Jakob Eckert
Jakob Eckert (born September 19, 1916 or October 18, 1916 in Monsheim ; † June 5, 1940 ) was a German national football player who was three times in the final round of the German championship with Wormatia Worms . In these finals, he played a total of 18 games and scored 10 goals.
Club career
1935/36 season
The trained white binder Eckert switched from Rhenania Rheindürkheim to Wormatia Worms at the age of 19 and established himself directly in his first year with Rheinhessen. In this he celebrated the championship of the 1935/36 round in the Gauliga Südwest with the Wormatia and, with three hits in the last and decisive game for the Südwest Championship against Eintracht Frankfurt, played a major role in ensuring participation in the final round of the German championship could. In the kicker it said:
“The attack by the Worms had its best man in Eckert. This almost skinny, blond player has a feeling for how to handle the ball, he has the right nose for good opportunities in front of the opponent's box, he is fast, he can shoot, he thinks. "
In the final round , the Worms met in Group C against 1. SV Jena , the Stuttgarter Kickers and the eventual champions 1. FC Nürnberg . With two wins and one draw in six games, the Wormatia finished second in their group. Eckert played in all six final round matches and scored four goals, including the 1: 1 in the 2-2 draw against 1. FC Nürnberg in front of 30,000 spectators in the Frankfurt Waldstadion.
1936/37 season
Also in the season 1936/37 the Wormatia was able to get hold of the southwest championship, and again the games against Eintracht Frankfurt were decisive. In the first leg, in the 5-1 home win at Wormatia Stadium, Eckert shone with a double, and in the second leg, a 1-1 on Bornheimer Hang, he was able to put his stamp on the match, according to an editor of the specialist magazine “Fußball”:
“In this game Eckert recommended himself again for international tasks. He always turns out to be the born successor of a Conen and should not only be for the Gau. Basically, he has all the virtues of a center forward: he is young, fast, powerful, talented at shooting, strong and also has a great sense of structure and teamwork. Since Kohr and Conen, I haven't known a center forward in Germany who combines all of these qualities like Eckert, Worms. "
Due to the 1-1 draw in Frankfurt, a draw on the last matchday at FK Pirmasens was enough for the Worms , and Rheinhessen fulfilled this task with a 0-0. For the second time in a row they qualified for the final round of the German championship.
Eckert was again in every game of the final round and scored a total of three goals, all in the games against Spielverein 06 Kassel . The other opponents in Group C were SV Dessau 05 and VfB Stuttgart . After a good start with 7: 1 points, they were just under 0: 1 against VfB Stuttgart in the decisive home game, again in the Frankfurt Waldstadion. Ultimately, the Wormatia was denied participation in the semi-finals of the German championship because of the poorer goal difference.
Eckert and Wormatia also knew how to convince in the national cup. Only in the semi-finals did they have to admit defeat to eventual cup winners VfB Leipzig 5-1, early on to nine players. "Bobbel" , as Eckert was also called, played all cup games and scored a total of four goals.
1937/38 season
In the 1937/38 season Eckert and the Wormatia could not intervene in the fight for the Southwest Championship and confirm the performances of the previous season. The season ended in third place in the Gauliga Südwest. Eckert's old strength flashed only irregularly, for example in a 2-0 home win against the later Gaumeister Eintracht Frankfurt, one of the few Worms highlights this season.
Even in the cup, Wormatia could not build on the previous year's performance and failed somewhat surprisingly in the round of 16 with a 2: 4 defeat at BC Hartha . The "Eckert-Bobbel" knew how to convince in this competition and scored three times in two missions.
1938/39 season
In this season Jakob Eckert and the Worms presented themselves better again and secured the third title within four years in a three-way battle with the two Frankfurt representatives FSV and Eintracht. Thus they were again qualified for the final round of the German championship and met in Group 4 against FC Schalke 04 , Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz and CSC 03 Kassel . Eckert was on the pitch in all six final rounds and scored three goals. Most notable is his goal to make it 1-0 in the surprising 2-1 away win against eventual champions Schalke 04, the only Schalke defeat of the entire season.
In the cup, however, Eckerts Wormaten disappointed and missed participation in the first final round due to a defeat at SC Opel Rüsselsheim .
After the 1938/39 season
After the outbreak of the Second World War, Eckert could no longer think of regular football games in Wormatia dress. He was only used three times in competitive games, once on the occasion of a 9-0 defeat in the cup at VfL Köln in 1899 and twice in the Gauliga Südwest ( Saarpfalz relay ). The attacker played his last game for Wormatia on April 28, 1940 in a 6-1 friendly defeat against Frankfurter Eintracht, Eckert prepared the only Worms goal. Only a short time later, on June 5, 1940, the 23-year-old was killed in fighting on the Somme during the western campaign . Franz Krawutschke wrote in an obituary in the "Wormser Zeitung":
“It was in 1935/36 when the young blond from FC Rhenania Rheindürkheim joined the Wormats, and from then on he became known. Often controversial because of his achievements, he has nevertheless prevailed. In the attack of the Wormats he was the breaker who repeatedly pulled the ball to him and worried the opposing defense, and when he got the shot, it usually "rang". "
Selection games
Thanks to his good performance in Worms, Eckert made it into the selection of the Southwest district early on and was regularly appointed to its squad. For example, in November 1935 he played in a 5-2 victory in the Reichsbund Cup against the selection of Lower Saxony and scored twice. He was also the goalscorer in the 1938 Reichsbund Cup final , when he scored the consolation goal to make it 1: 3 against the Nordmark selection around Rudolf Noack and Erwin Reinhardt .
The Rheindürkheimer also attracted national attention. In 1936, Eckert and 42 other players took part in a one-week course for national players in Duisburg, which was carried out with a view to the Summer Olympics in Berlin that year. There he knew how to convince those responsible and made the leap into the German Olympic selection, which included 22 players. At the Olympic football tournament, in which the German selection surprisingly failed to Norway, Eckert was not used.
The highlight of his career in the selection area was certainly his appointment to the German national team for the international match against Switzerland on May 2, 1937 in Zurich. In the 1-0 victory of the Germans through a goal by Albin Kitzinger , Eckert was in the first eleven and thus had his first - and at the same time only - international appearance.
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. 68.
- Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
- German sports club for football statistics e. V. (Ed.): Football Almanac "Die Gauligen 1933–1945" . Self-published, Wiesbaden 1994
- VfR Wormatia 08 Worms (Ed.): Festschrift: 75 Years of Wormatia Worms 1908–1983 . Self-published, Worms 1983
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eckert's profile on wormatia.de
- ↑ Monsheim birth register, 1916, entry no.16
- ↑ Data for the game Wormatia Worms - Eintracht Frankfurt 4: 1 (eintracht-archiv.de)
- ↑ Data on the game Wormatia Worms - 1. FC Nürnberg 2: 2 (wormatia.de)
- ↑ Data on the game VfB Leipzig - Wormatia Worms 5: 1 (wormatia.de)
- ↑ from Franz Krawutschke's obituary, Wormser Zeitung, June 17, 1940
- ↑ Data on the game Wormatia Worms - Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 (eintracht-archiv.de)
- ↑ Data on the game FC Schalke 04 - Wormatia Worms 1: 2 (wormatia.de)
- ↑ Data for the game Eintracht Frankfurt - Wormatia Worms 6: 1 (eintracht-archiv.de)
- ↑ Carl Koppehel: The history of German football. Limpert Verlag, 1954, p. 198.
- ↑ Data on the game Switzerland - Germany 0: 1 (fussballdaten.de)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eckert, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1916 or October 18, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheindürkheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 5, 1940 |