Willi Knesebeck

Willi Knesebeck (born March 31, 1887 in Berlin ; † September 18, 1956 ) was a soccer player who won two German championships with the BTuFC Viktoria 89 .

Career

societies

Knesebeck - described as an athletic and stocky runner who was said to have a good deal of shrewdness - belonged to the BTuFC Viktoria 89 as a middle runner from 1905 to 1914 , for whom he was a member of the Berliner Ballspielvereine association until the end of the 1910/1911 season , from the 1911 / Played 12 point games in the championships held by the Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs . During his club membership, he won the Berlin championship five times, the first three in a row. Due to the success he took with his team in the respective finals of the German championship. In his first participation in the finals, he reached the final held on May 19, 1907 in Mannheim with the BTuFC Viktoria 89 , which was lost to Freiburg FC with 1: 3. On June 7, 1908, he reached the final again, which he and his team won 3-1 in Berlin against FC Stuttgarter Cickers . On May 30, 1909, he reached the final for the third time in a row, which was lost in Breslau 2: 4 to the Karlsruher FC Phönix . On June 4, 1911, he won the final held in Dresden , which was won 3-1 against VfB Leipzig for the last time. In the two following years he was eliminated from the competition with the BTuFC Viktoria against the eventual champions Holstein Kiel and Duisburger SpV in the semifinals. He played his first of a total of 14 final round matches on April 21, 1907 in Berlin in a 2-1 victory in the quarter-finals against SC Schlesien Breslau .

Selection / national team

As a player in the selection team of the Association of Berlin Ball Game Clubs and the Association of Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs, he was used in the games for the Crown Prince's Cup , the competition between the teams of the regional associations. In the 8-2 victory in the quarter-finals against the team of the Märkischer Fußball-Bund on October 9, 1910 in Berlin, he even scored a goal with the goal to make it 5-1 in the 55th minute; the subsequent semi-final match against the team of the Association of South German Football Associations was lost 3-1. The following year, on February 18, 1912 in Berlin, it was again this national team that was lost, but this time in the final with 5-6.

Knesebeck played - due to the successes with his club - two international matches for the senior national team , where he made his debut on December 17, 1911 in Munich in the 1: 4 defeat against the national team of Hungary . He played alongside Fritz Förderer , Julius Hirsch , Paul Hunder and Karl Wegele as deputy for Max Breunig ; The referee of this game was the later supervisor of the Austrian wonder team, Hugo Meisl . After the 1912 Olympic football tournament in Stockholm, which was disappointing for the DFB , he made his second appearance as a national player . The international match played on October 6, 1912 in Copenhagen against the national team of Denmark ended in a 1: 3 defeat. That he only made two international appearances is understandable, as he had too strong competition on the middle runner position with Max Breunig from Karlsruhe FV , Josef Glaser from Freiburg FC and Camillo Ugi from VfB Leipzig.

successes

• German champion 1908 , 1911
• Berlin Masters 1907 , 1908 , 1909 , 1911 , 1913
• Crown Prince Cup finalist 1912

Others

• Knesebeck, a trained sports teacher, trained the Spandauer SV and finally, from 1935 to 1938 , Hertha BSC , which he led in 1937 to the Gaume Championship .
• From 1921 he taught at the German University for Physical Education .
• He worked as a sports journalist for the "Football Week" published in Berlin and published the book in 1925 with the title Des football player's training book .

literature

• Naucke, Erich: Willy Knesebeck died in oblivion. In: Fußball-Woche (Berlin) , No. 39 of September 24, 1956, p. 10.
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Web links

• Willi Knesebeck in the database of weltfussball.de
• Willi Knesebeck on dfb.de