Erwin Wax

Erwin Wax (born October 14, 1920 ) is a former German soccer player. For SC Union 06 Berlin he completed 117 round matches in the Berlin City League from 1950 to 1957 , scoring 37 goals. The offensive player belonged to the Union 06 championship eleven in the 1952/53 season, which won the Berlin championship . The strong winger had previously won the double with championship and cup in Berlin with SG Oberschöneweide in 1947/48 . For the first time he had prevailed with Oberschöneweide in 1947 in the games for the Berlin Cup.

career

Oberschöneweide, until 1950

In the 1946/47 season, Wax and his teammates from Köpenick, SG Oberschöneweide, won the season in the second division in Berlin and thus rose to the 1947/48 round in the then all-Berlin city league. On February 9, 1947, the second-rate Oberschöneweider won the cup final against the eventual Berlin champions SG Wilmersdorf 4: 3 after extra time. Wax stormed alongside fellow attackers Walter Sowade, Paul Decker, Werner Fiedler and Josef Zöllner on the left wing. In the first year in the city league, 1947/48, Wax and colleagues played with 35: 9 points for the championship and the nimble and cunning winger had scored 13 goals. The cup was defended on April 25, 1948 with a 3-1 in the replay against SG Charlottenburg.

In the second city league season, 1948/49, the "Elf von Sadowa" landed in third place behind SG Wilmersdorf (BSV 92) and SG Charlottenburg (Tennis Borussia). In that round, Wax had scored ten goals. In the third year, 1949/50, Tennis Borussia prevented the second championship success, the team from Wuhlheide was runner-up under coach Johannes Sobek . Center forward Heinz Rogge was the top scorer with 29 goals and Wax had played 24 league games. In protest, Union Ob had already played its home games in the Post Stadium in West Berlin's Tiergarten district from March 1950. The introduction of contract football in West Berlin had caused the East Berliners DS to withdraw the team from the joint Berlin City League. After winning the runner-up, Oberschöneweide played the game for the finals of the German soccer championship on May 28, 1950 in Kiel against Hamburger SV without the consent of East Berlin's DS. In the formation with Gerhard Wittke (goalkeeper), the defenders Erhard Bolduan and Richard Strehlow , the runner row Günther Schulz, Herbert Stelter and Kurt Senglaub, as well as the attack with Erwin Wax, Manfred Seidel, Heinz Rogge, Paul Salisch and Heinz Lehninger was the game lost with 0: 7.

On June 9, 1950, the new club SC Union 06 Berlin was founded in West Berlin and was eligible to play in the Berlin City League. The Wax team lost the cup final on June 14th with 0: 2 against champions Tennis Borussia. On March 26, 1950 Wax had represented the city selection Berlin in the game against Saxony (2-0) on the right wing.

Union 06 Berlin, 1950 to 1957

With two runner-up championships in 1951 and 1952 Union 06 started in the Berlin City League; the "violets" from Tennis Borussia each won the championship. Wax made 45 league appearances in the two rounds in which he scored 13 goals. The championship-winning game on April 6, 1952 between TeBe and Union 06 was attended by 75,000 fans; the "Veilchen" won 4-2. In the 1952/53 season Wax started with his blue-whites with a 0-2 away defeat against Spandauer SV. It remained the only defeat of the round for Union 06, so that the championship was played out with 40: 8 points ahead of Spandauer SV and defending champion Tennis Borussia with 31:17 points each with coach Helmuth Krüger. In the final round of the German championship, however, the competitors of Hamburger SV, VfB Stuttgart and Borussia Dortmund proved to be clearly superior. With 1:11 points, Union finished fourth in the group stage.

The title defense did not succeed in 1953/54 with reaching third rank and in the second half of 1956/57 Wax said goodbye with the game on April 14, 1957 at Tasmania 1900 Berlin (2: 1) as an active player from the city league. From 1950 to 1957 he played 117 league games for Union 06 and scored 37 goals.

Wax also had outstanding games as an attacker in the city ​​selection of Berlin. There were in particular the missions on February 11, 1951 in the home draw of 2: 2 in the city selection against Zurich, where he achieved the interim 2: 1 lead in front of 90,000 spectators; the 1-1 home draw on December 21, 1952 against Stockholm and the two games in 1953 against London, where there were significant defeats (1: 6, 0: 4).

successes

• Champion in the Berlin City League: 1948 with SG Oberschöneweide; 1953 with Union 06
• Berlin Cup winners: 1947 and 1948 with SG Oberschöneweide

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
• Wolfgang Hartwig, Günter Weise, Helmut Tietze: 100 years of football in Berlin . Sports publishing house Berlin. 1997. ISBN 3-328-00734-2 .
• Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 2: 1948–1963 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 29). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 .