As of April 28, 2020 at 10:45 a.m.
by Johannes Freytag, NDR.de
Under coach Fritz Rebell, the 1st SC Göttingen 05 knocked three times in a row in the middle of the 1960s – to no avail – on the goal of the Bundesliga. After many financial problems, the yellow-blacks have crashed into the national league. From our series “(Almost) forgotten clubs”.
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Göttingen’s record goal scorer Kurt Krauss (right) in the promotion game 1968 against RW Essen.
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Kurt “Kurtchen” Krauss dreams of the Bundesliga in 1965. Rising star Bayern Munich want to sign offensive midfielder, who is undoubtedly one of the best footballers Göttingen has ever produced – 94 goals in 255 games for the 05ers are a proud record. It’s just stupid that Krauss talks openly with a 05 supervisor about the interest of the aspiring Munich. The interlocutor is a soldier and knows what to do. “Three weeks later I had the draft order and couldn’t leave Göttingen,” says Krauss in conversation with the NDR Sportclub. He does not regret that he was denied the Bundesliga because of this: “The ten years at Göttingen 05 were my best time as a footballer.”
The zenith of football in Göttingen also coincided with Krauss’s heyday. Because of the coach’s name, the 05ers are quickly given a nickname: “Rebellenelf” is the name of the team that caused a sensation in 1964/1965 as promoters in the second-rate Regionalliga Nord. Fifth place is at the end of the season – and success is not a flash in the pan.
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Notorious defensive strength
The Göttingen team is even runner-up the following year, thanks also to their strong defensive. “If we scored more than two goals, the coach went crazy,” 05-record player Helmut Hinberg explains NDR Sportclub: “He always said: ‘The goal difference is worth a point in the end.'” And Rebell is right: Göttingen qualified twice instead of tied Kiel for the promotion games to the Bundesliga, only with the third runner-up “title” Lower Saxony one point more than the third place winner – this time VfL Wolfsburg.
Hard hand and trickery
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Fritz Rebell trained Göttingen from 1951 to 1955 and from 1963 to 1969.
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Rebell leads his team with a hard hand and leaves nothing to chance: Because there are many bachelors in the team, the team always stays in the hotel on weekends – regardless of whether it is a home or away game. “We were literally barracked,” recalls former midfielder Klaus Matz. Everything was meticulously checked and monitored, adds Hinberg: “Even the drinks were only allocated.”
There is also a team psychologist in Göttingen. “He made us small at the opponent before the games in the promotion round,” Matz recalls a portrait that the psychologist sent to the great Berlin Hertha as “Greetings from the Province”. But other supportive measures are obviously not taboo either: “He said I would make you world-class players. Just take the stuff here. He said that they were only vitamins …” says Krauss, who attaches importance to the fact that not to have taken anything myself.
Always at the front, but never at the top
But the evening kickers from Göttingen do not want to make the big leap into the still young Bundesliga: in 1966 they fail in the pre-qualification at 1. FC Saarbrücken. In 1967 there was only one win in the promotion round, in 1968 there were at least three victories, but it was only enough for fourth place in the group of five.
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