Werner Göbel

Werner Göbel (born September 29, 1924 in Essen , † July 1955 in Herten ) was a German football player. From 1948 to 1955, the defensive player played a total of 155 league games with two goals in the football upper league West at the clubs TSG Vohwinkel 80 and Rot-Weiss Essen . In 1952 and 1955 he was a member of the RW Essen championship teams and also made eight appearances in the finals of the German soccer championship with the team from Bergeborbeck . When he won the DFB Cup in 1953 , he was as usual as a right defender in the final. Goebel could only take part in one group game in the 1955 finals due to a rheumatic illness .

career

From his hometown club TuRa Essen - during the Second World War Göbel had temporarily laced his kick boots for SV Neufahrwasser in Gdansk - the defender came to TSG Vohwinkel 80 in Wuppertal in 1948 and played in the football league West in 1948/49 . He played on the side of center runner Fritz Pliska and striker Herbert Panse 14 league games and scored one goal. Vohwinkel took seventh place and Göbel was mostly used as the left wing runner. At the Sports University in Cologne in 1948 he successfully took part in the first post-war course for football teachers under course director Sepp Herberger, alongside colleagues Fritz Langner , Fritz Pliska, Hennes Weisweiler and Herbert Widmayer .

After that year he moved back to Essen, he joined Rot-Weiss Essen for the 1949/50 round. With the Bergeborbeckern he came in third place in the West in the first year of the contract football system - a maximum of 320 DM was allowed per month and a professional activity was a prerequisite for playing eligibility. Under coach Karl Hohmann , he had played all 30 competitive games for the Hafenstrasse team. As the third from the west moved into the final round of the German championship that year, the defender experienced the excitement of the final rounds for the first time in May 1950. The first game against 1. FC Kaiserslautern took place in Karlsruhe on May 21 ; it ended with a 2-2 after extra time. Eight days later the replay was played in Cologne and the men around playmaker Fritz Walter prevailed in extra time with a 3-2 win. In both games Goebel was active as a left defender.

When Helmut Rahn , another dangerous striker , came to RWE for the 1951/52 season alongside August Gottschalk and Bernhard Termath , Göbel and his teammates celebrated winning the championship in the Oberliga West for the first time. In the final round he played five games against Tennis Borussia Berlin, VfB Stuttgart and VfL Osnabrück. The "Swabians" prevailed in the group games and also brought the German championship to Stuttgart. Despite the reinforcements Fritz Herkenrath and Franz Islacker , the western title could not be defended in 1952/53 and Essen came in third place. But in the DFB-Pokal, which was played for the first time after the Second World War, the team of "Patron" Georg Melches was able to keep itself harmless. After successes against Jahn Regensburg, VfL Osnabrück, Hamburger SV and in the semifinals against Waldhof Mannheim, the Red-Whites prevailed in the final on May 1, 1953 in Düsseldorf against their western rivals Alemannia Aachen with 2-1 goals. In defense, the cup winner had formed with Fritz Herkenrath, the defender couple Göbel and Willi Köchling , as well as the runners Paul Jahnel , Heinz Wewers and Clemens Wientjes .

For the runner-up in the Oberliga West 1953/54 Göbel had made his contribution with 23 league appearances. Due to the soccer world championship in Switzerland in the summer of 1954, the western vice-president did not take part in the reduced final round of the 1954 German championship. But Göbel and colleagues were more than compensated by Melches with a nine-week trip to South and North America, starting on April 23, 1955. In the 1954/55 round, the defensive player made 20 appearances and RWE won the western championship under the new coach Fritz Szepan . The Red-Whites started successfully in the finals on May 15, 1955 with a 4-0 home win against the North representative TuS Bremerhaven 93. The final triangle was formed by Herkenrath and the defender couple Göbel and Köchling. Due to a rheumatic illness, Göbel had to be replaced by Joachim Jänisch - he had played eight games in the top division.

The company sports teacher at the Ewald colliery in Herten died shortly after triumphing in the final on June 26, 1955 in July as a result of a domestic accident when he was fatally electrocuted. For Rot-Weiss Essen he had completed 141 games in the West Football League from 1949 to 1955 and scored one goal.

literature

• Georg Schrepper, Uwe Wick: “… RWE again and again!” The story of Rot-Weiss-Essen. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-467-7 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , pp. 110-111.