Otto Harder

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Otto Fritz ("Tull") Harder (born November 25, 1892 in Braunschweig , † March 4, 1956 in Hamburg ) was a German football player and guard in various concentration camps . Harder shot Hamburger SV to the first championships (1923 and 1928). With 387 goals he is the most successful goalscorer of all time at HSV after Uwe Seeler . He was team captain of the German national soccer team . In 1947 he was convicted as a war criminal.

Life

Soccer player

Otto Harder began his football career at the age of 16 with Hohenzollern Braunschweig. Like Adolf Jäger von Altona 93 , he had previously felt more drawn to athletics. Harder moved to Eintracht Braunschweig after just one year . In 1911 Harder came on the occasion of the guest appearance of the English professional team Tottenham Hotspur to the nickname "Tull", as the Englishman Walter Daniel Tull was called, a black man similar to the 1.90 m tall Harder in stature (the first black field player in British professional football). In the spring of 1912 "Tull" Harder moved for the first time (but only for a short time) to Hamburger FC 1888, from which Hamburger SV was to emerge in 1919 . Fans of "Eintracht" wanted to forcibly prevent Harder from going to Hamburg , but he had got wind of the action and got on the train in Peine . After all, Harder played another year in Braunschweig and only then went to HFC 1888. Otto Harder did military service in World War I and received the Iron Cross, first and second class. A soccer team photo from 1917 shows him as a guest player of the Stettiner SC .

The Victoria - challenge cup for the German soccer champions from 1903 to 1944 - won the Hamburger SV for the first time in 1923 and again in 1928.

After Hamburger SV was founded, Harder was one of those players who took part in the final of the 1922 championship. In 1923 Harder was officially German champion for the first time with Hamburger SV, in 1928, at the age of 36, he won his second championship title and set a record when he met Wandsbeker FC in the "Alsterstaffel" (name of the league) Scored 12 goals. Nevertheless, Reich trainer Otto Nerz Harder did not take him to the Olympic Games, which at that time still had the status of a world championship. Overall, Harder came from 1914 to 1926 on 15 international matches in which he scored 14 goals. In his last five internationals he was captain of the national team and scored a total of ten goals. In 1929 Hamburger SV won a duel with CA Peñarol 4-2. Harder shot all four hits. In January 1931 Harder moved to SC Victoria Hamburg , only to give a brief guest appearance at VfB Kiel two years later, at the age of 41, and then finally to end his career.

Harder's footballing strength was his famous solo attempts. " When Harder Tull plays, then it's three to zero ... " they sang in the Hamburg cabarets - a song that was also available on record. In 1927, his career was the reason for the silent film “ The King of the Center Forward ” with Paul Richter as “ Tull Harper ” (sic!) And Aud Egede-Nissen in the leading roles. The former chief editor of the kicker , Friedebert Becker , characterized Harder's style as follows: “ Especially today in the age of the World Cup system you know that running and shooting is no longer quite enough. Harder was ... a first-class technician, but his style did not need the technique, which was particularly effective in the extremely secure ball handling, clear shooting and heading, for flourishing. It was given to him as a prerequisite of his very own kind with an unprecedented security and strength, with a rarely seen explosive start on the shortest route towards the gate. Tull Harder didn't worry about how to set up an action; he acted immediately. Adolf Jäger led his team with finesse, like chess pieces, while Harder offered chess as fast as he could! "

war criminal

Harder became a member of the NSDAP in 1932 and joined the SS in 1933 . After being drafted into the Waffen SS , he became a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg at the end of August 1939 . From November 1939 to the spring of 1940 he was first with the guard and from April 1940 in the camp administration of Neuengamme concentration camp in Hamburg. From August 1944, Harder was SS-Hauptscharführer in command of the Hanover-Ahlem concentration camp . On January 30, 1945, he was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer . A British military court sentenced him under the Curiohaus processes on 16 May 1947 as a war criminal to 15 years in prison , later reduced to ten years in prison. During the trial, he did not distance himself from National Socialism and pleaded “not guilty”.

Hamburger SV temporarily excluded its member. Harder was released early from the Werl prison in Westphalia as early as Christmas 1951 . On his return, Harder was "frenetically celebrated by HSV and its supporters". Otto Harder died on March 4, 1956 at the age of 63. Numerous club representatives from Hamburger SV attended the funeral, and youth players from the club formed a guard of honor. On the occasion of the Football World Cup in 1974 , the Hamburg Senate published a brochure in which Tull Harder was named as a role model for young people alongside Uwe Seeler and Jupp Posipal . This was only noticed one day before the distribution, so the corresponding page was removed from all 100,000 copies of the edition.

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  1. ↑ Such a legend; the match in question was already in May 1911, when Harder was still playing in Eintracht's 2nd team, cf. Association news of the Braunschweig football club “Eintracht” eV , June 1911, page 4. “Tull” or “Tulle” were also common Low German belittling forms of the first name Otto.
  2. ↑ Traditional community of Pomeranian gymnastics and sports clubs: Pommern am Ball. Hamburg 1970, attached.
  3. ↑ According to other sources eleven (according to Jens Reimer Prüß (ed.): Goals, points, players: the complete HSV statistics . Compiled by Jens Reimer Prüß and Hartmut Irle. Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-586 -0 , p. 35 (352 pages). ) or ten. It is unknown whether it was a world record or not.
  4. ↑ See the anniversary publication of VfB Kiel, 2010; possibly a mistake.
  5. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 216.
  6. ^ A b Nils Havemann: "Football under the swastika - the DFB between sport, politics and commerce". Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2005, ISBN 3-593-37906-6 , p. 303.
  7. ↑ Utz Rehbein: Asbjörn and "Tull": Two ways of life. on ndr.de
personal data
SURNAME Harder, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harder, Otto Fritz (full name); Harder, Tull (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and security guard in concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1956
Place of death Hamburg