Willi Rube

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Willi Rube (born December 16, 1918 in Mannheim-Waldhof ; † October 13, 1997 in Mannheim ) was a German football player for SV Waldhof Mannheim and played 146 games in the Oberliga Süd from 1945 to 1954 , scoring 34 goals.

career

Youth and beginnings, until 1945

Although he was born in Waldhof, the student Willi Rube started playing football in the club at SC 1910 Käfertal . His talent already led him to the “first” of the SCK at the age of 17 and also to the Mannheim city team. The playfully particularly talented half-striker showed his talent in several games of the Mannheim district league selection and won the championships in division 1 North Baden with Käfertal in 1941/42 and 1942/43. In the Tschammer Cup in 1940 , playmaker Rube and Käfertal in the Hessen / Südwest / Baden region were only eliminated on June 30, 1940 in extra time with 2: 3 against Gauligists VfR Mannheim. Due to the war-related restrictions, the Baden sports area carried out a Gauliga Baden divided into three seasons for traffic reasons in the 1943/44 season . The war game community SC Käfertal / MFC Phönix 02 was added to the north group and Rube was able to play against VfR Mannheim, VfTuR Feudenheim, SV Waldhof, KSG Neckarau and the other newcomer KSG Walldorf / Wiesloch / Sandhausen.

In the very first game against KSG VfL / 07 Neckarau on October 31, 1943, Rube scored the first “Käfertaler” goal of the season to equalize 1: 1 in the meantime; Neckarau won 6: 4. For the first time, the 16-year-old twin brothers Karl and Martin Gramminger stood together in a competitive game for Neckarau. Two of the four Käfertaler goals in the 4-2 win against Waldhof were due to the Käfertaler "scorer on duty", Willi Rube. In the NMZ (Neue Mannheimer Zeitung) it was written: “KSG Käfertal again offered quite a remarkable performance this time. In addition to the secure back line, the attack, which has an outstanding goalscorer in Rube, was particularly popular. ”With 11: 9 points, KSG Käfertal / Phönix finished third at the end of the round and Rube had scored ten (13) goals in nine games. During this time, Rube also played in the Mannheim city team in games against Duisburg (2: 2) and Heidelberg (6: 0). On May 28, 1944 he formed the right wing in the 2-2 draw against Duisburg on half right with right winger Ludwig Siffling and scored a goal. In the last city game on July 1, 1944 on the VfR-Platz against Heidelberg, he formed the Mannheim inner storm together with Willi Preschle and Ludwig Günderoth .

In September 1944, a round with six clubs was started in the Mannheim area. An orderly game operation could not come about in the final phase of the war. KSG Käfertal / Phönix had to stop playing in October 1944 after two games had been played - the last on October 1 with a 5-1 defeat against Feudenheim - and FG Union Heidelberg was excluded from playing after not playing against Waldhof and VfR Mannheim . Rube was then eligible to play for Waldhof and scored three goals in four games for the blue-blacks. On December 31, 1944, he was also the goalscorer for Waldhof 1-0 against VfR Mannheim. SV Waldhof became champions of the association round.

In total, Rube is out in the Gauliga Baden with 15 games and 17 goals at Ebner.

Oberliga Süd, 1945 to 1954

In the second year of the Oberliga Süd, 1946/47 , Waldhof won the runner-up behind 1. FC Nürnberg. In addition to Willi Rube, goalkeepers Karl Vetter , Reinhold Fanz , Georg Herbold , Ludwig Siffling , Werner Hölzer and Paul Lipponer stood out as top performers in the team of coach Herbert Pahlke . The local rivals VfR - Hermann Jöckel , Philipp Rohr , Rudolf de la Vigne , Kurt Stiefvater - and VfL Neckarau - Fritz Balogh , Willi Preschle , Günter Sosna , Karl Gramminger , Martin Gramminger - ended up in 12th and 16th place in the table. Waldhof won both local derbies against VfR 3-0 and the Käfertaler played on half-left in the World Cup system used at the time . The Waldhof attack formation was often made up of Herbold, Fanz, Lipponer, Rube and Siffling. In the successes against Karlsruher FV (5: 1) and FC Schweinfurt 05 (2: 1), Rube scored two goals and in the 6-0 home win on April 21, 1947 against VfB Stuttgart three goals.

When 1. FC Nürnberg was able to win the first German football championship after World War II in 1948 , the Waldhöfer in the Oberliga Süd had won the champions from Franconia in the home game on September 21, 1947 in front of 20,000 spectators with a 3: 1 Success - two goals by Herbold - both points removed. The home win was achieved with the 1946/47 successful attack formation with Herbold, Fanz, Lipponer, Rube and Ludwig Siffling. Even against the goal-hungry attack of the Stuttgarter Kickers - 113: 58 goals in this round - Rube and colleagues prevailed in the home game on October 5, 1947 with 4: 2 goals. On this day Werner Hölzer stormed next to Rube on the left wing. After the 3-0 home win on February 15, 1948 - Rube had given the hosts a 1-0 lead - Waldhof was in second place behind 1. FC Nürnberg. In the scoring 6: 4 home win on the 36th matchday, June 6, 1948, against SpVgg Fürth , Rube scored the sixth goal for the Walhöfer, Herbold distinguished himself as a three-time goalscorer. The playmaker got a total of 10 hits in the 1947/48 round . The blue-black landed on the 6th place in the final table.

In the fourth league round in 1948/49 , Waldhof landed in 5th place in the table with a goal difference of 54:43 goals. Attacker Georg Herbold led the top scorer list in the Oberliga Süd with 19 goals - together with Emil Maier from Meister Kickers Offenbach and Otto Thanner from TSV 1860 Munich . Since the local rival VfR Mannheim qualified as runner-up for the final round of the German championship in the south and surprisingly was able to bring the German championship to Mannheim on July 10, 1949 in Stuttgart against Borussia Dortmund , the performance of the Waldhöfer went wrong. Both local derbies were close matches: In the first half of the season he prevailed at VfR 2-1 at the Walhof, in the second leg they split on March 6, 1949 in front of 20,000 spectators with a 1-1 draw. Waldhof ran aground with the tried and tested attack with Siffling, Herbold, Lipponer, Rube and Holz.

From the 1950/51 season, the "Waldhof boys" went down in the table. Since playmaker Rube broke his leg twice in 1951/52, it was one of the reasons for the sporting crash. In the year of the soccer world championship 1954 Waldhof rose as the table penultimate from the Oberliga Süd. The 35-year-old veteran played again in 8 games (1 goal) alongside Georg Herbold, who was one year younger. Rube played his last league game on March 21, 1954 in a 2-2 home draw against Viktoria Aschaffenburg, where he was the right wing runner.

After completing his playing career, Rube acquired his coaching license and spent five years as a coach at FV Brühl. He won the A-class championship twice with Brühl and was promoted to the 2nd amateur league. Professional reasons forced him, he was employed by the Margarine Union, to give up his coaching activity.

literature

  • Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. Football archive Mannheim. Mannheim 1994. ISBN 3-929295-05-9 .
  • Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945–1970, Football Archive Mannheim, 1995, ISBN 3-929295-14-8 .
  • 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 .
  • Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Publishing house regional culture. Ubstadt-Weiher 2016. ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 . Pp. 340/341.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. P. 397
  2. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. P. 258
  3. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. P. 260
  4. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. P. 261/262
  5. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945. S. 206/207
  6. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Pp. 281-283
personal data
SURNAME Rube, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldhof (Mannheim)
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1997
Place of death Mannheim