Hans Rohde

This article deals with the soccer player and coach, the officer and diplomat can be found under Hans Rohde (officer) .

Hans "Bubi" Rohde (born December 7, 1914 in Hamburg ; † December 3, 1979 there ) was a German football player and coach. From 1922 to 1951 he spent his entire playing career at his home club Eimsbütteler TV . He won with the Red-Whites in the Gauliga Nordmark three times in a row from 1934 to 1936 and also the championship in 1940 and 1942. From 1936 to 1942 he completed 25 international matches in the national soccer team . With the Nordmark selection, he won the Reichsbund Cup in 1938 .

career

Association until 1951

The endurance runner, mostly used in defense (as a middle runner or "stopper") rightly earned his nickname "The Iron". He was practically the epitome of consistent cover work. His parents ran a vegetable shop near the Hoheluft grandstand sports field in Eimsbüttel. He made his debut with Herbert Panse and Willi Schindowski in 1933 in the first team of the ETV. With trainer Walter Risse sen. the dominance of Hamburger SV was interrupted and the teammates Panse, Otto Rohwedder and Erwin Stührk were also considered in the national team. One of the highlights in the derbies against the Rautträger from HSV was the 8-3 home win on December 2, 1934, when the young Hans Rohde was still in action as a right defender. With the third championship win in 1936 he prevailed with the ETV in both league games against the Rothosen of the HSV, in the home game with 5: 3 and away with a 7-0 victory.

In the final round of the German soccer championship , the two home wins in 1934 (3: 2) and 1935 (2: 1) against FC Schalke 04 stood out. But it was not enough for top ranks, defeats against Benrath, Werder Bremen, Hannover 96 and Viktoria Stolp prevented each from making it into the semi-finals. From 1934 to 1942 Rohde played 16 final round matches with Eimsbüttel.

As a soldier in the Wehrmacht , he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he did not return to Hamburg until Christmas 1949. The ETV played at this time in the football league north and "Der Eiserne" ran on February 19, 1950 in the 2-4 defeat at VfL Osnabrück as a right defender. On February 4 and 11, 1951, two more league missions were added. In the 2-1 victory at home against VfB Oldenburg, Rohde even scored the winning goal in the 89th minute on February 4th.

At the German Sport University in Cologne he successfully took part in the coaching course to become a football teacher in 1950 under the direction of Sepp Herberger, alongside his colleagues Karl-Heinz Heddergott , Fritz Herkenrath , Helmuth Johannsen and Horst St rise . He was active as a coach - from 1950 to 1955 as an association coach of the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association  - at the Hamburger Verband, at Concordia Hamburg from 1957 to January 1959 in the Oberliga Nord and from 1963 to 1965 at his home club ETV in the Landesliga Hamburg .

Selection player, 1933-1942

The reliable defensive player had drawn attention to himself through the Gaume Championships and the finals with the ETV in the years 1934 to 1936. After appearances in the selection of the Nordmark in the Reichsbund Cup - from 1933 to 1942 he came to 21 games - the DFB also noted the man from Eimsbüttel. On September 27, 1936, the DFB carried out a double match day, he made his debut in the international match of the unofficial B selection in Krefeld against Luxembourg as a middle runner in the national soccer team. But he had to be patient, on May 16, 1937, the legendary Breslau-Elf entered the scene with an 8-0 win against Denmark . He was also not a member of the squad for the 1938 World Cup in France.

With the Nordmark, however, he prevailed in the Reichsbund Cup of 1938 with victories against Pomerania (2: 1), Niederrhein (5: 3), in the semi-finals against Baden (3: 0) and in the final on March 6, 1938 in Erfurt with 3 : 1 against the southwest and was back in the circle of the national team candidates. In the successful final, the NFV defense with Walter Warning , Richard Dörfel , Otto Lüdecke , Rohde, Erwin Reinhardt and Erwin Seeler kept the southwest attackers Jakob Eckert and Josef Fath in check. On January 29, 1939 - after a break of over two years - Rohde was able to continue his career in the national team under Reich coach Sepp Herberger. In the international match against Belgium (4-1) in Brussels, he played his second international game. At the side of center runner Ludwig Goldbrunner , he acted as the right outer runner. After that he belonged to the permanent tribe of the national team.

Outstanding games with the DFB selection in the following four years were the encounters against Italy (November 26, 1939, 5-2 win in Berlin / second leg on May 5, 1940 in Milan, 2-3 defeat) and the two successful ones Games against Hungary on April 6, 1941 (7-0 victory in Cologne) and May 3, 1942 in Budapest with 5: 3 goals. In between, however, the international match against Denmark on November 17, 1940 (1-0) had a special meaning for the successor of Ludwig Goldbrunner in the stopper position due to the venue in his hometown Hamburg. At the last international game on November 22, 1942 in Pressburg against Slovakia (5-2 victory), Hans Rohde was the head of the German defensive. Sepp Herberger also found words of praise for the ETV idol:

“Hans was always reliable. If I told him before the game that I didn't want to see his opponent for 30 minutes, then nothing was to be seen! "

After the playing career

In the civilian profession he was initially a chauffeur, after the Second World War a trainer and finally head of a large petrol station.

His grave is in the church cemetery Am Diebsteich in Hamburg-Altona .

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 .
• Folke Havekost: 100 years of football in Eimsbüttel . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-529-0 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• Andreas Meyer, Volker Stahl, Uwe Wetzner: Football Lexicon Hamburg . Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-477-1 (396 pages).

Web links

• Hans Rohde in the database of weltfussball.de
• Hans Rohde in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Hans Rohde in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Rohde is dead. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . December 5, 1979. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, January 18, 1950, p. 6.
3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Hans Rohde - International Appearances . RSSSF . March 2, 2017. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
4. ↑ Folke Havekost: 100 years of football in Eimsbüttel, p. 189.
5. ^ Fritz Tauber: German national soccer players. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-89784-366-0 , p. 235.