Ludwig Hofmann (soccer player)

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Ludwig Hofmann
Personnel
birthday June 9, 1900
place of birth MunichGerman Empire
date of death October 2, 1935
Place of death Munich,  German Empire
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
0000-1916 FC Isaria
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1916-1932 FC Bayern Munich
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1926-1931 Germany 18 (4)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1934-1935 FC Bayern Munich
1 Only league games are given.

Ludwig Hofmann (born June 9, 1900 in Munich ; † October 2, 1935 there ), often just called "Wiggerl", was a German soccer player who played 18 international matches for the senior national team from 1926 to 1931 and scored four goals.

societies

The by FC Isaria has come as a youth player in 1916 to Bayern Munich striker reached with Bayern on 17 June 1923, the final of the South German Cup , which, however, on the MTV place at the Marbachstraße against SpVgg Fürth with 3: was 4.

The first title he won with Bayern was the South German Championship in 1926 . By winning the South German Championship in 1928 , he won his second title. As a result, he also took part in the finals of the years 1926 , 1928 and 1929 for the German championship . He retired with the team in the second round with 0: 2 against SV Fortuna Leipzig , in the semi-final against Hamburger SV 2: 8 and the following year in the quarterfinals against the Breslauer SC 08 with 3: 4 n. V. from competition from .

For a short time, in the 1934/35 season , he coached the Munich team while they were part of the Gauliga Bayern until he was unable to continue because of his illness, from which he finally died in October 1935. Robert Michalke then became the new Bayern coach.

Selection / national team

For the national team of the South German Football Association he played a total of five games in the national and fighting game cup competition.

He took the national team of South German Football Association at the final of the fighting game Cup as part of from 4 to 11 July 1926 discharged in Cologne Fighting part. After he had previously played on March 28, 1926 in the quarter-final against the national team of the Association of Central German Ball Games , he also played the semi-final game against the national team of the North German Football Association, which he won 4-2 on July 3, 1926 in Essen . On July 4, 1926 , he and his teammates Franz Dietl , Emil Kutterer and Josef Pöttinger won the final 7-2 against the team from the West German Game Association .

The technician on the left wing made his debut in the national team together with his teammate Josef Pöttinger on April 18, 1926 in Düsseldorf in a 4-2 victory over the Netherlands . Hofmann strongly recommended himself for further missions in the DFB -Elf through his performance in the South German selection on July 4, 1926 in Cologne in the 7-2 victory over West Germany in the final of the Fighting Game Cup . In the course of the competition he prevailed against national players Heinrich Altvater from FC Wacker Munich and Hans Sutor from 1. FC Nürnberg . Reich coach Otto Nerz was responsible for the national team for the first time on October 31, 1926 at the game in Amsterdam against Holland. Heinrichträger from 1. FC Nürnberg stormed on the left wing . In the second game under Nerz's responsibility, this Hofmann stormed the left wing. The game took place on December 12, 1926 in Munich against the selection of Switzerland . The two "courtiers", Richard from Saxony and Ludwig from Bavaria, formed the left wing of the national team for the first time on October 23, 1927. In the Altona stadium there was a 6-2 win after the 0-2 halftime score against the selection of Norway ; Ludwig Hofmann scored his first international goal with the goal to make it 5-2. A highlight was the participation with the national team in the 1928 Olympic football tournament in Amsterdam . In the first game, the team around captain Hans Kalb defeated the Olympic second from 1924 in Paris, the Swiss national team, with 4-0 goals on May 28th. On June 3 , the team was eliminated from the tournament with 1: 4 goals against the reigning and eventual Olympic champion Uruguay after a rough game. The "La celeste", led by captain José Nasazzi , prevailed in the second final game on June 13th in Amsterdam, with 2-1 goals against the selection of Argentina and thus defended the gold medal.

Hofmann (5th from left) on April 28, 1929
before the international match against Italy

After the Olympic Games, the following international games stood out:

  • the 2-1 victory against Denmark in Nuremberg on September 16, 1928 (winning goal scorer in the 68th minute: Hofmann),
  • the 2-1 away win on April 28, 1929 in Turin against Italy with Heinrich Stuhlfauth in goal,
  • the 3-3 draw on May 10, 1930 in Berlin against England with three goals by Richard Hofmann ,
  • the 5-3 success on September 28, 1930 in the Dresden Ostragehege against Hungary after a 0-3 half-time deficit and two goals from the Munich left winger.

Ludwig Hofmann's career in the national team ended with the 0-1 defeat by France on March 15, 1931 in Paris . The finesse winger, who hit flanks with feeling and was an elegant, almost dance-like player, is described as one of the best left wingers of all time in Germany. Kirn / Natan noted about his career:
"He developed into one of the most distinguished and technically mature left wingers of the good Munich school."

Further career

The trained insurance salesman was employed as a sports teacher at FC Bayern Munich. On October 2, 1935, at the age of only 35, he died in Munich of the effects of meningitis.

Web links

literature

  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
  • Germany's major soccer teams, part 4: Bayern Munich 1900–1993 . AGON, 1993, ISBN 3-928562-35-5 .
  • Raphael Keppel : Germany's international football matches. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sport- und Spielverlag Hitzel, Hürth 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 .
  • 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 .
  • Richard Kirn, Alex Natan: Soccer . Ullstein TB, Frankfurt / M., 1958.
  • LIBERO , No. D 9, 1994, IFFHS.
  • LIBERO , No. D 6 / D 7, 1993, IFFHS.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Final game for the South German Cup on kleeblatt-chronik.de
  2. Group photo of the final teams on successfans.com
  3. Team photo from the FC Bayern Munich 1925 festschrift on successfans.com
  4. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Ludwig Hofmann - Goals in International Matches . RSSSF.com . May 13, 2020. Accessed May 14, 2020.