Otto Sommer (soccer player)

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Otto Sommer (born January 1, 1905 in Hamburg ; † 1995 ) was a German football player . In 1922/23 and 1927/28, the offensive player was a member of the Hamburger SV team, which won the German soccer championship twice .

Career

Hamburg, 1919–1931

Born in the Hamburg district of Harvestehude , Sommer grew up in the area between Hochallee and Rothenbaumchaussee . There, at what was then the Velodrom, Paul Hauenschild , the famous patron of HSV, "discovered" him while free "kicking" with other boys and brought him to Hamburger SV, which was formed on June 1, 1919 after the merger. His father, who was a shoemaker by trade, had already taken care of the maintenance of the balls and shoes at FC 88 and later also worked as groundskeeper at Rothenbaum.

A special event for the youth player was the trip to Leipzig in August 1922. There the replay for the German championship between HSV and 1. FC Nürnberg was played. With his comrades from the youth, Sommer made the prelude to Hertha BSC and then, lying behind the goal of Heiner Stuhlfauth , experienced the dramaturgy of the renewed draw (1: 1 a.d.) and the break-off before the start of the second extra time.

The first competitive game in the north German league (Alsterkreis) was completed by the versatile young player on January 15, 1922 in a 7-0 win against St. Pauli. Due to the competitive game for HSV, which was played just a few days after his 17th birthday, he is in the “youngest player in a competitive game” category and, as far as is known, the “real” record man; documented in: Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.), Hartmut Irle: Goals, Points, Players. The complete HSV statistics. , apart from other debutants with an unknown date of birth. He acted on the half left alongside Walter Kolzen , Ludwig Breuel , Otto Harder and Hans Rave and scored two goals. Due to his involvement on May 27, 1923 in the 3-2 away win in the semi-finals for the German championship in Stettin against VfB Königsberg, he already had an active share in the championship win of Hamburger SV in the 1922/23 season at the age of 18. But he felt underestimated for a long time, was happily turned off as a porter and for pumping balls and found the "clique economy in the club and in the team" negative and therefore played for two years at Victoria Hamburg in 1923/24 and 1924/25 .

After his return to the "Rothosen" in 1925/26, he came in the final round of the German championship in the two games against Duisburger SV (3: 1) and Fortuna Leipzig (6: 2) on the right wing. When HSV won the German championship again in the 1927/28 season with a 5-2 win over Hertha BSC, Sommer had previously won the championship in the Alster season with 29: 3 points (101:22 goals) in 15 league games (such as Harder, Otto Carlsson and Lang) scored twelve goals.

As a selection player from North Germany (NFV) , the attacker was active in the 1926/27 season in the competition of the Federal Cup in the semi-final game on January 16, 1927 on Victoria-Platz Hoheluft against Central Germany. In the 3-2 win on right winger he played alongside his HSV colleagues Wilhelm Blunk , Albert Beier , Hans Lang, Arthur Warnecke , Franz Horn , Eduard Wolpers and Hans Rave. When Northern Germany won in 1930, Sommer had in the games against West Germany (4: 1; with Ernst Kuzorra , Fritz Szepan ), in the semi-finals against Central Germany (3: 1; with Richard Hofmann , Erwin Helmchen ) and in the final on 9. March 1930 participated in Altona against Brandenburg. In the 40th minute of the Bahrenfelder Stadium, he brought the north 1-0 lead. Club colleague Horn scored the goal to make it 2-0 in the 68th minute. With Werner Widmayer von Holstein Kiel, Sommer formed the right wing of the successful northern representation. Against West Germany he had to do with the international Heinrich Weber and in the final with TeBe defender Hans Brunke . The selection player from Hamburg and Northern Germany also belonged to the expanded Olympic squad (without a game) under Reich trainer Otto Nerz in 1928 .

Summer, who was trained as a lithographer in Hamburg, played his last HSV season in the 1930/31 series. In the Oberliga Hamburg he completed ten league games with four goals in the championship success. In the subsequent win of the North German championship , he was in all three games and scored one goal. The triumphal march ended for summer and HSV in the semi-final game in the final round of the German championship on May 31, 1931 in Leipzig with a 2: 3 defeat after extra time against Hertha BSC. Summer succeeded in the 85th minute of the connection goal to 1: 2. He had also played the two previous games against Beuthen 09 (2-0) and Eintracht Frankfurt (2-0) on the right wing.

At the start of the 1931/32 season on August 30, 1931, he scored two more goals for HSV on the right wing in a 7-0 home win against St. Pauli, and was in the Hamburg team for the last time at the city game in Berlin on September 6, 1931 , but then belonged directly to the squad of the German champions of the years 1930 and 1931, Hertha BSC . After a total of 89 league appearances with 53 goals, Otto Sommer stopped playing at Hamburger SV in September 1931 and moved to Berlin.

Berlin

The transition period was circumvented by enrolling at the Akademie der Künste and therefore not being banned as a student. The hamburger got along well with the Berlin mentality. The open, relaxed and companionable nature of the “Plumpe” suited him well in contrast to the refinement of Hamburg. At Hertha it was “paid” honestly and fairly (unofficially) to everyone. Johannes Sobek was an impressive player personality, at whose side Sommer was able to take part in winning the championships in Berlin-Brandenburg in 1932/33 and 1934/35 . According to his own statement, he played for Hertha until 1939, after 1936 probably only in lower teams. He then worked for FC Oase, a celebrity team with actors, film people and journalists, in games for charity. When he returned from captivity after the Second World War , he played a few more games at VfL Lohbrügge in Hamburg-Bergedorf.

Job / life

As a freelance graphic artist - he co-designed the blue-white-black rhombus for the HSV - and later as a freelancer for a film company in Wedel , Schleswig-Holstein, he took on his "life after football". There, at the gates of Hamburg, Otto Sommer lived with his wife and son in their own home. He passed away in 1995.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. 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. 16-17 (352 pages).
  2. IFFHS: Libero - special German. P. 76.
  3. 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. 42-44 (352 pages).
  4. 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. 46-47 (352 pages).
  5. 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. 347 (352 pages).