Andreas Franz (soccer player)

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Andreas Franz
Personnel
birthday June 27, 1897
place of birth Fürth ,  German Empire
date of death May 2nd 1970
Place of death Fuerth,  Germany
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
0000-1912 TV 1860 Fürth
1912-1915 SpVgg Fürth
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1915-1933 SpVgg Fürth 309 (333)
1933-1934 VfR Heilbronn 4 00(2)
1934-1939 TV 1860 Fürth
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1922-1926 Germany 10 00(4)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1933-1934 VfR Heilbronn (player-coach)
1934-1939 TV 1860 Fürth (player-coach)
ASV Fürth
TV 48 Erlangen
1952-1958 SpVgg Fürth amateurs
1 Only league games are given.

Andreas "Resi" Franz (born June 27, 1897 in Fürth ; † May 2, 1970 ibid) was a German football player . He was considered an excellent technician who was agile and tricky and equipped with enormous shooting power.

From 1922 to 1926 he played ten games for the senior national team . With SpVgg Fürth he won the German championship in 1926 and 1929 . A coach salary paid to him triggered the Franz affair in 1934 , which led to the disqualification and ultimately also to the dissolution of VfR Heilbronn .

Career

Beginning in Fürth

Franz began playing football as a student at TV 1860 Fürth . At the age of 15 he joined SpVgg Fürth in 1912 , with which his older brother Karl won the German championship in the 1913/14 season. "Resi" Franz became one of the most important players in the team after the First World War and was one of the guarantors of success in winning the German championships in 1926 and 1929. Together with his team-mate Leonhard Seiderer , Franz played an attacking game that was unique at the time, known as "Fürther School ” and which was characterized by the combination of elegance and effectiveness.

His first national success was winning the South German Cup on April 21, 1918 against the Stuttgarter Kickers . In the 1918/19 season he moved into the finals on June 8, 1919 in Berlin against northern Germany, which they lost 4-5, with the southern German selection in the Crown Prince Cup with a 3-1 success in the semifinals against Central Germany . With the game association, Franz moved into the final of the German championship for the first time in 1920 . In the final, however, the Franconian rival 1. FC Nürnberg prevailed with 2-0 goals. With the southern German national team, he won the finals for the national cup with 7-0 goals in Hamburg against North Germany on March 5, 1922 , four of which were scored by Franz.

On March 26, 1922, he played his first international match for the senior national team against the Swiss national team and, as a debutant, immediately scored both goals for a 2-2 draw. Before his second appearance in the national team on July 2 in Bochum against the national team of Hungary , he and the selection team of the South German Football Association won the final of the match cup on June 23 in Berlin with 4-1 goals against the selection team of the West German game Association and also scored two goals. To defend South Germany's title in the 1923 Federal Cup, he contributed a goal in the final on February 25 in Frankfurt against West Germany in a 2-1 win. With his club, SpVgg Fürth, Franz failed in the semifinals of the German championship on May 27, 1923 by a 1: 2 defeat against Union Oberschöneweide . In a Nuremberg-Fürth combination he scored three goals in a 4-3 success in an international match against the Austrian national team on January 13, 1924 in Nuremberg. Six weeks later, he won the national cup for the third time in a row with the selection team of the South German Football Association. On February 17, he scored a 4-2 win over Northern Germany. The final for the Federal Cup competition 1925/26 on October 4, 1925, he won 2-1 in Leipzig against Central Germany and thus for the fourth time with South Germany the Federal Cup. Here Franz scored the winning goal in the 88th minute of the game. From 1916 to 1926 he played a total of 15 games in the official cup competitions of the regional associations - Crown Prince, National and Combat Cup - and scored 21 goals.

With SpVgg Fürth, Franz won the South Cup with a 3-2 win against VfB Stuttgart and thus moved into the final round of the South German Championship , where it was then enough for the runner-up and participation in the final round for the German championship after finishing third in the Bavarian championship would have been eliminated from the championship prematurely at regional level. In 1926, after victories over Viktoria Forst (5: 0), Breslau 08 (4: 0) and Holstein Kiel (3: 1), Franz moved into the final of the German championship for the second time after 1920, where he scored four goals in the finals had achieved. On June 13, Fürth met Hertha BSC in Frankfurt . The Fürth 4-1 final success was "undoubtedly described as deserved, because Fürth impressed with technically demanding combination football and was also excellently set tactically". William Townley had taken over the team training from the Austrian Adolf Riebe especially for the final .

Seven days after the final of the German championship, an international match against the national team of Sweden took place in Nuremberg on June 20 . Fürth Karl Auer and "Resi" Franz formed the right wing of the German attack and the game ended 3: 3 draw. It was Franz's tenth and last international match. With the club, however, the Fürth still played an essential role in top German football. In the year the title was defended, 1926/27 , on May 29, 1927 in Leipzig they lost the final defeat against Hertha BSC with 1: 2 goals - Franz had brought Fürth 1: 0 in the 35th minute - but only then in the semifinals for the German championship.

In the southern German championship, only qualified for the German final round via the "consolation round", the 32-year-old veteran moved with Fürth to victories against Fortuna Düsseldorf (5: 1), Hamburger SV (2: 0) and Breslau 08 (6: 6: 1; three goals by Franz) entered a final for the German championship for the third time. The final took place on July 28th in Nuremberg in the Club Stadium in the Zabo in front of 50,000 spectators against Hertha BSC. Although both teams were technically well-versed, "both teams tried to outdo each other with nicknames and fouls." Fürth asserted himself with a 3-2 win and Franz celebrated his second championship win. He won the South German championship again with Fürth in 1931 and played his last game in the final round of the German championship on May 17, 1931, in the 1: 3 defeat in the quarter-finals in Berlin against Hertha BSC. From 1920 to 1931, “Resi” Franz played 20 finals for Fürth in the German championship and scored 26 goals. After the 1932/33 season he ended his activity with the game association and took over the post of player-coach for the 1933/34 season at VfR Heilbronn in the Gauliga Württemberg .

Stopover in Heilbronn

Since September 1, 1933, Franz worked as a sports teacher and striker at VfR Heilbronn , for which he received a monthly salary of RM 250  . Although he soon gave up the coaching position and only played as a striker for the club, he received further monthly payments from his new employer for his sporting commitment. In 1934 he was accused by a player of the local opponent Union Böckingen of "professional play", which was forbidden in amateur football at the time. The denouncer was disqualified for insulting for four weeks, but in February 1934 the VfR Heilbronn was temporarily excluded from the DFB because of the "Franz affair" . Since all results of the Gauliga season were taken out of the evaluation, this meant the descent for the VfR. Further consequences also included the resignation of the club's chairman, Willi Berberich, whose position was taken over by the NSDAP district leader Richard Drauz , who dissolved the club in March 1934 and re-established it as the Heilbronn 96 sports club .

End in Fürth

Franz then returned to his home town of Fürth and held the post of player- coach at TV 1860 Fürth from 1934 to 1939 . After the Second World War he worked as a trainer at ASV Fürth , TV 48 Erlangen and from 1952 to 1958 for the amateurs of the game association.

successes

  • 1922–26: 10 international matches - five goals
  • 1926, 1929: German champion
  • 1920–31: 20 games ER / DM - 26 goals
  • 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926: Federal Cup winner
  • 1922: Fighting game cup winner
  • 1923, 1931: South German master
  • 1918, 1923, 1925–1927: South German cup winner

Others

The trained furrier was employed by the clothing department of the city of Fürth from the end of the 1930s and after the Second World War found his livelihood by running a well-frequented Toto lottery shop on Gustavstrasse in Fürth.

Web links

literature

  • Rudolf Oswald: The VfR Heilbronn and the "Affair Franz" - football in the field of tension between club fanaticism and Nazi local politics . In: Heilbronnica. Contributions to the city and regional history . Volume 4. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2008, ISBN 978-3-940646-01-9 ( Sources and research on the history of the city of Heilbronn . 19) ( Yearbook for Swabian-Franconian history . 36). Pp. 383-403.
  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
  • Hardy Greens: 100 years of the German Championship. The history of football in Germany . Verlag die Werkstatt, Göttingen, ISBN 3-89533-410-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hardy Greens: 100 Years of the German Championship , p. 147.
  2. ↑ Hardy Greens: 100 Years of the German Championship , p. 164.
personal data
SURNAME Franz, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franz, Resi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH May 2nd 1970
Place of death Fuerth