Hermann Laag

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Hermann Laag (March 16, 1926 - September 21, 2010 ) was a German soccer player . From 1947 to 1960, the player, who was mostly used in the World Cup system at the time, played 335 league games at FK Pirmasens in the Oberliga Südwest , in which he scored 89 goals. Laag won the Southwest Championship three times in a row with Pirmasens from 1958 to 1960.

career

Clubs, 1947 to 1961

Laag played after the end of the Second World War in the 1946/47 round with the Heidelberg district club TSG Rohrbach in the North Baden regional league. TSG finished second behind champions ASV Feudenheim and Laag was Rohrbach's outstanding player. Rohrbach was trained by 12-time ex-national player Josef Müller , who was also a trainer at FK Pirmasens, and was able to persuade Laag to move to the “Schuhstadt” in the Palatinate Forest.

In the blue-whites of the stadium on Zweibrücker Strasse , Laag, who was still a half-striker at the beginning of his Pirmasens time, scored 15 goals in the 1947/48 season in the Oberliga Südwest, Gruppe Nord, and the FKP took sixth place. In his debut year in the "humpback city", his teammates included senior national player Oskar Rohr , as well as his long-time playmates Rolf Ertel (1947–60), Emil Weber (1947–1961) and Emil Jost (1947–1957). In the summer of 1951, a "Rhein-Main-Saar-Pokal" was played for contract players' clubs for the first time after the Second World War. When the round was canceled at the end of 1951, the FKP led the table in front of Borussia Neunkirchen, Wormatia Worms, Kickers Offenbach, SV Waldhof, Phoenix Ludwigshafen, SV Darmstadt 98, SV Wiesbaden. TuS Neuendorf, Eintracht Trier, VfL Neckarau and VfR Mannheim.

In the world championship year 1953/54 - it was the first coaching phase of Helmut Schneider and the debut round of goalkeeper Heinz Kubsch - Pirmasens fought with Stopper Laag, he had scored three goals in 29 league appearances, up to the last matchday against 1. FC Kaiserslautern for the championship . On the final day of the round, April 11, 1954, the blue-whites drove to Betzenberg with a one-point lead. In front of 30,000 spectators, the “Red Devils” decided the championship race in their favor with a 4-0 win. With 52: 8 points against 51: 9 of the FKP, the Walter team decided the championship in the southwest and moved into the final round of the German championship. The Elf vom Horeb was excluded from this as the Southwest Vice-Runner due to the shortening of the DM final round to six participants due to the upcoming World Cup from June 16 to July 4 in Switzerland. In the 15 home games of the association round in the southwest, Laag and colleagues achieved 30: 0 points, were half-time champions with 26: 4 points and had the best defense of the season with 30 goals conceded. Laag and goalkeeper Kubsch experienced personally through their deployment on February 28, 1954 in Hamburg in the game of the Hamburg team against Southwest Germany (2-4) confirmation of their excellent season performance. Stopper Laag had to assert himself in the south-west success in the duels against the north-center forward Werner Erb .

Laag experienced his most successful years with Pirmasens when he was over 30 years old. For the 1957/58 season , coach Helmut Schneider returned to FKP after two German championship wins with Borussia Dortmund and brought the outstanding player of the next decade, Helmut Kapitulski , with him to the border region in the southwestern tip of the republic. Pirmasens won the three southwest championships in a row in 1957/58, 1958/59 and 1959/60 . Hermann Laag was in the middle, in the World Cup system at that time, which represented the outstandingly important role of the defensive conductor, the defensive of the championship teams. He received substantial support from goalkeeper Kubsch and the defenders Rolf Ertel and Ludwig Roos . In midfield and in attack, playmaker and striker Kapitulski received the necessary support from teammates such as Emil Weber, Heini Seebach , Horst Schmitt, Herbert Schroer and Hilmar Weishaar , which Richard Sehrt provided with 17 goals in 23 games in the 1958/59 season. In the three finals, 1958 to 1960, Laag completed twelve games with one goal. Opponents were Hamburger SV, 1. FC Nuremberg, 1. FC Cologne, Eintracht Frankfurt, SV Werder Bremen and Tasmania 1900 Berlin.

When the 32-year-old made his debut in the finals in 1958, he played two draws with the Südwestmeister: 2-2 in Stuttgart against 1.FC Nürnberg ( Roland Wabra , Max Morlock , Kurt Ucko , Adolf Knoll ) and in Augsburg against 1. FC Cologne ( Georg Stollenwerk , Herbert Dörner , Hans Sturm , Josef Röhrig , Hans Schäfer ) 1: 1. Only the third final round match in Dortmund in front of 40,000 spectators in the Rote Erde stadium against Hamburger SV ( Horst Schnoor , Jürgen Werner , Josef Posipal , Jochenfritz Meinke , Gerd Krug , Klaus Stürmer , Uwe Seeler , Dieter Seeler ) was lost with 1: 2 goals. In his last final game on May 29, 1960 in Ludwigshafen against Werder Bremen (4: 6) Laag was already 34 years old. Regarding the Ludwigshafen venue in the finals, Laag said: “The finals were the only games in which we really earned. Otherwise we had to win all the games to get the maximum rate of 320 marks per month. On the other hand, our opponents were happy that we competed in Ludwigshafen, because that was a neutral place and cannot be compared with the atmosphere on the Kaiserslautern Betzenberg. "

After 13 rounds, he left Horeb in 1960, not exactly in peace, and joined TSC Zweibrücken in the 2nd Southwest League together with Rolf Ertel because of the hip rejuvenation for the 1960/61 season . Those responsible had organized the succession with Alois Herbrik and Rudolf Hoffmann .

Selection player

The appointment and the performance with the Pfalz selection in the competition of the regional cup 1949/50 , represented the first sporting award reaching beyond the local borders. On September 18, 1949 he belonged to the victorious Pfalz-Elf on the Waldhof-Platz in Mannheim , which prevailed with a 4-1 win against North Baden. The man from FKP played the right wing runner and the brothers Fritz and Ottmar Walter from 1. FC Kaiserslautern set the tone in the attack. The North Baden attack with Georg Herbold , Kurt Stiefvater , Paul Lipponer junior , Ernst Langlotz and Rudolf de la Vigne could not successfully stage itself.

In the quarter-finals on November 13, 1949 in Ludwigshafen in front of 45,000 spectators against Westphalia, Laag was again used as an outside runner. The combination of STV Horst Emscher ( Heinz Flotho , Bernhard Klodt , Alfred Kelbassa ), FC Schalke 04 ( Erich Matzek , Paul Matzkowski ), Borussia Dortmund ( Max Michallek , Paul Koschmieder , Erich Schanko , Alfred Preißler , Edmund Kasperski ) and the former Schalke Heinz Hinz (TuS Lübbecke) made it very difficult for the Palatinate selection without playmaker Fritz Walter but with the narrow 2-1 success. In the semifinals on January 22, 1950, again in Ludwigshafen, but now in front of 60,000 spectators, the selection by Hamburg around Josef Posipal and Heinz Bung Bottle was the opponent of the Pfalz-Elf. Laag formed the runner row with Werner Liebrich and Georg Gawliczek and in the attack the Walter brothers and Karl Blankenberger from Worms formed the inner storm. Fritz Walter was playmaker and goalscorer in one person and led the Palatinate into the final with a 5-0 win. This took place on March 19, 1950 in front of 89,000 spectators in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart against the representation of Bavaria. Due to an injury, Fritz Walter could not compete and Laag advanced to half right and was represented by Fritz glasses from Phönix Ludwigshafen as an outside runner. With two goals, center forward Horst Schade decided the final in favor of Bayern's selection in the second half.

When a single-track Oberliga Südwest was played for the first time in the 1950/51 season and Laag and his teammates from FK Pirmasens reached third place, he came in the first round on November 11, 1950 in Ludwigshafen in the representative game of Southwest Germany against South Germany (2: 2) for use. Together with Jakob Miltz and Werner Liebrich, he formed the runner row of the Southwest team, which had to assert itself against the southern trio of Fritz Balogh , Ernst Langlotz and Otto Baitinger . In the second leg on October 13, 1951 in Stuttgart, the Southwest team competed in the 2: 3 defeat with the same runner row, but the south now stormed the trio with Max Morlock , Horst Schade and Richard Herrmann .

In the 3-2 success of the southwest selection on November 17, 1957 in Ludwigshafen against southern Germany ( Richard Kreß , Engelbert Kraus , Ulrich Biesinger , Johann Auernhammer , Hermann Nuber ), the stopper from Pirmasens organized the defense and recommended himself for DFB missions. Under Herberger's assistant Helmut Schön , Laag came a month later, on December 21, 1957, in Budapest for the international match of the B national team against Hungary. In the 2-2 draw, he led the German defensive as a center runner in front of goalkeeper Günter Sawitzki and the defenders Leo Konopczynski and Herbert Sandmann . The FKP defense chief said of the appointment: "We had a good defense, often played to zero and that was also noticeable at the DFB, that's how I got into Helmut Schön's B-Elf."

literature

  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 2: 1948–1963 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 29). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-107-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death report on the website of the city of Pirmasens. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b Werner Skrentny: The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. P. 75.
  3. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970. Football archive Mannheim. Mannheim 1995. ISBN 3-929295-14-8 . P. 74.
  4. ↑ Karl-Heinz Jens: The omniscient football. Olympia Publishing House. Nuremberg 1966. p. 204.
  5. ↑ Werner Skrentny: The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. P. 71.
  6. ↑ Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970. Football archive Mannheim. Mannheim 1995. ISBN 3-929295-14-8 . Pp. 63/64.
  7. ↑ Karl-Heinz Jens: The omniscient football. Olympia Publishing House. Nuremberg 1966. p. 201.
  8. ↑ Karl-Heinz Jens: The omniscient football. Olympia Publishing House. Nuremberg 1966. p. 202.
personal data
SURNAME Laag, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1926
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2010