Otto Ernst (soccer player)

Otto Ernst (born September 5, 1928 ) is a former German football player . The striker of TSV Straubing was used by the then national coach Sepp Herberger on March 24, 1954 in the international match of the DFB against England in the B national team .

career

The offensive player Otto Ernst spent his football career from 1940 in his Lower Bavarian hometown of Straubing in East Bavaria , with the white-blue team of TSV Straubing. He was first used at the end of World War II in 1944 as a 16-year-old in the 1st team. After the end of the war, the striker was active in the ascents from the district league via the regional league to the Bayern league . As third in the 1949/50 season, his club qualified for the newly installed 2nd League South from 1950/51 , the single-track substructure of the South Football League . The attacker was mainly used in the World Cup system used at the time as right winger or half right. He was sprinting fast and had an explosive start. In addition to football, he had contact with athletics and also played billiards and table tennis.

In the debut year 1950/51 , the TSV team from the stadium on Regensburger Strasse took seventh place in the second league south, behind the two leaders and promoters in the Oberliga Süd, Stuttgart Kickers and Viktoria Aschaffenburg, as well as Regensburg, Kassel, Cham and Pforzheim . In the second year, 1951/52 , the men around attacker Otto Ernst came in sixth. Straubing was able to achieve this good position in the table again in the 1954/55 season. Although the Straubing offensive great in the 1953/54 world championship year experienced a weaker round with his TSV in 13th place, he was part of the national coach's extended squad from which he wanted to determine the final World Cup line-up for the tournament in Switzerland. At the beginning of March 1954, Sepp Herberger announced a 54-strong World Cup squad in which he listed the players Helmut Rahn , Bernhard Klodt , Gerhard Kaufhold , Georg Siegel and the second division player Otto Ernst from Straubing in the right wing section . In this temporal context, the B international match on March 24th in Gelsenkirchen against England, the World Cup qualifier on March 28th in Saarbrücken against Saarland, the second B international match on April 24th in Offenburg and the last preparatory international match of the A- National team on April 25th in Bern against Switzerland.

On March 24th, the German B national team took on the attacking line-up with Otto Ernst, Heinz Lettl , Richard Kreß , Otto Laszig and Hans Krämer in Gelsenkirchen against England. With the clear 4-0 defeat against the English professionals, no striker could recommend himself for the tournament days in Switzerland. When, in early May 1954, the DFB reported to FIFA the 40 list from which the final 22 participants would later be selected, Rahn, Klodt and Felix Gerritzen were noted for right wingers . In the year after the World Cup, 1954/55, the second division player for the game taking place in Munich on June 1, 1955, was one of Bayern's contract players alongside Max Morlock , Johann Zeitler , Ulrich Biesinger and Werner Huber against the English cup winner Newcastle United nominated. Since Ernst always turned down offers from the southern German league from Stuttgart and Munich and spent his entire career in Straubing, there were no further appointments to the DFB's selection teams.

His higher-class playing career ended with the descent of Straubing after the 1960/61 season in the Bavarian amateur camp. At the side of center runner Josef Parzl and coach Jakob Streitle , TSV was in 16th place in the season of 18 after the 17th matchday with 14:20 points. At the end of the round, however, they were relegated to the Bayern League as 17th with 27:41. The experienced half-striker Ernst was mentioned several times in the reports of the sports magazine as the “best player” of the Straubinger. Outstanding was the 2-1 home win on November 13, 1960 in front of 6,500 spectators against the league leaders and later champions BC Augsburg with national striker Helmut Haller .

Professionally, Ernst earned his living as a self-employed electrician.

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 .
• Bavarian Football Association (Hrsg.): 50 years of the Bavarian Football Association. Vindelica publishing house. Gersthofen 1996.
• KICKER. Munich, March 30, 1953. No. 13. Page 17

Individual evidence

1. ^ Raphael Keppel : Germany's international soccer games. Documentation from 1908–1989. Sport- und Spielverlag Hitzel, Hürth 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8 , p. 197.