Fritz Hack

Fritz Hack (born March 30, 1917 in Regensburg ; † August 31, 1991 in Bonn ) was a German football player , trainer and sports journalist . As a half-forward in the World Cup system used at the time , he played a total of over 70 league games and scored over 30 goals as a player for VfL Neckarau in Gauliga Baden and SpVgg Fürth and TSV 1860 Munich in Gauliga Bayern . During his time at Neckarau, Hack also played seven games in the Baden region and one game in the final round of the German soccer championship with the Munich “Löwen” in 1943 . After the end of World War II, he was also a member of the team of players in ten league games at SpVgg Fürth in the first season of the South Football League in 1945/46 .

career

Club soccer

Born in Regensburg and at the local Turnerschaft the soccer game applied in the local youth division offensive player, moved to the season 1936/37 in the SpVgg Ansbach from the Bezirksklasse Mittelfranken to SpVgg Fürth in the Gauliga Bavaria. By being drafted into the military and being transferred to Mannheim, he only played a Gauliga game for the Green-Whites from Ronhof on the third day of the match, October 3, 1937. The use in a 1: 4 away defeat at 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 was his only assignment for Fürth in the 1937/38 season in the Gauliga Bayern, as he was eligible to play for Neckarau from November. Hack had run up on half right at the side of Albert and Ludwig Janda for Fürth in Schweinfurt. Hack, who was called up to Mannheim as a member of the Wehrmacht, played his first game for VfL Neckarau in the Gauliga Baden on November 28, 1937. With the team from the stadium at the Altriper ferry , he won the home game 4-1 against FC Germania Brötzingen and scored a goal on his debut alongside teammates such as goalkeeper Otto Diringer , Willi Großesle , Siegfried Hessenauer and Gottfried Wenzelburger . At the end of the round Neckarau finished 4th with 22:14 points and the man from Regensburg / Fürth had scored four goals in 12 league appearances and was so convincing that he made his first appearance in the Baden region on June 26, 1938. In the following season, 1938/39, the half-forward played with Neckarau in the Gauliga Baden; he played 16 games and scored two goals. He played his last league game for VfL on May 18, 1939 in a 2-0 defeat against SpVgg Sandhofen.

The next two rounds of the war, 1939/40 and 1940/41, he was able to compete again in the colors of SpVgg Fürth and completed 33 league games in which he scored 13 goals for the "Kleeblatt" -Elf at the side of Hans Fiederer and Ernst Sieber . With Fürth, Hack also took part in games for the Tschammer Cup in 1940 and 1941. In the 2-1 home win on September 29, 1940 against FC Schalke 04, he contributed a goal on half right, in the inner trio with Sieber and Fiederer. The following year, on August 10, 1941, he and his teammates lost 4-1 at 1. FC Nürnberg and scored the consolation goal at the 135th derby against the “Club”.

In the 1941/42 season he came again due to the war circumstances in Mannheim with VfL Neckarau in the Gauliga Baden used. Hack played in the final round in Baden in the games against VfB Mühlburg (3: 4, 0: 0), Freiburg FC (5: 4) and the two games against Waldhof Mannheim (0: 1, 0: 3) for Neckarau . When World War II pushed football more and more into the background and the games were often played under arbitrary personnel conditions, guest players and front vacationers determined the line-up, Hack 1942/43 saw three games for Fürth in the Gauliga Bayern (Northern Bavaria) three goals against Post SG Fürth, FC Schweinfurt 05 and VfR Schweinfurt from September to November 1942. During his studies in Munich he was also active in the Gauliga Südbayern for TSV Munich 1860 from 1942 to 1944 and scored nine goals in 12 league appearances. He was also part of the team of the South Bavarian Gaumeister who lost on May 30, 1943 in Vienna in the final of the German soccer championship with 0: 2 against the hosts First Vienna. In front of 60,000 spectators in the Prater Stadium , Rudolf Noack and Karl Decker scored the goals for the Viennese.

The last Gauliga game for Fürth he played as a vacationer on September 19, 1943 in a 14-0 home win against the Würzburger Kickers, where he scored eight goals. According to Ebner, he was said to have been a guest player for a short time at Dresdner SC during the war.

Selected player in the Gauliga

On June 26, 1938, Hack made his debut against Bayern in the Baden region. In Munich, Baden prevailed 5: 3 against hosts Bayern and in addition to the right connector Hack Georg Herbold , Kurt Langenbein , Anton Lutz and Karl Striebinger played in the dangerous attack of the Baden district selection.

His last game in the Baden region was played on June 24, 1939 in a 5-1 win against Württemberg. Together with Hugo Rastetter and August Klingler, he formed the inner storm of the Baden selection. In the Baden selection games, Hack im Kicker was described as "a stocky player who, in addition to powerful commitment and tireless enthusiasm for games, also has mature technology and famous ideas".

With the German national student team, he won the world championship at the Academic World Games in Vienna in August 1939 with two games against Hungary (2-1) and Italy (3-0). Team members included Gunther Baumann and Erwin Schädler . Hack had distinguished himself as a goalscorer in both games. Previously, in June in Berlin in the stadium at Gesundbrunnen, an audition against the selection Berlin / Brandenburg (0: 2) took place without a hack.

In the following two years after returning to Fürth, he was also used in the Bavarian regional selection in the competition for the Reichsbund Cup. On December 3, 1939 he belonged to the 3-0 winning Bavarian selection in the game against Württemberg and scored one goal. On October 6 and 27, 1940, he was also used in the two games against Lower Saxony. In Nuremberg the rivals parted 3: 3 afterwards and in the replay Bayern prevailed in Braunschweig 2: 1 after extra time. Hack scored in the 104th minute on the side of Ludwig Janda , Georg Lechner sen. , Hans Fiederer and Lorenz Fischer the winning goal for Bavaria.

During the Second World War he was also a member of Major Hermann Graf's fighter squadron and played on the Rote Jäger football team alongside Fritz Walter and Hermann Eppenhoff .

Oberliga Süd, 1945 to 1946

Hack belonged to the circle of players with whom the first season of the Oberliga Süd kicked off on November 4, 1945 under the adventurous conditions of the post-war period. Fürth opened the season with a 0-0 draw at FC Schweinfurt 05 and he was attacked as a center forward. At the end of the round, the green-whites finished 13th and Hack had played ten league games alongside teammates such as Fred Hoffmann , Albert Janda , Paul Vorläufer , Fritz Wilde and Fritz Zahn under coach Hans Hagen . He played his last league game on April 7, 1946 in a 2-0 home win against FSV Frankfurt, when center runner Hans Zollhöfer converted two penalties. The consequences of injuries then led Hack to end the round early.

Trainer, South America and author

When the war was over, Fritz Hack obtained his soccer teacher exam at the Bavarian Sport Academy in Steingaden, was an association coach in Bavaria, was in charge of the German national student team, was champion of the Bavarian regional league with 1. FC Bamberg and also had the two regional division clubs at the time VfL Konstanz and FC Singen trained. At the same time as his physical education teacher exam in Switzerland, which he passed in 1952, he coached FC Lucerne, with whom he made it to the National League A. FC St. Gallen was his last (coach) station in Europe before he left Germany as a respected coach and sports journalist in 1953 and then spent twelve years in South America. Here, too, he obtained the coaching diploma at the sports academy in Buenos Aires and temporarily coached the German-Argentinian football club there. As a sports journalist, he reported on South American football and the World Cup and made a name for himself as a book author. The book “Schwarze Perle Pele” from 1963 from Limpert Verlag in Frankfurt am Main became a bestseller. For many years he was the expert on South American football in the specialist magazine “Der Fußball-Trainer” from Achalm Verlag in Reutlingen. His detailed elaboration in volume 8 from 1975 with the title "Fritz Hack takes a look around the country of the World Cup '78, Argentina" is cited as an example.

Hack was based in South America until 1967, then returned to Germany and from May 1st worked as technical director at Bundesliga club TSV Alemannia Aachen. He brought the two Uruguay internationals Horacio Troche and Juan Carlos Borteiro with him to Tivoli, but canceled his contract on June 30, 1968 due to “lack of competence approval”, settled in Bad Godesberg and from then on worked as a freelance sports journalist. The passionate stamp collector died at the age of 74 on August 31, 1991. He found his final resting place in the Rüngsdorf cemetery in Bad Godesberg.

literature

• Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. The history of the Gauliga Baden 1933–1945. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2016, ISBN 978-3-89735-879-9 , pp. 333/334.
• Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 270.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 124 .
2. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. Pp. 333/334
3. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. Pp. 333/334
4. ^ Klaus Querengässer: The German Football Championship, Part 1: 1903-1945. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1997. ISBN 3-89609-106-9 . P. 221
5. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 334
6. ↑ Andreas Ebner: When the war ate football. P. 333
7. ^ Gilbert Bringmann (ed.): Football Almanach 1900–1943. Kassel sports publisher. Kassel 1992. ISBN 3-928562-13-4 . P. 344

Web links

• Biography on greuther-fürth.de