Hans Haferkamp (soccer player)

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Hans Haferkamp , called "Hannes" (born October 11, 1921 in Osnabrück ; † June 30, 1974 ) was a German football player .

Career

societies

SV lawn sport, TSV 1897 and Eintracht Osnabrück

In the youth of Raspo Osnabrück , Hans Haferkamp began playing football as a schoolboy. At the age of 18, he moved to TSV 1897 in 1939 , which belonged to the Gauliga from 1941/42 to 1943/44 . During the Second World War Haferkamp was a soldier in Norway for three years. After the end of the war he played with Eintracht Osnabrück in the 1946/47 season in the first division in the north, in the "Oberliga Niedersachsen-Nord" season and in 1947/48 in the Landesliga Niedersachsen / Weser-Ems. He won the championship in the regional league with Eintracht in 1948, but did not make it to the Oberliga Nord. He then moved to VfL Osnabrück together with Heinrich "Heina" Fiening and Ewald Nienhaus.

VfL Osnabrück

To this day, the "blonde Hannes" is considered to be one of the best footballers who have ever worn the VfL Osnabrück jersey. Together with Erich Gleixner , Karl-Heinz Gehmlich and Adolf "Addi" Vetter , he was decisive for the upswing of VfL in the early 1950s. In his root position of the left connector (half left) he combined elegant game design, imaginative combination game and clarified final properties in one person. The sports press sometimes referred to him as "Fritz Walter of the North" because of his outstanding playfulness. He played all seven final round matches of the German soccer championship with VfL Osnabrück in 1950 and 1952. Since he was also able to convince in the representative games with North Germany on May 14, 1950 against West Germany and on March 18, 1951 against South Germany, it was not surprising that that national coach Sepp Herberger invited him to Duisburg for the national team course from April 2 to 6, 1951. As part of this screening course, an unofficial international match against Saarland took place on April 4th in Essen. In the 7: 1 success of the Herberger protégés Haferkamp took part as the left runner.

Road sign in front of the Bremen bridge

Due to a protracted tuberculosis illness, "Hannes" played his provisionally last league game for VfL Osnabrück on February 22, 1953. In the round of 1952/53 he came to 22 games with six goals. He had to pause the entire 1953/54 season. Osnabrück slipped in the World Cup year to 12th place in the table. On October 3, 1954, the crowd favorite celebrated its comeback at the Bremer Brücke in the game against FC Altona 93 . Overall, he came in the round 1954/55 on 14 missions with six goals. He was no longer able to fully match the old performance. After his third game in the 1955/56 season, on September 18, 1955 at the home game against Eintracht Nordhorn , one of the greatest football personalities in the history of VfL Osnabrück ended his sporting career. In the run-up to a football match against SpVgg Fürth, Hans Haferkamp was bid farewell on June 24, 1956, together with his former teammates Karl-Heinz Gehmlich and Erich Gleixner. From 1948 to 1956 he had played 139 games and scored 47 goals in the Oberliga Nord . For some time he strengthened the VfL amateurs.

As part of the celebrations for the 120th birthday of VfL Osnabrück on April 17, 2019, the forecourt in front of the south stand of the Osnabrück stadium on the Bremen bridge was named after Haferkamp.

National team

The elegant playmaker of VfL convinced Herberger in the spring of 1951, the national coach nominated him for the first game of the national B team on April 20, 1951 in Karlsruhe against Switzerland. The Swiss won the game with 2-0 goals, but the right wing runner from Osnabrück received good reviews and the national coach invited him to an international match against Turkey on June 17, 1951 in Berlin. In the 1: 2 defeat he acted as the left runner and scored the goal in the 75th minute of the game to equalize 1: 1. His second international match followed on September 23, 1951 in Vienna against Austria. In the 70th minute of the game he was substituted on for the injured right winger Gerritzen and scored the 2-0 final score three minutes before the final whistle. On October 14, he was the man who determined the game in the left wing in the 2-2 draw between North Germany and West Germany and also flew with the national team to the international match on October 17 to Dublin against Ireland. But he was not used in the 2: 3 defeat. The third national team appearance followed on November 21, 1951 in the second leg in Istanbul against Turkey. With the storm formation Helmut Rahn , Max Morlock , Fritz Walter , Haferkamp and Bernhard Termath achieved a convincing 2-0 victory. The wing tongs from Rot-Weiss Essen with Helmut Rahn and Bernhard Termath made their debut in the DFB team. The press expressly praised the team's playful performance. "The German team played by far the best game since the war," was noted among other things. On April 20, 1952, he completed his fourth international match by substituting in Luxembourg in the 65th minute. In the game against the Grand Duchy, the national coach gave his aspirants for the future amateur national team in attack - Georg Stollenwerk , Hans Zeitler , Willi Schröder and Kurt Ehrmann - an international chance to prove himself.

That this would be the end of “Hannes” Haferkamp's national team career could not be foreseen at the time. Because of the tuberculosis disease that broke out in the spring of 1953, competitive sport was no longer an option for almost fifteen months. As a result, he had to have his ambitions for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland deleted without a fight .

Private

Haferkamp temporarily ran a well-frequented tobacco and magazine store on Lotter Strasse in Osnabrück. He died of a heart attack in June 1974 during a soccer game on an outdoor swimming pool.

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personal data
SURNAME Haferkamp, ​​Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1974