Erich Pawlak

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Erich Pawlak
Personnel
birthday December 14, 1933
place of birth Germany
date of death July 24, 2007
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
SV Husen 19
SuS Kaiserau
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1954 SuS Kaiserau
1954-1961 VfL Bochum
1961– Dortmund SC 95
1 Only league games are given.

Erich Pawlak (born December 14, 1933 - † July 24, 2007 ) was a German football player. From 1954 to 1961, as an active member of VfL Bochum , he played 131 league games in what was then the first-class football league West , scoring 33 goals.

career

Pawlak's beginnings in club football took place in Dortmund at the clubs SV Husen 19 and SuS Kaiserau . He was a teammate of the future goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski in both clubs . The paths of the two talents only parted with the move from Pawlak in 1954 to VfL Bochum , or from Tilkowski in 1955 to Westfalia Herne , in the Oberliga West . The goalkeeper of the 1966 World Cup tournament in England wrote about the youth days together in his biography "And the Wembley goal falls forever":

“ There's one player I've known longer than anyone, Erich Pawlak. Even as street footballers, we fought our battles sometimes with one another, sometimes as opponents. It is impossible to imagine my athletic apprenticeship years in Husen and Kaiserau without him. We called him "Szepan". Erich and I, we played together in the school and youth teams, then in the 1st teams from Husen 19 and at SuS Kaiserau in the association league, as well as in the Westphalia selection. "

In his first season with VfL Bochum in the Oberliga West , 1954/55 , the midfielder, called because of his running strength "lung", rose with VfL in the 2nd Oberliga West . He scored six goals in 23 league games. Immediately after winning the championship in the 2nd Oberliga West in 1955/56 , he returned to the Oberliga with the team from Castroper Strasse. The league returnees finished 10th in the Oberliga West in 1956/57 and the "running miracle" Pawlak had mostly used as a left wing runner in the World Cup system then practiced , playing all 30 rounds.

On March 3, 1957, he was in the selection of West Germany in the representative game in Bochum against Berlin. In the 3-1 success of the West Elf, he played as usual as the left wing runner and provided the strikers Felix Gerritzen , Alfred Preißler , Alfred Kelbassa , Aki Schmidt and Helmut Kapitulski with his assists . He played with his childhood friend, Hans Tilkowski guarded the host's gate. Due to his consistently good performance, he is included in the "Revier Team of the Season". Against his youth teammate Tilkowski he lost both games in this round with his VfL against Westfalia Herne .

When Bochum surprisingly came fourth under coach Herbert Widmayer in the 1958/59 round , Pawlak only had seven missions with three goals due to injury breaks. Personally, in the 1960/61 season, with 28 league games and twelve goals, he again had an excellent lap record, but VfL was relegated to bottom of the table in the 2nd Oberliga West . On April 23, 1961 he came with his teammates in the home game against Westfalia Herne with goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski to a 3-0 victory. Pawlak played his last league game on matchday 30, May 13, 1961, in a 4-1 home defeat against Hamborn 07 .

After relegation, he continued his career in the 2nd Oberliga West , but no longer in Bochum, he joined the Dortmund SC 95 .

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
  • Heinz Formann, Deep in the West . The phenomenon VfL Bochum, Klartext-Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-88474-177-2
  • Markus Franz, The boys from Castroper Strasse . The history of VfL Bochum, Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2005, ISBN 3-89533-506-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Tilkowski: And the Wembley goal falls forever. The story of my life. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2006. ISBN 978-3-89533-518-1 . P. 39/40
  2. ^ Raphael Keppel : Germany's international soccer games. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sport- und Spielverlag Hitzel, Hürth 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 , p. 235.
  3. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): The pot is round. The lexicon of Revier football: The chronicle from 1945 to 2005. Volume 1. Klartext Verlag. Essen 2005. ISBN 3-89861-358-5 . P. 53
personal data
SURNAME Pawlak, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1933
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 2007