Werner Nocht

Werner Nocht
Personnel
Surname	Werner Nocht
birthday	June 11, 1931
place of birth	Germany
date of death	June 14, 2013
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1952	Kickers 1900 Berlin	? 0(?)
1952-1963	Viktoria 89 Berlin	228 (89)
1 Only league games are given.

Werner Nocht (born June 11, 1931 ; † June 14, 2013 ) was a German soccer player who won the championship twice in the Berlin City League at Viktoria 89 Berlin in 1955 and 1956 .

career

City League Berlin, 1952 to 1963

After being promoted to the top amateur class in Berlin in 1951, the fast winger Werner Nocht distinguished himself so impressively in the first amateur league in Berlin in the 1951/52 season at Kickers 1900 Berlin that he was offered an offer from third place in the city league, Viktoria 89 Contract footballer received for the 1952/53 round. The lightning-fast man on the wing completed all 24 rounds for Viktoria 89 in his debut season in the city league and scored eleven goals. With the 4-2 win on June 28, 1953 in the final of the Berlin State Cup against Berliner SV 92 - Nocht stormed the left wing - he immediately won his first title with Viktoria. At the end of the season, Otto Westphal , who was born in Stendal, took over the training of the Tempelhofer and led the “Mariendorfer Löwen” to cup success.

With coach Heinz-Ludwig Schmidt , the outstanding runner row Helmut Jonas , Karl-Heinz Schmidt and Kurt Henning , as well as the top scorer Werner Nocht - he conquered the Berlin top scorer with 18 goals - Viktoria 89 won the Berlin championship in the 1954/55 season . From the fourth to the 15th match day, the champions put down an impressive 23: 1 point series. Nocht scored all three goals in the 3-2 win on November 28, 1954 against Minerva 93 and distinguished himself as a two-time goalscorer in five other matches. Werner Nocht contributed ten goals in 20 games to successfully defend his title in 1955/56. On the penultimate matchday, April 8, 1956, in the 0-1 defeat at BSV 92, Nocht stormed left winger and had to accept the tie with Minerva 93. In the decisive 2-0 away win on April 15 in front of 16,000 spectators in the Post Stadium against Minerva, he was missing due to injury. The most successful goalscorer in 89 this round was Horst Stange with twelve goals. In the 1957/58 season, Viktoria 89 gambled away the renewed championship triumph on March 23, 1958, a catch-up game day, with a 2-0 defeat in front of 45,000 spectators against Tennis Borussia Berlin . Viktoria 89, leader of the table with 31:11 points, met the "Veilchen", who were in second place with 30:12 points. Nocht was unable to prevail in the duel against B-national player Rudolf Deinert and since goalscorer Dieter Blümchen also failed to score, the men around Horst Schmutzler won the championship in the final sprint.

In the last year of the major leagues and the Berlin city league, 1962/63 , Werner Nocht played his last city league game on April 21, 1963, in the 2: 4 defeat against Hertha BSC . In eleven rounds from 1952 to 1963 he scored 89 goals in 228 games.

Finals for the German soccer championship, 1955 and 1956

In the games for the German football championship in 1955 , Viktoria 89 met 1. FC Kaiserslautern, SV Sodingen and Hamburger SV. The competition opened on May 15th in front of 82,000 spectators in the Berlin Olympic Stadium against the Walter-Elf from Kaiserslautern. Werner Nocht dealt with former goalscorer Werner Baßler on the right defender of the Palatinate. The men around Fritz Walter prevailed with a 2: 1, Nocht had scored the connection goal in the 72nd minute. At Hamburger SV he was guarded by Fritz Laband in the right wing position . The Hamburger prevailed with a goal in the 89th minute against the Berliners. In the 2-3 home defeat on June 5 against SV Sodingen, the fast winger scored both goals from Berlin.

In the second participation in the finals, in 1956 , Viktoria 89 met Hamburger SV again, but also Borussia Dortmund and VfB Stuttgart. Surprisingly, the Berlin team came to a 1-1 draw on May 27 at the eventual final winner Borussia Dortmund in front of 32,000 spectators in the Rote Erde stadium . Three days later, on May 30, it was enough to draw a 3-3 draw against VfB Stuttgart in the Olympic Stadium. Werner Nocht distinguished himself as a two-time goalscorer in a duel with VfB defender Erich Retter . In total, Nocht played all twelve games in two finals and scored six goals. Thanks to his speed and the ability to play on both wings, he was able to prove his individual class against qualitatively better opponents in the finals - as well as in his appearances in the city games for Berlin.

Private

After his active time, Nocht lived in Villingen-Schwenningen . He died three days after his 82nd birthday in June 2013.

literature

• Wolfgang Hartwig, Günter Weise: 100 years of football in Berlin. SVB, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00734-2 .
• Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 2: 1948–1963 (= Agon-Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 29). Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Libero. No. 5. IFFHS. April – June 1990. Football in West Berlin: 1954/55.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Football legend Nocht died. In: Südkurier , June 18, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2013.