Alfred Boller

This article deals with the soccer player, for the civil engineer see Alfred P. Boller

Alfred Boller (born October 12, 1922 in Reichenbach im Vogtland ; † 2010 ) was a German football player. The player, who can be used both as a striker and as a defender in the World Cup system, played a total of 135 league games for the clubs Hamburger SV and FC St. Pauli from 1947 to 1953 in what was then the first-class football Oberliga Nord and scored 90 goals.

Career

societies

During the Second World War

Emerging from FC Sturm Reichenbach , Boller was active as a guest player at the clubs SpVgg Wilhelmshaven, Kilia Kiel and Holstein Kiel from 1939 to 1945 due to the circumstances of the Second World War . With the “Storks” from Holstein Kiel he won the championship in the Schleswig-Holstein Gauliga in 1943 and 1944 . In the final round of the German soccer championship in 1943, he failed with the blue-white-reds only in the semifinals at the later German champions Dresdner SC . In the 1: 3 defeat against the Saxons around Richard Hofmann and Helmut Schön , he scored the consolation goal from Kiel in Hanover . In the 4-1 win on June 26th in Berlin against First Vienna Wien - with Karl Decker and Rudolf Noack - in the game for third place, “Fred” Boller stood out alongside other players like Kurt Krüger , Franz Linken and Ottmar Walter on the center forward position as a two-time goalscorer. In the final round of 1944 there were two missions on April 16 against SV Dessau 05 and on May 7 against Hertha BSC. In Dessau, the Kiel's storm continued to left, Boller and Werner Baßler 2 after extra time in Berlin the game went with 2: 3 4 goals against Hertha team led by Oswald Peacock (goalkeeper), Bram Appel and Fritz Balogh lost . In total, Boller played six finals and scored five goals for Kiel in 1943 and 1944.

After the Second World War

After the end of the Second World War, the Vogtlander settled in Hamburg and played football for Hamburger SV. With coach Hans Tauchert , the "Rautträger" won the championship in the Hamburg League (city league) in 1945/46 with 22: 2 points. The newcomer from Kiel had scored at least four goals in eleven games. The title defense did not succeed in 1946/47, the "miracle team" of FC St. Pauli prevailed with three points ahead of the defending champion from Rothenbaum. The top attacker, who is characterized by speed and enormous shooting power, formed the first HSV “dream duo” of the post-war period with Heinz Spundzeile . In 22 league games "Fred" Boller scored at least 24 of the 101 goals of the runner-up. Siegfried Jessen followed in the internal goalscorer list with eleven goals and center runner Erwin Reinhardt , like Boller, had played all 22 league games for HSV. The two top games against St. Pauli brought the defending champion a negative result with a 2: 3 home defeat on November 3, 1946 in the first half of the season and a 2: 2 draw on March 30, 1947 in front of 28,000 spectators in the second half with 1: 3 points Points account. The subsequent deduction of points from the game against third-placed Concordia on February 2, 1947, due to the unauthorized use of player Jonka, played a decisive role in the championship decision.

In the games for the British Zone Championship , however, Boller and his teammates sat down against VfB Lübeck (5: 2), FC Schalke 04 (0: 0 a.s. / 2: 0), in the semifinals against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (3 : 1) and in the final on July 13, 1947 in Düsseldorf in front of 57,500 spectators with a goal by "Fred" Boller, through a 1-0 victory against the Westphalia champions Borussia Dortmund with their top performers Wilhelm Kronsbein (goalkeeper), Paul Koschmieder , Max Michallek , Herbert Sandmann , Alfred Preißler and August Lenz . In the replay on June 29th in front of 38,000 spectators in the Schalke Glückauf-Kampfbahn , the HSV striker brought his team 1-0 ahead , before the left runner of the “Royal Blues”, Willi Dargaschewski , scored 2-0 with an own goal failed for the HSV. In the 3-1 win against RW Oberhausen on July 6th, in front of 42,000 spectators in Duisburg, Boller scored two goals against ex-national goalkeeper Willy Juerissen . Boller completed all five games and scored four goals when winning the British Zone Championship in 1947.

In the debut round of the football Oberliga Nord, 1947/48, the HSV started on September 13, 1947 with a 3-1 win at Bremer SV. Triple scorer was "Fred" Boller. At the end of the round, Rothenbaum's eleven were tied with FC St. Pauli - both 37: 7 points - at the top of the table. But goal scorer Boller had left HSV after 19 games with 19 goals at the end of March 1948 and joined SpVgg Trossingen in the 1st League Southwest, Group South . The last league game he completed in the jersey of the "Rautträger" on March 21, 1948 in the 0-1 home defeat in front of 27,000 spectators against local rivals from Millerntor. The reason for his surprising change is said to have been that HSV could not find a suitable apartment for the attacker.

In the French occupation zone in what was then the state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern , however, he could not prevent the Red-Whites from relegating to the amateur camp. As third in the table, SV Trossingen returned to the 1st League Southwest after the 1948/49 season. The striker ran as a "zone jumper" but already on May 22, 1949 in the playoff for the championship in the Oberliga Nord 1948/49, in the attack of FC St. Pauli against Hamburger SV. With two goals he brought the eleven to Miller, Hempel, Stender, Dzur, Appel, Machate and Schaffer with 2-0 goals. After the 2-1 half-time lead by St. Pauli, however, his old club prevailed with 5: 3 goals. In the final round of the German championship he scored four goals in five games for the runner-up from northern Germany in May and June 1949.

In the rounds of 1949/50 and 1950/51, two runner-up championships followed with St. Pauli and the finals six to eleven for Boller. With the 1-0 home win on June 10, 1951 against SpVgg Fürth, the games for the German championship ended. The attack of the Millerntor-Elf formed itself with Harald Stender , Hans Sump , Boller, Günther Woitas and Alfred Beck . When the veterans from St. Pauli missed third place in the finals behind serial champions Hamburger SV and VfL Osnabrück in 1951/52, the striker had scored 28 goals again in 29 league games and impressively demonstrated his class as a goalscorer. In the games against Eintracht Braunschweig (6: 0) and VfL Osnabrück (4: 3), he distinguished himself as a four-time goal scorer.

With the game on April 26, 1953 at Göttingen 05 (4: 4), the defender Boller said goodbye, after a total of 135 league games with 90 goals from the Oberliga Nord.

For the North German selection (NFV) he had played in three representative games against South Germany (twice) and West Germany in 1949 and 1951. Previously, he had already accumulated on August 31, 1947 in Hanover in the ranks of the selection of the British Zone (north-west) against Hanover Garrison XI (4-0). According to Vinke, Boller made "one of his strongest appearances in November 1947, when he scored five times in the 7-1 victory of the Hamburg city team against Berlin."

In southern Germany and in Vogtland

From 1953 to 1956 he played for FC Singen 04 in the 2nd Oberliga Süd . In his last season he finished third with the team from the Hohentwiel Stadium . Then, until 1959, he played for SC Schwenningen , with which the rise in 1958 in the 1st amateur league Württemberg succeeded.

In the course of 1959 he moved to his home in the Vogtland, where his parents lived. He ended his active football career at SV progress Reichenbach in 1963 and then coached some amateur clubs in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district league.

Web link

• Alfred Boller in the database of weltfussball.de
• Players A – Z (bung bottle) , visited on March 17, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Skrentny, Prüß: With the diamond in the heart. P. 131.
2. ↑ probably a lot more; Numerous goalscorers can no longer be determined from the relevant season or the following season, see Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Goals, points, players: the complete HSV statistics . compiled by Jens Reimer Prüß and Hartmut Irle. Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-586-0 , p. 83 (352 pages).
3. ↑ Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Goals, points, players: the complete HSV statistics . compiled by Jens Reimer Prüß and Hartmut Irle. Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-586-0 , p. 86 (352 pages).
4. ↑ Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Goals, points, players: the complete HSV statistics . compiled by Jens Reimer Prüß and Hartmut Irle. Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-586-0 , p. 87 (352 pages).
5. ↑ Prüß, Irle: Goals, Points, Players. P. 88.
6. ^ Galczynski, Carstensen: FC St. Pauli. Club Encyclopedia. P. 62.
7. ↑ Jens Reimer Prüß (ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 , p. 198.

literature

• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Werner Skrentny, Jens Reimer Prüß : With the diamond in the heart. The great history of Hamburger SV. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-620-1 .
• Ronny Galczynski, Bernd Carstensen: FC St. Pauli. Club Encyclopedia. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-89533-613-3 .