Hans Fiederer

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Hans Fiederer (born January 21, 1920 in Fürth ; † December 15, 1980 ) was a German football player and sports journalist.

career

Hans Fiederer played for SpVgg Fürth since 1928, for which his uncle Leo had also played until 1920. He played for “das Kleeblatt” in the Gauliga Bayern from 1937/38 to 1941/42 . He was an elegant, lithe ball virtuoso who, in his preferred half-left attacking position, was considered one of the greatest talents in German football of the 1930s and 1940s. When in the 1938/39 season he was able to play his way into the finals with the Bavarian district selection in the Reichsbund Cup after successes against Hesse, Lower Rhine and in the semi-finals against Saxony with their class strikers Willi Arlt , Erich Hänel and Helmut Schön , he was already the Reich coach Sepp Herberger noticed. Three weeks after the 1: 2 final against Silesia on March 5th - Fiederer and Wilhelm Simetsreiter formed the left wing of the Bayern-Elf - the Fürth talent made his debut at the age of 19 on March 26th, 1939 in Differdingen against Luxemburg in the German national soccer team . Herberger had already had Fiederer in the international match on September 25, 1938 in Bucharest against Romania and also used Fürth in the unofficial international match on October 2, 1938 in Sofia against Bulgaria. On Fiederer's debut day in the national team, on March 26, 1939, the DFB held a double day. An unofficial B-team played in Differdange and the A-Elf against Italy in Florence on the same day.

In his second international match on December 3, 1939 in Chemnitz against Slovakia, he scored his first goal in the national team in a 3-1 win. The German storm came with the line-up of Ernst Lehner , Helmut Schön, Erich Hänel, Fiederer and Willi Arlt. In his third international match against Romania , Fiederer stormed on July 14, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main together with Fritz Walter , who played his first international match. The Kaiserslautern debutant scored three goals and the Fürth two goals for the 9-3 victory of the DFB team.

In the 1939/40 season he had again reached the final with Bavaria in the Reichsbund Cup after successes against the Southwest (with Fritz Walter) and the Ostmark ( Karl Sesta , Willibald Schmaus , Wilhelm Hahnemann ). On June 30, 1940, the captains Ludwig Goldbrunner and Erwin Helmchen led the two final teams Bavaria and Saxony onto the field in Augsburg. Fiederer formed with Georg Lechner and Ludwig Janda the inner storm of the Bayern team, who were successful with 3-1 goals.

Three more missions followed in the national teams in 1940/41 - the last on November 16, 1941 in Dresden against Denmark - and Fiederer made it into the final of the Reichsbund Cup for the third time in a row with Bavaria. In the semifinals there was a clear 5: 1 victory against the southwest, in whose ranks Fritz Walter fought in vain against the defeat. On September 7, 1941, however, the Saxony selection in Chemnitz returned the favor with a 2-0 win after goals from Heinrich Schaffer and Ernst Willimowski for the defeat in the final last year. From 1938 to 1941, Hans Fiederer played a total of 13 games in the Reichsbund Cup and scored nine goals for Bavaria.

On August 5, 1942, Hans Fiederer trained with the Paris soldiers . Suddenly hand grenades flew into the square. Numerous players lost their lives as a result of the attack by the Resistance . Fiederer lost his right leg in the attack, ending his hopeful football career at the age of just 22.

After the Second World War , Fiederer initially worked as an editor for the Nürnberger Nachrichten . In November 1946 Friedebert Becker brought him to the editorial office of Sport (later Sport-Magazin ), where he quickly made a career and from April 1, 1949, he was editor-in-chief.

Exactly two months after he had received for the last time from his place in the Nuremberg stadium its report of a Bundesliga match, Hans died Fiederer in the first hours of the 15th of December 1980. More than 35 years he had with all his strength for the readers of kickers used many of which, in the true sense of the word, had become his readers . He had reported on many big games, successes and failures of the national team, he witnessed in the press gallery of the Bern Wankdorf Stadium how his former comrade in four of his six international games, Fritz Walter, had led the German national team to win the World Cup.

Among the large mourners at the funeral at Nuremberg's Westfriedhof were many companions of his footballing and journalistic work: Willi Billmann, Robert Gebhardt, Georg Kennemann and Alv Riemke laid a wreath for the DFB. Despite the dangerous winter weather, Hans Jakob had traveled through the slippery streets of Regensburg, which ultimately prevented Helmut Jahn and Fritz Walter from participating.

Sporting successes

  • 6 international matches - three goals, 1939–1941
  • Winner in the Reichsbund Cup 1940 with the district selection Bavaria; 1939 and 1941 finalist

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
  • LIBERO , No. D 17, 1998, III. Quarter, District Selection Competitions (1933–1942), IFFHS.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 118 .
  2. ↑ Kicker-sportmagazin, No. 101 of December 18, 1980, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Kicker-sportmagazin, No. 102/103 of December 22, 1980, p. 18.
personal data
SURNAME Fiederer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and editor
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1980