Wilhelm Kronsbein (soccer player)

Wilhelm Kronsbein (born August 24, 1915 - November 24, 2006 ) was a German football player. The former Gauligaspieler of SV Arminia 08 Marten completed in the port of Borussia Dortmund in the first three rounds of the then prime Oberliga West , 1947-1950, a total of 46 league games.

career

The goalkeeper rose with his home club Arminia Marten, located southwest of the Dortmund harbor, in the 1936/37 season in the Gauliga Westphalia . With the blue-whites from the stadium on Wischlinger Weg, he held the class until 1940/41. Outstanding with the club in the 1938/39 season on October 23, 1938 was the 0-0 draw in front of over 8,000 spectators in the home game against the series champions FC Schalke 04.

His achievements led him to the district selection of Westphalia, where he was used in the competition for the Reichsbund Cup in 1939/40, 1940/41 and 1941/42. Under the then Reich trainer Sepp Herberger , he took part in a DFB course in Berlin from March 17 to 21, 1941. At the international match of the national soccer team on December 7, 1941 in Breslau against Slovakia (4-0), he was a substitute for Helmut Jahn , who was in goal .

In 1943 Willi Kronsbein was a guest goalkeeper at LSV Berlin .

Before the start of the newly introduced Oberliga West for the 1947/48 season, he joined Borussia Dortmund. On May 18, 1947, he guarded the goal in the team of coach Ferdinand Fabra , who won the Westphalia championship with a 3-2 win against FC Schalke 04 in the stadium at Strünkede Castle in Herne, in front of 30,000 spectators, and with it the previous dominance the "royal blue" broke through. In cooperation with center runner Paul Koschmieder and the outside runners Max Michallek and Paul Janowski , he formed the basis for the offensive game of the attack series around Herbert Sandmann , Alfred Preißler , August Lenz , Friedrich Ibel and Franz Podgorski . The final of the British Zone Championship was lost on July 13, 1947 in Düsseldorf in front of 60,000 spectators with 0-1 goals against Hamburger SV. He could not prevent the decisive goal from HSV striker Alfred Boller .

At the debut match day of the newly introduced first-class Oberliga West, on September 14, 1947, he was one of the guarantors of the 3-0 home win against the eventual runner-up Sportfreunde Katernberg together with defense chief "Pat" Koschmieder . When he won the title in 1947/48, the goalkeeper played all 24 league games - such as Michallek, August Lenz and Erich Schanko - for Borussia. In the successful title defense in 1948/49, the objective goalkeeper was absent in six of the 24 round matches. With the new coach Eduard Havlicek, BVB won the second championship in the west with eight points ahead of vice Rot-Weiss Essen.

At the sporting highlight, the games for the German soccer championship in June / July 1949, he was absent due to an injury. When he won the third title in a row, in 1949/50, he was number two behind Günter Rau and only played four league games. The last game in the league was played by the 34-year-old on January 8, 1950 in a 5-3 home win against 1. FC Köln, when Hennes Weisweiler and Hans Schäfer still led the game 3-1 at half-time second half succeeded.

After his playing career, he also worked as a coach at his home club Arminia Marten, SV Sodingen and SpVgg Herten (1952/53; 1954/55 in the 2nd League West).

literature

• Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling / Werner Steffen: Borussia Dortmund. The fame, the dream and the money. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-89533-110-4 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): The pot is round. The lexicon of Revier football: The clubs. Klartext Verlag. Essen 2006. ISBN 3-89861-356-9 . P. 166.
2. ↑ Football Week of May 18, 1943, page 5
3. ↑ Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 , p. 20.