Werner Roth (soccer player, 1925)

Werner Roth (born July 25, 1925 , † March 25, 2011 in Karlsruhe-Neureut ) was a German football player and coach . As a player, he played a total of 231 league games (26 goals) in the southern football league between 1948 and 1959 . With Karlsruher SC he was DFB Cup winner in 1955 and 1956 and German runner-up in 1956. As a coach, he was in charge of the KSC in the Bundesliga from October 19, 1965 to November 1, 1966 .

career

The 23-year-old outside runner of FC Neureut, which plays in the Landesliga Nordbaden, Group South - in 1947/48 he took 8th place with his home club and attracted attention in the games against the two Karlsruhe old masters KFV and Phönix - switched 1948 to the meanwhile leading Karlsruhe soccer club, VfB Mühlburg in the soccer league south. The outside runner was considered “tough” and “dogged” and was predestined to fight the opposing playmakers due to his “toxic” duel behavior. On the eighth game day of the 1949/49 round, on November 7, 1948, in the 0-1 away defeat against VfB Stuttgart, the man from Neureut made his debut in the league under sports teacher Robert Kraft . At the side of teammates Walter Scheib (goalkeeper), Eugen and Max Fischer, Heinrich Gärtner and Georg Seeburger, he completed 21 games and scored nine goals. Mühlburg took ninth place.

From the second year in Mühlburg, 1949/50, Roth experienced Hans Tauchert's work as a trainer . In the second Tauchert year, 1950/51, Mühlburg scored the most goals in the south with 94 goals and thus took third place. With Horst Buhtz (21 goals), Hermann Lehmann (17 goals), Hugo Rastetter (17 goals) and Ernst Kunkel , they had four goalscorers in the attack, who were able to successfully utilize the assists from midfield and defense. As a reward for the good league year, a trip to Turkey was carried out after the association round. The expectations before the round of 1951/52 were correspondingly high, as the newcomers Rudi Fischer (goal), Bernd Oles and Edmund Adamkiewicz also joined the good squad . But success could not be forced, Mühlburg landed with the negative point account of 28:32 points in 9th place. Werner Roth had made his contribution in 25 league appearances with three goals. In total, he completed 75 league games in Mühlburg from 1948 to 1952, scoring 15 goals.

The merger of Mühlburg with FC Phönix-Alemannia, which is located in the 1st amateur league, created the Karlsruher SC on October 16, 1952 . The city of Karlsruhe immediately started the representative expansion of the Wildpark Stadium as a "merger gift" for the new large club.

The fighter in midfield, Werner Roth, played all 30 league games in 1952/53 despite the newcomers Günter Rau , Hans Strittmatter , Heinz Beck and the phoenix “gold” Kurt Sommerlatt and contributed five goals to fourth place in the final table. Hans Hipp was the first trainer of the merger club KSC. From the 1953/54 round, Adolf Patek took over the coaching position and laid the foundation for future successes. With 29 appearances (1 goal), Roth was a clear regular player in the 1954/55 round - KSC took fifth place - and was also in every game in the DFB Cup against FSV Frankfurt (5: 1), 1. FC Nürnberg ( 1: 0), VfB Stuttgart (5: 2), the two games in the semifinals against FC Altona 93 (3: 3 a.s./3:0) and on May 21, 1955 in the final in Braunschweig against FC Schalke 04 in action. His achievements in particular in the duels in the quarter-finals against Erwin Waldner (VfB Stuttgart) and in the two semi-finals against Altona 93, when the KSC runners series had to do with the dreaded Altona trio of Dieter Seeler , Werner Erb and Heinz Spundzeile and Roth the task of putting Hamburger SV's long-time outstanding playmaker, “Spund”, on the chain, was one of the decisive factors in Karlsruher SC's first title win.

The following game year, 1955/56, brought another increase for both players and clubs. The Wildpark-Elf was the first time South German champions in the Oberliga Süd. With three points ahead of the Swabian rival VfB Stuttgart ( Erwin Waldner ; 20 goals), five each in front of the North Baden competitor VfR Mannheim (with top scorer Ernst-Otto Meyer ; 30 goals) and the team from Bieberer Berg, Kickers Offenbach ( Helmut Preisendörfer ; 26 goals) the blue-whites won the championship title. Before the round, the team was reinforced with the left winger of the 1955 German champion, Bernhard Termath , from Rot-Weiss Essen. But also the unknown amateur from VfB Coburg, Heinz Ruppenstein , developed into a stimulation for the development game of the KSC. Sommerlatt advanced to half right, Ruppenstein took over his previous right outside runner position and Roth completed the majority of his 27 rounds (1 goal) alongside center runner Siegfried Geesmann as left runner, in the World Cup system that was practiced at the time. In the second half of the season there were 50,000 spectators at the top games against the lawn players from Mannheim on March 25, 1956 (2: 1) and 52,000 spectators on April 22, 1956 (2: 2) against the team from the Swabian state capital in the Wildpark Stadium. The KSC runner series had in both games - against the Mannheim indoor trio with Ernst Langlotz, Ernst-Otto Meyer, Theodor Laumann; against the Stuttgarter with Erwin Waldner, Knut Tagliaferri, Rolf Blessing - to do hard work.

In the final round of the German championship, Roth was in the four group games against Schalke 04 (3-0 win in Schalke), Hannover 96 (0-0), 1. FC Kaiserslautern (1-0 win in Ludwigshafen in front of 83,000 spectators; with Fritz and Ottmar Walter) and the second leg against Hannover 96 on June 3 in the 2-0 defeat. In the two final group games and in the final on June 24, 1956 in Berlin against Borussia Dortmund, the runner series with Ruppenstein, Geesmann and Herbert Dannenmeier was preferred at the KSC. In the DFB Cup on May 6, 1956, he was one of the KSC players who gave FK Pirmasens no chance in the semi-finals in their home stadium on Zweibrücker Strasse in a 5-1 win. When the final was played against Hamburger SV in Karlsruhe on August 5, 1956, Werner Hesse and Gerhard Siedl , the newcomers to the 1956/57 round , were eligible to play and therefore no place for Roth in the KSC team, which scored 3-1 goals.

When the Baden team was able to celebrate the second championship in the Oberliga Süd in 1958 under coach Eduard Frühwirth , the 33-year-old played his part in 25 games (1 goal). In the three finals against Tennis Borussia Berlin (1: 0), Eintracht Braunschweig (2: 1) and on May 10th in Hamburg's Volksparkstadion in front of 75,000 spectators against the eventual German champions FC Schalke 04 (0: 3 defeat) was no more Put on the old hand. The hardworker played his last league game with a duel in the 3: 4 home defeat on November 30, 1958 against FSV Frankfurt. After 156 league appearances (11 goals) for the KSC from 1952 to 1959, he ended his higher-class playing career after the 1958/59 season.

Trainer

After his first positions as a coach in the southern Baden amateur area in Baden-Baden and Baden-Oos, the ex-league player returned to the Wildpark as a youth coach at the beginning of the Bundesliga era in 1963/64. When the Bundesliga team of the KSC with coach Helmut Schneider in the third Bundesliga season 1965/66 after the eighth match day - 2: 5 defeat at Hannover 96 - graced the bottom of the table with 2:14 points, Werner Roth was on October 19, 1965 for Head coach appointed in Karlsruhe. He started the mission relegation on October 20th with a 1-0 home win against 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Thanks to the other home wins against Bremen, Eintracht Frankfurt, Tasmania Berlin, Schalke 04, Bayern Munich, Hanover 96, VfB Stuttgart and 1. FC Cologne, despite the devastating away record of 2:32 points (8:49 goals) at the end of the round with the 16th rank the class will be obtained.

With the newcomers Christian Müller , Dragoslav Šekularac , Lars Granström , Jürgen Weidlandt and Friedhelm Strzelczyk , Karlsruhe hoped to finally have reached the Bundesliga with the sporting quality. But at the latest after the devastating 1: 6 home defeat on the fourth match day (September 10, 1966) against Bayern Munich and thus ranked last in the table with 1: 7 points, the good mood in the wildlife park was gone. After the 11th matchday, October 29, 1966, when KSC scored 4: 4 against Werder Bremen in their home stadium and was still in 18th place with 6:16 points, Roth was appointed coach of the KSC presidium dismissed and replaced by the Strasbourg pedagogue Paul Frantz .

Roth then worked from 1967 to 1970 in the second -rate regional football league south as a coach. First two years with Schwaben Augsburg , last in 1969/70 with SSV Reutlingen . Then he ended his coaching career in higher-class football.

In addition to football

Roth, who worked professionally as a technical draftsman, died at the age of 85 in his home town of Neureut and was buried in the local cemetery.

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. 322.
• Matthias Kropp: Germany's big football clubs. Volume 11: Karlsruher SC. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89609-115-8 .
• 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 .
• Up, you heroes! N ° 19, May 2012, pp. 54-56.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Toxic" Roth died at the age of 85 ( memento from December 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 7, 2016.