Hans Faber (soccer player)

Hans Faber (born March 24, 1925 in Brühl , † May 20, 2000 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German football player . From 1949 to 1957, the striker played a total of 25 league games for the clubs 1. FC Köln (4-0) and Freiburg FC (21-10) in the first-class football leagues West and South, scoring ten goals in Freiburg.

career

Hans Faber came from SC Brühl to the new fusion club in Cologne. The attacker was one of the players who played their first game on February 15, 1948, two days after 1. FC Köln was founded . Faber scored two goals in the 8-2 win over Nippes in 1912 . In the 1948/49 round , the club was promoted to the Oberliga West . First, FC prevailed in the Rheinbezirks-Liga and then had to pass two playoffs against Bayer Leverkusen. Hennes Weisweiler was now a player-coach and President Franz Kremer's club won 2-0 in the home game in Müngersdorf. The second leg took place in Leverkusen on May 15, 1949, and 1. FC Köln won 3-1. Faber had stormed in the center forward position and Hans Schäfer as half left. In the first league season of the promoted team, 1949/50, Faber was only used three times: against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (1: 2), Rot-Weiss Essen (0: 3) and Arminia Bielefeld (4: 2). For the 1950/51 season he moved with teammates Paul Lehmann (1949/50 season, 29-8) and Hans Roggow to Freiburg FC , where he would then play in the 2nd South League for years.

The team from the Möslestadion had strengthened itself for the first season of the 2nd League South with the three players from Cologne, but only finished 14th at the end of the round. Former national player Andreas Munkert took over the training management from player-coach Roggow in the second half of the season. From his second Freiburg season, 1951/52, Faber took on the role of the FFC goalscorer. His scoring record culminating in the 1955/56 season in 26 goals and Freiburg won against Bayern Munich the championship , thus realizing promotion to the Oberliga Süd. In the second half of the season, the decisive game was won 2-1 in Munich against FC Bayern, with Faber storming the right wing and scoring a goal and Lehmann directing the half left. In the 8-0 victory over SV Waldhof, Faber stood out as a five-time goalscorer.

Faber started the 1956/57 league round with the FFC with a 0-0 win at Kickers Stuttgart and a 2-1 home win against Bayern Munich (1 goal from Faber). The third game was lost 0-1 at FSV Frankfurt and the second home game on September 9, 1956 brought the second home win with a 2-1 win against Schwaben Augsburg. Outstanding was the 7-1 home win against Eintracht Frankfurt on October 29, to which Faber contributed three goals. In the second half of the season, however, the FFC could not quite match the performance of the first half of the season and rose with 20:40 points just over the Stuttgarter Kickers (22:38) and BC Augsburg (23:27) together with Swabian Augsburg (22:38) ) from the Oberliga Süd. Hans Faber was absent in nine games due to injury and thus played 21 league games in which he had scored ten goals.

After relegation, Faber stayed in the Möslestadion and experienced goalkeeper Peter Kunter's debut at FFC in the 2nd League South as an active player in 1961/62 before he ended his playing career in the summer of 1962.

statistics

• Rhine District League

  27 games; 22 goals

• Oberliga West

  4 games

• Oberliga Süd

  21 games; 10 goals

• 2nd League South

  232 games; 154 goals

successes

• 1949 Promotion to the Oberliga West
• 1956 Promotion to the Oberliga Süd

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. 79.
• Dirk Innschuld, Frederic Latz: With the billy goat on his chest. All players, all coaches, all officials of 1. FC Köln. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-7307-0047-1m p. 76.
• Freiburg Football Club (publisher): 100 years of FFC. A piece of Freiburg city history. Author and editor: Werner Kirchhofer. Freiburg 1997.
• 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 .