Erich Haase (soccer player)

Erich Haase
Personnel
birthday	June 20, 1932
place of birth	Nordhausen ,  Germany
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1942–	FC Wacker Halle
0000-1950	SG Halle-Glaucha
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1950-1953	Turbine hall	77 (19)
1953	Werder Bremen
1953/54	SSV 04 Wuppertal
1953 / 54-1956	Werder Bremen	70 (20)
1956-1968	Wuppertal SV
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1953	GDR	1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	Wuppertaler SV amateurs
	Wuppertaler SV (youth)
1 Only league games are given.

Erich "Sohni" Haase (born June 20, 1932 in Nordhausen ) is a former German football player who won the championship in the GDR league with BSG Turbine Halle in 1952 and became a national player in both German states.

Career

Beginning and league in Halle, 1942–53

The football-loving father Haase brought his talented ten-year-old son into the youth department of the Gauligist FC Wacker Halle . After the Second World War , "Sohni" Haase played for SG Halle-Glaucha, the successor club to FC Wacker. He was one of the most prominent youth players in Saxony-Anhalt. Erich Haase made the leap into the regular line-up with Turbine Halle's “Blue-Whites” in the 1950/51 season. Turbine took 6th place. The storm talent Haase was involved in 17 games with two goals. It was his first senior season. At the age of 20 he experienced the triumph of a national championship. At the end of the round in 1951/52, his second in the senior division, he celebrated winning the championship in the GDR league alongside Otto Knefler , Herbert Rappsilber and Otto Werkmeister. Turbine Halle relegated VP Dresden and Chemie Leipzig to second and third place. Under coach Alfred "Fred" Schulz, Turbine Halle achieved an impressive away record of 25:11 points. This was decisive for winning the championship. "Sohni" Haase made 33 appearances with eight goals. In the 2-1 victory in Altenburg, he was able to distinguish himself as a double goal scorer. His speed and his shot on goal were just as impressive as his wealth of ideas. At the age of 20 he was at the start of a great career. His experienced teammate Karl Gola expressed himself as follows: "Erich Haase was fast, agile and was considered a huge talent". The course of the round in 1952/53 brought the defending champion into trouble. At the end of the round, Turbine Halle was in 13th place in the table. The away balance of 8:24 points prevented a better performance. Another obstacle to success was the incorrect line-up of Haase as center runner and Rappsilber as left winger. Haase nevertheless stood out as a nine-time goalscorer in 27 completed games. Coach Fred Schulz fell victim to the turbulence . He was released on April 10, 1953. From 1950 to 1953 Erich Haase played 77 league games with 19 goals.

Selection appointments, 1953

On May 7, 1953, the GDR played the first international B game. In the 3-0 win against Poland in Leipzig, “Sohni” Haase stood out as a two-time goal scorer in the center forward position. After receiving his appointment, Erich Haase took part in the game of the GDR national soccer team against Bulgaria on June 14th in Dresden , which ended with a 0-0. His third selection game was the encounter between the young national teams of GDR and Czechoslovakia, which took place on July 5th in Chemnitz. After the popular uprising of June 17, 1953, no further international match took place. After a Lower Saxony tour - Matches in Hannover, Fallersleben and Oldenburg - joined Erich "Sohni" Haase in September 1953, his teammates Otto Knefler, Günter Heyse and Horst Ebert and Halles former coach Fred Schulz in the Oberliga Nord to Werder Bremen .

The continuation of the career in West Germany

In Bremen , the “zone refugee” initially had to struggle with conversion problems, but also came there at a time when the association got into considerable difficulties due to unauthorized payments (“ Willi Schröder affair ”). So Haase followed an offer from the West Second Division SSV 04 Wuppertal , but returned to the Weser in the same 1953/54 season and stayed there for two full years. His performance stabilized so that he made 70 league appearances, scored 20 goals and was even called up to the West German B selection : in March 1955 he stormed 1-1 in Sheffield against England on the left wing position .

In 1956 he moved permanently to Wupper : the successor to SSV 04, Wuppertaler SV , became his new sporting home, and "Sonny" Haase (as "Sohni" was now called by the Blau-Reds) played an important role for years in this elf. At WSV, the left-footed striker was initially used as an outside runner , later mostly as a defensive player , where his routine played a central role in the team structure. His coaches (including Willibald Kress , “Zapf” Gebhardt and Adi Preißler ) have always relied on the man with the “high forehead”, and he has seldom disappointed their trust. However, his international career ended in 1957 after two further appearances in the B team (in November 1956 2: 1 in Switzerland , in March 1957 3: 3 against Holland ) already in 1957.
In the 1960s, Wuppertaler SV played almost entirely in second class, was also not taken into account for the newly formed Bundesliga , but with the return to the Oberliga West (1962) - even if only for one year - and in particular reaching the semi-finals in the DFB Cup against Hamburger SV (August 1963) there was in Erich Haase's footballing career also has significant highlights.

In the 1967/68 regional league season, “Sohni” / “Sonny” ended his career at the age of almost 36. In the following years he looked after the amateur team of the WSV, also took care of the youth teams, especially the older age groups, and produced some talent for the “first”. With his factual, calm manner, which had already distinguished him as a player, he was able to pass on a lot of his experiences from two German league systems to the youngsters. Even today (as of 2017) Erich Haase is still a regular guest at the stadium at the zoo .

Stations

• Turbine Halle (1950 to 1953; 77 league appearances , 19 goals; one A, B and youth international game for the GDR )
• Werder Bremen (1953 to 1956; 70 league appearances , 20 goals; 1 international B match);
• SSV 04 Wuppertal (1953/54, only brief guest appearance at the second division and predecessor club of the Wuppertaler SV founded in 1954)
• Wuppertaler SV (1956–1968; 2 international B matches in 1956 and 1957), of which
  • three years in the Oberliga West (1956-1958 and 1962/63) with 72 missions and 13 goals
  • four years in the 2nd division west (1958–1962)
  • five years in the Regionalliga West (1963–1968) with 85 appearances.

literature

• Michael Horn, Gottfried Weise : The great lexicon of GDR football. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-536-8 .
• Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
• Libero, football in the GDR: Season 1951/52 , No. 2, August / September 1988, IFFHS
• Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Fohlensturm am Katzenbusch. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 2, Klartext, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88474-206-X .
• Manfred Osenberg, The WSV will never go under! 50 years of the Wuppertaler Sport-Verein 1954–2004 Edition Osenberg Wuppertal 2004 ISBN 3-9808059-4-8
• 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 .

Web links

• Erich Haase in the database of the German Football Association