Hans Bauer (soccer player, 1929)

Hans Bauer (* August 5, 1929 ; † December 20, 2011 ) was a German soccer player for SpVgg Fürth , who mostly played in the World Cup system as a right defender in the then first-class soccer Oberliga Süd from 1950 to 1963 in a total of 13 rounds of 314 league games with 28 goals for the green-whites from Middle Franconia. After the debut year of the new South Regional Football League , 1963/64, Bauer ended his high-class playing career with another 19 league appearances (two goals) for the “Kleeblatt-Elf” in the summer of 1964.

career

Up to the round in 1949/50, Hans Bauer had chased the ball in amateur football in Upper Franconia at SpVgg Jahn Forchheim , with the black-white-blue team from the sports field at the Jahnhalle. For the 1950/51 season he moved to the southern German defending champion SpVgg Fürth in the Oberliga Süd. In the team of coach Helmut Schneider , the player from Forchheim made his debut on October 1, 1950 in a 3-0 home win against SSV Reutlingen on half right in the league. On the side of ordinary players like Horst Hoffmann , Adolf Knoll , Richard Gottinger , Horst Schade , Hans Nöth , Max Appis , Paul predecessor , Herbert Erhardt , Hans Plawky , Kurt Helbig and Karl May , new business won with 22 league appearances and six goals, the runner-up for Fürth and moved into the final round of the German soccer championship . The runner-up of the Oberliga Süd started the finals on May 6, 1951 with an away game against the Walter-Elf from 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The game took place in front of 65,000 spectators in the Südweststadion in Ludwigshafen. Together with right winger Hoffmann, Bauer formed the right wing, center forward and striker Schade, playmaker Appis on half left and left winger Nöth completed the attack. The young Horst Eckel on the right wing saved the Lauterer with his second goal in the 71st minute, the 2-2 draw. His second final round was the second leg against the Southwest Champion on June 3rd in front of 28,000 spectators at the Ronhof. But now the “Red Devils” from Betzenberg prevailed 3: 1. In the last group game on June 10th at FC St. Pauli, Bauer played for Fürth in the final round for the third time after a 1-0 defeat. With 4: 8 points, the green-whites finished third and group winners Kaiserslautern won the final of the German championship on June 30 with 2: 1 against Preußen Münster.

In the following two years, Bauer struggled under the Schneider successors Ferdinand Fabra (1951/52) and Hans Krauss (1952/53); he was no longer part of the narrow circle of the regular cast. When Wilhelm Hahnemann took over as coach from the 1953/54 season, that changed, the man from Forchheim was now and as in the following years an integral part of the regular cast. The farmer, who is now mostly a right defender, only experienced top ranks in the table again from the 1956/57 season, Hans Schmidt's second year as coach , when he reached sixth place. Under Jeno Csaknady residue to master Karlsruhe SC and two points succeeded 1957/58 even an improvement on the fourth rank, with three points behind Vice 1. FC Nuremberg, and the same number of points concord Frankfurt on the third rank. The era of the first-class Oberliga Süd ended Bauer with the game association in ninth place after the 1962/63 season, where he was again accrued in 26 league games under coach Jeno Vincze . The last league match day brought Fürth on April 28, 1963, a 0-1 defeat at Bayern Munich and the preparation for the second division from the 1963/64 season in the Regionalliga Süd. Bauer ended the Oberliga Süd chapter after 13 rounds with 314 league appearances and 28 goals, making him one of the leading players in the league. In Fürth he is behind Richard Gottinger (347), Herbert Erhardt (335) in third place, even before the legend Max Appis with 302 appearances.

In the regional round 1963/64 Fürth started with the right defender Bauer on August 4, 1963 with a 3: 3 against SV Waldhof in Mannheim. With his 19th round appearance (two goals), the 34-year-old ended his long playing career at SpVgg Fürth on March 28, 1964 with a 2-0 home win against Kickers Offenbach. He went injured in the 87th minute. Players like goalkeeper Gyula Toth , the defensive players Dieter Emmerling and Robert Ehrlinger , as well as the attackers Wolfgang Brzuske , Norbert Knopf , Werner Schneider , Erich Tauchmann and Ernst Perras were players in his last round at the game association .

The namesake of A-national player Hans Bauer from FC Bayern Munich was used on June 6, 1953 in Berlin in a test match of a DFB selection against the city selection of Berlin (4: 2) on half right; further appointments in DFB selection teams were no longer added. The later honorary member of the game association was employed as a city inspector and took over as a player-coach for his home club Jahn Forchheim in the 1964/65 season.

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 , p. 20.
• 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 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 2: 1948–1963 (= AGON-Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 29). AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 , pp. 69-74.