Emil Maier (soccer player)

Emil Maier (born November 22, 1925 in Fulda , Hessen-Nassau ) is a former German soccer player . Between 1945 and 1955 he played 201 games in the soccer leagues south and north for the clubs Kickers Offenbach and Holstein Kiel and scored 109 goals.

career

Oberliga Süd, until 1952

The striker Emil Maier, who came from Germania Fulda to the Kickers at Bieberer Berg , belonged to Heinrich Abt , Ferdinand "Ferdi" Emberger , Erich Nowotny , Heinz Kaster , Willi Keim and Anton in the first round Oberliga Süd, 1945/46 Picard on. Offenbach took twelfth place in this “rubble” round, where “Fuggern” and “haggling” were still part of the basic elements of survival. With the takeover of training by Paul Oßwald in the 1946/47 round and the debut of Kurt Schreiner, the Kickers-Elf moved up to fifth place in the second year of the league. Despite the sporting upswing, Maier went back to his home club FSV Germania Fulda in the amateur camp for a year. For the round of 1948/49 the strong-shot attacker returned to the Bieberer Berg.

The second attempt of the dangerous striker in Offenbach was crowned in 1948/49 by the sovereign championship with eleven points ahead of the vice VfR Mannheim and his 19 goals in 28 point games. Maier, together with Georg Herbold and Otto Thanner, won the top scorer's crown in the south . In the games against VfB Stuttgart (4: 1), VfB Mühlburg (5: 0) and relegated FC Rödelsheim (10: 0), he distinguished himself as a triple and quadruple scorer. The Kickers attack mostly played in the line-up with Gerhard Kaufhold (7 goals), Albert Wirsching (14 goals), Maier, Horst Buhtz (8 goals) and Willi Weber who scored 15 goals. Also in the final round of the German soccer championship, Maier proved his scoring risk with three goals in the two games against Wormatia Worms. In the second round match on June 26, 1949, the southern champions OFC met against the southern vice VfR Mannheim in the Schalker Glückauf-Kampfbahn in front of 55,000 spectators. In the league, the rivals had separated in both games with a 1-1 draw and Maier had scored the equalizer for Offenbach in the second half of the season. The Mannheim lawn athletes prevailed with goals from Ernst Löttke and Rudolf de la Vigne with 2: 1 goals and advanced to the final. Also in the game for third place on July 9th in Koblenz against the upcoming championship team of 1. FC Kaiserslautern with the Walter brothers, the Südtorjäger could not score a goal for his team and the Lauterer also decided with 2-1 goals in overtime Game for yourself. In the following year Offenbach landed as defending champion in the south in third place, Maier had scored thirteen goals in 24 appearances. Since the final round was held with 16 teams in 1950, the South third also took part. Offenbach played through to the final. Emil Maier was only used in two matches: in the preliminary round in the 3-1 win against Tennis Borussia Berlin and in the first semi-final match on June 11, 1950 in Stuttgart against Prussia Dellbrück , which ended goalless 0-0 after extra time. In the replay and the final on June 25 in Berlin against VfB Stuttgart, the injury-prone striker was missing. When the star of the new striker Helmut Preisendörfer rose in the 1951/52 round in Offenbach with 26 goals in his first league round, the man from Fulda moved to Holstein Kiel after the round ended. From 1945 to 1952 Maier had completed 113 league games for Offenbach and scored 63 goals. In the finals in 1949 and 1950, six more games with three goals were added.

Oberliga Nord, until 1955

The debut game in the Oberliga Nord, on August 24, 1952, was a memorable day for the newcomer from Offenbach at the Black-Reds from the Marienthal Stadium , at Concordia Hamburg : the "Storks" lost with the new center forward with 0: 8 goals. After the 15th matchday, on December 14, 1952, the team of coach Hans Tauchert had won the top game at leaders Hamburger SV with 5-0 goals, but the tide had turned. Maier and his teammates Henry Peper , Paul Gräf , Hans Morgner , Karl-Heinz Cornils , Bernd Oles and Karl Schradi were tied with HSV in 1st place in the Oberliga Nord. The ex-Offenbacher had scored two goals in Hamburg in the center forward position in a duel against center runner Jupp Posipal and thus underlined his qualifications. Also on matchday 30, April 26, 1953, Maier showed himself from his best side: again he scored twice against the champions Hamburger SV in front of 28,000 spectators in the 3-1 home win in the goal guarded by Horst Schnoor and closed with 21 goals the round off. He was ranked third on the top scorer list in the north behind Günter Schlegel (26) and Kurt Hinsch with 23 goals. On the way to the runner-up in Kiel, Maier had scored two goals in seven league games. In the final round of the 1953 German football championship, Kiel was unable to assert itself against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Eintracht Frankfurt and 1. FC Köln in May / June, but Maier made the list of goalscorers with three goals. This also resulted in his appointment for the viewing game of a DFB selection against a southern formation on June 4, 1953 in Augsburg, where he stormed alongside Felix Gerritzen , Willi Schröder , Heinz Wozniakowski and Hans Schäfer .

In the next two rounds, 1953/54 and 1954/55, Kiel could no longer establish itself in the top positions and the man from Fulda ended with the catch-up game on December 4, 1955 against Eintracht Nordhorn - Maier shot Holstein in the 25th minute Kiel 1-0 lead - his higher-class playing career. After fourteen match days, Kiel was in second place in the north with 19: 9 points. From 1952 to December 1955 Emil Maier had played 88 games in the Oberliga Nord for Holstein Kiel and scored 46 goals.

After the playing career

The trained businessman later worked as an amateur trainer. First in the north near Kilia Kiel , after his return to Offenbach with SV Hofbieber.

literature

• 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 .
• 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 .
• Raphael Keppel, The German Football League 1946–1963, Edgar Hitzel Sports and Games Publishing House , 1983, ISBN 3-9802172-3-X .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .