Ernst-Otto Meyer

Ernst-Otto Meyer
Personnel
birthday	April 25, 1927
place of birth	Holzhausen ,  German Empire
date of death	December 16, 2010
Place of death	Mannheim ,  Germany
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1947	BSV Holzhausen
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1947-1948	VfL Osnabrück
1949	Kickers Emden
1949-1950	VfB Oldenburg	29 (21)
1950-1951	Prussia Munster	60 (38)
1951-1953	VfL Osnabrück
1953-1957	VfR Mannheim
1957-1958	Eintracht Braunschweig	30 (22)
1958-1960	VfR Mannheim
1 Only league games are given.

Ernst-Otto Meyer , called "Ötti" (born April 25, 1927 in Holzhausen , † December 16, 2010 in Mannheim ) was a German football player . In the football league between 1949 and 1960 he scored 238 goals for VfB Oldenburg , VfL Osnabrück , Eintracht Braunschweig and VfR Mannheim . At that time he was one of the best goal scorers in Germany and was twice in the finals of the German football championship with Osnabrück and Braunschweig.

Career

Oberliga Nord, 1949–1953 and 1957/58

The striker, who grew up in the youth department of BSV Holzhausen, began his career in 1947/48 in the Oberliga Nord at VfL Osnabrück, where he did not become a regular player immediately. After half a season with Kickers Emden in the spring of 1949, he signed in the summer of the same year with the promoted VfB Oldenburg and stormed to 9th place with Felix Gerritzen in 1950. In 29 games he was celebrated as a 21-time goalscorer. The winger Gerritzen moved to Preußen Münster after this round . After 60 games with 38 goals, Meyer moved again to VfL Osnabrück in the summer of 1951. He became the goalscorer of the legendary VfL team, which moved into the finals of the German football championship in 1951/52 as runner-up in the Oberliga Nord . With 29 goals in 28 games, he was the top scorer in the north. In the final round Osnabrück faced VfB Stuttgart , Rot-Weiss Essen and Tennis Borussia Berlin . Stuttgart prevailed in the group games and also won the German championship.

When Meyer moved south to VfR Mannheim after two rounds in 1953, he had played 66 games with 43 goals for VfL. In the 1957/58 season he interrupted his Mannheim activity for professional reasons and scored his goals at Eintracht Braunschweig. He scored 22 goals in 30 games and moved into the shortened championship finals in the 1958 World Cup with the Braunschweig team as runner -up . There were defeats against the new champions FC Schalke 04 and Karlsruher SC ; against Tennis Borussia Berlin the honor of the Oberliga Nord was defended with 8: 3 goals. Uwe Seeler leads the all-time top scorer list of the Oberliga Nord with 267 goals in 237 games. "Ötti" Meyer is ranked 14th in the north with 104 goals in 161 games.

VfR Mannheim, 1953–1957 and 1958–1960

From the round in 1953/54, the goalscorer stormed for VfR Mannheim on the traditional "Platz an der Brauereien". In his second season at VfR he was the most successful shooter of all major leagues with 36 goals; his team occupied 10th place in the table in the Oberliga Süd . The six goals in the 8-0 home win on January 16, 1955 against Jahn Regensburg, his four goals for the 4-2 win on February 13, 1955 against Bayern Munich with the old international Jakob Streitle in the stopper position and his three each were spectacular Goals against VfB Stuttgart (stopper Robert Schlienz ) and SpVgg Fürth with national players Richard Gottinger , Herbert Erhardt and Karl Mai in defense. In the 1955/56 season he underpinned his scoring qualities with 30 hits. After returning from Eintracht Braunschweig, the 31-year-old scored another 27 goals in the 1958/59 round alongside the veterans Rudolf de la Vigne and Ernst Langlotz. In the round of 1959/60 he let his career in the Oberliga Süd end with 14 games and seven goals. For VfR Mannheim Meyer had scored 134 goals in six rounds from 1953 to 1960. The all-time top scorer list of the Oberliga Süd leads Max Morlock from 1. FC Nürnberg with 286 goals in 451 games. "Ötti" Meyer scored his 134 goals for the midfield team VfR Mannheim in 155 games. In total, he scored 238 goals in the major league from 1949 to 1960.

National team

Ernst-Otto Meyer was called up to an international B match on March 23, 1955 in Sheffield against England. The game ended 1-1. He was used twice in test matches of the DFB in 1956: On February 22nd as a center forward against Hamburger SV and on March 11th against a Saar team.

evaluation

Kirn / Natan note in the Ullstein-TB from 1958 about Meyer: “Intelligence player. Strong center forward. Technically very good. Shoots left and right - rare trait. Specialty headers. Good overview of the game. "

After the career

During his football career, Ernst-Otto Meyer completed an engineering degree and was involved in the expansion of the Bremen Bridge in Osnabrück in 1952 as a construction manager . He became a successful architect and ended his career in Ketsch in northern Baden with the local sports association. In Ketsch he was responsible as a player, coach and chairman.

Ernst-Otto Meyer was the older brother of Dieter Meyer, who played as a goalkeeper at Hannover 96 from 1960 to 1963 in the Oberliga Nord.

literature

• 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 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• Richard Kirn / Alex Natan: Football, Ullstein Book No. 206, 1958.
• 100 Years of VfR Mannheim, 1896–1996, Festschrift, 1996.
• 100 years of sports association 06 Ketsch, Festschrift and Chronicle, 2006.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst-Otto Meyer at weltfussball.de.