Jakob Bender

Jakob Bender
Personnel
birthday	March 23, 1910
place of birth	Düsseldorf ,  German Empire
date of death	February 8, 1981
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
1924-1927	Alemannia 08 Düsseldorf
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1927-1944	Fortuna Dusseldorf
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1933-1935	Germany	9 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	Kissingen 05 (player-coach)
1950-19 ??	Alemannia 08 Düsseldorf
1 Only league games are given.

Jakob Bender (born March 23, 1910 in Düsseldorf ; † February 8, 1981 ) was a German football player who won the German championship with his club Fortuna Düsseldorf in the game year 1932/33 . He played as a defender from 1933 to 1935 in the German national soccer team and took third place with the team at the 1934 World Cup in Italy .

career

He played for Alemannia 08 Düsseldorf until 1927, then moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf and was third with Fortuna in the West German championship in the 1928/29 season behind FC Schalke 04 and Meidericher SV, thus making it into the finals of the German football championship for the first time a. The tough and strong defensive player with his teammates Paul Bornefeld , Theo Breuer , Ernst Albrecht and Georg Hochgesang on June 16, 1929 could not prevent the 1: 5 defeat against SpVgg Fürth . Two years later, in 1931, Fortuna won the West German championship, but lost in the final round of the German championship with 2: 3 after extra time against Eintracht Frankfurt . The defensive player, called "Knöd" by fellow players and supporters, formed the Fortuna runner row with Paul Janes and Theo Breuer.

In the last year of the Berg / Mark district class, 1932/33, Bender and the Fortuna team-mates won the championship with 97:13 goals, became West German runners-up with a 1-0 defeat on April 30, 1933 against Schalke 04 and followed suit Successes in the German finals against Gleiwitz, Arminia Hannover and in the semifinals with a sovereign 4-0 win against Eintracht Frankfurt in the final of the German soccer championship against their western rivals Schalke 04. On June 11th, the team of the Viennese trainer Heinrich Körner managed a 3-0 win against the "Knappen" -Elf in Cologne and thus won the German championship. As a middle runner, Bender was the head of the defense and in turn had the outside runners Janes and Breuer at his side.

On January 8, 1933 he had defeated the Hungarian top team Ferencváros Budapest with 7-2 goals with the city selection of Düsseldorf - combination of Fortuna and VfL Benrath . Bender belonged to the Fortuna championship teams in the Gauliga Niederrhein from 1936 to 1940, which were able to win the title in series and in 1936 were able to move into the final of the German championship . With coach Karl Höger , the final was lost with 1: 2 goals after extra time against 1. FC Nürnberg. On January 9, 1938, Bender and his Fortuna team lost the final for the Tschammer Cup 1937 against Schalke 04 with 1: 2 goals. In the final round of the German championship, the team around Ernst Kuzorra and Fritz Szepan also played in the semifinals on May 29, 1938 in the 1-0 defeat again fate for Fortuna. In the war years, Bender was listed as an active member of the Fortuna squad in the Lower Rhine Gauliga until 1943/44. Due to the war he was also a "guest player" at TSV 1897 Osnabrück during this time. In the statistics, Bender is led with 30 finals in the German championship from 1929 to 1939.

After a stopover at Kissingen 05, the city worker returned to his hometown club Alemannia 08 in Düsseldorf in 1950 as a player coach and took over the training management.

Selection appointments

The middle runner made his debut in the national team together with his teammate Theo Breuer on October 22, 1933 in Duisburg at the international match against Belgium. In the 8-1 success of Reich trainer Otto Nerz's team , Fortuna Paul Janes, Ernst Albrecht , Willi Wigold and Stanislaus Kobierski were also in action. At the soccer World Cup in Italy in 1934, Bender played in the semifinals in Rome against Czechoslovakia (1: 3) and in the game for third place against Austria (3: 2). With his ninth appearance on June 30, 1935 in Stockholm against Sweden, the international career of the defender, afflicted by several knee injuries, ended.

With the Lower Rhine selection he won the final in the Reichsbund Cup against Saxony on February 27, 1937 in Berlin with 2-1 goals .

see also: Germany at the 1934 World Cup in Italy

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 .
• Bolten / Langer: "Everything else is just football". The story of Fortuna Düsseldorf. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89533-711-6 .