Wilhelm Sold

Wilhelm Sold (born April 19, 1911 in Saarbrücken , † September 25, 1995 ) was a German football player . From 1935 to 1942, the defender, mostly used as a middle runner in the World Cup system at the time , played twelve international matches in the German national soccer team . As a guest player of 1. FC Nürnberg he won the cup of 1939 and was in the final of the German soccer championship in 1943 with his home club FV Saarbrücken .

career

societies

Wilhelm Sold began his career in 1919 as a student in the youth department at FV Saarbrücken . On April 23, 1933, Sold belonged to his club colleague Edmund Conen - with the FV Saarbrücken, the two top performers played the association games in the Rhein / Saar district, group Saar and could not qualify for the Gauliga from the round 1933/34 onwards due to fifth place - Elf of Southern, which in the Federal Cup the final match in Mannheim with a 6: 1 won victory against Southeast Germany. In the 1934/35 series, the league team was promoted to the Gauliga Südwest ; after the 1938/39 season, however, they were relegated. After relegation Sold - he had made his debut in the national team in August 1935 - for one season at 1. FC Nürnberg and won the Tschammer Cup 1939 with the Franks on April 28, 1940 . With coach Alv Riemke and teammates like Willi Billmann , Georg Köhl and Willi Kund , the “Club” prevailed against Waldhof Mannheim in front of 60,000 spectators in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. In the book about 1. FC Nürnberg, the “most noticeable phenomenon in the whole game is the Nuremberg middle runner“ Bubi ”Sold, who played a first-class stopper”. As the Bavarian Gauliga champion , the "Club" competed in the games for the German championship in 1940. The man from Saarland was able to play the two group games against SV Waldhof (0: 0) and Stuttgarter Kickers (0: 2) for the Franks. Then he joined Tennis Borussia Berlin due to the circumstances of the war and won the championship in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg with the "Veilchen" in 1941 , but failed with players like Hans Berndt and Fritz Wilde in the final round of the German championship at Dresdner SC , which won both group games against the Berlin-Brandenburg champions. He returned to Saarbrücken in 1942 . In his hometown he reached the championship in the Gauliga Westmark in 1943 and after successes in the finals against FV 93 Mülhausen (5: 1), Cologne SV Victoria (5: 0), VfR Mannheim (3: 2) and in the semi-finals with a 2-1 win against First Vienna FC 1894 with their star Karl Decker and the Hamburg "guest player" Rudolf Noack the final of the German championship . After Hardy Grüne, the FVS stood for the consequences of the war, because with Johannes Herberger , Herbert Binkert and Herbert Baier they had top-class guest players in their ranks. The head of the team, however, was national player Wilhelm Sold. In front of 80,000 spectators in the Berlin Olympic Stadium, the Saarlanders lost 3-0 against Dresdner SC. Defender Decker sustained a serious injury after ten minutes, and the FVS was outnumbered in the second half , unable to keep the DSC offensive with Heiner Kugler , Heinrich Schaffer , Richard Hofmann , Helmut Schön and Franz Erdl in check.

As a guest player in the war, the head of defense and Pomeranian master HSV Groß Born again took part in the finals of the German soccer championship in 1944 and only lost with the military team at the side of players like Alexander Martinek , Kurt Hallex , Kurt Hinsch , Edmund Conen and Justus Eccarius in the semi-finals with 2 : 3 against the military team of the Air Force Sports Club Hamburg .

After the end of the Second World War , the veteran ran as team captain for the FVS successor 1. FC Saarbrücken in the Oberliga Südwest, group north. In the first round in 1945/46 they won the championship with 31: 5 points with one point ahead of 1. FC Kaiserslautern and won the French zone championship against Rastatt. In the second year 1946/47, Sold and colleagues took third place, but were able to play international games against Stade Reims and Stade Français . In the third year 1947/48 it was enough behind the Walter-Elf from Kaiserslautern to the runner-up. Overall, "Bubi" Sold from 1945 to 1948 in the Oberliga Südwest 52/53 league games with eleven goals are attributed. Sold was still there in 1948/49 when the blue-blacks faced sporting competition in the second French league for political reasons.

A lucky circumstance helped 1. FC Saarbrücken. The AS Angoulême , a club of the professional division 2 in France, was not able to provide a team for the championship round at short notice. The Saarbrücken-based company applied to the FFF for permission to take the vacated space. This application was granted with the restriction that Saarbrücken could participate as a guest, i.e. unofficially. Sold and his comrades became a "travel team". Criss-cross they passed the corridors of France. The Malstatter traveled 23,314 km by train. After 37 games this season , FC Sarrebruck, coached by "Ossi" Müller, had won 26 games, drew seven times and lost four games. The goal difference was 148: 50 with 59 points. Bordeaux was in second place with 108: 49 goals and 54 points. Sarrebruck was not listed in the table, and his games were not counted for the opponents either: officially, the D2 played with only 19 teams, champions Racing Lens and Bordeaux as second each had 53:19 points and were promoted to Division 1 .

Following the injury-related end of his active career, Sold devoted himself to the four clubs 1. FC Nürnberg, Tennis Borussia Berlin, FV Saarbrücken and HSV Groß Born in 14 final rounds of the German championship and scored four goals - Above all, the sports shop that he ran with his wife on Bahnhofstrasse in Saarbrücken and kept himself physically fit as a successful sports bowler.

Selection teams

Sold made his debut in the German national soccer team on August 18, 1935 in a 1-0 win in Luxembourg . In total, Sold played twelve international matches by 1942, six of them for FV Saarbrücken and three each for 1. FC Nürnberg and Tennis Borussia Berlin. In addition to his home association of Southwest Germany and initially southern Germany, he also belonged to the two other association teams of Bavaria and Brandenburg from 1933 to 1942 in the competition for the Federal Cup during his "guest performances" in World War II. Even before the Gauligen was introduced, he and South Germany won the final 6-1 against Southeast Germany on April 23, 1933 in Mannheim. Hans Jakob stood in the goal, Sigmund Haringer defended and Sold, as the middle runner, was the head of the defense of the victorious South Germany eleven. In attack, the goalscorers Edmund Conen (two goals), Oskar Rohr (three goals) and Josef Fath (one goal) stood out from the successful eleven.

Sold celebrated his debut in the national team under coach Sepp Herberger in an international match of the "newcomers" against the test opponent from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. A total of nine players made their international debut on August 18, 1935, including, in addition to Sold, the players Franz Elbern , Rudolf Gellesch and Adolf Urban . At the same time, the A team played against Finland in Munich and won 6-0. Reich trainer Otto Nerz looked after this team and Ludwig Goldbrunner held the stopper role. At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, the Saarlander was a member of the DFB squad, but was not used. Immediately before and after the game of the Breslau-Elf on May 16, 1937 in an 8-0 win over Denmark, Sold was put to the test in two training games of the DFB selection in May against the English professional team Manchester City . The runner row with Andreas Kupfer , "Lutte" Goldbrunner and Albin Kitzinger formed the backbone of this legendary team. In addition to Goldbrunner, three other outstanding middle runners - Hans Rohde , Walter Dzur and Johann Mock - competed for the middle runners role in the national dress during this period. Sold played his twelfth and last international match on September 20, 1942 in Berlin in a 3-2 home defeat against Sweden. In front of 90,000 spectators in the Olympic Stadium, he formed the German runner row with Kupfer and Rohde against the Swedish offensive greats Gunnar Gren and Gunnar Nordahl .

With Southwest Germany he was in the Reichsbund Cup 1935/36 in the semifinals after a 2-1 success after extra time in Augsburg against the representation of Bavaria (Jakob, Haringer, Goldbrunner, Ernst Lehner , Franz Krumm , Wilhelm Simetsreiter ) in the final. He had played in the runner row with Rudolf Gramlich and Hugo Mantel . The final ended on March 1, 1936 in Frankfurt against the strong team from Saxony ( Willibald Kreß , Walter Rose , Erwin Helmchen , Fritz Machate , Willi Munkelt , Willi Kund ) after extra time 2: 2. In the replay on May 24th, Saxony prevailed 9-0 against the southwest in Leipzig, which had started without the prevented Saarbrücken stopper. In the second final of the Reichsbund Cup of the association teams, he moved in 1937/38. On February 27, 1938 , the Südwestelf, supervised by Karl Hohmann , returned the favor with a 3-2 victory in Dresden in the semifinals in the selection of Saxony and was thus in the final in Erfurt on March 6 against the Nordmark selection . The north German team around the runner row with Hans Rohde, Erwin Reinhardt and Erwin Seeler prevailed 3: 1 and Sold had lost a final for the second time. Seven days after his last international match, on September 27, 1942, he and Brandenburg lost 4-1 in the semi-final replay against Nordmark as a player in Tennis Borussia Berlin. It was the last edition of this competition.

literature

• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• IFFHS (Ed.): Libero. Special German. Gau selection competitions (1933–1942). No. D17 1998, Wiesbaden 1998.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fritz Tauber: German national football team: Player statistics from A to Z . 3. Edition. AGNON, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 , p. 120 (176 pages).
2. ↑ Christoph Bausenwein, Bernd Siegler, Harald Kaiser: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89533-907-3 , pp. 110–111.
3. ↑ Hardy Greens: 100 Years of the German Championship. The history of football in Germany. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-410-3 , p. 260.
4. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 369 .