Eduard Bauer (soccer player)

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Eduard "Edi" Bauer (born February 13, 1894 , † March 4, 1948 ) was an Austrian football player in the position of a striker and later coach.

With his club, Rapid Vienna , he won the Austrian championship eleven times, eight times as a player and three times as a coach .
From 1945 until his death in 1948, Bauer was the head coach of the Austrian national team .

Career

Series champion with Rapid

He made his debut in the Rapids first team at the age of seventeen in 1911. With the Green-Whites, whose combat team had completely disbanded in 1910 due to total over-indebtedness of the still young club, and Dionys Schönecker through 16 to 18-year-old youngsters in the youth team as Rigo Kuthan , Krcal , Franz Schediwy as well as Franz and Josef Brandstetter had to be replaced, he sensationally won the first championship title in the history of the Hütteldorfer club in the premiere season of the Austrian football championship 1911/12 . In the following years up to 1923 he won the championship seven times with Rapid, whereby he himself - mostly in the position of the right wing striker - was able to contribute 134 goals in 190 games to this series of successes. The striker was also in the two Cup finals in 1919 and 1920, when Rapid won the first two Austrian Cup competitions.

Career in the national team

Edi Bauer first played for the national team on December 22, 1912 in the 3-1 away win over Italy in Genoa . Due to the war, he only played duels with arch rivals Hungary and neutral Switzerland . The match against the Swiss national team on May 9, 1918 was also one of his best team games of his career. Bauer scored the goals to 2-0 and 4-1, with his second goal, which was preceded by a long solo Bauers away from the center line, was particularly worth seeing. The other goals for Austria scored Wilda , Koželuh and Studnicka in this game . His team career finally ended after the second duel against Switzerland on May 1, 1921 (2-2 in St. Gallen) after 23 appearances and 13 goals for his home country. Edi Bauer also played 16 games in the Viennese selection.

Mitropacup winner as a rapid trainer

In 1926, Edi Bauer was the successor of the British Stanley Willmots , who only reached the disappointing fifth place with the team in the preseason, coach of Rapid. By far his greatest success on the green and white coaching bench was winning the Mitropacup in 1930 , the forerunner of today's European Cup. After the Hütteldorfer had to admit defeat twice before in the final, after a 2: 3 defeat in Vienna they remained successful in Prague with 2: 0 against the local Sparta and brought the coveted title to Austria for the first time. After winning three championships and a cup victory, Bauer finally left the club in 1936. Subsequently, he assisted Hugo Meisl as coach for the national team for a while. In 1938 he became a trainer at SV Police Hamburg .

Coach of the Austrian national team

After the Second World War, Edi Bauer was given the honorable task of training the national team of the resurrected Austria and bringing it back to the top international. On September 19, 1945 he took over from Karl Zankl , who looked after the team in the first two post-war international matches and lost twice to the Hungarian national team, as the Austrian team boss. Under his leadership, the Austrians achieved their first victory after the Second World War on December 6, 1945 with a 4-1 victory over the French national team . Edi Bauer showed courage by trying to form a successful team of young, hungry players around the already established leading player Bimbo Binder . He took no account of prominent names and liked to experiment. In his era, numerous players made their debut, who were soon forgotten again, but also a large number of the later stars who took third place with the team at the World Cup in 1954 . He brought talents like Walter Zeman and Alfred Körner from Rapid, Turl Wagner from Wacker, Ernst Stojaspal from Austria and the 22-year-old Rapidler Ernst Happel into the national team and also gave Ocffekt and Decker , who made their debut under Zankl but could not convince. another chance. He also demonstrated foresight with the first team appointment of the then 25-year-old, amateurs Ernst Melchior , who was still active in the Carinthian regional class at Villacher SV . The extraordinary thing about its convocation was that in the history of Austrian football, after Franz Fuchsberger from SV Urfahr in 1936, it was only the second time a team boss gave an amateur football player from the federal states a chance in the Austrian national team. After Melchior's brilliant appearance in the international match against Hungary on April 14, 1946, both Rapid and Austria vied for the new star striker, who harmonized so well with Ernst Ocffekt on the field. With his courage and foresight, Bauer laid the foundation for the successful team in the golden fifties.

The highlight and at the same time Edi Bauer's last game was Austria's triumphant 5-1 victory on November 9, 1947 in the Vienna stadium against two-time world champions Italy. Eduard Bauer died surprisingly on March 4, 1948 - while he was still in office - of the consequences of a stomach operation. After his sudden death, the former wonder team player Walter Nausch , who had just returned from Switzerland, took over the management of the national team.

Stations

As a player

As a trainer

titles and achievements

as a player

as a trainer

ÖFB international matches under team boss Eduard Bauer

11 international matches under team boss Eduard Bauer

Legend
  • H = home game
  • A = away game
  • green background color = victory of Austria
  • yellow background color = tie
  • red background color = defeat
No. date Result opponent venue occasion comment
195 December 06, 1945 4: 1 FranceFrance France H Vienna
196 04/14/1946 3: 2 Hungary 1918Hungary Hungary H Vienna
197 05/05/1946 1: 3 FranceFrance France A. Paris ( FRA )
198 10/06/1946 0: 2 Hungary 1918Hungary Hungary A. Budapest ( HUN )
199 October 27, 1946 3: 4 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia H Vienna
200 11/10/1946 0: 1 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland A. Bern ( SUI )
201 December 01, 1946 2: 3 ItalyItaly Italy A. Milan ( ITA ) 100th away game
202 05/04/1947 2: 5 Hungary 1946Hungary Hungary A. Budapest ( HUN )
203 09/14/1947 4: 3 Hungary 1946Hungary Hungary H Vienna
204 05/10/1947 2: 3 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia A. Prague ( TCH )
205 11/09/1947 5: 1 ItalyItaly Italy H Vienna

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ «Edi Bauer died» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 5, 1948, p. 4 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Edi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1894
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1948