Max Morlock

Max Morlock
Max Morlock on a flag on the club grounds of 1. FC Nuremberg
Personnel
Surname	Maximilian Wilhelm Morlock
birthday	May 11, 1925
place of birth	Nuremberg ,  German Empire
date of death	September 10, 1994
Place of death	Nuremberg,  Germany
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
000-1940	FC Eintracht Nuremberg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1940-1964	1. FC Nuremberg	472 (294)
	Oberliga Süd	451 (286)
	Bundesliga	21 00(8)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1950-1958	Germany	26 0(21)
1 Only league games are given.

Maximilian "Max / Maxl" Morlock (born May 11, 1925 in Nuremberg ; † September 10, 1994 there ) was a German football player . The half-striker in the World Cup system at that time played 451 games in the Oberliga Süd with his club 1. FC Nürnberg from 1945 to 1963 and scored 286 goals. He is the eternal record holder of the Oberliga Süd in terms of the games played as well as the goals scored. Morlock was the third goal scorer in Nuremberg in November 1945 and the last goal scorer in April 1963 in the Oberliga Süd and was the only player ever to play on both the very first (November 4, 1945) and the very last match day (April 28, 1963) of the Oberliga Space. In 1948 and 1961 he was German champion with the “Club” . With the German national soccer team under national coach Sepp Herberger he won the soccer world championship in Switzerland in 1954 . In 1961, Morlock was named Footballer of the Year . The honorary member and honorary captain of 1. FC Nürnberg was the thinker and leader of the "club" game for over two decades and was characterized above all by "never flagging fighting spirit" and the "tremendous dynamism" of his actions. He was the only German soccer player who was active in the top divisions Gauliga , Oberliga and Bundesliga and the first German goalscorer in a World Cup final.

Entry into football and World War II

Childhood and youth

Max Morlock was born and raised together with his brothers Robert and Herbert as the second son of the foreman couple Maximilian and Frieda Morlock in the Nuremberg district of Gleißhammer at Schlossstrasse 51. Not far away was the "Zabo", the stadium of 1. FC Nürnberg in the Zerzabelshof district . His father had come to Nuremberg from Pforzheim via Burglengenfeld . The slender and small boy first acquired the basis of his skills as a “street footballer” with the “basement window”. Two basement windows served as goals for the children and a ball of rags and string as a ball. Little Max also played trumps in the schoolyard of the Scharrerstrasse elementary school, which he had attended since autumn 1931, as a footballer. At the age of eleven he won the Nuremberg School Championship in 1936 with the school team. The expenses for too many tattered pants and shoes caused by street football motivated mother and father Morlock to allow son Max to join the sports club Eintracht Nürnberg at the age of 13 . At the latest after the 4-2 success of Eintracht in the spring of 1940 against the club youth in the final of the Nuremberg city championship, intensive efforts by 1. FC Nuremberg began to bring the talent into their own ranks.

After lengthy negotiations and the promise that the club's first team would play a transfer game, Morlock came to 1. FC Nürnberg at the age of 14. From May 1, 1940, it was listed in the office under membership number 17.071. In the youth club he played with the later top division players Helmut Herbolsheimer , Adolf Knoll and Manfred Krüger . In the 1940/41 round, Morlock took part in the German youth championship in August 1941 in Breslau against the representations of Westphalia, Ostland, Vienna, Saxony and the Moselle region, winning the Nuremberg ban for the Rhine Franconia area.

Job and start in the Gauliga

After finishing school, he began an apprenticeship as a mechanic at Noris-Zündlicht, which he successfully completed as a skilled worker in spring 1943. On November 30, 1941, the young striker made his debut in the first team. Coach Hans "Bumbes" Schmidt used the 16-½-year-old for the first time in the Gauliga game against Wacker Munich (0-0). After the final whistle, the coach, who was sparing with praise, whispered to him: “It was good, it will be fine.” In his second appearance in early December 1941 in the home game against Schwaben Augsburg (4-0), he scored his first two competitive goals in the first team. Morlock contributed 54 of the 125 goals to the superior Gaume Championship 1942/43 with 40: 0 points and 125: 17 goals. In addition to Morlock, two other youth players, Helmut Herbolsheimer and Adolf Knoll, were added to the team of coach Schmidt. The hard training under the ex-national player and former master coach of FC Schalke 04, “Bumbes” Schmidt, had a lot on the young Morlock at the beginning: “Over dinner, my eyes often fell shut. The cinema, dance, alcohol or even a stroll with a girl fell flat. ”The hard work training paid off, as early as April 1942, Reich trainer Sepp Herberger invited the almost 17-year-old for the first time to a course for the national team; in February 1943 another course followed in Frankfurt am Main .

The first use in the final round of the German football championship was in the middle of World War II on May 2, 1943 in a 1: 3 home defeat against the Gaumeister from Baden , the VfR Mannheim .

Wartime

At the end of August 1943, Morlock and his club teammate and friend Helmut Herbolsheimer were drafted into the Wehrmacht in the intelligence training department 10 in Schwabach . During this time he was able to play many games for his club. The games for the Tschammer Cup in 1943 in September and October were of particular importance . In the two successes against 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 (4: 2) and MSV Brno (5: 1) he distinguished himself as a five-time goalscorer. When in the quarter-finals Vienna Wien with the two Hamburgers Richard Dörfel and Rudolf Noack as well as the dangerous international striker Karl Decker prevailed 3-2 and later also won the cup, Morlock could not score a goal. This was followed by assignment to a tank pioneer battalion in occupied Denmark and, in the spring of 1944, to the eastern front in the Tucheler Heide . In the final round of the German championship in 1944 he was available to the club again. Only in the semifinals on June 4, 1944, which was held in the Steigerwald Stadium in Erfurt in front of 35,000 spectators against the defending champion Dresdner SC , he and his teammates were eliminated after a 3-1 defeat. In the further course of the war he came to the gates of Berlin via Dievenow on the Pomeranian Bay , where he was briefly captured by the Americans in early May 1945. In September 1945 he returned to Nuremberg. His parents' house on Schlossstrasse was still standing, the roof was badly damaged, but his parents still lived there. The younger brother Herbert had died on the Eastern Front and the older brother Robert was still in American captivity.

Oberliga Süd and Bundesliga, 1945 to 1964

Oberliga Süd, 1945 to 1963

At 1. FC Nürnberg (FCN), the conditions in the post-war period were the same as almost everywhere in the city: the grandstand in the Zabo had burned down and the fence was used as heating material, and there were bomb craters in the lawn. After a brief football ban, the "Club" had to play its home games in Fürth's Ronhof from autumn 1945 . At a meeting on October 13, 1945 in the Krone restaurant in Fellbach , the South German Football Association and the Oberliga Süd were founded with the approval of the US Army . Three teams from Hesse, six clubs from the American-occupied areas of Baden and Württemberg and seven clubs from Bavaria were accepted into this top class.

On November 4, 1945, the start day of the Oberliga Süd 1945/46 , Morlock belonged to the team of 1. FCN, which started in the new league with a 2-1 home win against Bayern Munich . He completed all 30 league games of the round and scored 23 goals. Nuremberg finished second, one point behind champions VfB Stuttgart . The 18th and final round of the Oberliga Süd, 1962/63 , ended the record player and record scorer Morlock with four appearances and four goals in the last four round match days in March / April 1963: FC Bayern Munich (3: 2), FC Bayern Hof (4 : 0), TSV 1860 Munich (4: 2) and FC Schweinfurt 05 (5: 1). He won the championship in the south six times with his team (1947, 1948, 1951, 1957, 1961, 1962), four times he was runner-up (1946, 1952, 1958, 1963) and in 1948 and 1961 he won the German championship.

To win the championship in the Oberliga Süd in the 1947/48 season , Morlock contributed 30 goals in 34 games. With an eight point lead, Munich was relegated to runner-up place in 1860. In the first round of the German championship, the club was to play against the east zone champion SG Planitz on July 18 in Stuttgart . Nuremberg, however, continued without a fight. Planitz did not run because the Zwickau district eleven received no travel permit from the Soviets. On June 24, 1948, the USSR had closed the land and waterways between West Berlin and West Germany due to “technical faults”. After a semi-final win 3-2 after extra time against FC St. Pauli , Morlock moved into the final on August 8, 1948 in Cologne against 1. FC Kaiserslautern with 1. FCN . With a 2-1 win, Morlock's team brought the seventh German championship to Nuremberg in front of 75,000 spectators in the Müngersdorfer Stadium. For Fritz Walter, the captain of the Palatinate, Morlock was the match winner: “From my point of view, Max Morlock, the club's half-right, was outstanding. He was at home in the storm as well as in the defense, and at the most inopportune moments for us he appeared where we weren't expecting him. "

The high performance of the first three rounds Oberliga Süd with the runner-up in 1946 and the two championship successes in 1947 and 1948 could not maintain the 1. FCN in the two following rounds. With the former Schalke and Mannheim master coach "Bumbes" Schmidt, success returned from round 1950/51 . The runner-up in the Oberliga Süd 1951/52 confirmed the top position of the club and the sporting value of Morlock, who scored a total of 54 goals in the two rounds. But then there were four rounds, 1952/53 to 1955/56, in which the 1. FCN was no longer one of the top teams. During this phase, a change in the team structure took place, which only paid off in Franz Binder's third year as coach , 1956/57 , with the renewed championship win in the southern league. In the next rounds, the ex-Vienna national player tied almost a complete team from his own ranks and the closer Franconian environment with Heini Müller , Roland Wabra , Richard Albrecht , Heinz Strehl , Ferdinand Wenauer , Paul Derbfuß , Gustav Flachenecker , Helmut Hilpert and Tasso Wild into the club's senior division squad. This follow-up work from within our own ranks with fresh and unused talent was the real merit of Franz Binder. His successor Herbert Widmayer - the later DFB junior coach worked in Nuremberg from the 1960/61 round - was able to win the German championship directly on this basis.

Widmayer initially took important tips from Morlock, the most experienced player. The new trainer continued the rejuvenation process begun under Binder. He brought Stefan Reisch , Kurt Haseneder , and later Karl-Heinz Ferschl and Horst Leupold into the top division from the club's youth . Widmayer formed the team into a unit, led by the 36-year-old senior Morlock. In the Oberliga Süd, the club won the championship seven points ahead of Eintracht Frankfurt . Morlock completed all 30 league games and scored 13 goals. At his side, Heinz Strehl (22 goals), Gustav Flachenecker (16 goals) and Tasso Wild with 15 goals shone, especially on the offensive . With 10: 2 points, 1. FCN prevailed in the group games in the final round of the German championship against Hertha BSC, 1. FC Cologne and Werder Bremen and made it into the final. Morlock had an outstanding day in the 3-3 home draw on May 27 against 1. FC Köln. He scored all three club goals against the Domstadt players, who played with national players like Fritz Ewert , Georg Stollenwerk , Karl-Heinz Schnellinger , Leo Wilden and Hans Sturm in defense. In the final, the team of coach Max Merkel , Borussia Dortmund , was seen in the role of favorites , especially due to their prominent attack with Alfred Kelbassa , Aki Schmidt , Jürgen Schütz , Friedhelm Konietzka and Gerhard Cyliax . 13 years after his first German championship (1948), Morlock was again champions on June 24, 1961 with a 3-0 win in Hanover and brought the team to the eighth championship in Nuremberg. The club became champions with eight players who came from their own youth: Hilpert , Reisch, Wenauer , Flachenecker, Morlock, Strehl, Haseneder and Wild. Hans Fiederer wrote in the sports magazine after the final: “Hanover was the triumph of the Nuremberg youth, the culmination of Maxl Morlock's unique career. Maxl Morlock, the prime example of an athlete, a captain, a person who even now has two German championships, the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, 800 games for his club and 20 years of active time in the first division team. It may sound exaggerated, presumptuous in the intoxication of happiness: this Maxl Morlock should be erected in the Zabo. ”In recognition of his best performances in the season and especially in the finals, Morlock was named Footballer of the Year by German sports journalists in 1961.

Under Widmayer, Nuremberg defended the South title in 1961/62 and ended the era of the first-class Oberliga Süd in 1962/63 with the runner-up.

In a total of 451 league games, the extremely popular Morlock scored 286 goals. In 42 games in the final round of the German championship, he distinguished himself with a further 21 goals. Overall, he is led with 900 games and 700 goals in club dress.

Bundesliga, 1963/64

After the Federal Assembly of the DFB decided on July 28, 1962 to re-introduce the Bundesliga as a central performance class, the DFB published the names of the first nine clubs for the new class on January 10, 1963: From the south, it owned the twelve-year ranking in 1. FC Nürnberg and Eintracht Frankfurt, leading the southern league. The 1st place in the "Eternal Table" of the Oberliga Süd from 1945/46 to 1962/63 also spoke for Max Morlock's club.

The right half-striker, who is equally capable of running and shooting with both feet and equipped with great jumping ability in the header game, also went into the debut season of the central Bundesliga in 1963/64 as captain with his club . On the start day of the league, August 24, 1963, he scored the opening goal for the team from coach Herbert Widmayer in the 40th minute of the away game against Hertha BSC . On the final day of the round, May 9, 1964 - two days before his 39th birthday - he concluded his 23-year career in the Franconian first team with a 2-1 lead in a 2-2 away draw against Hamburger SV from. 1. FC Nürnberg ranked 9th and Morlock had scored eight goals in 21 Bundesliga appearances under the coaches Widmayer and Jenö Csaknady (from November 1, 1963).

After the clear 0: 4 defeat in the 1962 final against 1. FC Köln, Morlock had declared his resignation for the first time; when the young Kurt Haseneder was injured and was out for a long time, he ran again in March 1963 against the Danes from B 1909 Odense in the quarter-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup . On May 14, 1964, three days after his 39th birthday, he finally ended his career with a farewell game in the municipal stadium against Nacional Montevideo (1: 1).

International stage

In addition to the appointments to the national team - Morlock had made his debut under national coach Herberger in the first international match after the Second World War on November 22, 1950 in a 1-0 win against Switzerland in the DFB selection - there were also trips abroad and with 1. FC Nürnberg Games in the European Cup. In the European club competitions, the European Cup games in the rounds of 1961/62 with the trial of strength against Benfica Lisbon and 1962/63 with the semifinals against Atlético Madrid were highlights in Morlock's long career. At Christmas 1951, 1. FCN made its first big trip to Spain after the war with games against FC Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao . In February 1953 the club flew to the USA for three weeks . Two years later, in 1955, another trip to America was on the program.

reception

The work and importance of Max Morlock is described in the “Player Lexicon” by Knieriem und Grünen as follows: “He was considered a prime example of modesty and down-to-earthness and for a quarter of a century he wore no other jersey than that of 1. FC Nürnberg, whose sporting fortunes from the Gau to the Upper to the Bundesliga like no other. ”As early as 1951, Atalanta Bergamo wanted to buy the Nürnberger. The Italians offered Morlock 80,000 marks at the time, plus a monthly fixed salary of 1,500 marks without bonuses and a dream villa by the lake that could be lived in for three years free of charge. His wife would have gone with them, but he had only just built up his business in 1949, and Italy was a blank slate back then, an uncertain business. The camaraderie at 1. FCN and later in the national team was so good that this was one of the main reasons for saying no. With Bitter it is stated “that with him a player left the big stage in 1964, who in the eyes of almost all experts was the 'ideal connector'. In his best times he was always to be found on the field where it was 'burning'. In addition, he stood for a fighting role model and had strong technical gifts and the instinct of a goalscorer. "The authors of the legend of the club noted the importance of Morlock:" Morlock was not just a goalscorer who shot hard and knew how to convince dangerous headers. Morlock was more. He was a playmaker and hauler, a tireless starter of the Nuremberg game. ”In his book Cluberer im Nationaltrikot Heinz Meyer quotes Morlock's former teammate Heini Müller as follows:

"In Max Morlock we had a captain whom you would have liked to have taken off your hat even during the game."

Another quote in Heinz Meyer's book reads:

“Max was a jewel, had hardly any weaknesses. Normally you would have to build a memorial for him. "

Gunther Baumann's words finally came true in 2008 when a life-size monument to the 1954 world champion, financed by fans, was erected in front of the stadium . The square in front of it has been named Morlock since 1995. Fans and the press also see the renaming of the stadium in 2017 as an appreciation of the importance of Morlock for 1. FC Nürnberg and the personality of the down-to-earth and humble club idol.

National team, 1950 to 1958

After the young Gauliga player Max Morlock had already attended the courses of the then Reich coach Sepp Herberger in April 1942 and February 1943 during the Second World War, it took more than seven years until his debut in the national team. The war and the fact that the DFB was only allowed to continue the international game history five years after it ended in November 1950 meant that Morlock only became a national player at the age of 25, although he had already played during the war and especially in the first five rounds of the Oberliga Süd was one of the best players in Germany from 1945/46 to 1949/50.

With the admission of German club teams to international games in May 1949, the first important step towards the return of German football to the world association was taken. Nevertheless, the actual goal of the DFB's re-entry into FIFA had not yet been achieved at this point. The full resumption of the German Football Association was decided by the FIFA Executive Committee on September 23, 1950 at a meeting in Brussels. For the DFB, this meant the possibility of international matches that had previously been prohibited. The first post-war international match took place on November 22, 1950 in Stuttgart against Switzerland with great public sympathy. Around 115,000 spectators streamed into the Neckarstadion in the afternoon on a normal weekday and had to endure catastrophic weather and infrastructure conditions. Morlock formed together with Bernhard Klodt , Ottmar Walter , Fritz Balogh and Richard Herrmann on half right in the 1-0 German attack.

This was preceded by the first post-war international game , beginning in March and June 1946, the first representative games of the regional associations, the first official post-war course from November 14 to 19, 1949 in the Wedau sports school in the Duisburg sports park , and two selection games of the regional associations immediately before the international game in Stuttgart on November 11th between the Southwest Football Regional Association and the South German Football Association in Ludwigshafen (2: 2) and on November 12 in Frankfurt am Main between southern Germany and western Germany (5: 4). Morlock underlined in the attack of the South Germans in Frankfurt next to the storm colleagues Gerhard Kaufhold , Horst Schade , Richard Herrmann and Rolf Blessing at 2-2 in Ludwigshafen again his goal danger with two goals.

The central Nuremberg player belonged to the national team as a regular player at the beginning of the post-war era. His importance is also proven by his four appearances in qualifying for the 1954 World Cup in the games against Norway (1: 1, 5: 1) and Saarland (3: 0, 3: 1), in which he distinguished himself with six goals and was essential contributed to success in qualification. The World Cup tournament in Switzerland then turned into its sporting climax. He was one of the decisive players in the surprising title win of the Herberger-Elf.

Right at the first appearance of the German team in Bern in the game against Turkey (4: 1), Morlock stepped as a template for the 1-1 equalizer from Hans Schäfer, with a header on the crossbar and as the shooter of the 4: 1 final score Appearance. In the playoff for second place in the group, again against Turkey, the Nuremberg man scored three times in the Turkish goal in a clear 7-2 win. In the quarter-final against the favored Yugoslavia (2-0) with internationally recognized midfielders such as Zlatko Čajkovski , Vujadin Boskov , Rajko Mitić and Bernard Vukas , it was primarily his defensive, combative and running qualities that mattered. The plavi dominated visually clearly, but Germany made their opponent tired and crumbling with a counterattack tactic, and after the goal from right winger Rahn in the 86th minute, the DFB-Elf unexpectedly made it into the semifinals. Austria was also the favorite in the semi-finals in Basel with the outstanding midfielder Ernst Ocffekt . With a header shortly after the kick-off of the second half, Morlock gave Herberger-Elf a 2-0 lead and Germany moved into the final with a 6-1 that was never expected. In the final against the Golden Elf of Hungarians around Ferenc Puskás and World Cup top scorer Sándor Kocsis , Morlock scored the psychologically important goal in the tenth minute when he poked the leather past goalkeeper Gyula Grosics into the Hungarian goal and next to it as a strong combiner and "Temporary worker" in the defense was in constant use.

Captain Fritz Walter summarized the importance of Morlock in the World Cup tournament in the following words: “Max was always our rescue station for the enemy attack. He helped out in defense with his dynamic strength and was at the front again in all decisive situations. Whenever there was a chance to score, Max was there. If I ever wanted to hang my head, Max would pull me with him again. He was able to pull a cart out of the mud. ”Next to Fritz Walter, Morlock was the decisive switch station in midfield and a tireless driver with an enormous goal hazard for his teammates. In retrospect, the sports press described him as the “engine” of the German game and praised his header game. "Powerful not only in front of the goal, full of impetuous, but fair power also in midfield," it was said, for example, in the "kicker".

Also in the joy after the unexpected success in the final, Morlock expressed himself respectfully about the opponent: “I felt sorry for the Hungarians afterwards. This single win had been missing in the long string of successes of more than 20 international matches without defeat. They also played fair. But it made me proud when afterwards center forward Hidegkuti, who spoke some German, said to me: Well deserved victory! We were finished in the last quarter of an hour. ” Morlock had his own way of looking at the legend of the“ Miracle of Bern ”:“ In Bern or in Switzerland no signs or miracles at all happened. We were together in Switzerland for three and a half weeks, had no distractions and just played football. We trained every day with the result that all 22 players were in extreme fitness, we lived according to regulations down to the smallest detail and formed an indestructible circle of comrades who were probably looking for their own kind. "

After the World Cup, several national players were sidelined for months because of jaundice. Morlock had to take a break for half a year and lost his regular place in the national team. His last two international matches before the 1958 World Cup in Sweden he played on May 26, 1956 against England (1: 3) and on November 25 of the same year in Dublin against Ireland. In the 3-0 defeat on the "green island", Morlock played as captain in his 24th international match. Then he was still in the national team's friendly matches in June, September and October 1957, when Herberger each had an A against a B selection. During this phase, the national coach experimented with new people in the half-forward positions and therefore put competitors such as Rolf Geiger , Hans Schäfer , who was no longer just a pure winger at 1.FC Köln as he was in the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, Aki Schmidt , Willi Schröder and Hans Sturm in the official international matches. In mid-April 1958, the DFB reported the list of 40 players for the World Cup in Sweden to FIFA; Max Morlock, who celebrated his 33rd birthday on May 11th, was no longer part of the squad. With his club he had won the championship in 1956/57 and the runner-up in the Oberliga Süd in 1957/58 and scored 28 goals in 49 league games. Since the national coach, as playmaker and senior , relied on Fritz Walter , who was on a break of 14 months in the national team and played for the first time on March 19, 1958 in a 2-0 win against Spain in a DFB dress, for the days of defending his title in Sweden , younger forces were next to the Lauterer Conductor asked. With the game on December 28, 1958 in Cairo against Egypt (1: 2), Germany's first international game outside of Europe - Morlock had again formed the right wing with Helmut Rahn - his national team career ended after 26 international games with 21 goals. The then 33-year-old successfully continued his career at club level for more than five years.

successes

• 26 international matches (1950–1958), 21 goals
• Football world champion 1954
• Two-time German champion: 1948 and 1961
• Record players and record shooters in the South Football League 1945–1963: 451 games, 286 goals
• Six times champion in the Oberliga Süd: 1947, 1948, 1951, 1957, 1961, 1962
• Two-time top scorer of the Oberliga Süd: 1951 (28 goals), 1952 (26 goals)
• Master Gauliga Bayern 1943 and 1944
• 42 finals German championship with 21 goals, 1943–1963

Honors

Morlock statue

• 1954 Silver bay leaf
• 1955 Golden Badge of Honor from the DFB.
• 1958 Golden DFB pin.
• In 1961 he was voted footballer of the year in Germany.
• Honorary member and honorary captain of 1. FC Nürnberg.
• In 1995, less than a year after his death, the square in front of what was then the Frankenstadion was renamed “Max-Morlock-Platz” by the city ​​of Nuremberg .
• In 2006, Block 8 in Nuremberg's Frankenstadion was named after him when the block was renamed.
• A life-size statue was completed in 2008, funded only by fans. This project can be seen since August 23, 2008 in front of the north curve of the Frankenstadion. Before that, the fans of 1. FC Nürnberg had campaigned in vain for Max-Morlock-Stadion when the stadium was renamed. From 2010 fans tried again to officially rename the stadium Max-Morlock-Stadion.
• The MAX prize figure, which the German Academy for Football Culture has been awarding the winners of the German Football Culture Prize since 2007, is named after him.
• In 2014, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his death, the A training ground on the club grounds of 1. FC Nürnberg was renamed Max-Morlock-Platz.
• Since July 1, 2017, the Nuremberg stadium is officially called the Max-Morlock-Stadion .

Private

Max Morlock had been married since Pentecost Sunday 1950 and had two daughters, born in 1951 and 1959. On March 1, 1949, together with his partner Johann Weiß, the father of his future wife, he opened a sales point for tobacco products and magazines at the Celtis Tunnel. He later moved his shop to Pillenreuther Strasse, where he also opened a sporting goods store. After his last game for the "Club", Morlock remained connected to football and above all to 1. FC Nürnberg. He regularly attended the club's home games and acted as an advisor whenever he was called. He met again and again with the old master players of the 1. FCN and with the world champions of 1954. After the end of his career, his doctor and his family advised him to start playing tennis; it became his hobby.

He died of cancer on September 10, 1994 at the age of 69. The club master players held the wake and thousands of Nuremberg residents gave him their final conduct in the St. Leonhard cemetery .

In the 2003 feature film The Miracle of Bern , Max Morlock is portrayed by Tobias Hartmann.

literature

• Christoph Bausenwein, Harald Kaiser, Bernd Siegler: Legends. The best club players ever. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, pp. 124–135, ISBN 978-3-89533-722-2 .
• Christoph Bausenwein, Harald Kaiser, Bernd Siegler: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89533-907-3 .
• Christoph Bausenwein, Bernd Siegler: the club lexicon. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-376-X .
• Christoph Bausenwein, Bernd Siegler, Herbert Liedel: Franconia on the ball. History and stories of a football century. Echter-Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-429-02462-5 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 322 f .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 264.
• Lorenz Knieriem: goalscorer. A typology of the executor. AGON Sportverlag. Kassel 2005. pp. 116-118, ISBN 3-89784-264-5 .
• Max Morlock: Maxl Morlock tells. From the pupil eleven to the world championship . Publishing house of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. 1955.
• Walter deposit: Max Morlock. 13, my lucky number . Copress publishing house. Munich 1961.
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .

Web links

• Biography on glubberer.de
• Max Morlock in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Max Morlock in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Player Lexicon 1890–1963. P. 264.
2. ↑ Werner Skrentny (ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Pp. 218/219.
3. ↑ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling (ed.): The history of the national soccer team. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-578-5 . P. 600.
4. ↑ Bausenwein, Kaiser, Siegler: Legends. The best club players ever. P. 124.
5. ^ Bausenwein, Siegler: the club lexicon. Pp. 155/156.
6. ^ Karl Brömse: Max Morlock. From suburban football to world champion. Knorr print. Nuremberg 1995. p. 8.
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Bausenwein, Kaiser, Siegler: Legends. The best club players ever. P. 125.
8. ^ Gilbert Bringmann (ed.): Football Almanach 1900–1943. 2nd Edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-928562-13-4 , pp. 124-125.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Bausenwein, Siegler, Kaiser: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg. P. 171.
10. ↑ Bausenwein, Siegler, Kaiser: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg. P. 114.
11. ↑ ^{a b} Bausenwein, Siegler, Kaiser: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg. P. 173.
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