Marius Hiller

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Marius Hiller
Personnel
birthday August 5, 1892
place of birth Pforzheim ,  German Empire
date of death 17th October 1964
Place of death Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
position Half forward , center forward
Juniors
Years station
1901-1911 1. FC Pforzheim
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1901-1911 1. FC Pforzheim
1911-1912 FC La Chaux-de-Fonds
1914 All boys
1914 River Plate
1915-1917 Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima (BA)
1919-1921 1. FC Pforzheim
1921-1922 CA Estudiantil Porteño
1924 Sportivo Barracas
1925 All boys
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1910-1911 Germany 3 (1)
1916 Argentina 2 (4)
1 Only league games are given.

Marius "Bubi" Hiller (also Hiller III in the list ; * August 5, 1892 in Pforzheim ; † October 17, 1964 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) was a German football player . As a player of 1. FC Pforzheim he played three times in the German national football team in 1910 and 1911 ; here he became the second youngest player and youngest goal scorer to date. After emigrating to Argentina via Switzerland, where he played for FC La Chaux-de-Fonds , he became the All Boys' first idol. In 1916 he was a player in the Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima of Buenos Aires top scorer in the first division and also came to two games in the Argentine national team , in which he scored four goals.

Live and act

Until 1911: 1. FC Pforzheim and German national team

Marius was the eleven years younger nephew of Arthur Hiller (Hiller II), the first captain of a German national soccer team at the start of the international game of the DFB team on April 5, 1908 in Basel against Switzerland. He learned to play football at 1. FC Pforzheim in the Brötzinger Valley. In the southern district league, the Pforzheimer "Club" had to deal with the Karlsruher FV , the Karlsruher FC Phönix and the Stuttgarter Kickers . "Bubi" Hiller emulated his uncles Arthur and Wilhelm Hiller (Hiller I). He took every opportunity to go to the soccer field or to training with them, as Joachim Hiller, a cousin of Marius who still lives in Pforzheim, describes. "He carried their sports bags, cleaned their shoes and helped carry the goal posts onto the pitch," said the enamel wholesaler about his cousin's 48-year-old older cousin's beginnings in football. The slender than athletic half-striker, who was equipped with skill for dribbling, a powerful shot and particular speed, was called up to his first international match at the age of 17 years, 7 months and 28 days. On April 3, 1910, he made his debut in the national team in a 3-2 win in Basel against Switzerland. In the 8th minute he took the lead 1-0, making him the national team's youngest ever goal scorer. Eugen Kipp from Sportfreunde Stuttgart scored the other two goals . In the games against the amateur national team of England on April 19, 1911 (2: 2) and against Austria on October 9, 1911 (1: 2), Hiller, who played half right, played twice for the German national team.

1911 to 1912: FC La Chaux-de-Fonds

Germany-England 1911 with Hiller (4th from left)

Professional reasons led Marius Hiller to the Swiss watch metropolis La Chaux-de-Fonds in the canton of Neuchâtel towards the end of 1911. There he joined the FC La Chaux-de-Fonds . At that time the club was well stocked with the national team captain Raoul Stauss, goalkeeper Josef Ochsner and Louis Würsten. There was also a reunion with an ex-Pforzheim player named Schirmann. Locally, the club was behind the FC Étoile at this time , who finished the Swiss Football Championship 1911/12 in May 1912 in third place. The FC itself was third in the Central regional group of the first division in Switzerland, which was then divided into three seasons. A highlight of Hiller's season was an excursion to the Easter tournament in Turin, where he contributed three goals to a 5-2 win against Juventus Turin . After a 0: 4 against AC Turin , his club was only third in the tournament won by the Viennese amateurs . In the same month he was also part of a combination of Étoile and FC that met in a friendly against the Swiss national team and scored a goal in the 3-3 draw. The season ended on Whitsunday in June when FC received 1. FC Pforzheim, who were on a summer tour, at their home Parc des Sports and lost 8-2.

1913 to 1917: successes in Argentina

The GEBA stadium in 1916
Copa Mariano Reyna

At Marius Hiller, professional circumstances again led to a change of environment. This time he ended up as a representative of a watch company in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, where he is said to have arrived in 1913. There Vicente Cincotta, co-founder, president and player of the All Boys , founded in March 1913 in the Floresta neighborhood, moved through the neighborhood to recruit new players. So Hiller finally played in 1914 in the Federación Argentina de Football - an association that had split off from the Asociación Argentina de Football in 1912 - for promotion to the first division, but remained behind CA Defensores de Belgrano . The whites also caused a stir in the cup competition and defeated the first division club CA Atlanta 2-1 with two Hiller hits and achieved a draw against the eventual winner CA Independiente from the suburb of Avellaneda . With his numerous goals - up to 69 are said to have been that year - Hiller had a large share in this success of the young club and became the first idol in the club's history. In December of that year he was in the ranks of the future football superpower CA River Plate and scored a goal in a friendly against Argentinos de Quilmes .

From 1915 Hiller joined the first division, the Primera División, now united under the Asociación Argentina de Football , he joined the Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima (not to be confused with the club of the same name, which is better known today, in the Bonaren district of Palermo , a better quarter) from La Plata ), which came from the Federación. With GEBA, as the club is often called, he was first twelfth in the league consisting of 24 clubs.

The big year in the Argentine part of his football days followed in 1916. With GEBA he was ninth in the league. Hiller scored 16 of the 31 goals in the championship competition, making him the top scorer, followed by two players with 13 goals. He was also appointed to the selection of the League of Buenos Aires, which in June of that year in the GEBA stadium, thanks to two goals from him, defeated the selection of the League of Rosario 2-1 and thus won the Copa Mariano Reyna .

His achievements in the club brought him into the environment of the national team, which took second place in July of that year at the first edition of the South American Championship , which mainly took place in the GEBA stadium. On August 15, Hiller made his debut in Avellaneda in the Racing Club stadium in front of 16,000 spectators in the game for the Copa Newton , where in the 83rd minute the final score was 3-1. On October 1st there was a 7-2 victory for the trophy of the press association against the same opponent at the same place , where Hiller contributed three hits. In this game he played alongside Ernesto "Ennis" Hayes and Juan Domingo Brown , two Argentine legends of the time. It should be noted that both games played at the same time between Uruguay and Argentina - for the Copa Lipton and a Uruguayan Cup of Honor - in Montevideo, in which players on both sides played with greater charisma.

1917 was a far less pleasant year. As penultimate, GEBA was relegated together with CA Banfield tied on points. Whether Hiller continued to play for the club in 1918 remains to be determined. GEBA was never to play a role in top-class football again and even withdrew its teams from the association's gaming operations over the next few years.

1919 to 1921: 1. FC Pforzheim

In the meantime, Hiller, who was married to an Italian, returned to Pforzheim and in 1920/21 became champions in the south-west district with his home club 1. FC Pforzheim.

1921 to 1925 and beyond: Back in Argentina

But he returned to Buenos Aires. It is known that he stormed in 1921 and 1922 for the CA Estudiantil Porteño , who played in the stadium of Caballito , but with whom he only reached places in the lower half of the table. In 1924 he played for Sportivo Barracas and was sixth with the club in the league of the Asociación Argentina de Football of the top Argentine football that was divided again in those years. In 1925 he ended his time as a footballer at his Argentinian home club, the All Boys, which had meanwhile arrived in the first division, at the age of 33. It was not until 1940, with the later Ford Cologne worker Heinrich Theelen , who came from the youth of Borussia Mönchengladbach , who belonged to the crew of Admiral Graf Spee , who was sunk off Montevideo and who then ended up in Argentina, that a German should once again be in one of the top leagues in Argentina - in this case for Unión Santa Fe in the Segunda División - play.

The Argentine capital remained his home. It is said that he represented the American company Palmer & Co. in Argentina and also Paraguay for over 30 years and brought it to a management position. In 1929 and 1956 Hiller returned to Pforzheim for short visits. During his last stay he was the guest of honor at the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the 1. FC Pforzheim club.

When he died on October 17, 1964 at the age of 72, he found his final resting place in the famous Chacarita cemetery .

literature

  • Hubert Möller: You should be eleven friends! All international football matches of the German national team , Volume I, 1908–42, Dr. Bussert and Stadeler Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-932906-50-0 .
  • 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 national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
  • Fritz Tauber: German national soccer player. Player statistics from A to Z. Updated and advanced Edition. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-89784-366-0 .
  • Argentine daily newspaper (Diario Argentino). Special edition 121 years of the Tageblatt. Buenos Aires. 121st year No. 31.770, Saturday, May 8, 2010. Enclosure: Thursday, April 29, 2010, pages 26 to 28: “They called him 'El Alemán'”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Argentinisches Tageblatt, p. 26.
  2. ↑ DFB - The National Team: Youngest Debutants ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Hiller, Marius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bubi (nickname); El Alemán
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1964
Place of death Buenos Aires , Argentina