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Ludwig Männer (born July 11, 1912 in Nuremberg , † January 13, 2003 in Hanover ) was a German football player .

career

society

In his hometown of Nuremberg, he started playing soccer at FC Pfeil Nürnberg and later at FSV Nürnberg . For the round of 1932/33, the middle Franconian moved to Lower Saxony for VfB Peine . Hermann Stanze, owner of a local hardware store, was involved there as a sponsor, chairman of the gaming committee and as a supervisor and supplemented the financial support from the Peine steel rolling mill. At Stenze he worked as a commercial clerk and played as an outside runner at VfB Peine. With VfB he experienced promotion to the Lower Saxony Gauliga in the 1934/35 round and fifth place in the Gauliga in his debut year 1935/36. This season he also completed the first two missions in the Lower Saxony Gau selection in the games for the Reichsbund Cup. After the Olympic Games in 1936 , Ludwig Männer moved to Hannover 96 together with Peter Lay . In his first year in the state capital, 1936/37, he came third with the "Reds" in the Lower Saxony Gauliga. Due to the better goal difference, the 96ers won the championship in Lower Saxony in their second round before the newcomer VfL Osnabrück . As team captain, he led Hanover to the first German championship in 1938 . In two dramatic finals, coach Robert Fuchs' team sensationally beat the dominant team of the 1930s, FC Schalke 04, as a great outsider .

In 1939 and 1940 it was only enough for the runner-up in Lower Saxony. In 1941, captain men celebrated their second title win. In the final round, Hanover failed to Schalke 04. The following year he played as a member of the Wehrmacht in a soldiers' team in Warsaw . He was the captain of a Warsaw city selection made up of members of the Wehrmacht, the SS and the German occupation authorities, which surprisingly beat the stars of Schalke 04 led by Fritz Szepan 2-1.

After he played for the WSV Schwerin in the meantime , Ludwig Männer joined Hannover 96 in 1947/48 at the age of 35 in the new Oberliga Nord , but could not prevent relegation to the second division. In the league he came to 15 missions in which he scored 2 goals.

National team

On May 8, 1937, Reich trainer Sepp Herberger subjected the Hannover 96 outrunner to an international test for the first time. In Wuppertal there was a screening game of a Germany selection against Manchester City. Men played in the 1-1 draw right runner. Eight days later, on May 16, 1937, the "Breslau-Elf" celebrated their creation with an 8-0 win over Denmark. The pair of outside runners was made up of two team-mates from Schweinfurth 05, Andreas Kupfer and Albin Kitzinger . During the game in Riga against Latvia on June 25, 1937, midfielder Ludwig Männer made his debut in the German national soccer team for the first time and was able to celebrate a 3-1 victory. The runner row was made up of men, Wilhelm Sold and Erwin Schädler . In September 1938, the well-conditioned outside runner was used in another screening game for the national team squad. On October 2, 1938 in Sofia he formed the runner-up in the "unofficial" international match against Bulgaria together with Hans Rohde and Otto Tibulski . Germany won the game with 3-1 goals. In March 1939 he was appointed to the national team for the second time. The DFB held a double match day. Men played with the "B-Elf" on March 26th in Differdange against Luxemburg. The senior team lost 2: 3 goals against Italy in Florence. On May 15, 1939 he was again in a test match of a German selection in Berlin against Bohemia-Moravia in action. In his third international match, his club mate Johannes Jakobs made his debut as a right runner in the national team. It was in the 2-0 win in Tallinn against Estonia. The captain of Hannover 96 was also in the squad for the international match on September 24, 1939 in Budapest against Hungary. In the 1: 5 defeat, the runners of the "Breslau-Elf" acted. Men had his fourth international match on November 12, 1939 in Breslau against Bohemia-Moravia. Thanks to Josef Bican and Antonín Puč , the Czechs had already taken the lead 3-0 after 13 minutes. The game ended 4-4. For the international match on November 26, 1939 in Berlin against Italy, he was in the squad, but he was not used in the 5-2 victory. His fifth appearance in September 1940 at the game in Slovakia was also his last international match. In October 1940 Ludwig Männer played two more assignments in the Gau selection with Lower Saxony .

The dates of the five international matches:

  1. June 25, 1937 Latvia 1-3 Germany
  2. March 26, 1939 Luxembourg - Germany 2-1
  3. June 29, 1939 Estonia 0-2 Germany
  4. November 12, 1939 Germany - Bohemia-Moravia 4: 4
  5. September 15, 1940 Slovakia - Germany 0-1

Trainer and supervisor

After his active playing career, Ludwig Männer trained with TSV Luthe from 1949 and led the club from the district to the district class.

Later he was the supervisor of the amateur team of the Hanover SV from 1896. During this time they won the German amateur championship in 1960, 1964 and 1965 . He was also head of the old men’s team and a member of the club's board.

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 .
  • Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
  • Hardy Greens: Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Champion 1938 , hannover96.de (January 18, 2007) ( Memento from December 20, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Der Kicker, November 24, 1942, p. 5.
  3. ↑ JRPrüß: Oberliga Nord 1947-1963. Player LM , September 3, 2006 (January 19, 2007) ( Memento of July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ DFB: National team statistics. Player info men , dfb.de (March 11, 2015) ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ History of TSV Luthe (January 19, 2007) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Hanover Sports Club from 1896 e. V .: Ludwig Männer , todesangebote.de (January 19, 2007)
personal data
SURNAME Men, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2003
Place of death Hanover