Erich Ebeling (soccer player)

Erich Ebeling (born January 31, 1922 in Oberröblingen ; † February 7, 2011 ) was a German soccer player who played 135 league games for the two clubs Hamburger SV and Eintracht Frankfurt from 1947 to 1954 in the first-class soccer leagues north and south and scored 56 goals.

career

Saxony-Anhalt and Northern Germany, until 1952

The young offensive player Erich Ebeling grew up in Oberröblingen in Saxony-Anhalt and returned there several times as a "zone diver" after the Second World War during his wandering period - the war years / immediately after the end of the war . The rapid winger with a hard shot saw its first footballing peak in the war 1943/44 season, when he, as a member of Wilhelmshaven 05 the Gaumeisterschaft Weser-Ems could achieve and therefore also in the final round of the German football championship could move. In the finals against Eintracht Braunschweig and the later finalists Luftwaffen-Sportverein Hamburg , another promising young player stormed in the attack of the team from the Jade Bay with Karl Barufka . In the last war season 1944/45, the Sachsen-Anhalter played for Hamburger SV and scored 26 goals in eleven games and the "Rothosen" were champions of the Gauliga Hamburg with 100-21 goals . Teammates were goalkeeper Walter Warning , Paul Janes from Düsseldorf , Erwin Seeler and Armenian Esegel Melkonian . The turmoil of the immediate post-war period brought him back to Wilhelmshaven for a short time in 1946/47 but also back to HSV during the current round, where he scored two goals in four games. In the final for the championship of the British Zone on July 13, 1947 in Düsseldorf, he stormed next to Heinz Bung bottle on the left wing of the 1-0 victorious HSV against Borussia Dortmund . Also in the following round of 1947/48 Ebeling ran for two clubs: from June 1947 to March 1948 he played ten games for HSV and scored six goals before completing the game year in his home country at SG Oberröblingen. During the short time at SG, he was appointed to the association selection game between Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony on May 16, 1948 in Halle. In the Kurt Wabbel Stadium , player -coach Helmut Schön led the Sachsen-Elf to a 6-2 success. The left winger Ebeling succeeded next to the half-left Werner Welzel one of the two hits of the Saxony-Anhalt selection. From the 1948/49 round, the dangerous winger stormed again for Hamburger SV in the northern soccer league. From 1949 to 1952 he was a member of the respective HSV master teams in the Oberliga Nord. On May 22, 1949, he scored the interim 2-2 equalizer in the 46th minute of the playoff for the Northern Championship against the tied FC St. Pauli in the 46th minute of the game. When HSV won the championship again in 1950 with a nine-point lead and a goal difference of 101:39, before St. Pauli, Ebeling scored 15 goals alongside Herbert Wojtkowiak . In the regional cup competition of 1949/50 he represented the colors of Hamburg on November 13, 1949 against Northern Württemberg and on January 22, 1950 against the Palatinate. In the finals of the German soccer championship he played six games for HSV from 1949 to 1951. After he no longer belonged to the regular formation in 1951/52, he accepted an offer from Eintracht Frankfurt for the round in 1952/53 and moved to the football league south.

Eintracht Frankfurt, 1952 to 1954

With the Elf vom Riederwald, Ebeling won the title in the south in 1953, one point ahead of the reigning German champions VfB Stuttgart . In the final round of the German championship, Ebeling was used by trainer Kurt Windmann in all six group games against 1. FC Kaiserslautern , 1. FC Cologne and Holstein Kiel alongside Adolf Bechtold , Alfred Pfaff , Hubert Schieth and Hans Wloka . The "Walter-Elf" prevailed and defeated the Stuttgart defending champions with 4-1 goals in the final. In his second year in Frankfurt, 1953/54, he only made ten league appearances, where he contributed two goals to the runner-up at Eintracht. In the summer of the 1954 World Cup, he ended his senior league career and submitted an application for re-amateurization.

Ending in the amateur camp, from 1954

The Saxon Anhalter joined the SpVgg Groß-Umstadt in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district and held the post of player-coach there until 1961. With the team from the sports field in the Raibacher Tal and the talent Heinrich Dittel, he was promoted to the 2nd amateur league in Darmstadt. Until his retirement in 1985, Ebeling worked for the Sparkasse.

literature

• Werner Skrentny, Jens Reimer Prüß : Hamburg sports club. Always first class. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-89533-220-8 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Ulrich Matheja: "Schlappekicker and sky striker". The story of Eintracht Frankfurt. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-427-8 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): The German League Football 1903–2010, Player Results Tables , Jade 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Echo online from February 12, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 23, 2011.  

Web link

Players A – Z (bung bottle) , visited on March 17, 2020