Erich Fischer (soccer player)

Erich "Bommatz" Fischer (born December 31, 1909 ; † November 17, 1990 ) was a German football player from Pforzheim . He played as a right winger in the storm.

society

In 1927, at the age of 17, Fischer moved from VfR Pforzheim, where he had started his career as a footballer at the Holzhof, to the larger and better-known 1. FC Pforzheim in the Brötzinger Tal. He then spent his entire playing career at the "Club", with an interruption due to the war, until the end of his career in 1947. In the 1930/31 season the technician and powerful goalscorer on the right wing was runner-up with 1. FC Pforzheim in the Württemberg / Baden district class. Pforzheim therefore played in the South German finals of the second / third against TSV 1860 Munich and 1. FC Nürnberg . The "Löwen" became the third South German representative and played their way up to the final of the German championship in 1931. The following year - 1931/32 - Erich Fischer and his comrades from 1. FC Pforzheim won the championship in the Württemberg / Baden district in front of VfB Stuttgart . As a result, they went down in the annals of the Pforzheimer “Club” as the 1932 “Wonder Team” or “Blue Devils”. In the final round of the South German Championship, FC Bayern Munich prevailed and was also the German champions that year. “Bommatz” scored five goals in the sensational 6-2 win in the South German finals against Munich. From 1933/34 the man on the right wing played with Pforzheim in the Gauliga Baden. In the years 1936, 1938 and 1939 the runner-up championship was celebrated in the Brötzinger Tal. Fischer wore the blue and white dress of the "club" in more than 1200 games.

Selection games for southern Germany and the Gau Baden

Erich Fischer won with southern Germany on April 23, 1933 in Mannheim the final of the association selection games for the fighting game cup (originally Crown Prince Cup ) with 6-1 goals against Southeast Germany. Together with Edmund Conen , he formed the right wing of the south. Oskar Rohr as the center forward and Josef Fath on the left wing were further guarantors of this success. In 1937 and 1938, the Baden district selection made it to the semi-finals in the Reichsbund Cup. In 1937 "Bommatz" scored two goals in the 3: 4 defeat in Leipzig against the Gau Sachsen. He played in the half-right connector position against the left side runner Walter Rose and had to do with national goalkeeper Willibald Kress in the opposing case.

National team

In 1932/33 he played two international matches. On his debut on July 1, 1932 in Helsingfors against Finland, Germany won 4-1, his second and last game on March 19, 1933 in Berlin ended 3: 3 against France. In the Finland game he formed the right wing together with Richard Hofmann from Dresden (triple goalscorer). In Berlin he showed on the side of center forward Oskar Rohr several times what shooting power he has and how virtuoso his game could be. After that he was no longer appointed to the national team by Reich coach Otto Nerz . His rival on the right wing in the national team was Ernst Lehner.

statement

Hans Blickensdörfer , legendary sports journalist from Stuttgart who previously grew up in Pforzheim, is quoted in Gernot Otto's book about 1. FC Pforzheim in relation to Erich Fischer with the following words: “In football, my teacher was called 'Bommatz' Fischer, even though he was could not even know. I firmly believe that he was the most talented dribbler in German football on the right wing, and many years later no one other than Sepp Herberger confirmed it to me : 'Just a head too small' said the man who played the game in head and blood. "

literature

Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
Hardy Greens : From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 1 . AGON, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
Gernot Otto: 100 years of 1. FC Pforzheim . Bath pressure, Karlsruhe 1996.
Libero special. German, No. D9 (1994) and D17 (1998), IFFHS

Individual evidence

↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2016, ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 , p. 318.

personal data
SURNAME	Fischer, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fischer, Bommatz (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH	December 31, 1909
DATE OF DEATH	17th November 1990

[1] Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2016, ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 , p. 318.