Herbert Sandmann

Herbert Sandmann (born June 20, 1928 - April 18, 2007 ) was a German football player. The player, who played at the beginning of his career as a winger and from the mid-fifties as a defender in the World Cup system at that time, played a total of 232 games in the first-class football Oberliga West from 1947 to 1960 for the clubs Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04 , scoring 61 goals achieved. With Dortmund he won the championship in the Oberliga West five times (1948, 1949, 1953, 1956, 1957) and, as a highlight, the German championship twice in 1956 and 1957 . Also in his second Schalke season, 1950/51 , he won the Western Championship with “Royal Blue” and contributed to it with 13 goals in 24 league games.

career

First phase at Borussia Dortmund, until 1949

Sandmann, he joined Borussia Dortmund at the age of nine and made his debut in their first team at the age of 18, was active in the Oberliga West for Dortmund and FC Schalke 04 in the post-war period ; The future defender played for BVB until 1949 and from 1951, in between he wore the "Knappen" jersey for two years. Many BVB players in those years came from the area between Bornstrasse and Borsigplatz and hired themselves out at the Kaiserstuhl I colliery on Bornstrasse, whose board of directors was very closely related to the club. The players received "light work" for days. Sandmann about this time: "We got the tickets, and the others did our job for it." His greatest successes as a player include the two German championship titles in 1956 and 1957 , when he was in the final of Borussia. He ended his career in 1960 due to protracted knee problems. Sandmann played 183 league games for Dortmund and scored 38 goals. He played ten times for Borussia in the European Cup and in the finals for the German championship (1953-1957), he ran in 15 games and scored three goals. In his two years at Schalke, he scored 23 goals in 48 league games. For the DFB he played a game in the B national team in Budapest on December 21, 1957 . At 2-2 he formed the final triangle of the Herberger protégés together with Günter Sawitzki (goalkeeper) and Leo Konopczinski .

At the beginning, Sandmann's career at BVB was faltering: In the debut year of the league in the 1947/48 season, the winger made nine appearances, after a broken shin in the away game on February 8, 1948 against Aachen, followed a ten-month injury break and as a result came in 1948/49 season only added four more games with three goals. He then moved to arch-rivals FC Schalke 04 in the summer of 1949.

Schalke 04, 1949 to 1951

In Schalke, the extremely strong and physically strong winger was part of the regular line-up and took sixth place with teammates such as Heinrich Kwiatkowski , Willi Dargaschewski , Paul Matzkowski , Paul Jahnel , Hermann Eppenhoff , Leo Behring and Walter Zwickhofer . Sandmann had scored ten goals in 24 league games. When for the second Schalke season, 1950/51, with Hans Kleina and Bernhard Klodt, two significant reinforcements could be won for the attack, Schalke conquered the western championship. In the association round, the “miners” were mostly attacked by B. Klodt, Eppenhoff, Behring, Kleina and Sandmann and scored the most hits with 69 goals. Sandmann had played 24 league games and scored 13 goals. In the subsequent final round of the German football championship - starting on May 6, 1951 with a 1: 2 home defeat against FC St. Pauli - Sandmann was no longer used, he returned to Borussia Dortmund for the 1951/52 season. About the Schalke time he is said to have said: "In Schalke I really learned to play football, thanks to the good play of the old people."

German champion with BVB and in the European Cup, 1951 to 1960

In the 1952/53 season, the returnees celebrated their third championship win with Dortmund under coach Hans “Bumbas” Schmidt . After the end of the group matches in the final round of the German championship, BVB was tied with VfB Stuttgart (10: 2 points each) in first place, but although Dortmund had scored one more goal, the division procedure common at the time meant that the VfB had qualified for the final. Under Schmidt's successor Helmut Schneider , there were two more western championships in 1956 and 1957, as well as winning the German championship title. Now Sandmann acted as a left defender and together with Heinrich Kwiatkowski, Wilhelm Burgsmüller , Elwin Schlebrowski , Max Michallek and Helmut Bracht formed the defensive of the double champions. The inner trio with the "three Alfredos" Alfred Niepieklo , Alfred Kelbassa and Alfred Preißler took care of the goals.

In the subsequent rounds of the European Cup, the games in October / November 1956 against Manchester United and in February / March 1958 against AC Milan stood out. The away game against Matt Busby's team was lost 3-2 in front of 76,000 spectators, while in the home game in front of 44,600 spectators at the Rote Erde stadium , the "Red Devils" with Duncan Edwards , Tommy Taylor and Dennis Viollet were defeated 0-0. Against AC Milan with director Nils Liedholm , Cesare Maldini and Ernesto Grillo , they again achieved a draw with 1: 1 in the home game, but in Milan the hosts prevailed with 4: 1. In all EC games, Sandmann had played as a left defender.

official

After his active time he remained loyal to Borussia in various functions. After the end of his career, he worked as chairman and was therefore jointly responsible for the squad for the 1965/66 season, when Borussia Dortmund won the European Cup for the first time. He was later a member of the Council of Elders, of which he was a member until his death.

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 , p. 326 .
• Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: The fame, the dream and the passion. The story of Borussia Dortmund. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2011. ISBN 978-3-89533-810-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schulze-Marmeling: The fame, the dream and the passion. P. 70
2. ↑ Schulze-Marmeling: The fame, the dream and the passion. P. 494