Fritz Laband

Fritz Laband
Personnel
Surname	Friedrich Laband
birthday	November 1, 1925
place of birth	Hindenburg OS ,  German Empire
date of death	January 3, 1982
Place of death	Hamburg ,  Germany
position	Right / left full-back
Juniors
Years	station
1936-1937	Reichsbahn SV Hindenburg
1938-1943	TuS Hindenburg 09
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1943-1945	SC Prussia Zaborze
1945-1950	ZSG Anker Wismar
1950-1956	Hamburger SV	122 (0)
1956-1957	SV Werder Bremen	10 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1954	Germany	4 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Friedrich "Fritz" Laband (born November 1, 1925 in Hindenburg OS ; † January 3, 1982 in Hamburg ) was a German football player. As a player for Hamburger SV , the defender won the World Cup in Switzerland with the national team in 1954 .

Life

Hindenburg and Wismar

Fritz Laband came from a family of railway workers from Upper Silesia . From 1936 to 1937 he began playing soccer at the Reichsbahn SV Hindenburg, after which he was a member of TuS Hindenburg 09 for five or six years, before playing in the 1st team of SC Preußen Zaborze at the age of 18 . During the Second World War he was part of a tank division in Africa. In 1945 fled he and his family from Upper Silesia and came as a refugee in the Soviet occupation zone . He continued his football career in Wismar, first at SG Wismar-Süd , with which he took 1st place in the national class, season west in 1947/48 . In the final round of the Mecklenburg Championship , Wismar-Süd finished second behind master SG Schwerin . On June 20, 1948 he lost with his team in the Eastern Zone Championship with 1: 3 against SG Freiimfelde Halle . In the following season 1948/49 again the relay championship but also succeeded in the finals with 10-2 points the championship in Mecklenburg . At that time, Laband was still storming the half-left or left-winger and scored nine goals in the finals. In the east zone championship , however, he lost on May 29, 1949 0:10 against Fortuna Erfurt . The master of the year 1949 from Mecklenburg played 1949/50 as ZSG anchor in the GDR Oberliga , but only reached 13th place and had to accept relegation after a playoff against SG Altenburg Nord (2: 3). Laband had played in 24 league games for Wismar.

Laband was used five times in the Mecklenburg state selection. There were two regional selection games against Thuringia (0: 3, 2: 3) and Brandenburg (1: 5, 3: 4) and the competition game for the regional cup 1949/50 on August 21, 1949 in Potsdam again against Brandenburg, which in turn came with 0: 4 was lost. In Potsdam Laband ran as a left defender at the side of his club mates Günter Szewierski , Willi Schweiß , Herbert Stegemann and Heinz Rennhack under selection coach Johannes Siegert . With the GDR selection, he took part in test matches in 1950 against Saxony-Anhalt (5: 1), Saxony (3: 1) and on May 28 in Berlin against a Prague city selection (0: 1). During this encounter - he played alongside Kurt Birkner , Johannes Breitenstein , Otto Knefler , Heinz Satrapa , Johannes Schöne and Herbert Rappsilber - scouts from Hamburger SV became aware of Laband and in particular HSV center forward Werner Harden , a native of Silesia, made the connection Contact and convinced Laband to move to Hamburg.

Oberliga Nord, 1950 to 1957

In addition to Laband for the 1950/51 season, the diamond bearers also brought the other players Rolf Börner , Karl-Heinz Liese , Reinhold Ertel and Walter Schemel (Schemel was only allowed to play in the 1951/52 season) to the Rothenbaum. Laband made his debut in the Oberliga Nord on September 10, 1950 in a 1-1 draw at VfB Oldenburg as a right defender. He won the championship in the north with HSV after 29 league appearances and moved into the finals of the German soccer championship with coach Georg Knöpfle . With the defender couple Börner - Laband, the northern champion played all six group games against Preußen Münster , 1. FC Nürnberg and Tennis Borussia Berlin and finished 3rd with 6: 6 points. On May 27, the future finalist Preußen Münster was defeated 5-1. In his second HSV year, 1951/52 , the round result was identical: champion in the Oberliga Nord and 3rd group place in the final round of the German championship with 6: 6 points. In the north, the defender from Wismar had played 27 league games and in the finals again all six group games alongside Börner. In the home games, the northern champions convinced (6-0 points), in the away games no points were won. Also this year the future finalist, 1. FC Saarbrücken , was beaten 4-1 in Hamburg. 1953 followed the title hat trick in the north with another 28 league appearances. The fourth HSV year, 1953/54 , was to be a memorable round: firstly, the northern series champion fell to 11th place, secondly the athletic two-man made his debut in the national team and, as the crowning glory, won the world championship in Switzerland with the Herberger team . The four-point deduction for unauthorized hand money payments to the courted Bremen attacker Willi Schröder had led to the poor performance in the top division . The HSV defender made his national team debut in the last international match before the World Cup, on April 25, 1954 in Bern against Switzerland. He acted alongside regular defender Erich Retter as a left defender and experienced his momentous injury in the 13th minute, as a result of which the Stuttgart lost his secure place in the World Cup line-up and Laband moved up.

In the World Cup quarter-final against Yugoslavia on June 27 in Geneva, Laband was injured in a duel with Branko Zebec , but he would have been fit for the final. That the injury from the Yugoslavia game led to the end of his career, as has often been published, is wrong. The defender suffered the much more serious knee injury in a friendly match before the start of the round in 1954/55 on August 7, 1954 at 1. FC Köln (1-1). He not only missed the start of the round on August 29th, Laband did not play a single league game in the 1954/55 round due to the injuries from the Cologne friendly game . Only in the final round of the German football championship at the home game on May 22, 1955 (1-0) against Viktoria 89 Berlin , he was able to play for HSV in this round. Even in 1955/56 the recovery was not complete: Laband had to be satisfied with nine league appearances and two games in the final round of the German championship .

He played a total of 143 games for HSV from 1950 to 1956, 122 of which were in the major league and 21 in the finals for the German soccer championship. For the 1956/57 season he tried again a fresh start, he switched to league rivals Werder Bremen . But the 1954 world champion also failed on the Weser due to his damaged knee. His use on November 4, 1956 in a 1: 2 away defeat at FC Altona 93 , was the final point as a contract player. After ten league games for Werder, Laband was on the side of Dragomir Ilic , Richard Ackerschott , Hans Hagenacker and Willi Schröder Round ended and his higher-class career in football.

Later he played for Grün-Weiß 07 Hamburg for another year . After his active career, he trained the Buxtehuder SV , the USC Paloma Hamburg and the SV Lurup .

National team and world champion, 1954

In the German national team , Laband was used as a defender in four games. He played his first international game in a 5-3 victory over Switzerland on April 25, 1954 in Basel . Highlight of his career was the participation in the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland , where he became world champion with the German national team. He played there in the two preliminary round matches against Turkey (4-1 and 7-2) and in the quarter-finals in a 2-0 win against Yugoslavia . The Hamburg Senate presented him with the Silver Senate Plaque .

The selection missions had started for the HSV defender, he could be used on the right as well as on the left side, with the representative game on October 10, 1953 in Dortmund between West Germany and North Germany. One day later, October 11th, the DFB national team competed in Stuttgart for the World Cup qualifier against Saarland (3-0), where Erich Retter and the debutant Herbert Erhardt defended. On November 21, the north team played with Laband in Hamburg against a German B-selection (1: 5) and the day after the national team defeated Norway 5: 1 in the World Cup qualifier . The DFB selection came up with the regular defenders Retter and Werner Kohlmeyer . On February 28, 1954 Laband came for the third use in the north selection in the game against the southwest (2: 4). On April 25, 1954, he made his debut in Basel in the last international match before the World Cup tournament in the national team. He formed the defenders pair with the rescuer on the left. Rescuer was injured in the 12./13. Minute so badly on the knee that he missed the subsequent World Cup. In Switzerland, Laband completed three international matches, with his performance on June 27 in Geneva in the quarter-finals against the offensive Yugoslavs (2-0) outstanding. The attackers from the Balkans - Miloš Milutinović , Stjepan Bobek , Rajko Mitić , Bernard Vukas and Branko Zebec - were undisputedly among the top European teams at the time and were clearly favored. The German team was mostly on the defensive and could only endanger Vladimir Beara's goal by counterattacking .

After football

In later years he got into considerable financial difficulties as a restaurateur. Until shortly before his death in 1982 he worked in his learned profession as an electrician and most recently as a driver for the head of the Kobolt company in Hamburg-Rothenburgsort . In the early 1980s Fritz Laband, who had smoked for a long time, was diagnosed with cancer of the larynx . He finally succumbed to cancer at the age of 56 in the St. Georg Hospital in Hamburg . He was buried in the Bergedorf cemetery. There a gravestone with a soccer ball reminds of the athlete Laband.

literature

• Werner Skrentny, Jens R. Prüß: With the diamond in the heart. The great history of Hamburger SV. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-89533-620-1 . P. 156
• Jens R. Prüß, Hartmut Irle: goals, points, players. The complete HSV statistics. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-89533-586-0 .
• Andreas Meyer, Volker Stahl, Uwe Wetzner: Football Lexicon Hamburg. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-89533-477-1 . P. 199/200.
• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne: Spiellexikon 1890-1963. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2006. ISBN 978-3-89784-148-2 . P. 222.
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 285.
• International Federation of Football History & Statistics (Ed.): 11 magazine for international football history and statistics. No. A. Special edition on German football. IFFHS Journal. Wiesbaden.

Web links

• Portrait at dieheldenvonbern.de
• Fritz Laband in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Skrentny, Jens R. Prüß: With the diamond in the heart. P. 156
2. ↑ Werner Skrentny, Jens R. Prüß: With the diamond in the heart. P. 156
3. ↑ Jens R. Prüß, Hartmut Irle: goals, points, players. The complete HSV statistics. P. 113
4. ↑ Honor by the Senate , report in the archive of the Hamburger Abendblatt (accessed on June 12, 2019)