Richard Herrmann (soccer player)

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Richard Herrmann
Personnel
birthday January 28, 1923
place of birth Katowice ,  Poland
date of death July 27, 1962
Place of death Frankfurt am Main ,  Germany
size 167 cm
position Sturm and midfield
Juniors
Years station
1934-1941 1. FC Katowice
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1941-1945 1. FC Katowice
1947-1960 FSV Frankfurt 319 (100)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1950-1954 Germany 8 00(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Richard Herrmann (born January 28, 1923 in Katowice , Silesian Voivodeship , Poland , † July 27, 1962 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German football player . He played as a striker and in midfield from 1934 to 1945 for 1. FC Kattowitz and FSV Frankfurt (1947-1960). He was one of the first players in the German senior team in the post-war period and was part of the squad that won the title at the 1954 World Cup .

Career

societies

Richard Herrmann's family home in Katowice

Richard Herrmann began playing football in his hometown at 1. FC Kattowitz and made his debut during the Second World War in the senior team that competed in the Gauliga Oberschlesien . As a Wehrmacht soldier , he was taken prisoner by the English and was housed in the internment camp Camp 1008 in Derby . There the scouts from Derby County became aware of him, and Herrmann got no contract with the "Rams" only because the English association did not want to issue a game permit. In the prisoner-of-war camp, Herrmann had also met the printer Alfred Ludwig from the Bornheim district of Frankfurt . Ludwig took the man from Katowice, who had lost his home, and Werner Blechschmidt with him to Frankfurt after his release in 1947.

The contract player's salary slip for May 1952 showed an amount of DM 339.05 .

Both played for FSV Frankfurt from the 1947/48 season , Blechschmidt as an outside runner and Herrmann im Sturm. On September 14, 1947, the man from Upper Silesia played the first game in the Oberliga Süd for FSV . The team from the Bornheimer Hang stadium won a point at Bayern Munich with a goalless draw . The FSV goal was guarded by ex-national player Willibald Kreß and Richard Herrmann tried to get the Frankfurt combined game going on half-left. Herrmann played 37 league games for the black and blue in his first season, scored 20 goals and was soon one of the fastest German strikers. His convincing season performance was rewarded by being called to the South German national team at the representative game on May 19, 1948 in Frankfurt against the north-west combination. In the 2-1 success of the Süddeutsche he formed the left wing with Robert Schlienz and fought frequent duels with Paul Janes , who opposed this tandem as a right defender. With his teammates Willi Rado , Otto Dehn , Heiner Dietsch and Philipp Nold , Herrmann was able to assert himself well with FSV in the early years of the Oberliga Süd. From 1947 to 1951, the FSV set the tone in Frankfurt football and was always able to place before Eintracht in the final table of the Oberliga. The local derbies between FSV and Eintracht were the icing on the cake. When Eintracht was able to keep the district club more and more at a distance after winning the league championship in 1953, the "Bernemern" fell rapidly. Even Richard Herrmann, who was very popular in Bornheim because of his humble demeanor and his excellent style of play - excellent ball control, great running ability, precise shots and always present fighting strength - could not prevent this. But he remained loyal to the FSV even in these times, in 1952 he turned down an offer from AC Turin , which was coupled with a hand money of 60,000 marks.

With the Frankfurt city selection , Richard Herrmann competed in the Messe-Pokal on October 26, 1955 against the London city selection at Wembley Stadium . After a surprising 2-0 half-time lead by the Hessians, which were supervised by Kickers coach Paul Oßwald , the London selection turned the game to a 3-2 win with goals from Bedford Jezzard and Bobby Robson . The FSV honorary captain contributed a goal to the 5-1 home win against Basel's city selection on June 20, 1956. Center forward Berthold Buchenau from FSV and Alfred Pfaff from Eintracht Frankfurt met twice .

Richard Herrmann ended his career in the Oberliga Süd on October 11, 1959 when he met Karlsruher SC . A serious knee injury forced the FSV idol to give up. He played a total of 320 games for FSV Frankfurt from 1947 to 1960 in the Oberliga, scoring 100 goals. For a short time he then trained Seckbach 02 .

Selection / national team

Ten days before the first international match after the Second World War, on November 12, 1950, a representative match between southern Germany and western Germany took place in Frankfurt am Main. Richard Herrmann found the favor of national coach Sepp Herberger , who then invited him to the first post-war international match of the senior national team . In the game against the Swiss national team on November 22, 1950 in Stuttgart, Herrmann formed the striker line of the German team together with Bernhard Klodt , Max Morlock , Ottmar Walter and Fritz Balogh . In 1951, the FSV attacker came in the games of the DFB team against the national teams of Turkey, Austria and Ireland to three more missions. When Hans Schäfer from Cologne made his successful national team debut on the left wing with two goals in a 5-1 success against the Swiss national team on November 9, 1952 , the competitive situation in the German storm was on the wing positions with the aspirants Helmut Rahn , Bernhard Klodt, Felix Gerritzen , Bernhard Termath and Herrmann are remarkable. In May 1953, national coach Herberger and his expanded squad carried out three test matches against the British professional team Bolton Wanderers . Hermann was used in all three encounters. When the senior national team won the World Cup qualifying second leg on November 22, 1951 in Hamburg with a convincing 5-1 win against the Norwegian national team , the Frankfurt rider stormed alongside team captain Fritz Walter on the left wing. In the last international match before the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, on April 25, 1954 in Bern against the Confederates, Herrmann stormed in the German team, which was victorious with 5: 3 goals. In the tournament of the World Cup he was nominated for the preliminary round game on June 20 in Basel against the clear tournament favorite Hungary. Together with Alfred Pfaff from Eintracht Frankfurt, he formed the left wing. In the 83rd minute of the game, he ended the lively scoring of goals by Ferenc Puskás with his goal to make it 3-8. Richard Herrmann's national team career ended with his eighth international match. As Herberger on April 25, 1956 - after the 1: 2 defeat on March 14 against the national team of the Netherlands and before the 1: 3 defeat on May 26 against the national team of England - a test match of the DFB selection in Essen's Uhlenkrug against Rot-Weiss Essen , however, he bet again on the left wing on the player from FSV Frankfurt.

Others

Richard Herrmann married his wife Lilo in 1948, with whom he had two sons who played football for FSV Frankfurt.

Richard Herrmann died of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 39 . He was buried in the Bornheim cemetery with great sympathy among the population. The players of the national team from 1954 and their coach Sepp Herberger also took part in the memorial service. Richard Herrmann is still a great football idol at FSV. The square in front of the south stand of the stadium on Bornheimer Hang, which was completely renovated in 2008/09, was officially named after Richard Herrmann in 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Herrmann on dieheldenvonbern.de
  2. ^ Frankfurt am Ball. Eintracht and FSV - 100 years of football history. Nest Verlag, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-925850-25-2 , p. 67

literature

  • 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 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Karl Seeger: 90 years FSV Frankfurt a. M. 1899–1989 (memorandum), self-published by FSV Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main 1989, without ISBN, pp. 96–109
personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Katowice , Poland
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1962
Place of death Frankfurt am Main , Germany