Horst Eckel

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Horst Eckel
Horst Eckel (2005)
Personalia
birthday February 8, 1932
place of birth Vogelbach ,  German Empire
date of death December 3, 2021
place of death Landstuhl ,  Germany
size 180 cm
position outrunner
juniors
years station
0000–1949 SC Vogelbach
1949-1950 1 FC Kaiserslautern
Men's
years station Games (goals) 1
1950-1960 1 FC Kaiserslautern 214 (64)
1960-1965 SV Röchling Völklingen 57 0(?)
National team
years selection games (goals)
1952-1958 Germany 32 0(0)
stations as a coach
years station
1966-1968 SV Röchling Völklingen
1971-1972 SC 07 Idar-Oberstein
1975-1976 TSC Zweibruecken
SV St. Ingbert
1984-1986 ASV Kleinottweiler
1 Only league games are shown.

Horst Eckel ( February 8, 1932 in Vogelbach – December 3, 2021 in Landstuhl ) was a German footballer . From 1952 to 1958 he played 32 international matches under national coach Sepp Herberger in the German national team and was a member of the DFB team that became soccer world champions in 1954 . With 1. FC Kaiserslautern he won the German football championship in 1951 and 1953. Eckel, who was initially used as an attacker, quickly developed into an ideal candidate for the right flank in the then preferred World Cup system thanks to his "enormous range of action and his clever way of playing" .

After his playing career, the trained toolmaker studied art and sport for the secondary school teacher training course and worked as a teacher at the secondary school in Kusel from the school year 1973 until his retirement .

Eckel was a representative of the Sepp Herberger Foundation from 1997 . As an ambassador, he supported the Respect! No place for racism . After the death of his national team colleague Hans Schäfer on November 7, 2017, Eckel was the last surviving player of the "Miracle of Bern" .

career in football

youth, until 1950

Horst Eckel grew up in Vogelbach, today a district of Bruchmühlbach-Miesau , 30 km southwest of Kaiserslautern. In addition to father and mother, the older brother Hans and his sister Isolde belonged to the family. Horst Eckel had his first contact with football in the school yard in Vogelbach, which was close to his parents' house. Under the supervision of his brother, who is eight years older than him, the "little boy" was allowed to deal with bigger and stronger boys. He compensated for his physical disadvantages with agility, willingness to run, will and fighting spirit. The tough experiences he gained playing with the elders taught him to assert himself. During the war years he could not chase the ball with the other boys in the local football club; Because of the nearby West Wall and the air raids on Homburg and the train station in Bruchmühlbach, the children usually had to play near the residential buildings. When his brother Hans died in 1942, Horst was no longer allowed on the street as soon as the air raid alarm went off . He then played football around the house, much to his mother's displeasure. His parents separated shortly after the war. Horst grew up in Vogelbach with his mother and sister in modest financial circumstances. His father worked as a train dispatcher in the neighboring town and was a committed referee in his free time. Even after the separation, he always stood behind his son. After eight years of schooling, Horst found work in the sawmill in Bruchmühlbach in 1948. He didn't earn much there, he got a few pfennigs an hour, and sometimes there was a little groceries. At the beginning of 1947, when he was 15, Vogelbach and Bruchmühlbach set up a syndicate. There he played for some time in the A youth and in the reserve team. After the syndicate was dissolved, he played in Vogelbach's first team at the age of 15, with the consent of his parents and a special doctor's permit. He ran fast and was considered calm and dangerous. He supplemented the weekly team training on Wednesdays in Vogelbach with daily individual training with the ball, sometimes with comrades who just had time. His excellent running work and agility were already well developed at that time, probably because he had always had to assert himself against older horses. From 1948 forest runs were added. They were a further step on the way to training his above-average physical condition from a young age . As a center forward , he was his team 's top scorer . In the man-to-man game, he was mostly successful.

He was discovered at a sports festival in Kindsbach in 1949 . At that time Herbert Schroer played for FV Kindsbach ; the game between Kindsbach and Vogelbach was his farewell game, he joined VfR Kaiserslautern in the Oberliga Südwest for the 1949/50 round . Immediately after half-time, Eckel scored the 2:3 goal with a volley and played his way into a run: Vogelbach won 8:4 goals and Eckel, as a young center forward, had scored six goals. Since this second half of all times was observed by the then FCK junior coach Richard Schneider , Kaiserslautern contacted Eckel; he was called the following week and asked to take part in FCK junior training the very next day.

Although the first few minutes of training with the FCK youth gave him the impression that their ball skills and technique were massively superior to his and that he was on the verge of giving up training and returning to Vogelbach, he was immediately accepted into the FCK junior team.

As a result, he took the train to Kaiserslautern twice a week for training . He was initially suspended for four weeks due to a change of club. With every training session he made technical progress. In his first game with the FCK juniors in Mehlingen he scored five goals as a centre-forward. Since Eckel scored a total of ten goals in the finals of the Southwest Championship against VfR Frankenthal , the first team took notice of him. After less than a whole season with the FCK juniors, he was allowed to take part in the training of Fritz Walter 's players . He no longer played with the juniors, instead playing in the reserves and training with the first team under coach Kuno Krügel . On catch-up game day, May 3, 1950, the former C-class player from Vogelbach made his debut in a 1-1 home draw against Phoenix Ludwigshafen in the soccer Oberliga Südwest . As a replacement for the missing center forward Ottmar Walter , he did not see a ball for over 90 minutes, according to his own assessment; the difference between the juniors and the reserves compared to the first team was serious, in particular the game was much faster and harder. He had to realize that he wasn't ready yet. But Fritz Walter gave him the encouraging words: "You stay here, you continue to train with us and you play with us!" This gave him self-confidence and spurred him on to even more consistent training. On Tuesdays and Thursdays he trained in Kaiserslautern, on Wednesdays he took part in team training in Vogelbach, on the other days he also trained either alone or with former Vogelbach teammates. He also went to table tennis after the FCK training days in Vogelbach because he thought it was good for promoting mobility and reaction.

1. FC Kaiserslautern, 1950 to 1960

From the 1950/51 season , the former junior coach Richard Schneider took over as coach of the FCK premier league team. In the course of the league round in the southwest – the “Red Devils” won the Oberliga Südwest championship with a seven-point lead over Wormatia Worms – the young player had not yet been able to secure a regular spot with six league appearances and seven goals. Sometimes he played half-forward; sometimes when Ottmar Walter was injured, in his favorite position as a centre-forward. Shortly before the final round of the German championship, however, he played alternately with Karl-Heinz Wettig on the right wing. He had Fritz Walter next to him, with whom he harmonized particularly well in terms of play. In the first group game in the final round, on May 6, 1951 in Ludwigshafen in front of 65,000 spectators against SpVgg Fürth , Eckel stormed to the right winger . Fritz Walter had spoken out in favor of Eckel in the previous meeting of the game committee, coach and board. The later national player Herbert Erhardt was his direct opponent as a left defender. Eckel justified the confidence of captain and playmaker Fritz Walter and scored both goals to make it 2-2. From this game he was a regular player. He scored six goals in the group games and drew on June 30, 1951 with FCK in the final in Berlin against Preussen Münster . In front of 85,000 spectators in the Olympic Stadium , he stormed to the right winger again in the 2-1 win and thus belonged to the FCK-Elf, which became German champions for the first time .

Eckel made his national team debut in November 1952. When the Lauterers were able to win the second German championship on June 21, 1953 again in Berlin with a 4-1 win against defending champion VfB Stuttgart , he acted on the right flank position. At the end of the 1951/52 season, in mid-1952, he first played outside runners for FCK in a friendly match in Landau in the Palatinate . He only found out why he had to take on the position of runner during the preparatory phase for the 1954 World Championships at the Grünwald sports school. From his debut on November 9, 1952 in Augsburg against Switzerland , there were indications that the task of the outside runner would become his position in the national team . Eckel became a strong runner with striker qualities and Fritz Walter was able to drop back a little and conduct the games better from the depths. The national coach came up with the idea; At the beginning of 1952 he had asked FCK coaches Richard Schneider and Fritz Walter to send Eckel to the runners-up position.

But there are also two painful final defeats with Kaiserslautern for the German championship in Eckel's balance sheet, first the 1:5 final defeat on May 23, 1954 in Hamburg, which was completely unexpected at least in its severity, against the clear outsiders Hannover 96 . Twelve months later, a 3-4 defeat followed on June 26, 1955 in the final in Hanover against Rot-Weiss Essen . While the appearance of the "Red Devils" in the defeat against Hanover caused difficulties for national coach Herberger in particular immediately before the World Cup days in Switzerland, Eckel, looking back, describes the lost final against Essen as the worst defeat he has ever suffered in his football career have experienced. He said the defeat was unfair because the referee made two decisions he shouldn't have made.

The 1956/57 season was shaped by two special events in addition to everyday Oberliga life in the southwest: On October 6, 1956, Eckel was in the FCK-Elf, which played a friendly match against SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt , the champions of the DDR-Oberliga , and won with 5:3 goals. It was an event in 1956 that electrified football fans in eastern divided Germany. Immediately after the end of the premier league round, Eckel was a member of the Lauterer delegation, which, at the invitation of the German American Football Association (GAFA), set off on a tour of the United States with prominent companion Sepp Herberger on May 1, 1957. From May 5th to May 21st FCK played six games in New York , St. Louis , Chicago , Detroit and Philadelphia .

Eckel played the last final round games for the German championship with FCK in June 1957 against Hertha BSC (14:1), Borussia Dortmund (2:3) and Kickers Offenbach (1:4). His last season in the Oberliga Südwest with Kaiserslautern was 1959/60. FCK finished fifth and the 1954 world champions had scored three goals in 26 league appearances. With a 2-1 home win against Ludwigshafener SC , he ended his activity at 1. FC Kaiserslautern on April 24, 1960 after a total of 214 league appearances with 64 goals. From 1951 to 1957 he played another 32 competitive games and scored ten goals in the finals of the German football championship.

In his last round, 1959/60, he missed his friend and mentor Fritz Walter on and off the pitch. The dissolution process was in full swing. Of the "54 world champions" only Werner Liebrich was there. He sensed that his exit was also near. During this time he was approached by those in charge at SV Röchling Völklingen . He did not have a concrete idea about the professional and sporting future. Völklingen made him an offer with a professional perspective that went beyond the sport. He was supposed to get a job at the Völklingen Ironworks and also play for SV in the Saarland amateur league in order to achieve the desired promotion to the 2nd Southwest League. He accepted the offer from Völklingen for the 1960/61 season because his family agreed that, considering the circumstances, it was a very good offer.

Eckel himself remembers the very successful times with the players of 1. FC Kaiserslautern - above all the privilege of being able to play in a team with such a great footballer as Fritz Walter for years - winning the World Cup in 1954 and last but not least the deep, long-lasting ones Friendships with many players and companions are always more important than a "big" bank account.

According to Eckel, the basic principles were irrefutable: to train hard, to go to bed early and to avoid alcohol and nicotine consumption.

Röchling Völklingen, 1960 to 1965

In Saarland, however, the start began with obstacles: As a contract player in the Oberliga-Südwest, he was banned for a year after switching to the amateur camp. However, Völklingen kept the offer and signed Eckel as a coach. He therefore did the B and A license training at the Saarbrücken sports school in preparation for his new job. Right away he was champion in 1960/61 with the team and also managed to get promoted to the 2nd League Southwest. From the 1961/62 season he was able to actively return to the field. By finishing seventh (1962) and fifth (1963) in the second division, he was qualified with Völklingen for the second -rate Regionalliga Südwest , which started in the 1963/64 round. Under coach Herbert Binkert , the ex-Lauterer played 36 league games and scored three goals by finishing 13th. In the following two rounds he gradually retired as a player and ended his active playing career after a 0-1 away defeat at Phönix Bellheim on December 12, 1965 after a total of 57 regional league appearances for Völklingen.

His farewell game took place on April 16, 1969 in Braunschweig. The "Berner Elf" played together again, they had gotten together to bring in money for the survivors of the Eintracht player Jürgen Moll who died in an accident . He was the player on the 1954 World Cup team who ended his active career the latest.

National team, 1952 to 1958

Between 1952 and 1958 Eckel played 32 international matches for the German national team as a right flanker . The "running miracle" was indispensable for Fritz Walter , because both understood each other blindly on the pitch, so to speak. As the youngest player at the beginning, Eckel was nicknamed "Benjamin", because of his running strength and slim build he was also called "greyhound". In his hometown Vogelbach he was called "die Zeeb" ( West Palatinate for toe). The man from Vogelbach was one of five Kaiserslautern players in the team that won the World Cup on July 4, 1954 in Bern with a 3-2 final victory over Hungary . Like Fritz Walter, he took part in all six games.

After the talent of FCK had to make do with the substitute bench for 90 minutes in the international match against France in Paris on October 5, 1952, he made his debut on November 9, 1952 as a 20-year-old in Augsburg in a 5-1 win against Switzerland in the National team. He formed the line of runners with middle half Josef Posipal and left half runner Erich Schanko . From his debut in the national team, he was one of the regulars. In October 1953, when Herberger added Karl Mai from Fürth, a new left-hander with dynamism and exceptional tackling strength, to the DFB team, the “magic square” was found in midfield with Fritz Walter and Max Morlock in the half-forward positions.

In the final of the German championship on May 23, 1954 in Hamburg against the outsiders Hannover 96, which was clearly lost with 1:5 goals, Eckel was injured after a collision and was only "limping around" on the left outpost for the last 25 minutes. But as soon as Herberger greeted him on the way to the banquet hall, he explained with a laugh that his injury – a nasty bruise – wasn't serious and would certainly be repaired in a few days. Horst Eckel was cut from a completely different cloth than his sensitive captain Fritz Walter. The Lauterers urgently needed encouragement and consolation after the defeat. So it was good that the national coach had meanwhile mastered his ability to positively reinterpret catastrophes. The spirit of Spiez, the much-vaunted spirit of camaraderie, was born during the final course in Munich. Herberger awakened the power that grew out of anger. It was the strength that he had awakened in his men after painful defeats, especially in the enthusiastic young man from Kaiserslautern.

The miracle of Bern

In the semifinals of the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland on June 30 in Basel against Austria, Eckel von Herberger had to fulfill the order not to let the dangerous Ernst Stojaspal come into play. The German team prevailed with a 6-1 win and thus made it into the World Cup final. In the game against the favored Hungary, he had to solve the special task of taking over the attacking leader Hidegkuti , who was constantly moving between the center of attack and midfield , when the supposed center forward behind the front was supposed to direct the game. Hidegkuti was so strong in the game that he was able to determine the offensive game and again threaten to attack. Herberger underlined this with the words: "We must not let it get that far, because that would be the numerical superiority in the center of attack. If we disrupt that tactic, we disrupt the Hungarian system.” Eckel's job was to focus on Hidegkuti as soon as he withdrew from the center of attack into midfield. Werner Liebrich wouldn't have let himself be lured out, so he would have had to take over Puskás who was lurking at the front . Germany won the final with 3:2 goals. The individual review of the young Lauterer noted: "The 22-year-old Benjamin in the team wasn't always able to neutralize Hidegkuti, but overall he put in a strong performance. In the second half, the spindly Lauterer running wonder also attacked Puskas in important phases and narrowed his circle.”

After the World Cup days in Switzerland, Eckel fractured his tibia and fibula on September 12, 1954 in a local derby against VfR Kaiserslautern ; that led to a year-long hiatus in the national team. On August 21, 1955 in Moscow, in a "historic encounter" during the Cold War , in an international match against the Soviet Union (2:3), he was able to continue his international career.

At the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, he was again part of the DFB squad with Senior Fritz Walter. He was injured in the victorious first group game against Argentina (3-1), had a break in the 2-2 draw against Czechoslovakia and was back in action in the 2-2 draw against Northern Ireland. Since he had the most duels with the half-left of Burnley, Jimmy McIlroy to deny. He prevented goalscorer Todor Veselinović from scoring again in a hard-fought 1-0 quarter-final win against Yugoslavia in Malmö on 19 June . In the game report it was noted: "Eckel convinced against the dribbler Veselinovic." When the defending champion lost in the semifinals against the hosts Sweden in Gothenburg with 1:3 goals, the Lauterer mainly played against Nils Liedholm in the duels . In the game for 3rd place in Gothenburg against strong attacking France (3:6) with their stars Raymond Kopa and Just Fontaine , the national coach did without the out-of-form Lauterer outrunner.

After the 32nd international match on November 19, 1958 in Berlin against Austria (2:2), Eckel said goodbye to the national team. He had formed the German series of runners with Herbert Erhardt and Horst Szymaniak .

The later secondary school teacher was always impressed by the tremendous knowledge of the national coach, had never seen him short-tempered and said: "He knew everyone very well. Nobody could fool him. This detailed knowledge of friend and foe made him the greatest football coach ever for me. You couldn't have different opinions on that. He was the boss and he was right. What Herberger said was one word, and it was true.”

After the death of Hans Schäfer on November 7, 2017, Eckel was the last surviving player from the 1954 World Cup final and the entire German World Cup squad.

doping allegations

Bern's historic success has been linked to rumors and speculation that it came about with the help of doping . This assumption arose after several German players fell ill with jaundice after the 1954 World Cup tournament. In addition, Ferenc Puskás claimed in an interview with the French magazine France Football that the Germans had taken performance-enhancing drugs in the final. Puskás apologized in writing to the DFB in 1960. The actual cause of jaundice is still unclear. Herberger biographer Leinemann quoted Dettmar Cramer with the assumption that Helmut Rahn had been infected on a Rot-Weiss Essen tour of South America. An indication of this could be that his club mate Fritz Herkenrath from Rot-Weiss Essen, who was not in Switzerland, also developed jaundice. Leinemann also noted "that transmission could have taken place when glucose and vitamin injections were given through an unclean needle." In his memoirs, Horst Eckel also reported on a glucose injection. Team doctor Loogen would have administered the injection during the lunch break before the final. It was the only time the syringe was used, for purely practical reasons. Elsewhere, Eckel explained, "instead of the many grape juices that bloat the body, the players who wanted it had a glucose injection!" In any case, he didn't get jaundice, despite the injection.

Trainer

After moving to Völklingen in the Saarland amateur league for the 1960/61 season, he was first coach because of the one-year ban for changing a contract player in the amateur camp. He won the championship with his team and was promoted to the 2nd Division in the Southwest.

In the two seasons 1966/67 and 1967/68 he practiced again in Völklingen in the Regionalliga Südwest from the coaching office. Even more than with the placements of ninth (1967) and seventh (1968) he convinced with his eleven in the cup. In the Südwestpokal he sat down on December 17, 1967 with his team by a 1-0 home win after extra time against the later regional champions SV Alsenborn by Lorenz Horr and Klaus Schmidt and thus moved into the DFB Cup . There he achieved a 4-2 home win with Völklingen on January 27, 1968 against the Bundesliga side Werder Bremen , who played with players such as Horst-Dieter Höttges , Josef Piontek , Arnold Schütz , Heinz Steinmann , Diethelm Ferner and Max Lorenz in the 1967/1967 season . 68 became runner-up . In the round of 16, the team lost 2-1 at Hertha BSC on February 24, 1968 and were eliminated from the DFB Cup.

successes

The five Kaiserslautern World Cup heroes from Bern in bronze in front of the Fritz Walter Stadium in Kaiserslautern. From left to right: Werner Liebrich , Fritz Walter , Werner Kohlmeyer , Horst Eckel, Ottmar Walter
  • 1951 and 1953: German champion with Kaiserslautern
  • 1954 and 1955: German Vice Champion with Kaiserslautern
  • 1950, 1951, 1953-1957: seven-time champion in the Oberliga Südwest
  • 1954: Soccer World Champion with the national team
  • 1958: Fourth place with the national team at the World Cup

job and family

Eckel signing at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2004

After joining 1. FC Kaiserslautern, he learned the trade of toolmaker at the Kaiserslautern sewing machine factory Pfaff . As a contract player, he earned DM 320 a month at FCK, so he and his mother no longer had any worries about their livelihood. Easter 1957 was the engagement with his childhood friend Hannelore, on November 25, 1957 the wedding took place in Kaiserslautern. Fritz Walter was best man.

After leaving Kaiserslautern and moving to SV Völklingen in the summer of 1960, he worked in administration at the Röchling plant in the company suggestion system and was also responsible for apprentice sport. He earned around 1,200 marks a month at the Völklingen plant. Through the mediation of his former FCK teammate Karl Schmidt , he took the opportunity at the age of 38 to retrain to become a sports teacher. From 1970 onwards he studied art and sports in Trier to become a secondary school teacher and worked as a teacher at the secondary school in Kusel from the school year 1973 until his retirement . There he taught physical education and handicrafts. He sees his professional years at the Kuseler Realschule as "a huge stroke of luck in my life". As a teacher, he tried to pass on to the students what he had learned from Herberger and Fritz Walter: discipline, punctuality and fair play.

During their studies in Trier, the Eckel family ran a sports hotel in Morbach in the Hunsrück to earn a living . His wife Hannelore, his parents-in-law and their two daughters Susanne and Dagmar took care of the hotel. In addition to his studies, the ex-national player coached various amateur clubs in the evenings and thus made his contribution to the livelihood. During this time he also played in the southern German celebrity team. This selection had emerged from the so-called SABA celebrity team. In later years, Eckel was active in the lottery team alongside younger former players such as Wolfgang Overath and Bernd Hölzenbein or coached them. Tennis later became his favorite sport - he played enthusiastically for years at ASV Bruchmühlbach.

In his retirement he worked with correctional facilities to use football to give delinquent youth a perspective.

Horst Lachmund describes Eckel in his contribution to The Myth of Bern with the following words, among others:

“Horst Eckel has remained a humble person, someone you can always rely on. He has never forgotten that his football cradle was in the small town of Vogelbach. He's a balanced person. Frankly, even joyfully, he credits his wife Hannelore with the main credit for his life, which has all in all run smoothly. The down-to-earth Eckel couple were never drawn to the big, wide world. The Eckels stayed in Vogelbach.”

Eckel died on December 3, 2021 at the age of 89, the last player on the 1954 World Cup team . He left behind his wife, two daughters and two grandchildren.

awards

Film and book release

Horst Eckel was Sönke Wortmann 's technical adviser on his film The Miracle of Bern , which depicts the events surrounding the 1954 World Cup victory . Holger Dexne plays Horst Eckel in the film .

In 2004, to mark the 50th anniversary of the final in Bern, Horst Eckel and Volker Neumann published the book Die 84. Minute with AGON Sportverlag .

literature

web links

Commons : Horst Eckel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

itemizations

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  65. ↑ DFB mourns world champion Horst Eckel , dfb.de, December 3, 2021, retrieved on December 3, 2021.
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  67. ↑ dfb.de: 54 World Champion and Silvia Neid honored for life's work
German Football Hall of Fame
player

Michael Ballac  |  Franz Beckenbauer Andreas Brehme  | Paul  Breitner Hans-Jürgen Dörner  | Horst Eckel  | Klaus Fisher  | Doris Fitschen  | Inca Grings  | Steffi Jones  | Oliver Kahn  | Juergen Klinsmann  | Miroslav  Klose Juergen Kohler  | Nia Künzer  | Renate Lingor  | Sepp Maier  | Lothar Matthäus  | Heidi Mohr  | Andreas Moller  | Gerd Muller  | Silvia Envy  | Günter Netzer  | Wolfgang Overath  | Birgit Prince  | Helmut Rahn  | Silke Rottenberg  | Matthew Sammer  | Uwe Seeler  | Joachim Streich  | Berti Vogts  | Rudi Voeller  | Martina Voss-Tecklenburg  | FritzWalter  | Bettina Wiegman

Trainer

Sepp Herberger  | Udo Lattek  | Helmut Schoen  | Tina Theune

personal data
SURNAME Eckel, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
BIRTH DATE February 8, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Vogelbach , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Landstuhl , Germany