Hans Mayer (soccer player, 1914)

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Hans Mayer (born July 5, 1914 in Mannheim ; † May 9, 1974 there ) was a German football player .

Career

Mayer was a defender of SV Waldhof Mannheim , to which he belonged from 1935 to 1948. He played from 1935 to 1945 in the Gauliga Baden , in one of 16, later to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the uniform top division in the German Reich , point games, the seasons 1939/40 , 1941/42 and 1943/44 in the North Baden group .

At the end of his first season he won with his team the Gaumeisterschaft, as in the following season and 1939. In the season 1939/40, in which the Gauliga was Baden divided into three groups, he became a champion from his championship group Nordbaden out , as well as from the subsequent final round of the Baden Gaume Championship . His team was able to repeat these two successes at the end of the 1941/42 and 1943/44 seasons . In 1945 he and his team won the championship in Gau Baden for the last time.

Due to the regional successes, he was used in the respective finals for the German championship . The championship was held in four groups of four teams each, of which the group winners played the two semi-finals. He denied 1935/36 all six games of Group D , debuted on April 5, 1936 at 2: 0 victory over the CfR Cologne in the first group game and retired with his team in third place in the competition, as well as in 1936/37 when he was used in five group matches. He played his last final game on May 10, 1942 in the 1: 7 defeat in the qualifying game at 1. FC Kaiserslautern .

In the 1935 newly created cup competition for club teams for the Tschammer Cup , it was used in a total of 22 games in five consecutive years from 1935 onwards . He made his debut on September 22, 1935 in Mannheim in a 5-1 victory over Wormatia Worms . After three more games he was eliminated from the competition with SV Waldhof Mannheim on November 24, 1935 in the semifinals with 0: 1 against eventual cup winners 1. FC Nürnberg . Nevertheless, he moved into the final, namely on January 8, 1939 in his last cup game of his career. By then, he had played all seven previous games, including the two necessary repeat games of the semifinal encounter with SC Wacker Vienna . The entry into the final was decided by drawing lots in favor of his team after the goalless draw after renewed extension . The final held on April 28, 1940 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium ended with a 2-0 defeat against 1. FC Nürnberg.

After the end of the Second World War he played from November 4, 1945, with the start of the newly created Oberliga Süd , one of initially three, later expanded to five seasons, top German division, until the end of the 1947/48 season in this division.

Moved to league competitor VfR Mannheim , he completed his last point games as an active football player in the 1948/49 season , which he completed with his team in second place.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography in: Andreas Ebner, When the war ate football, Ubstadt-Weiher 2016, page 376/377
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1974
Place of death Mannheim