Max Hoppe (soccer player)

Max Hoppe (born November 16, 1922 in Dresden ; † June 25, 1965 ) was a German soccer player who played several hundred games for VfB Lübeck and SG Lübeck Ordnungspolizei between 1944 and 1959 .

Career as a player

As a teenager, Max Hoppe was both a soccer player and a table tennis player in his hometown of Dresden, and at that time he won a Saxon table tennis championship. During the Second World War he was transferred to Kiel as a marine soldier for two years (1942 to 1944) . The KSV Holstein allowed Hoppe, a so-called guest players continue to be active in this time as a football player. How many games and goals he played or scored for Kiel is not known. In 1944 he came to Lübeck together with his later teammates Albert Felgenhauer and Anton Hofmann and joined the SG Ordnungspolizei Lübeck there. Until the dissolution of the club at the end of the war, he was one of the regular players on the soccer team.

After the war, Hoppe - like Felgenhauer - became a traffic policeman in downtown Lübeck. In 1956 and 1957 he was therefore also used in seven games of the German police selection and was part of the squad of the team that became European police champions in 1957. With VfB he was able to play for several years in what was then the first-class Oberliga Nord (123 appearances, 3 goals) and played more than 600 league, cup and friendship games for Lübeck. The defender ended his career after winning promotion to the Oberliga Nord in the season 1958/59.

Max Hoppe died at the age of 42, leaving behind his wife and a daughter. In 2010 he was elected to the legendary eleven of VfB Lübeck supporters .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Guido Eschholz, Thomas Nöllen: VfB - Eine Liebe in Grün-Weiß, Lübeck 2010
2. ↑ Hardy Green , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .