Erich Hänel

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Erich Hänel (born October 31, 1915 in Chemnitz ; † March 20, 2003 ) was a German football player who had three appearances in the German national football team in 1939 .

career

Before and during the Second World War

Via the stations FC Preussen Chemnitz and Chemnitzer BC , the attacking talent Erich Hänel came to BC Hartha , in the central Saxon hill country, in the small town of Hartha with 8,000 inhabitants. The BC there was sponsored by the Hartha textile factory and made it into the Gauliga Sachsen in the 1934/35 round . As a newcomer, Hartha took sixth place in the table in 1935/36. Erich Hänel came on May 24, 1936 in Leipzig in the final replay against the southwest in the association selection of Saxony for the first time. In the 1936 Reichsbund Cup final, which was won 9-0 goals, the still 20-year-old distinguished himself as a five-time goalscorer. He played alongside goalkeeper Willibald Kreß (Dresdner SC), left runner Walter Rose (SpVgg Leipzig) and half right Erwin Helmchen from master PSV Chemnitz . In the second round of the Gauliga, the BCH “blue-yellows” won the championship ahead of the defending champion Chemnitz PSV. With his teammate Walter Seyfert, center runner and outstanding conductor, as well as the effective left winger Heinz Kapitän , Erich Hänel made it into the finals of the German soccer championship in 1937. Opponents were the Hamburger SV, Hindenburg Allenstein and the Beuthener SuSV. Hamburg relegated the Saxons to second place in the group. In 1938 the title was defended in Saxony before SV Fortuna Leipzig, PSV Chemnitz and Dresdner SC tied on points . In the finals in 1938 Fortuna Düsseldorf failed, but VfB Stuttgart and Vorwärts Rasensport Gleiwitz were relegated to third and fourth place in the group. The team from the industrial stadium in Hartha missed the third Gauliga title in a row in the 1938/39 season, with the 4-0 defeat against the new champions Dresdner SC in front of 35,000 spectators in the Dresden Ostragehege on the last day of the game. In the club cup, Erich Hänel's team was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Fortuna Düsseldorf in 1937 and in 1939 with a 0-1 defeat on December 10th against eventual cup winners 1. FC Nürnberg. At BCH, the young hopeful Erich Gleixner played on half left against the Franks alongside center forward Hänel .

German national soccer team, 1939

Due to the outstanding performances in the ranks of BC Hartha in the Gauliga Sachsen, the final round matches and his appearances in the Gau selection competitions with Saxony, Erich Hänel played himself in the notebook of Reich trainer Sepp Herberger . On February 5, 1939, Hänel and Saxony lost the semi-final game of the Reichsbund Cup with 1: 2 goals after extra time against Bayern in Munich, and six weeks later he made his debut in the German national soccer team. On March 26, 1939, the DFB held a double game day with the national team. The A-Elf lost in Italy with 2: 3 goals, the selection known as B-Elf with center forward Erich Hänel lost in Differdange with 1: 2 goals against Luxembourg. The Hartha player scored the German consolation goal . This was followed on June 29 and December 3, 1939, the appeals for the international matches against Estonia and Slovakia. Due to the effects of the Second World War , Erich Hänel did not return from a Soviet prisoner-of-war until 1949, and the center forward did not get any further appointments.

After the Second World War, 1949 to 1958

In the 1949/50 season, when he was 33, Erich Hänel attempted a fresh start in his Saxon homeland. With SG and Industrie Hartha he played in Saxony in the regional league, Staffel West. Since the professional as well as athletic advancement seemed to work better in the Federal Republic, he moved to Northern Germany in 1950 and joined the Bremen SV . In his starting year in the Oberliga Nord , in the 1950/51 round, he came with his new team to seventh place in the final table, one place behind Werder Bremen . The 35-year-old contributed ten hits in 30 missions. In the second round he scored eleven goals in 29 games. When he only scored five goals in his third season with the “blue-whites”, his attacking colleague Werner Erdmann profited decisively from the senior's skill and increased his hit rate to 17 goals. Erich Hänel played 84 league games with 26 goals for Bremer SV from 1950 to 1953. At the age of 38, he moved to VfB Oldenburg in the summer of 1953 . In his first round he was promoted to the Oberliga Nord. As a 39-year-old oldie, he completed 28 league games with VfB in the 1954/55 round and scored five goals. But the 40-year-old's skill, shown again in 17 games, was not enough in the 1955/56 round to prevent relegation. The ex-national player hung on two more rounds in the amateur league Lower Saxony-West, celebrated championship wins but not the success in the promotion rounds to the upper league and stopped playing active football in 1958. In his last round as an active player, in 1957/58, his son Klaus made his breakthrough in the Oberliga Nord with 28 appearances and 14 hits at SV Werder Bremen. From 1950 to 1956 Erich Hänel came in the Oberliga Nord to 129 games with 34 goals.

Trainer

Erich Hänel, who worked as an administrative clerk in Bremen, trained the Bremer TG , Bremer SV, Blumenthaler SV , Victoria Oldenburg and VfB Oldenburg .

literature

personal data
SURNAME Hänel, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 2003