Josef Glaser

Josef Glaser
Photo from 1907
Personnel
birthday	May 11, 1887
place of birth	St. Blasien ,  German Empire
date of death	August 12, 1969
Place of death	Freiburg i. Br. ,  Germany
position	Middle runner
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1904-1921	Freiburg FC
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1909-1912	Germany	5 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Josef Glaser (also known as Sepp Glaser known * 11. May 1887 in St. Blaise ; † 12. August 1969 in Freiburg ) was a German footballer who it in 1909 to 1912 five appearances in the German national football team brought .

Career

societies

Josef Glaser grew up in St. Blasien in the southern Black Forest . At the age of six he lost his father. As a young boy Josef Glaser was supposed to become a theologian, but his enthusiasm for football stood in the way. After the service, the boy ran straight to the soccer field. There he was watched by members of the famous Freiburg football club as a subpriman in his Sunday suit at a football game . So it happened that the young organist of the church of Waltershofen set out on foot every Sunday for a whole year, as soon as the last chord of the organ had died down, to Freiburg, 14 km away, to play football there. The young footballer helped the teams there as a league player for Freiburg FC when he visited Singen and Stockach. At the time, nobody was bothered by the fact that Josef Glaser was working for three different clubs at the same time.

Josef Glaser (3rd from left)
with the championship team from 1907.

Josef Glaser first came into contact with organized football in Freiburg. At the age of 20 he was already in the German final. In the 1906/07 season, the FFC first prevailed in the southern district against the Karlsruher FV and the Stuttgarter Kickers . Then he won the championship in the south in the south German finals against FC Hanau 93 and 1. FC Nürnberg . In the final round of the German football championship in 1907 , the Breisgauer prevailed in Nuremberg with a 3-2 win against defending champion VfB Leipzig and stood in the final on May 19, 1907 in Mannheim against Viktoria 89 Berlin . The 20-year-old Josef Glaser, who was still playing as a center forward at this point in his career , converted a penalty in the 30th minute to make his team 1-0 lead. Much later he confessed that he hadn't hit the leather properly and that he had "closed his eyes and just peeled it off". With 3-1 goals, Freiburg FC won the final against the highly popular Berliners. At the end of 1907, the slim, but also assertive Josef Glaser switched to the offensive middle position. He convinced in this role with an elegant, technical style of play combined with strategic skills.

As defending champions, the Freiburg team failed in 1908 after a controversial replay at the new South German champions Stuttgarter Kickers. In the years to come, Freiburg was unable to build on the success of the master craftsman year 1907. After the First World War , Josef Glaser was able to celebrate the championship with his Freiburgers again in the 1919/20 round in the Southwest district. In 1920/21 the runner-up in the Southwest District followed. Josef Glaser then ended his active career at the age of 34.

National team

In the fourth international match in DFB history, the 21-year-old Josef Glaser from Freiburg made his debut on March 16, 1909 in Oxford against the amateur team from England in the German national football team. He played center runner and had been appointed captain. This makes him the youngest player to take on this role. Paul Hunder and Camillo Ugi were his teammates in midfield. In Gerd Krämer's book, In the Dress of the Eleven Best , the author quotes him with the following statements: “We met in Vlissingen, exactly ten men. As the eleventh, the DFB had set up the Düsseldorf tree gardener to save a trip. He was living in England at the time and was waiting for us over there. The ten of us, chosen from this team, faced each other in Vlissingen, somewhat embarrassed as in the first dance lesson. At first we didn't really know what to do with each other. Yes, a lot was different then than it is today (1961). But there was also recruitment of first-class players back then. I remember how B. Adolf Jäger was looked after on this trip by a member of his Altona 93 club and was probably shadowed against being enticed away. Among the few companions was "Papa" Gottfried Hinze from Duisburg, the President of the German Football Association. Like a king, he distributed a gold piece, about 10 marks, to each player every day. It was a very special and unusual gesture for the time. ”Glaser commented on the game itself with the following words:“ The English played us straight against the wall and we watched with amazed eyes. Their combinations seemed natural, every single one was vastly superior to us in terms of speed and ball handling. Thank goodness our goalkeeper was in top form, "Adsch" Werner , the Hamburger and later chimney sweep from Holstein Kiel. Without him it would have been much worse. In triumph the English carried our goalkeeper off the shoulders. ”Looking back, he stated analytically:“ We have just learned a lot from our defeat in England. It was recognized that eleven individual talent was a long way from making a team, and people began to think about which players in the national team would fit together best. More and more people were looking for the closed team game. ”Two and a half weeks later, on April 4, 1909 in Karlsruhe, Josef Glaser played his second international match. The DFB held a double game day. A southern selection came up against Switzerland in Karlsruhe. It was a selection with players from Berlin, Braunschweig, Kiel and Leipzig that played 3: 3 against Hungary in Budapest. In Baden, the DFB team celebrated their first victory in international history with a 1-0 win. Eugen Kipp from Sportfreunde Stuttgart distinguished himself as a goalscorer. "Sepp" Glaser, the man from Freiburg FC, held the position of center runner and in turn led the team as captain. The southern players harmonized well. The frequent rounds of games against each other paid off. Glaser had a great day. This is borne out by the statement made by the German selection manager Max Dettinger after the first international win: "If there was a doctorate in soccer, Glaser would have acquired it today." Glaser himself by no means wanted to be the center of attention. For him, football was a team game. The individual was nothing, the team everything. The Karlsruhe team had come up with something special that day. Every Swiss player was assigned a football-savvy companion, a football attaché, who was specifically supposed to explain the strengths and weaknesses of his German vis-a-vis. In addition, the team in their sportswear was driven through the city in horse cabs as "advertising". 7,000 spectators came to Karlsruhe. Among them was the protector of the KFV, the open-minded Prince Max von Baden . At the final banquet, a singing competition was staged. Josef Glaser's third international match, which was played against Belgium on May 16, 1910 in Duisburg, was not a good organizational star. The day before the final of the German championship between the Karlsruher FV and Holstein Kiel took place in Cologne. KFV and Kiel players had to be dispensed with. A few minutes before the start of the game, four players and a substitute had to be selected from the audience, as only seven players were already there. So the later president of the DFB and international referee Peco Bauwens as well as the Duisburg Berghausen, Breynk, Budzinsky and Schilling came to unexpected international matches. Equipped like this, captain Josef Glaser couldn't change anything about the 3-0 defeat.

Josef Glaser (2nd from right) with the German national soccer team on July 1, 1912

After that Josef Glaser had a two-year international break. But he was not inactive during this time. In 1910 he received his doctorate as a philologist . In 1912 he received the professorship. In the last international match before the Olympics in Stockholm, he returned to the German team in the game against Switzerland on May 5, 1912 in St. Gallen. He resumed his usual role of center runner and held the office of captain. Ugi and Burger stood by his side during the run. The game was won with 2-1 goals. Competitors in the middle position during this period were Max Breunig , Arthur Hiller II , Willi Knesebeck and Camillo Ugi. At the Olympic tournament in Stockholm he completed his fifth and last appearance in the national team in the 16-0 record victory on July 1, 1912 against Russia.

Awards / honors

• Josef Glaser was made an honorary member by the DFB and the South German Football Association.
• The city of Freiburg i. Br. Named a gymnastics and sports hall completed in 1997 in the Freiburg district of Rieselfeld in "Sepp-Glaser-Halle".

Others

• Josef Glaser was chairman of the DFB game committee from 1927 to 1936 and in this role also served as chief d'equipe of the German national team at the 1934 World Cup in Italy.
• After the Second World War , Josef Glaser was chairman of the Südbadischer Fußball-Verband and the Südbadischer Sportbund from 1949 to 1963.
• After the Second World War, Josef Glaser worked as a high school teacher in Freiburg .
• Josef Glaser also earned his doctorate and taught chemistry as well as sports.
• Josef Glaser had a long friendship with Ivo Schricker , the former FIFA Secretary General, who moved in the Freiburg-Karlsruhe-Strasbourg triangle.

literature

• Hardy Greens : From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 1 . AGON, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• Raphael Keppel : Germany's international football matches. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sport- und Spielverlag Hitzel, Hürth 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 .
• Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 28). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-106-9 .
• Gerd Krämer: In the dress of the eleven best . Bassermann-Verlag, Munich 1961.
• 100 years of the South German Football Association . Vindelica Verlag, Gersthofen 1996.
• LIBERO . No. D3, 1992, IFFHS.

Web links

• Sepp-Glaser-Halle Freiburg (PDF; 174 kB)