Gerhard Kaufhold

Gerhard Kaufhold (* December 2, 1928; † October 4, 2009 in Offenbach- Rumpenheim ) was a German football player who played the majority of his career at the Offenbacher Kickers and in 1954 came once in the German national football team used.

Kickers Offenbach, 1946-1964

Beginning

In the fall of 1946 moved Gerhard Kaufhold from SSC 1921 Juno castle from the Hesse Lahn- Dill-Kreis on the Bieberer mountain to Kickers Offenbach. Coach Paul Oßwald built the talent on very carefully. About dosed inserts in rounds 1946/47 bis 1948/49, he led the fast man on the right wing in the Round 1949/50, in the root formation.

Regulars / performers

The first title win with the OFC in the Oberliga Süd experienced Gerhard Kaufhold already in the season 1948/49, when he brought it to eleven games with seven goals. In the final round of the German soccer championship 1949, the Süddeutsche Master Kickers Offenbach failed on June 26, 1949 semi-finals, with Kaufhold on Right Wing, with a 1-2 defeat to the runner-up of the Oberliga Süd, the VfR Mannheim. The VfR sat down on July 10, 1949 with a 3-2 win after extra time against Borussia Dortmund in the final of the German Cup by collecting the championship trophy in the squares of the city on the Rhine and Neckar.

By the third place in the Round 1949/50, the OFC went out again in the final round. After wins Tennis Borussia Berlin, Hamburger SV and the success in the semifinals over Prussia Dellbrueck, the team reached to the outstanding striker Horst Buhtz the final, which was held on June 25, 1950 against VfB Stuttgart. The pupils of coach Georg Wurzer sat down 2-1 in against by Offenbach. Gerhard Kaufhold had played all the games in the final.

In the year after the Football World Cup 1954 in Switzerland, Gerhard Kaufhold attained the peak of his footballing performance. He had matured to the director, combined pace, technique and eye for goal in a person. He completed all 30 games in the Oberliga Süd, scoring 17 goals. Offenbach took the championship in the south and moved back to the finals. The guys from Mountain Bieberer failed in the games to the eventual champions Rot-Weiss Essen.

By winning the runner-up in 1957 Offenbach was with coach Paul Oßwald ( 1946-58 in Offenbach in office) again. In the finals in use Against the defending champion Borussia Dortmund is lost with 1:2 goals. In the round of 1958/59 Gerhard Kaufhold experienced the first coaching change in the OFC: Osswald joined the Main page and took over Eintracht Frankfurt. The Yugoslav Bogdan Cuvaj succeeded him on the Bieberer mountain. After another runner-up in the south it was on June 28, 1959 in Berlin at the legendary final of the German football championship against Eintracht Frankfurt. The concord was with a 5-3 win after extra time German champion. Gerhard Kaufhold suffered so that after 1950 their second defeat in a final of the German soccer championship. By the seventh rank of captain of OFC finished the final round of 1962/63 the Oberliga Süd. He had contested 396 games from 1946 to 1963 for Offenbach and scored 112 goals in the process.

End of playing career

With the home game on May 3, 1964 against KSV Hessen Kassel - KSV master was ahead of FC Bayern München - finished Gerhard " Gerd" Kaufhold after 18 years of his playing career at the Offenbacher Kickers. Due to the controversial nomination of non Offenbach for the Bundesliga from 1963/64, he celebrated his departure from power football in the Regionalliga Süd. He represented as a 35 -year-old veteran once in 30 games, along with Hermann Nuber, Siegfried guest and Siegfried Held, the colors of the Kickers.

Selection / Games, 1950-1954

National coach Sepp Herberger led on 11 and 12 November 1950 in Ludwigshafen and Frankfurt two representative games with the national teams against West South South I and II against West through. Gerhard Kaufhold stormed outside right in the team of the South, the Frankfurt defeated the West 5-4 gates. It was the Abschlusssichtung the national coach for the first international match after the Second World War, which was fought on November 22, 1950 in Stuttgart against Switzerland. For this game, the national team of 22 - year-old was not nominated.

His start in a DFB team gave Kaufhold on 14 April 1951 in Karlsruhe with a game of B- Länderelf against Switzerland. But together with his team mate Kurt Schreiner and Horst Buhtz (VfB Mühlburg ) he could not prevent the 0-2 defeat. It was followed on April 20, 1952 a further appeal in the Südauswahl.

Only after the World Cup in Switzerland in 1954, Offenbach was again invited by the DFB: From 22 to 29 November 1954, a national seminar in the sports school Grünberg was to prepare for the match against England on 1 December in London. Since only were the three World Champion Werner Kohlmeyer, Werner Liebrich and Joseph Posipal available, had four freshmen in the storm their chance to prove: Gerhard Kaufhold (so first national player of the OFC) and Alfred Beck as a winger, Michael Pfeiffer and Jupp, outfitted as an inside forward. Uwe Seeler played in the middle his second international match. The non -coordinated formation lost the encounter with 1:3 goals. Kaufhold played with the Red -Whites of the OFC at this time already inside forward in the playmaker role. He set the fast winger Engelbert Kraus one with templates. His time on the sidelines he had left in Offenbach behind. He designed the game in midfield and brought the striker position. Winning the championship in the Oberliga Süd in 1955 spoke for the tactical action of the coach Paul Oßwald.

Special

Gerhard Kaufhold has experienced the " famine " after the Second World War as a footballer of Kickers Offenbach. In the book about the Oberliga Süd from the plaintext publishing in Essen, he is quoted as follows:

"How many times we drove for two, three sacks of potatoes in the country. And if we are a rural host offered a rich food and a drink, then go for it. Main thing is that there was something to eat. "

The trips to East Asia in 1953 with ten games in Hong Kong, Japan, India and the Philippines, the Soviet Union journey and a great trip to the USA were outstanding moments of the career of the future honor captain and member of the Honorary Council of the OFC.

Profession

Professionally, quickly became sedentary Gerd Kaufhold in Offenbach. The company Neuroth & Kaufhold stood for confectionery and liqueurs. Towards the end of football career, he joined the services of the city of Offenbach. He was managing director of the garden and cemetery office. The couple Kaufhold has two grown daughters. Astrid is a doctor and pharmacist Kerstin. The purchase Holds delight in grandchildren in Offenbach and Wiesbaden.

Swell

  • History of the Oberliga Süd, plain text Verlag, Essen, 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5
  • The German football championship, AGON, 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7
  • Germany's national soccer player, Lexicon, Sports Verlag Berlin, 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0
  • Germany's football matches, sports and game publishing Hitzel, Hürth, 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8
  • National football team ( Germany )
  • German
  • Died in 2009
  • Born in 1928
  • Man
Bieberer Berg Sigfried Held Josef Posipal
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