Ernst Wade

Ernst Wade (born January 12, 1934 - June 27, 2021 ) was a German football player . He played for the Offenbacher Kickers from 1952 to 1963 in the Oberliga Süd 259 games, in which he scored 18 goals.

career

Offenbacher Kickers, 1952 to 1963

The 18-year-old talent Ernst Wade moved in 1952 from SG Nieder-Roden from Rodgau to Offenbacher Kickers in the Oberliga Süd. Coach Paul Oßwald carefully built up the young player. He carefully introduced him to the level of performance of the team and the southern German league with two missions in the first round in 1952/53. From the 1953/54 round, the sports student was a member of the regular cast. When the OFC won the championship in the south in the 1954/55 season, the half-left scored ten goals in 22 games. In the final round of the German soccer championship , Rot-Weiss Essen sat down with national strikers Helmut Rahn and Bernhard Termath clear against Offenbach.

The left-footer, who has now moved to the left wing position, made the second entry into the finals in 1957 as runner-up in the south. Borussia Dortmund prevailed in the group games and also defended the championship title. Offenbach lost the championship in the south to rivals Eintracht Frankfurt due to defeats on the last two league games of the round 1958/59 against TSV 1860 Munich and VfB Stuttgart . In the final round, the South vice had to do with Hamburger SV , Westfalia Herne and SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin . Wade drove the kickers game together with the two half-strikers Hermann Nuber and Gerhard Kaufhold . The 0: 1 final defeat by a goal by Klaus Stürmer against Hamburger SV on June 20, 1959 could not prevent the OFC's entry into the final on June 28 in Berlin. South rivals Eintracht Frankfurt decided the final with 5: 3 goals after extra time. Wade mostly dealt with István Sztani in the dramatic game .

Twelve months later the OFC was again runner-up, this time behind the Karlsruher SC . Ernst Wade had played all 30 league games. A 0: 1 defeat in the qualifying game against Westfalia Herne on May 7th in Hanover prevented the re-entry into the final round. With Heinz Lichtl and Hermann Nuber, Wade formed the Offenbach runners' row. From 1955 to 1960 he played 17 games in the final round of the German championship. In the rounds of 1961 and 1962 Wade reached fourth place with the OFC. With 19 missions he ended his higher-class career after the last league season 1962/63 and moved to the amateur camp for TG Oberroden.

Selection games, 1954 to 1957

National coach Sepp Herberger appointed the student national player Ernst Wade to the B national team on April 24, 1954. With Alfred Pfaff from Eintracht Frankfurt he formed the left wing of the German team in Offenburg against Switzerland. Four weeks later, on May 30th, the Offenbacher was also in the German amateur national team in the only game of the DFB amateurs in 1954. Egon Loy was in goal in the 0-0 draw , Helmut Sattler defended, Hans Weilbächer formed with Wade the half-strikers and Hermann Höfer stormed on the left wing. When the DFB hosted the U23 junior national team's first game on June 25, 1956 in Frankfurt am Main , Engelbert Kraus was the second Offenbach player alongside Wade in the DFB national team. On June 29, 1957, the man from Rodgau in Karlsruhe was also used in the ranks of southern Germany in the representative game against northern Germany.

literature

• Hardy Greens : From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 1 . AGON, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• 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
• Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 2: 1948–1963 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 29). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7
• Kicker: Fußball-Almanach 1993. Copress-Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-7679-0398-9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The OFC mourns Ernst Wade. In: ofc.de . June 30, 2021, accessed July 1, 2021 .