/47, Feth is listed with two games in the Oberliga promoted Viktoria Aschaffenburg. According to Keppel, it was the two games on November 10 and 24, 1946 against VfB Stuttgart (1: 2) and Schwaben Augsburg (1: 4). From the 1946/47 season, the 34-year-old senior was a member of VfB Stuttgart's upper division squad. In addition to Feth, VfB coach Fritz Teufel also welcomed attacker Herbert Binkert from Phönix Karlsruhe as a new addition. Robert Schlienz scored 18 goals, but VfB was only sixth and Feth had to be content with seven appearances. For the 1947/48 season, coach Georg Wurzer began his work at VfB and the players Karl Barufka , Johann Herberger and Erich Retter joined the team. Feth was part of the regular formation from the start and had played 15 league games by the end of the first half of the season on January 18, 1948, 0-2 defeat at FC Schweinfurt 05. After the catch-up game on February 1, 1948, with a 2-1 home win against Schwaben Augsburg, the man from the Electoral Palatinate said goodbye to Mannheim and joined the second- bottom VfL Neckarau for the second half of the season.

In Neckarau, Feth made his debut on March 14, 1948 in a 1-0 home win against Bayern Munich at the side of teammates such as goalkeeper Otto Diringer , the Gramminger twins Karl and Martin and Fritz Balogh in the position of right defender. At the end of the round, Neckarau was relegated in 16th place with 30:46 points; for the next season 1948/49 the Oberliga Süd was reduced from 20 to 16 clubs. Feth played for Neckarau in 14 games in the second half of the season, a total of 30 games in the round, if you count the 16 games for VfB Stuttgart. After 56 league appearances, the 36-year-old Feth ended his high-class playing career in the summer of 1948.

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The businessman, who has lived in the Rheingönheim district of Ludwigshafen since 1937 , ran a grocery store there. In the 50s he was still working as a player-coach at SV 98 Schwetzingen. On November 3, 1964, Feth had a fatal car accident on the road connecting Altrip and Rheingönheim. On November 6th he was buried in the cemetery in Altrip.

literature

  • Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Publishing house regional culture. Ubstadt-Weiher 2016. ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 . P. 315/316.
  • Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. Football archive Mannheim. Mannheim 1994. ISBN 3-929295-05-9 .
  • 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. 23.
  • Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 (= AGON-Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 28). AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-106-9 .
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. Pp. 315, 316
  2. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. Pp. 200, 207, 210, 215
  3. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. P. 315, 316
  4. ↑ On May 26, 1935, he was used in a selection game in North Germany in Groningen against the North Netherlands (1: 3).
  5. ↑ Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and Himmelsstürmer. The story of Eintracht Frankfurt. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-89533-427-8 . P. 336
  6. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970. P. 23
  7. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. P. 200
  8. ^ Raphael Keppel: The German Football League 1946-1963, Volume 2: Southwest, South, finals. Sports and games publisher Edgar Hitzel. Hürth 1989. ISBN 3-9802172-3-X . Pp. 186/187
personal data
SURNAME Feth, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Altrip , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1964
Place of death Ludwigshafen , Germany