Ehrenfried Wydra

Ehrenfried Wydra (born July 24, 1926 - † October 4, 2010 in Herne ) was a German football player. The defender played 84 games for SC Westfalia Herne from 1954 to 1958 in what was then the first-class football league West . Previously, from 1949 to 1954 in the 2nd League West, he had already played 139 games in the 2nd Division for his home club and scored one goal.

career

The youth player Ehrenfried "Bobby" Wydra played for Westfalia Herne in the 1941/42 season in the Gauliga Westfalen at the age of 15 ¾ . During the Second World War, the early adoption of own youth players in the senior division was just as important in order to be able to maintain the game operation in addition to the possibility of deploying "guest players" who could receive the additional playing authorization in addition to that of their home club at the place of their convocation. "Bobby" Wydra thus played for Alemannia Aachen as well as for his parent club SCW. Even when he was evacuated to Treptow with his high school, Wydra made the return trip of over 1000 kilometers on some weekends in order to be able to show up for his blue-whites for 90 minutes. After the end of the Second World War, players from Herne who had returned from the war quickly found their way back to the club, whose active center in the post-war years was the football lobbyist Gustav Rappenberg with his grocery store. For the young defense attorney “Bobby” Wydra, Rappenberg's business was the first point of contact after his release from an American hospital: “First of all, I got a sandwich with sausage. And then he asked me straight away: 'Are you playing for Westfalia again?' - 'Sure,' I said. "

At the beginning of 1946 the reorganization of West German football progressed. The "Westphalian Football Association" was founded. It was decided that all teams that had played in the Gauliga from 1939 should compete in a league. Two groups of nine teams each were set up. In the Landesliga Westfalen, Group 1, Westfalia met old friends such as VfL Bochum, SpVg Röhlinghausen and in particular the old master FC Schalke 04, who appeared at the castle for the first time after the war on March 31, 1946 in front of over 20,000 spectators. Herne won 3-1 goals and "Bobby" Wydra was left defender in front of goalkeeper Heinz Sobota . Paul Matzkowski played center forward and Günter Grandt on half left. The goal scorers for Herne were Grandt (1-0), Matzkowski (2-0) and left winger Herbert Pogner to 3-0. Schalke competed with the two "old masters" Ernst Kuzorra and Fritz Szepan , Hans Klodt also played in goal, Otto Tibulski and Fritz Pliska in the runner row and right- winger Willi Dargaschewski mainly fought duels with "Bobby" Wydra in the Herne defense.

In the first years after World War II, the " Calorie Games " were born. The football stars of the Ruhr area played against bread, ham and a sack of potatoes in rural areas. “We went to the rural area of ​​East Westphalia with the well-known referee building committee. We played there for a pound of butter, a sausage and a piece of ham. When the fields are harvested, we have picked up the ears. At home we dried them, roasted them, turned them through the coffee machine and made the legendary Muckefuck, ”Bobby Wydra remembers the trips overland.

The unequal status of the league operations - in the American zone the Oberliga Süd had formed as the highest central league in late 1945 - resulted in the "buyers" of the Bavarian, Hessian and Baden-Württemberg clubs looking for players with generous offers of money and work went. “After the war, it was particularly important to find a good job. Young men were forced to work in the mining industry to make coal for a year, but luckily the city doctor, Dr. Hoppe, who was also our club doctor, wrote 'unfit for mines'. At the end of 1946, player buyers from SV Wiesbaden approached me and promised me work and further benefits, ”said Bobby Wydra about the attempt to poach him in autumn 1946. Wydra made an illegal guest appearance in November for Wiesbaden and was banned by the Herne club management for four weeks. At the same time, efforts were made to find a job for the young man. Through “good contacts” he found a job as a trainee at Dresdner Bank, where he would ultimately spend his entire professional life. “It is very clear that I owe my professional career to football,” summed up Bobby Wydra today (2004).

After the round in 1946/47 in the Landesliga Westfalen, the blue-whites with fourth place had not qualified for the Oberliga West, which started in 1947/48. Wydra and colleagues got into the second division, which consisted of two seasons, at least at the start of the second division west, which carried out their championship games from 1949/50. In his debut year, the defender completed 28 league games and Westfalia finished eighth in Group 1. From 1952/53 there was the 2nd League West in a season and in the second year of its game operation, Herne won the runner-up and thus promotion to the top division . “Bobby” Wydra, one of the top performers in the defense, had completed 24 games in the promotion round and Günter Grandt scored the most goals with 28 hits on the offensive alongside the driver and template provider Kurt Sopart . A total of 139 league games with one goal were recorded for Wydra in the five rounds of 2nd division football from 1949 to 1954.

With a 1: 7 defeat at Preußen Münster, Wydra made her debut with Herne on September 22, 1954 in the league. He got to know the individual class of an attacker like Felix Gerritzen . The local derby against SV Sodingen was lost in the first half of the season on October 3, 1954 in front of 27,000 spectators by a goal by Gerhard Harpers with 0-1 goals and in the second half of the season the green-whites prevailed with 5-2 goals. One of the highlights of the first season in the league was the 2-1 home win on April 13, 1955 against the sovereign leaders Rot-Weiss Essen, when Günter Grandt scored the winning goal with his goal in the 82nd minute. The duels of the Herne defender couple Alfred Pyka and "Bobby" Wydra against the dangerous Essen winger Helmut Rahn and Bernhard Termath played a key role in the success of the promoted team. Pyka and Wydra formed the pair of regular defenders in the 1954/55 series. From the round 1955/56 Fritz Langner took over the training management in Herne and Hans Tilkowski opened his impressive goalkeeping career in the league. Even in Langner's second year, 1956/57, the banker was a member of the Westfalia team with 25 league appearances.

With his sixth round use on February 9, 1958, with a 1-1 draw at Hamborn 07, "Bobby" Wydra ended his 16-year activity in the league team of Westfalia Herne. It was officially adopted in May of the World Cup year. Between 1942 and 1958 he played around 330 competitive games for Westfalia.

After his playing career, he was still employed for his club as a cashier, football chairman and treasurer for decades. After his death, he was buried on October 4, 2010 in the Baukau cemetery on Kaiserstraße, he gave Westfalia a substantial amount in his will. With the naming of the main stand in the stadium at Schloss Strünkede in "Bobby-Wydra-Tribüne", his services to Westfalia Herne are honored.

literature

• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Ralf Piorr (Ed.): Much more than just a game . 100 years of SC Westfalia Herne. FRISCHTEXTE Verlag, Herne 2004. ISBN 3-933059-38-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): Much more than just a game. 100 years of SC Westfalia 04 Herne. P. 82
2. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): Much more than just a game. 100 years of SC Westfalia 04 Herne. Pp. 83/84
3. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): Much more than just a game. 100 years of SC Westfalia 04 Herne. P. 88
4. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): Much more than just a game. 100 years of SC Westfalia 04 Herne. Pp. 89/90
5. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): Much more than just a game. 100 years of SC Westfalia 04 Herne. P. 91
6. ↑ Ralf Piorr (ed.): Much more than just a game. 100 years of SC Westfalia 04 Herne. Pp. 337/338