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Hugo Mantel (born May 14, 1907 in Bövinghausen ; † February 3, 1942 ) was a German soccer player who played five international matches with the German national soccer team from 1927 to 1933 .

career

The Westphalian came to Saxony via the TuS Bövinghausen and TuS Duisburg 99 stations in 1925 and joined the Dresdner SC . The brilliant technician with excellent positional play, mostly used as an outside runner in midfield, won the final of the championship in Central Germany with the DSC on April 25, 1926 with 3-0 goals against Fortuna 1902 Leipzig. In the final round of the German soccer championship , however, came out in the round of 16 through a 0-1 defeat against SC 08 from Breslau . As defending champion, Mantel and his club retired in the semi-finals in 1926/27 with a 2-3 defeat against Chemnitzer BC in the Central German championship. In his last year in Dresden he was again in the final with the DSC, but lost the final on April 22, 1928 with 0-1 goals against Hallescher FC Wacker. On March 4, however, he and his teammates had won the cup final against local rivals Guts Muts Dresden with 2-1 goals and had made his debut in the preliminary round, on October 2, 1927, at the international match in Copenhagen against Denmark in the German national football team.

In the competition of the federal cup he belonged on March 6, 1927 to the victorious representation of Central Germany , which could prevail with a 1-0 victory in Altona against the hosts North Germany. With Eduard Pendorf and Rudolf Berthold, Mantel formed the row of bishops carrying the game and Richard Hofmann stormed the half-left attack.

For the round of 1928/29 he moved his football field to southern Germany, he moved to Eintracht Frankfurt . At the same time, the young coach Paul Oßwald began his work at Riederwald and the "Eagle Bearers" celebrated the championship in the Main-Hessen regional league, group Main, in 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1932 and were also able to win the championship in 1930 and 1932 Win southern Germany . But after a 2-1 win in Dresden against FC Schalke 04 in the semi-finals of the German soccer championship, the sporting highlight was the entry into the final on June 12, 1932 in Nuremberg against FC Bayern Munich . Bayern managed to get revenge for the defeat for the South German championship and Mantel and colleagues - Franz Schütz , Hans Stubb , Rudolf Gramlich , Bernhard Leis , Karl Ehmer , Walter Dietrich , August Möbs - had to face the runner-up after the 2-0 defeat content.

With the unity moved coat, whose style of play was characterized by flat and short passes, in the season 1932/33 as the third southern representative again in the final round of the German championship. In the round of 16 there was a 4-1 away win against Nordmeister Hamburger SV - Albert Beier , Walter Risse , Carl-Heinz Mahlmann , Asbjörn Halvorsen , Richard Dörfel , Rudolf Noack , Karl Politz - in the quarter-finals Hindenburg Allenstein won 12-2 Not a serious opponent. In the semifinals, however, Eintracht failed against eventual champions Fortuna Düsseldorf after a clear 4-0 defeat in Berlin. The attack of the Riederwald-Elf with Theodor Trumpler , Hugo Mantel, Karl Ehmer , August Möbs and Willi Lindner could not assert itself against the Fortunen-Defensive around Paul Janes , Jakob Bender and Theo Breuer .

In February 1934 Hugo Mantel moved to Milan to take over a pharmaceutical agency. But since he was not allowed to play as a "non-Italian" for the courting Inter predecessor Ambrosiana , he returned ten months later to Frankfurt, where he played again from December 1934 for Eintracht. In his last season, 1936/37, it was enough in the Gauliga Südwest behind the tied Wormatia Worms to the runner-up. From 1928 to 1936 he had played 110 rounds for Eintracht, 58 games for the southern German championship, 11 final rounds for the German championship and four games for the Tschammer Cup .

In his time in Frankfurt, the national team also played the international matches on March 2nd against Italy, May 10th against England (3: 3) and September 7th, 1930 against Denmark. With the game March 19, 1933 in Berlin against France, it was his fifth international match, he said goodbye to the national team.

From 1938, Mantel was still active as a player-coach at the traditional club VfL Germania 1894 .

After “Schotte” Mantel was seriously wounded on the Eastern Front in January 1942, he died a little later of typhus in a hospital.

literature

• Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and sky striker. The story of Eintracht Frankfurt . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-427-8 .

Web links

• Main district: eintracht-archiv.de - season 1932/33