Herbert Erhardt

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Herbert Erhardt
Personnel
birthday July 6, 1930
place of birth Fürth ,  German Empire
date of death July 3, 2010
Place of death Fuerth,  Germany
size 174 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1942-1948 SpVgg Fürth
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1948-1962 SpVgg Fürth 351 (20)
1962-1964 FC Bayern Munich 63 0(5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1953-1956 Germany B 3 0(0)
1953-1962 Germany 50 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1964-1968 SpVgg Büchenbach
1968-1969 BC Augsburg
1969-1970 FC Augsburg
SpVgg Landshut
1. FC Herzogenaurach
SG source Fürth
TSV Wachendorf
1 Only league games are given.

Herbert Erhardt (* July 6, 1930 in Fürth ; † July 3, 2010 ibid), written according to Erhard's birth certificate; also called "Ertl", was a German soccer player who played 50 international matches for the senior national team between 1953 and 1962 and scored one goal. He played for SpVgg Fürth for 20 years and ended his career in the 1960s with the then second division club FC Bayern Munich . In his short amateur coaching career, he led BC Augsburg to the runner-up in what was then the third-class Bavarian amateur league .

Club career

SpVgg Fürth, 1942 to 1962

Herbert Erhardt, who was born in Fürth , ran through all age groups in the youth division of the “White-Greens” from the Ronhof at the three-time German champions, the Fürth game association . He grew up with his later teammate in the Oberligaelf, Richard Gottinger , and regularly played football with him on the street. In the student team, Erhardt was trained by ex-national player Hans Hagen . The robust fighter, who was not born with the filigree handling of the ball, started his first appearance in the Oberliga Süd shortly before his 18th birthday . On June 20, 1948, when the “Kleeblattelf” welcomed FC Wacker Munich , Herbert Erhardt made his debut in a 3-0 home win as the right runner in the league team of the game association. As fifteenth in the table, he experienced the relegation of his club. In the Bayernliga Erhardt came to 16 games in which he scored a goal. Immediately in 1949 the Franks rose again to the Oberliga Süd and sensationally won the South German championship in 1950 . The young player only played three games in the top division. When the defending champion was able to win the runner-up in the south in 1951, he was already a member of coach Helmut Schneider's team with 25 appearances . He played five of six games in the final round of the German championship against 1. FC Kaiserslautern , FC Schalke 04 and FC St. Pauli alongside Max Appis , Hans Bauer , Richard Gottinger, Karl Mai and Horst Schade .

Fürth just missed out on the final round of the German soccer championship as third behind champions Eintracht Frankfurt and runner-up VfB Stuttgart in the 1952/53 round. Erhardt had played 29 of 30 league games and Horst Schade topped the list of goalscorers in the south with 22 goals before he went hunting for goals at 1. FC Nürnberg in 1953/54. It was followed by three years with double-digit placements before joining the leading teams again from 1957 to 1959. In the 1957/58 round, the “Kleeblatt” team came in fourth place with 39:21 points with Eintracht Frankfurt and conceded only 33 goals in 30 games. Coach Jenő Csaknády was able to build on the commitment, strength of duels and reliability of "Ertl" Erhardt in 28 games. From 1960 to 1962 Fürth belonged again to the lower table regions. In the 1962 world championship year , the “Ronhofelf” escaped relegation by just three points. Under coach Jenő Vincze the “White-Greens” finished 12th. Erhardt was used in 28 matches and ended his career with the Fürth game association with a 3-1 win on April 15, 1962 in the home game against BC Augsburg.

Behind Richard Gottinger, who played 347 league appearances, Erhardt occupies second place in the Fürth player list with 335 games in the Oberliga Süd. In these games he came to 19 goals. Overall, he is sixth in the southern league with 363 appearances.

FC Bayern Munich, 1962 to 1964

On August 19, 1962, the 32-year-old ex-Fürth played the first league game for Bayern Munich . In the year before the Bundesliga was founded , the elimination race was running for the places for the new top division, and in order to achieve the goal of inclusion, the defensive specialist was signed by Bayern . In addition, there was local competition from the “lions” in Munich. Helmut Schneider, the coach in Erhardt's early years at the Spielvereinigung, relied on the long-standing “Ertl” class to stabilize the Bayern defense. On the offensive, they relied on Peter Grosser , Dieter Brenninger and Rainer Ohlhauser . His premiere against Eintracht Frankfurt ended with a sobering 5-0 home defeat. Since the second away game on September 9, 1962 was lost with a hefty 6-1 defeat at TSG Ulm in 1846 , it was not possible to speak of a successful start. After the first half of the season Bayern were still in third place with 21: 9 points, two points behind 1. FC Nürnberg and one point behind TSV 1860 Munich . At the end of the season, the “Löwen” moved into the finals as well as the Bundesliga, together with 1. FC Nürnberg. Third place was not enough for FC Bayern Munich to be nominated for the new division. Erhardt had played 28 games, scored one goal and was also in action in the 1962/63 trade fair cup in the two comparisons with Dinamo Zagreb. In his second year with Bayern , Zlatko Čajkovski from 1. FC Köln joined the “Reds” as the new coach. In the team of players, Willi Giesemann and Peter Grosser preferred the Bundesliga to the Regionalliga Süd when they switched to Hamburger SV and TSV 1860 Munich . Erhardt completed 35 of 38 league games in the 1963/64 regional league season, in which he scored four goals, and was second in the championship with Bayern in the promotion round. But Borussia Neunkirchen surprisingly prevailed there and relegated the favorite from Grünwalder Straße to second place. Erhardt played five of six encounters in the promotion round. After two seasons with FC Bayern Munich, Erhardt ended his 17-year league career in 1964 at the age of 34 and returned to his hometown of Fürth.

In Werner Skrentny's book about Oberliga Süd , he is quoted as saying about his move to FC Bayern Munich:

“ 50,000 marks was a lot of money back then and I built a house with it. The move turned out to be a great stroke of luck for me, because the conditions at Bayern couldn't be compared to Fürth. The gaming association had a basic salary of 320 DM with maybe 200 DM bonuses, in Munich 1,500 fixed salary plus bonuses ”. He didn't have to work in Munich, “we were practically professionals at the time. "

National team

National coach Sepp Herberger spotted the Fürth defensive all-rounder on June 4, 1953 in Augsburg during a DFB match against southern Germany, when Erhardt as right defender of the regional team was just as convincing as his club player Richard Gottinger as left wing runner. Herberger used both Fürth ten days later in the national B team in the international match in Dusseldorf against the selection of Spain in a 5-2 success. In early August 1953 Erhardt was part of the squad for the first World Cup qualifier on August 19, 1953 in Oslo against the selection of Norway, but was not yet used in the 1-1 draw. The national coach had scheduled a test match against a Swiss selection on September 2, 1953 in Constance, in which he again wanted to see the two Fürth, Erhardt and Gottinger, in an international test. Both convinced the Herberger team with a 2-0 victory with a first-class performance. The national coach rewarded this performance with his debut in the senior national team on October 11, 1953 in the World Cup qualifier in Stuttgart against the Saarland national team . Erhardt formed the defender pair with VfB player Erich Retter and Karl Mai and Gottinger acted as side walkers. Three players from Spielvereinigung Fürth made their debut in a 3-0 win against Saarland, which was overseen by Helmut Schön . Herberger took Erhardt to the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland. In the surprising title win, he was not used. For his second international call he came at the first international game after the World Cup, on September 26, 1954 in Brussels against the selection of Belgium , when the world champions lost 2-0 goals and thus ushered in a long period of unsuccessfulness. The Franconian, who dominated all positions in the defense, experienced his breakthrough in the national team in the 1957/58 world championship season . On November 20, 1957, he played his thirteenth international match as a right defender in the 1-0 success in Hamburg against the selection of Sweden . This was followed by two international matches against the selections of Hungary and Belgium before Erhardt was allowed to hold the central role in the national team for the first time on March 19, 1958 . It was his breakthrough as head of defense in the national team. In Frankfurt, Spain was guests with the internationally renowned indoor storm László Kubala , Alfredo Di Stéfano and Luis Suárez . It was the dress rehearsal for the World Cup opening game against Argentina on June 8, 1958 in Malmö. National coach Herberger found his defensive line-up for the World Cup tournament in Sweden in a convincing 2-0 victory. The defensive alliance with goalkeeper Fritz Herkenrath , the defenders Georg Stollenwerk and Erich Juskowiak as well as the runners Horst Eckel , Erhardt and Horst Szymaniak proved their worth against the individual class of the Iberians . At the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, Erhardt also impressed internationally as a middle runner and was instrumental in ensuring that the defending champion moved into the semi-finals against the hosts. Since the national coach wanted to use his reservists in the game for third place against France's selection , the Fürth player switched to the defensive position against the strong offensive surprise team from France, from the defense center - where Heinz Wewers from Essen came into action - to the left defensive position. The outstanding French interior trio Just Fontaine / Raymond Kopa / Roger Piantoni took full advantage of this in the 6: 3 success.

Erhardt was appointed captain for the first time in his 29th international match on May 20, 1959 in Hamburg against the selection of Poland . After successfully qualifying for the World Cup against the selection of Northern Ireland and Greece , he was also a member of the World Cup squad for the 1962 tournament in Chile. The German team was eliminated after the 1-0 defeat in the quarter-finals against the selection of Yugoslavia , but the defense convinced with Stopper Erhardt in the games against Italy, Switzerland, Chile and also on June 10, 1962 in Santiago in his 49th international match against Yugoslavia. At the beginning of the 1962/63 round, Erhardt had switched to Bayern Munich at the age of 32, he said goodbye with his 50th international match on September 30, 1962 in Zagreb against Yugoslavia after the 3-2 success with three goals from Heinz Strehl , from the national soccer team.

After the playing career

In 1969 Erhardt acquired his trainer license during a course in Cologne. The owner of the DFB honor badge worked as a trainer at SpVgg Büchenbach from 1964 to 1968 and then in Augsburg. Here he was the last coach of BC Augsburg in the season 1968/1969 and, after the merger with the footballers of TSV Schwaben Augsburg, first coach of the resulting FC Augsburg . With BC, who had just been relegated from the regional league, he was runner-up in the then third-class Bayern amateur league in 1969 and missed the immediate re-promotion only because of the goal difference. With FC Augsburg he reached fourth place in the following season.

Later he trained in the upscale amateur area for SpVgg Landshut , 1. FC Herzogenaurach , SG Quelle Fürth and TSV Wachendorf .

Erhardt, who played around 800 missions for the “clovers”, worked as a sports teacher at the Fürth secondary school “Pfisterstraße” until his retirement in 1994 .

Herbert Erhardt died on July 3, 2010, on the same day as the national team defeated Argentina 4-0 in the quarter-finals of the World Cup in South Africa , after a long, serious illness in his hometown of Fürth, shortly before his 80th birthday.

reference

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 .
  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
  • Raphael Keppel : Germany's international football matches. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sport- und Spielverlag Hitzel, Hürth 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Herbert Erhardt - International Appearances . RSSSF.com . October 9, 2004. Accessed February 11, 2020.
  2. ↑ Manfred Herzing: Manfred's football archive , (football tables of lower Bavarian football leagues), see also: FC Augsburg coach
  3. ↑ Licensing team of SpVgg Greuther Fürth: Herbert Erhard , Spvgg Greuther Fürth (accessed on May 9, 2011)
  4. ↑ The SpVgg mourns Herbert "Ertl" Erhardt on greuther-fuerth.de on July 5, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Erhardt, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erhardt, Ertl (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürth , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 2010
Place of death Fuerth , Germany