Ewald Lachmann

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Ewald Lachmann (born January 25, 1911 in Hindenburg OS ; † January 3, 1943 ; missing on the Eastern Front in Gorodischtschje near Stalingrad ) was a German football player who played for SC Preußen Hindenburg and forward lawn sport Gleiwitz .

career

Lachmann began his football career as a teenager at SC Preußen Hindenburg, with whom he was the first Southeast German champion at the age of 18 . After the club had qualified against the competition Breslauer SC 08 , FC Viktoria Forst , Beuthener SuSV and Cottbuser FV for the finals of the German soccer championship in 1929 , it failed there in the round of 16 with 1: 8 to Hertha BSC . Lachmann occupied the center forward position in the clear defeat against Hertha BSC. For the round 1932/33 he moved to the green-whites of forward lawn sport Gleiwitz. He celebrated the championship in the Gauliga Silesia with Gleiwitz in 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939 and 1940 . Although Lachmann started his career as a striker, from the mid-1930s he found his true calling in the middle position. He was one of the most popular players in the German part of Upper Silesia .

In 1936 he had more success with the Silesian Gaumeister Vorwärts RaSpo Gleiwitz. After being able to leave Werder Bremen , Eimsbütteler TV and Viktoria Stolp behind in the group stage , it was only in the semifinals against Fortuna Düsseldorf with the national players Paul Janes , Jakob Bender , Ernst Albrecht , Felix Zwolanowski and Stanislaus Kobierski the end of the line. Lachmann completed all eight finals in 1936; six in the group and one each in the semi-finals and in the match for third place. The last appearances in the final round of the German championship played Lachmann in 1938 against LSV Stettin and Dresdner SC . Ewald Lachmann has a total of 24 final round matches from 1929 to 1938.

From 1934 to 1938 Lachmann completed seven games in the Reichsbund Cup for the Gau Schlesien . When the Silesians won the final against Bayern on March 5, 1939 in Dresden, he was no longer part of the team.

Professionally, the self-employed businessman ran a sports shop in the center of Gleiwitz. At the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He took part in the France campaign in 1940. In 1941 he was awarded a prize in a poetry competition for soldiers, his poem "The Great Peace" was supported by a newspaper to the German Reich connected Lorraine Metz printed. He has been missing since the fighting for Stalingrad in early 1943.

The Polish-German writer, translator and theater director Peter Lachmann , who lives in Warsaw , is his son.

Statistics - final round of the German championship

  • SC Preußen Hindenburg: 1 game, no goal (1929)
  • Forward lawn sport Gleiwitz: 23 games, 1 goal (1933–1938)

Footnotes

  1. ^ [1] Gazeta Wyborcza (Katowice edition), December 5, 2006, p. 26.
  2. ^ Piotr Lachmann: Wywolane z pamięci. Olsztyn 1999, p. 119.
  3. ↑ http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendung/fazit/1098474/

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 .
  • Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
  • 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 .
personal data
SURNAME Lachmann, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Hindenburg (Upper Silesia)
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1943