Erhard Bauer (soccer player)
Erhard Bauer (born May 30, 1925 - January 13, 1994 ) was a German football player.
Athletic career
Erhard "Töppel" Bauer was a regular at Motor Zwickau and played a total of 74 league games (no goal) from 1950 to 1953. So it made waves when the defender moved to local rivals BSG Wismut Aue in 1953 . Even then, the rivalry between Zwickau and Aue was strong.
His first league game for the BSG Wismut Aue he completed on November 29, 1953 against Motor Zwickau and Bauer had to watch as his former club won 2-1 in the Otto-Grotewohl Stadium . The hard-working and uncompromising Erhard Bauer soon became captain of the Wismut-Elf.
Erhard Bauer experienced his most successful time with Aue. It was crowned by three GDR championship titles in 1956 , 1957 and 1959 . When he won his third title in 1959, the then 34-year-old only played 5 games. Erhard Bauer played his last league game on May 10, 1959 against SC Progress Weissenfels (2-1). For the BSG Wismut Aue and from 1954 the SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt , he was used in 129 league games (4 goals). So there were a total of 203 league games with him to book.
In the GDR national team Erhard Bauer was used three times under coach Hans Siegert , and three times there was a defeat. Bauer made his debut on May 8, 1954 in Berlin against Romania (0: 1). In his second international match (October 3, 1954 against Poland - 0: 1 in Rostock), Bauer (29 years old) was part of the oldest GDR team (average age almost 30 years) that ever hit the pitch. Three weeks later, the game against Bulgaria on October 24, 1954 in Sofia (1: 3) ended his career in the senior national team. Between 1953 and 1956, Bauer completed five international matches with the B national team. In February 1955, Erhard Bauer and Willy Tröger were honored as master of sport by the GDR sports leadership in the German sports hall in Berlin's Stalinallee .
Internationally, Erhard Bauer was also used in 5 European Cup games. 1957 against Gwardia Warsaw (3 games) and Ajax Amsterdam (2 games). On April 26, 1961, Bauer and Kurt Viertel and Karl-Heinz Mohr were bid farewell to active football before the game against SC Dynamo Berlin .
After his career, Erhard Bauer was a junior coach - back in Zwickau. On January 13, 1994, at the age of 68, he succumbed to cancer.
literature
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 63.
- Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 290.
Web links
- Erhard Bauer in the database of weltfussball.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bauer, Erhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player, GDR national soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1925 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1994 |