Fritz Bolleyer

Fritz Bolleyer (born May 23, 1923 - January 1991 ) was a German football player . The player, who was mainly used in attack at VfR Mannheim in the World Cup system at the time, played 80 league games in the Oberliga Süd from 1948 to 1951 and scored 20 goals for the VfR's blue-white-reds. In 1949 he became German champion with the “Monnemer Lawn Sportsmen” .

Career

Beginning in Viernheim

Fritz Bolleyer, who came to Amicitia Viernheim from Fortuna Heddesheim, experienced his first major success with the green-whites from the forest sports field in the 1947/48 season. TSG Rohrbach and Viernheim were tied with 32:12 points each in the Landesliga Nordbaden, Group North, at the top of the table after the end of the round. The decisive game for the championship win on April 17, 1948 on the Waldhof-Platz in front of 15,000 spectators, Bolleyer decided with two hits to a 2-1 victory for Viernheim. This was followed by winning the North Baden state league championship in two games against VfR Pforzheim (0-0, 1-0) and then participating in the promotion round to the first-class Oberliga Süd. Since the state league champions from North Baden could not assert themselves against the competition of SpVgg Feuerbach, BC Augsburg and 1. FC Rödelheim. For the 1948/49 season, Bolleyer accepted the offer of the VfR Mannheim from the Oberliga Süd and moved to the square city on the 8th of the 1947/48 season .

Continuation in Mannheim

For the 1948/49 season, the further improvement of the team of players in the blue-white-reds of VfR succeeded with the additions Bolleyer, Ernst Langlotz (another "Canadian" from Neulußheim) and Rudi Maier (SV Waldhof). Bolleyer made his debut on the second round matchday, on September 19, 1948, in a 2-1 away win at FC Rödelheim in the league. He ran as a defender and scored the winning goal for Mannheim in the 79th minute. In his first home game on September 26, a 1-1 draw against the Stuttgarter Kickers, he stormed as a center forward and distinguished himself as the hosts' goalscorer. On the seventh first round match day, October 31, 1948, VfR won the derby against SV Waldhof in front of 20,000 spectators 2-1. On November 28th, the hosts drew 1-1 against the clear leaders Kickers Offenbach. Like Langlotz, Bolleyer scored seven goals in the first round of the league and since outside runner Maier also proved to be a reinforcement in his 27 appearances, VfR Mannheim steadily advanced in the table. The team of coach Hans Schmidt ended the league round on May 15, 1949 with a home draw of 1: 1 against FC Bayern Munich as runner-up and was thus qualified for the final round of the German championship.

In the quarter-finals, the possibly underestimated VfR defeated Hamburger SV in the Frankfurt Waldstadion with a sensational 5-0. The offensive approach, which coach “Bumbes” brought his team closer to his team with the simple football wisdom: “People, orientate forward! If the ball is in the opponent's half, we cannot score a goal ” . In the semifinals, his team had to deal with the Offenbachers, against whom they had drawn twice in the major league. The game took place in Gelsenkirchen's Glückauf-Kampfbahn , and after just eight minutes the final result was clear: With 2: 1 goals - 1: 0 Löttke (1st), 1: 1 Schreiner (3rd), 2: 1 de la Vigne (8th) - Mannheim succeeded in making the surprising final. At the end of the league round, the VfR attack had already established itself with the cast of Bolleyer, Langlotz, Ernst Löttke , Kurt Stiefvater and Rudolf de la Vigne . In all final round games, these five then ran for VfR.

Also against the final opponent Borussia Dortmund , the North Baden were considered outsiders. The VfR had specially prepared for this game in a three-day training camp near the Stuttgart venue , for which the mostly professional footballers had to take vacation. On a scorchingly hot Sunday in July - the game went down in the annals as the “Stuttgart Heat Battle” - VfR was able to equalize the Dortmund leadership twice, so that the approximately 92,000 spectators in the overcrowded Neckarstadion (89,420 tickets had officially been sold) for their entrance fee received a 30 minute addition. In the 108th minute of the game, center forward Löttke scored the decisive goal to make it 3-2, so that the Electoral Palatinate then had to wear the oversized wreath on several laps of honor through the blazing sun.

In his second year in Mannheim, 1949/50, Bolleyer again scored seven goals in 24 missions. Last year's runner-up finished fourth with 34:26 points. In the final round of the German championship in the summer of 1950, the VfR was still able to participate, as four teams from the upper leagues West and South each qualified this year and a total of 16 teams competed. First, the blue-white-reds met in Gladbeck on the final opponent of the previous year; thanks to two goals from de la Vigne, the win over Dortmund Borussia (3: 1) was a little easier this time; Bolleyer had stormed on the left wing. In the intermediate round game played in Frankfurt, however, the goalkeeper of the opposing Prussians Dellbrück , the later national goalkeeper Fritz Herkenrath , repeatedly brought the defending champion's striker to despair, only allowed the connection goal to make it 1: 2 and thus prevented four southern German league clubs from making the cake in the semi-finals distributed alone among themselves. Against Dortmund as well as Dellbrück, Mannheim took part in the attack line-up with Franz Islacker , Langlotz, Löttke, de la Vigne and Bolleyer.

In Bolleyer's third year at VfR, the German champions of 1949 surprisingly fell to 12th place in the Oberliga Süd with 31:37 points and 72:72 goals. The goals scored exceeded the yield of the championship year 1949, when the VfR had scored 51 goals in 30 rounds, but the goals received with 72 goals compared to 42 clearly indicated the defensive weakness. Bolleyer appeared in 31 games and scored six times in the opposing goal. After three rounds at VfR Mannheim, the 28-year-old returned to Viernheim in the summer of 1951. He had scored 20 goals in 80 league games and also demonstrated his skills in five finals (1 goal).

End in Viernheim

With Amicitia Viernheim's green and whites, Bolleyer won the championship in the 1st Amateur League North Baden four times in a row from 1954 to 1957. The returnees from Mannheim and Viernheim failed three times in the promotion rounds to the 2nd League South in 1954, 1955 and 1956. In the fourth attempt in 1957 under coach Reinhold Fanz sen. against VfB Friedrichshafen, Borussia Fulda, FC Konstanz and FC Bamberg with 6: 2 points the promotion to the 2nd League South.

Web links

• Fritz Bolleyer in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970. P. 40.
2. ↑ 100 years VfR Mannheim, p. 117.

literature

• 100 years of VfR Mannheim 1896–1996 (anniversary publication)
• Lorenz Knieriem / Hardy Grüne: Spiellexikon 1890–1963. AGON, Kassel o. J. (2006) ISBN 3-89784-148-7 . P. 38.
• 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 . Pp. 106-113.
• Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945-1970. Football archive, Mannheim 1995 ISBN 3-929295-14-8 .