Otto Rohwedder

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Otto Rohwedder (born December 3, 1909 in Hamburg ; † June 20, 1969 ) was a German soccer player who, as an attacker for Eimsbütteler TV, made five appearances in the German national soccer team from 1934 to 1937 and scored two goals.

career

Rohwedder, who grew up playing football in the youth department of the ETV, played for the first time in the first team at the age of 17 in the 1926/27 season. The team from ETV-Platz on Lokstedter Steindamm - right next to Victoria's "Hoheluft" - was playing in the North German League (Alsterkreis) at the time and had it with the overpowering Hamburger SV (1: 8/2: 12) and SC Victoria (3: 5/2: 8) and the police SV (3: 2/0: 0) and finished fourth behind the three competitors. The 1.90 m giant represented a mixture of size, strength, game intelligence, sophisticated technique and tremendous shooting power in both legs. Rohwedder made his debut in Hamburg's selection on June 29, 1927 and made it until November 7 1937 to a total of 24 games with 13 goals. The offensive player celebrated his first major success not with the red and whites of the ETV, but in ranks of the selection of Northern Germany. On June 5, 1932, the final of the national cup took place in Leipzig against southern Germany. With Richard Dörfel and Eduard Wolpers , the attacking leader of Eimsbütteler TV formed the inner storm of the north team, which won 2-1 goals. Since the ETV-Eigengewächs played its biggest games in the jersey of its club team, it was not until October 7, 1934 for the youngster to make his debut in the national soccer team under Reich coach Otto Nerz . In Copenhagen the DFB-Elf prevailed with a 5: 2 against Denmark and the man from ETV contributed a goal. The attack of the victorious German team formed with Ernst Lehner , Karl Hohmann , Rohwedder, Fritz Szepan and Josef Fath .

But it was preceded in the first round of the Gauliga Nordmark , 1933/34, the title win with Eimsbüttel in front of the North German series winner Hamburger SV. The team of coach Walter Risse (senior) lost both games against HSV, but decided the championship race in the final phase by one point, with the help of the Kiel "storks" - two wins against HSV - in their favor. In the final round of the German championship , the 3-2 home win on April 29 against FC Schalke 04 stood out. Rohwedder equalized with two goals the 2-0 lead of the "Knappen-Elf", who won the final with 2-1 goals against 1. FC Nürnberg on June 24, 1934 in Berlin. The ETV managed to defend its title with ease. With 32: 4 points - including a 8: 3 victory over HSV on December 2, 1934 - Rohwedder and his teammates Karl Böhlcke (goalkeeper), Ernst Timm , Hans Rohde , Erwin Stührk , Otto Lüdecke , Willi Schindowski , Wilhelm sat down Ahlers, Herbert Panse , Karl Mohr , Willi Reuter and Herbert Maack with six points ahead in the Gauliga Nordmark. Once again, in the final round of the German championship on May 26, 1935, a 2-1 home win against the reigning German champions FC Schalke 04 was achieved.

In the national team, his best phase took place in the first half of 1935. On January 27th he was a member of the DFB-Elf, which defeated Switzerland with 4-0 goals in front of 60,000 spectators in Stuttgart. ETV colleague Stührk made his debut in defense and the attack formed with Ernst Lehner , Otto Siffling , Edmund Conen , Rohwedder and Stanislaus Kobierski . The third appearance against the Netherlands followed on February 17, and four weeks later he was part of the squad for the international match against France in Paris. At the end of June he was part of the DFB squad on a trip to the north. He was on the bench in the 1-1 draw against Norway on June 27 in Oslo, and in the 3-1 defeat three days later in Stockholm he played his fourth international match. He played on half left and scored the German goal. Despite the outstanding round with the ETV 1935/36 - for the third time in a row champions of the Gauliga Nordmark with 34: 2 points and 89:26 goals - his fifth international match did not take place until April 25, 1937 in Hanover against Belgium. It was also his last consideration in the national team. In May of that year he was used in two friendly matches in a Germany selection against the English professional team Manchester City , but the brilliant performance of the national team on May 16, 1937 in Breslau in the 8-0 win against Denmark ended his international career.

After the three Gauliga championships, Rohwedder won twice the runner-up in the Gauliga Nordmark with the ETV in 1938 and 1939 and, after disharmonies with coach Risse, joined the big rival Hamburger SV for the 1939/40 round. Because of the beginning of the war, a "war championship" in two groups did not begin until November 26, 1939. HSV won one group - Rohwedder scored 14 games with two goals - ETV won the other group. In the finals for the championship of the division class, the Eimsbüttler triumphed 4-1 on the Hoheluft and 6-0 on Rothenbaum. In his second HSV year, 1940/41, Rohwedder experienced a starkly superior HSV. As a soldier he was rarely able to travel to the games from the front and was therefore only involved in the league in twelve games with nine goals, but HSV advanced in 22 games in Nordmark with 44: 0 points and 104: 25 goals the ETV. In the final round of the German championship, Rohwedder was only available on April 13, 1941 in a 2-1 home win against 1. Sport-Verein Jena at the side of storm colleagues Erich Melkonian and Edmund Adamkiewicz . He scored the 2-0 opening goal in the 65th minute of the game. At the beginning of the war in 1943/44, he still played for Hamburg, then due to his location, he was active for HSV Groß Born . After the end of the Second World War , he ended his playing career in the summer of 1946. He became a respected businessman with the proverbial Hanseatic virtues.

Walter Jens , as a boy fell for the heroes of the ETV, wrote the eulogy "Gone the Eimsbüttler Days" and in it he summarized the memories of the ETV's heyday in unsurpassed words:

“ Derle Ahlers, Otto Rohwedder, Herbert Panse, Kalli Mohr and Hanno Maack - if I forget the last Goethe verse, I will still be able to list the Eimsbütteler storm. "

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Skrentny / Prüss: Hamburger SV. Always first class. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. P. 103.
  2. ↑ 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 , p. 203 .
  3. ↑ Folke Havekost: 100 years of football in Eimsbüttel, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Rohwedder, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 20th June 1969