Karl-Heinz Manja

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Karl-Heinz Manja (born March 2, 1922 in Hamburg ; † February 27, 2012 ) was a German football player , coach and official. The brother of the offensive director Kurt , who was two years younger than him, played 215 league games with 15 goals at the Red-Whites of Eimsbütteler TV from 1948 to 1956 in what was then the first-class football Oberliga Nord , making him the ETV's top division record player. Before that he was a member of the championship teams in the Gauliga Nordmark in 1940 and 1942 .

career

Youth and Gauliga, 1932 to 1943

At the age of 10, the student Karl-Heinz Manja started playing football in a club. He played for Uhlenhorst-Herta until he was 16 and then joined Eimsbüttel TV. At the age of 17, in 1939, he was allowed to take his first steps in the 1st team of the ETV. It was an honor for the young up-and-coming player to play alongside experts like “Derle” Ahlers , Otto Lüdecke , Ernst Timm , Hans Rohde , Otto Rohwedder , Herbert Panse and his brother Kurt. In his first season with the seniors, 1939/40 , the previous processes were no longer applicable due to the outbreak of World War II and a Hamburg war championship was started in 1939, but this was canceled because there was still a division league Nordmark 1939/40 in two seasons from November 1939 was launched. The ETV was in season B and the HSV in season A group winners and they carried out two playoffs for the championship in April / May 1940. The men led by the Manja brothers won the first leg 4-1 and then prevailed 6-0 in the second leg. In the final round of the German football championship, Eimsbüttel finished second in the group matches behind Dresdner SC with 7: 5 points. A surprising 0: 1 home defeat on May 26, 1940 against 1. SV Jena was with the final 0: 3 home defeat against the strong DSC - with players like Willibald Kress , Herbert Pohl , Heinz Hempel , Walter Dzur , Helmut Schön , Heinrich Schaffer , Richard Hofmann , Heinz Kapitän - a decisive factor in not making it to the semifinals. Manja II had scored a goal in six games in the finals and mostly acted as the right wing runner in the World Cup system at the time .

Manja won the second championship title with the ETV in the war round 1941/42, two points ahead of the HSV. Since he had been drafted into the Wehrmacht at the beginning of 1941, he was only able to intervene sporadically in the course of the round and was not ready for action in the final game on May 24, 1942 at Werder Bremen (1: 4). Manja II won with the Nordmark selection of games on October 6, 1940 against Danzig / West Prussia (3: 1), on January 12, 1941 against Southwest (2: 4) and on November 9, 1941 in Breslau against Lower Silesia (3: 0) participated. He played alongside ETV teammates Hans-Jürgen Kowalkowski, Hans Rohde, Herbert Panse, Wilhelm Ahlers and brother Kurt. Karl-Heinz Manja returned unscathed from American captivity in 1945 and again made himself available to his club as an active member.

Oberliga Nord, 1948 to 1956

After the Second World War, the Manja brothers shaped the ETV time in the Oberliga Nord between 1948 and 1956, when the Eimsbüttelers were sometimes referred to as "men around the Manja brothers". With the championship win 1947/48 in the Alster season with 35: 1 points, the Manja-Elf rose to the Oberliga Nord. The ETV started in the league on August 29, 1948 with a 1-1 home draw against Arminia Hannover; Karl-Heinz played right defender and Kurt led the attack as a center forward. At the end of the round, Eimsbüttel finished in 6th place and Manja II had scored seven goals in 19 league games. In the 2-1 home win on September 26th in the first half of the season against Hamburger SV in front of 15,000 spectators, he was active as a right wing runner. The best round result in the league he achieved with the ETV in the 1951/52 season with the 4th place - tied with St. Pauli as third in the table - where he had completed all 30 league games alongside goal scorer Gerhard Ihns (18 goals) .

The ETV record player played his last league game in the Oberliga Nord on April 9, 1956 in a 2-2 home draw against VfL Wolfsburg, where he acted as a defender alongside center runner Reinhold Ertel .

Trainer and functionary

Karl-Heinz Manja took over as coach at the Hoheluft for the 1958/59 season. If he enjoyed the reputation of being part of the Manja dynasty as part of the Manja dynasty, he enjoyed a strict regiment of young, advancing kickers, but now he dared a radical change in his new role and won the Hamburg amateur championship with confidence. In the promotion round to the Oberliga Nord, ETV failed at Blumenthaler SV, VfB Oldenburg and VfB Lübeck and could not defend the title in 1959/60. After that, Manja II ended his coaching activity. In 1962 he was elected to the game committee of the Hamburg Football Association and later he became chairman of the sports court of the HFV.

literature

  • Folke Havekost: ETV Hamburg. 100 years of football in Eimsbüttel. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2006. ISBN 3-89533-529-0 . Pp. 175 to 177.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Player AZ (bung bottle) , accessed on March 16, 2020
  2. ^ A b Andreas Meyer, Volker Stahl, Uwe Wetzner: Fußball-Lexikon Hamburg . Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-477-1 , p. 216 (396 pages).
  3. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 245 .
  4. ^ Folke Havekost: ETV Hamburg. 100 years of football in Eimsbüttel. P. 162
personal data
SURNAME Manja, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2012