Ernst Langlotz (soccer player)

Ernst Langlotz
Personnel
birthday	February 28, 1920
place of birth	Neulußheim ,  German Empire
date of death	1992
Place of death	Neulußheim,  Germany
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1936	SC Olympia Neulußheim
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1936-1948	SC Olympia Neulußheim
1948-1959	VfR Mannheim	255 (102)
1959-19 ??	SC Olympia Neulußheim
1 Only league games are given.

Ernst Langlotz (born February 28, 1920 in Neulußheim ; † 1992 there ) was a German football player. As a player for VfR Mannheim , he won the German championship in 1949 .

Career

Beginning

Langlotz started playing football at SC Olympia Neulußheim . His talent as a striker was discovered early on. And as a result, he played in the first team at the age of 16. There the playmaker, who was also called "Reiwerle" because of his speed , played until he was called up for the Wehrmacht , like many other young men, when the war broke out in 1939 . He only came out of this in 1948, after many years of Canadian captivity in the internment camp Camp 133 , in which he had met several Mannheim footballers with de la Vigne, Henninger, Jöckel, Müller and Senck, who were captured together in North Africa and with whom he was often kicked back together in the camp.

continuation

He continued playing football with his youth club, but was signed by VfR Mannheim a month later (transfer fee: DM 2000 and a transfer game). The half-forward completed his first league game with playmaker and goal scorer qualities on November 14, 1948 in a 3-0 away win at Schwaben Augsburg. At the debut, Langlotz introduced himself with two goals. In addition to Langlotz, Bolleyer and Maier also joined the blue-white-red lawn athletes for the 1948/49 round. Since de la Vigne, Jöckel, Henninger, Müller and Senck had already joined the VfR the year before, this led to Langlotz under the old Schalke master coach Hans Schmidt that in his first year in Mannheim (1948/49: 21 games - seven goals; 2nd place in the Oberliga Süd), with which VfR was able to achieve its first and only championship title . In the championship final of 1949, the so-called “Heat Battle of Stuttgart”, he scored the 2-2 equalizer against Borussia Dortmund , which brought his Mannheim team into extra time. In this, the series of attacks consisting of Fritz Bolleyer , Ernst Langlotz, Ernst Löttke , Kurt Stiefvater and Rudolf de la Vigne managed to score the winning goal.

On September 18, 1949 Langlotz was active in the competition of the regional cup in the team from North Baden in the game against Pfalz / Rheinhessen. On the Waldhof square, the host and the other VfR players Rößling, Keuerleber, Stiefvater and de la Vigne lost 1: 4 goals in front of 22,000 spectators against the team around Fritz and Ottmar Walter . In April 1950 he was part of a screening course given by national trainer Sepp Herberger . Two years after winning the German championship in 1950/51, he scored 20 goals in 32 league appearances and set his personal record. In this round, Mannheim football put three teams in the Oberliga Süd : VfR Mannheim, SV Waldhof Mannheim and VfL Neckarau . His outstanding performance had also led to the fact that he ran up on November 11, 1950 in the representative game of Southwest Germany against South Germany in Ludwigshafen as a center forward in the southern selection. Kurt Keuerleber was in the middle position, Fritz Balogh von Neckarau was active as half right and Rudolf de la Vigne on the left wing next to Langlotz. Balogh and Langlotz were the goal scorers in the 2-2 win for southern Germany.

When in the 1955/56 season the team from the place at the breweries were able to achieve the most hits in the Oberliga Süd with 73 goals and thus took third place, the man from Neulußheim had contributed nine hits in 26 league appearances. At the beginning of his eleventh season at VfR, 1958/59, the 38-year-old was a member of a North Baden contract player selection on November 19, 1958 in Sofia, who won 4-2 goals against the B national team of Bulgaria. The Mannheim players were supported by the KSC players Heinz Beck , Wilhelm Dimmel , Heinz Ruppenstein and Bernhard Termath . Shortly before Christmas 1958, on December 21st, he played a friendly with VfR at FC Barcelona . In the 3-0 defeat, the veteran played in the middle position and had to deal with the international “Barça” trio Sándor Kocsis , Evaristo and László Kubala . After the game at Camp Nou , he was offered a well-paid contract, which he declined with thanks.

Finale

In 1959 he ended his contract playing career at the age of 39 - he played his last league game on February 1, 1959 in the 1: 3 home defeat against 1. FC Nürnberg - and returned to his home club SC Neulußheim for a few more years, to act first as a player-coach and then as a coach. VfR Association President Dr. Schweizer said goodbye to the three long-time league players Ernst Langlotz, Kurt Keuerleber and Rudolf de la Vigne on June 17, 1959 before the friendly against Eintracht Trier with honorable words.

statistics

• 255 games in the Oberliga Süd (1948-1959) with 102 goals
• 5 games in the finals for the German championship (1949–1950) with three goals
• Third place in the VfR rankings for most league appearances (behind de la Vigne and Keuerleber) and goals (behind Ernst-Otto Meyer and de la Vigne)

Web links

• Ernst Langlotz in the weltfussball.de database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Anniversary publication : 100 years VfR Mannheim 1896–1996. P. 152.

literature

• Festschrift 100 years of SC Olympia 1911 e. V. Neulußheim .
• 100 years of VfR Mannheim 1896–1996 (anniversary publication)
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945-1970. Football archive, Mannheim 1995 ISBN 3-929295-14-8 .