Erwin Seeler
Erwin Seeler (born April 29, 1910 in Hamburg , † July 10, 1997 in Norderstedt ) was a German football player .
He began his career at Rothenburgsort 96 and then played at SC Lorbeer 06 , a workers' sports club, for which he played in the first team for the first time at the age of 16 (1926). In 1929 he became ATSB national champion with a laurel, a success that the team repeated in 1931. The striker was at this time also repeated the jersey of the ATSB federal selection; in the quarter-final game of the 1931 Workers' Olympics, Seeler scored seven goals for the German 9-0 over Hungary and was even the top scorer .
Accordingly, Uwe and Dieter Seeler's father wooed several civic sports clubs organized in the competing DFB ; and since one could not earn any money in the workers' sports movement and was not even allowed to reap individual fame, "Seeler gave in to the temptations" (H. Grüne) and, together with Alwin Springer, another laurel player, switched to Victoria Hamburg in 1932 , supposedly for the Provision of an apartment in posh Eppendorf and the promise of (officially prohibited) cash payments. This change from dockside workers district Rothenburgsort to the High air was the Social Democratic Hamburger Echo with headlines such as "Stray proletarians!" Commented and in 2000 by Walter Jens (at a young age member of Eimsbütteler TV again) in his critical speech on the 100th anniversary of the DFB picked up.
In 1938 "Old Erwin" Seeler then moved to Hamburger SV , with whom he was several times Nordmark and Hamburg Gaumeister (1939, 1941, 1945) and twice champion of the British zone (1947, 1948) and until 1949 completed around 200 competitive games .
The fact that in 1944 he was in the team of the Luftwaffe Sports Club Hamburg , which was "thrown together" for reasons of war , and lost the final of the German championship in Berlin against Dresdner SC (0: 4) is misinformation. It is true that after leaving HSV, Seeler returned to his former club Victoria Hamburg as a player- coach and then worked in the same role at VfL Oldesloe . There he ran on April 29, 1951 - his 41st birthday - for the last time himself in a point game. A few months later he went to Heider SV as a coach .
So he has not won a national title with any of the “civil” clubs. Erwin Seeler was buried in the family grave at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.
literature
- Patricia Arnold / Dagmar Niewerth, Comrades Out! The workers' sports movement in Altona in the Weimar Republic. In: Arnold Sywottek (ed.), The other Altona. Hamburg 1984 (results)
- Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
- Bernd Jankowski, Harald Pistorius, Jens Reimer Prüß : Football in the North. 100 years of the North German Football Association. History, chronicle, names, dates, facts, figures. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-270-X .
- Matthias Kropp, Germany's big soccer teams, part 8: Hamburger SV - data - pictures - facts. Kassel (AGON) ISBN 3-928562-70-3
Web links
References
- ↑ "Dor wull keen mit mi snacken, de hebbt mi jo gor nich ankeeken" (in the club, after returning from the ATSB international match) - quoted by Jan Feddersen In: 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 .
- ↑ The Stormarner Tageblatt of April 30, 1951 criticized him as "far too slow", but the game report shows that he prepared two great opportunities that were not used by fellow players
- ↑ knerger.de: Erwin Seeler's grave
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seeler, Erwin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Old Erwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1997 |
| Place of death | Norderstedt |