Helmut Faeder

Helmut faeder (* 3. July 1935 in French Buchholz , district of Berlin , † 3. August 2014 ), called "the Fat", was a German football player who in a friendly on 28 December 1958 in Cairo against Egypt once a German National team was used.

Career

Beginning

Helmut Faeder has played at SV Buchholz in Pankow in the north of Berlin since 1946 and at the age of 18 moved to Hertha BSC for the 1953/54 round in Berlin . Since the team from the stadium at Gesundbrunnen , the so-called "plump", had been relegated to the amateur league in 1953, the newcomer from Buchholz was involved in the immediate promotion in 1954 to the Berlin Oberhaus by finishing 2nd in the Berlin amateur league. Through the following games for the German amateur championship in 1954 against TSV Uetersen , SV Hemelingen and Phönix Lübeck, the young offensive player also gained experience beyond the Berlin borders. As early as December 25, 1953, the trained car mechanic had received an appointment for the Berlin city selection game Berlin (East) against Berlin (West) in East Berlin's Walter Ulbricht Stadium from the coach Johannes Sobeck responsible for the West selection .

Oberliga / Stadtliga Berlin, 1954/55 to 1962/63

The 20-year-old quickly established himself in the Oberliga (contract league ) Berlin. In his debut year 1954/55, Faeder played 19 games under coach Paul Gehlhaar and scored seven goals for Hertha. In particular, he made a name for himself with tremendous shooting power and was feared by opponents as a "shooting miracle". Distance shots and free kicks were his trademark. Together with his pronounced ball technique, he compensated for the limited speed and agility. With his goals, he made a significant contribution to the championships in 1957, 1961 and 1963. When he set his personal record with 20 goals in the 1958/59 season, it was only enough for Hertha BSC to finish third. In the finals of the German soccer championship , he could not lead Hertha to success. On June 2, 1957, 1. FC Kaiserslautern ran over Berliners with 1:14 goals in the Wuppertal stadium at the zoo . Helmut Faeder scored the consolation goal in the two other matches against Offenbacher Kickers and Borussia Dortmund . In 1961 he also scored two goals in the final round, but the Herthaners could not prevail against 1. FC Nürnberg , Werder Bremen and 1. FC Köln . In the final round, held for the last time in 1963, he again scored his obligatory two goals in a 3-0 win on June 22, 1963 in Berlin against 1. FC Kaiserslautern. In total, he came to 14 finals with six goals. In the Oberliga Berlin he is led with 127 hits. He played representative games with Berlin three times against the West selection in 1957, 1961 and 1962. He scored two goals. With the Berlin selection, with which he played 61 games from 1954 to 1971, he took part in the trade fair cup of the 1961/62 season against FC Barcelona .

Bundesliga, 1963 to 1965 / Stadtliga (Regionalliga) Berlin, 1965 to 1967

Helmut Faeder's adventure in the Bundesliga began at the age of 28 in the 1963/64 season . He played 27 of 30 competitive games for Hertha BSC and was coach Josef Schneider's best scorer with nine goals . The Berliners were able to prevent relegation by reaching 14th place in the table. In the DFB Cup, however , the men from the Spree surprised positively. First they eliminated the runner-up Meidericher SV with a 2-1 win after extra time in April 1964 and the new German champions 1. FC Köln with a 4-2 win on May 20. In the semifinals, the men around Helmut Faeder from Eintracht Frankfurt were prevented from making it into the cup final. In the European trade fair cup the Berliners had no chance with the German international striker Jürgen Schütz against AS Roma in October 1963.

In the second Bundesliga series, Faeder made 21 appearances with three goals. Due to the forced relegation for Hertha BSC after the end of the round because of offenses against the licensed player statute, the season finale on May 15, 1965 at Hannover 96 was the last Bundesliga appearance for the almost 30-year-old half-striker. Hertha BSC was included in the regional league (city league) Berlin for the 1965/66 round . Hertha came safely to the championship with captain Faeder - he distinguished himself with 32 goals - (58: 2 points compared to 44:16 points for runner-up Tennis Borussia Berlin ), but Fortuna Düsseldorf prevailed in the Bundesliga promotion round . The second superior championship in the Stadtliga Berlin was not a proof of quality for the promotion round in 1967. Hertha had by far the best attendance average with 39,500 spectators, but ended up in last place in Group 1 with 5:11 points Team of trainer Helmut Kronsbein accrued. However, he was unable to achieve his goal of promotion to the Bundesliga and his contract was terminated at the end of the season at the instigation of Kronsbein. In total, he played 351 competitive games for Hertha in which he scored 212 goals.

Hertha Zehlendorf, 1967 to 1971

With Hertha Zehlendorf he was twice regional league champion in 1969 and 1970. In 1970 he got 26 hits. With his old Hertha BSC defender colleague Günter Schimmöller and the two talents Uwe Kliemann and Wolfgang Sühnholz , he moved into two Bundesliga promotion rounds. 15 games with 10 goals are the proof of activity of Helmut Faeder for the Zehlendorfer in the promotion round. The man with the subtle technique and the hard shot could not force the ascent even with Zehlendorf. In 1971, at the age of 36, the passionate table tennis player ended his football career and then only played in the Berlin old league.

National soccer team, 1958

National coach Sepp Herberger tested the dangerous Berlin half-striker in 1957 twice in the junior national team. On March 27th in Essen against Belgium and on May 26th in Bayreuth against Czechoslovakia. In both games he was used on half right. After the Soccer World Cup in Sweden in 1958 , Faeder was appointed to the B-country eleven on October 22, 1958 at the game against Austria in the Karlsruhe Wildpark Stadium. He distinguished himself as the scorer of the 1-0 winning goal. The national coach brought him into the squad for the international match on November 19, 1958 in Berlin against Austria, but the local matador was not used. At the end of 1958, the DFB had a trip to Egypt in its program. Since not all regular players were available, the hour for five debutants at the side of veterans Karl Mai , Helmut Rahn , Max Morlock and Ulrich Biesinger struck on December 28th in the international match against Egypt in Cairo . Helmut Faeder and the other newcomers Walter Zastrau , Alfred Pyka and Theo Klöckner played in the starting line-up . Substitutes also made Heinz Kördell and Karl Ringel , who had previously played two international matches for Saarland, German national players. On January 1, 1959, the Berliner came in the second encounter in Cairo in the game of an Egyptian selection against a German selection. Further appointments in DFB teams did not follow. Former national coach Sepp Herberger is quoted as referring to Helmut Faeder: "If he would play in a different environment and had stronger competition in his own team, he could become a regular national player."

Profession / honor

After his active career, Helmut Faeder ran a flourishing fruit and vegetable trade in Berlin. He was the bearer of the Golden Badge of Honor of the Association of Berlin Ball Game Clubs, and the sports field of SV Buchholz was named after him.

literature

• Torjäger, AGON, 2005, ISBN 3-89784-264-5 .
• Klaus Querengässer: The German Football Championship. Part 2: 1948–1963 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 29). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 .
• Hardy Greens (Ed.): Of gray mice and great masters. The book about the Bundesliga. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-89784-114-2 .
• Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .
• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• Raphael Keppel : Germany's international football matches. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sport- und Spielverlag Hitzel, Hürth 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 .
• Matthias Kropp: Triumphs in the European Cup. All games of the German clubs since 1955 (= "AGON Sportverlag statistics." Volume 20). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-75-4 .

Web links

• Helmut Faeder at fussballdaten.de
• Obituary on the website of Hertha BSC

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wir Herthaner versus Duisburg - Official stadium magazine from Hertha BSC, Issue 8 Season 10/11, p. 58.