Hermann Nuber

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Bust in the stadium on Bieberer Berg

Hermann Nuber (born October 10, 1935 in Offenbach am Main ) is a former German soccer player . He was nicknamed "The Iron Hermann". From 1955/56 to 1962/63, the later honorary captain of Kickers Offenbach , who was used as a half-striker, outside and center runner in the World Cup system at the time, played 203 league games with 102 goals in the soccer Oberliga Süd . After not being accepted into the Bundesliga, a further 168 competitive games with 57 goals were added in the second -rate regional soccer league from 1963/64 to 1967/68 . The club legend from Bieberer Berg is also listed in the Bundesliga (1968/69: 34-5; 1970/71: 2-0) with 36 appearances and five goals.

career

Youth and Oberliga Süd, until 1963

Nuber, who was born in Offenbach, attended the Friedrich-Schule and already held the role of chief as a boy, although he was never a diplomatic type, but one of the brand "straight ahead", a down-to-earth friend. He was already an outstanding figure in the OFC youth and was therefore also a member of the DFB youth selection for the FIFA tournament held in Germany in 1954 . In preparation, a course was held at the Schöneck sports school in Karlsruhe. At the tournament, the DFB youth was housed in Rhöndorf at the foot of the Drachenfels. The sporting direction was in the hands of Dettmar Cramer and Jakob Streitle . At the side of teammates like Karl Hoffmann , Günter Jäger , Ernst-Günter Habig , Ulrich Muhl and the outstanding goalscorer Uwe Seeler (12 goals), the Offenbach player played all six tournament games of the German youth team (Saarland, 6: 1; Northern Ireland, 6: 1; Hungary, 2: 0; England, 2: 2; Turkey, 2: 1) and separated on April 19, 1954 in Cologne in the final against Spain with a 2: 2 after extra time. Spain was awarded the tournament victory due to the better goal difference after the division process.

As a 17-year-old, he was used for the first time in the league team of Kickers Offenbach on February 1, 1953 in the DFB Cup in a 1: 2 home defeat against Wormatia Worms. The talent got his next two missions in the final round of the German soccer championship in 1955: on June 5 with the eventual German champions Rot-Weiss Essen (1: 4) and a week later in a 5: 2 home win against Wormatia Worms (5: 2) ). Nuber made his official league debut in the 1955/56 season on December 11, 1955 in a 3-1 home win against BC Augsburg. He formed the runner row together with Willi Keim and Helmut Sattler .

After the 1958/59 season, the proven header, free-kick and long-shot specialist had played all 30 games and scored 22 goals when he reached the runner-up in the Oberliga Süd, he drew in the final round of the German soccer championship against the rivals Hamburger SV, Tasmania 1900 Berlin and Westfalia Herne in the final. As a right link, he formed the right wing with winger Engelbert Kraus and had scored five goals in the group games, including the decisive 3-2 in the 84th minute against Hamburger SV, when the OFC at halftime with 0-2 in front of 80,000 spectators in the Frankfurt Waldstadion in arrears and the 1: 2 connection goal in the 87th minute in the 3: 2 home win against Tasmania 1900 Berlin. In the final, Eintracht Frankfurt prevailed 5-3 in extra time.

The last first-class league season 1962/63 ended Offenbach on May 5, 1963 with a catch-up game against VfB Stuttgart (1: 1). Nuber formed the Kickers attack with Berti Kraus, Siegfried Gast , Gerhard Kaufhold and Oskar Lotz . After 203 league appearances with 102 goals, the era of the first-class league was over.

Regional league and Bundesliga, 1963 to 1971

When the first game day of the second -rate regional soccer league south started on August 4, 1963 , captain Nuber led his kickers in the Freiburg Möslestadion against Freiburg FC. OFC won 2-1 with goals from Georg Tripp and Gast. At the end of the round, the team of coach Hans Merkle took third place, but they did not make it into the Bundesliga promotion round. The thinker and leader of the foosball game had scored 15 goals in 35 league games. Also in the second regional league year, 1964/65, Nuber landed with his Offenbachers again in third place; his personal record was 34 games with 18 goals. In the first year of coaching under Kurt Baluses , 1965/66, the runner-up was won and thus moved into the promotion round for the first time; but without success, the OFC only finished fourth. In the fourth RL year, 1966/67, the championship success was successful, a better promotion round (2nd place), but again not promotion to the Bundesliga. When the club legend was able to prevail with his kickers at the third attempt in the Bundesliga promotion round after the second runner-up in 1967/68, Offenbach was finally in the Bundesliga. From 1963 to 1968, the "warrior" needed 168 regional league games with 57 goals and 22 promotion games with six goals.

In the Bundesliga season 1968/69 the "iron Hermann" completed all 34 league games and scored five goals; Offenbach was relegated to the regional league as 18th.

Nuber was active as a defender with the No. 5 (center runner ) exclusively for Kickers Offenbach from 1953 to 1971 and played in the Bundesliga in the late 1960s and early 1970s . The greatest success of the club, the DFB Cup victory in 1970 lacked Nuber, as he finished his career at this time. In the following Bundesliga season 1970/71, he tied the football boots for the OFC again in two Bundesliga appearances in order to play for the club against relegation.

Nuber completed a total of 429 games for Offenbach from 1953 to 1971, scoring 164 goals.

Selection player

Nuber, who in his entire career did not play a single international match in the senior national team, was part of the German national team at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden ; but he was not on site in Sweden, Nuber was on call with Rudolf Hoffmann , Wolfgang Peters and Günter Sawitzki . In 1957, the Offenbacher was used in two international matches for the U23 juniors . First on March 27th in Essen in a 4-2 win against Belgium as left wing runner next to center runner Günter Graetsch . The second time on December 21st in Braunschweig against Hungary in a 3-3 draw. Since he acted as an outside runner alongside Otto Laszig . Two years later, on November 8, 1959, he was appointed by the DFB to the B national team at the international match against Hungary in Saarbrücken. Together with goalkeeper Horst Schnoor , defender couple Gustav Witlatschil and Friedel Späth , as well as fellow runners Willi Koll and Dieter Seeler, he formed the German defensive in a 2-1 win.

His selection appointments by the DFB began in 1954 when he was accepted into the youth national team. When national coach Sepp Herberger played international matches against the Soviet Union (A- and B-Nati) in November 1956, the young league player from Offenbach was also part of a DFB course in the senior division for the first time (September 3 to 7 in Duisburg). This was repeated in November of the same year before the two international matches against Switzerland (1: 3) and Ireland (0: 3); but also here without an international match. Instead of Offenbacher, players like Horst Szymaniak , Hans Neuschäfer and Elwin Schlebrowski made their debut . In 1957 Nuber went through a DFB course from February 18 to March 2 in Duisburg, but the international matches against Austria (March 10; 3: 2) and the Netherlands (April 3; 2: 1) took place again without the young high achievers of the OFC. On November 17, 1957 he was in the selection of southern Germany at the representative game in Ludwigshafen against the southwest. Before the first international match of the 1958 World Cup on March 2 in Brussels, he was again a member of the training team from February 27 to March 1 at the Hennef sports school. When Herberger tested on March 26, 1958 in Basel with a German B selection against a Swiss selection, Nuber came in the second half as the right runner in the 2-1 success (goals by Helmut Rahn and Ulrich Biesinger ) to use. His last appearance before the World Cup in Sweden in June was in a test match on April 23 in Kassel between an A selection ( Fritz Herkenrath ; Herbert Erhardt , Erich Juskowiak ; Nuber, Karl-Heinz Schnellinger , Horst Szymaniak) against a B selection in front of 35,000 spectators, which ended 1: 1. Strangely enough, Nuber did not belong to the final World Cup course from May 12 to 24, 1958 at the Munich-Grünwald sports school with 25 candidates. When the national coach informed the players on May 23, which 17 should go to Sweden and who would be among the five who should be ready on call in Germany, the Offenbacher belonged to the "call-up" group.

With the use on September 10, 1958 in Düsseldorf in an A selection against Fortuna Düsseldorf before the first international match after the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, on September 24 in Copenhagen against Denmark (1: 1), Hermann Nuber's connections to the National team.

Trainer

After playing as a player, he was a coach , including in the Bundesliga in 1984 at his home club Kickers Offenbach. During his time as an amateur and senior youth coach, he trained the future national players Rudi Völler , Uwe Bein , Oliver Reck and Jimmy Hartwig, among others .

Honors

In 1968 he finished second behind Franz Beckenbauer in the election for Germany's Footballer of the Year . In Bieberer Berg Stadion was erected in his honor on his 60th birthday in 1995, a bronze bust. In 2013 Nuber received the prize of honor from the city of Offenbach for his life's work as a football player and coach.

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 280.
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , pp. 364–365.
  • 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 , pp. 46-48.
  • DFB (Hrsg.): Football yearbook 1955. Wilhelm Limpert Verlag. Frankfurt a. M. Publisher no .: 5430. pp. 53-58.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Nuber  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 , p. 120.
  2. ^ OFC idol Nuber celebrates 80th birthday. (No longer available online.) In: hessenschau.de. October 10, 2015, archived from the original on September 13, 2016 ; accessed on September 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hessenschau.de
  3. ^ Raphael Keppel : Germany's international soccer games. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sport- und Spielverlag Hitzel, Hürth 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 , pp. 244–246.
  4. Juliane Mroz: Honor for the Iron Hermann. fr-online.de , February 20, 2013, accessed on September 5, 2016 .
  5. Angular Kickers head. In: op-online.de . July 7, 2012, accessed September 5, 2016 .