Richard Hofmann (soccer player)

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Photograph of Hofmann (with autograph from May 20, 1930)

Richard Hofmann (born February 8, 1906 in Meerane , † May 5, 1983 in Freital ) was a German football player and football coach. He was a national player 25 times.

Career as a player

societies

Hofmann started his football career at Meerane 07 in 1913 . In 1928, Jimmy Hogan , the English coach of Dresdner SC , brought Hofmann to Dresden. With the Dresden team, "King Richard" won the German Cup in 1940 (2: 1 n. V. against 1. FC Nürnberg ) and 1941 (2: 1 against FC Schalke 04 ) and in 1943 (3: 0 against FV Saarbrücken ) and 1944 (4-0 against LSV Hamburg ) German champions . He usually played as a half-left striker. He was easy to recognize by the head band he wore since 1930 after he lost an ear in a car accident after a carnival party.

After Hofmann had himself paid for with his picture for advertising a Dresden cigarette company, he and the former president of the Dresden SC Püschel were expelled from the German Football Association in time for the Führer’s birthday in April 1935 because of a violation of the amateur regulations. Hofmann tried to bypass his suspension and in the same month signed a professional contract with the French first division club Olympique Lillois , but was not allowed to play. After the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, the Reichssportführer Hans von Tschammer und Osten issued an extensive amnesty for many banned athletes in recognition of the good performance of the German athletes, which allowed Richard Hofmann to compete again for the Dresdner SC from mid-October 1936.

After the Second World War, Hofmann played from 1945 to 1947 with SG Hainsberg near Dresden. In 1947/48 he was with VfL Willich in the western German conurbation Rhine-Ruhr . In the summer of 1948 Hofmann returned to Dresden and joined the SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt , the successor to the DSC. On the occasion of the floodlight premiere in the Heinz-Steyer-Stadion on December 31, 1949 with the game SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt against a GDR team (2-0), the now 43-year-old Hofmann was substituted for the Dresden team again to the cheers of the audience .

National team

Photo on the back of Hofmann (with greetings from May 20, 1930)

Between 1927 and 1933 Hofmann was appointed to the senior national team 25 times . He made his debut in the national team on October 2, 1927 in Copenhagen in the 1: 3 defeat against Denmark . At the soccer tournament of the 1928 Summer Olympics , he was the top German goalscorer with four goals. There they were eliminated in the quarterfinals against the later gold medalist Uruguay. In his international career , he scored 24 goals, with three goals in each of the following matches in five consecutive years:

From September 25, 1932 to October 17, 1936 Hofmann was a record national player for the DFB and team captain in four international matches . He played six international matches as a player in the Meerane 07, the rest as a DSC player. On September 7, 1930, he beat Gottfried Fuchs' almost 17-year-old record with his 15th international goal and increased it to 24 goals by July 1, 1932. This record was exceeded on April 14, 1940 by Ernst Lehner .

Career as a coach

After the end of his career as a football player, Hofmann worked as a coach. He started at SG Vorwärts Gotha in 1949 , was briefly at Lok Stendal and in 1955 became a trainer at the central sports association Turbine. In 1956 Hofmann was a coach of the GDR B national team. After completing a training course at the Leipzig Sports University DHfK in 1957 , he became the trainer of the Dresden district selection and the GDR youth team. He was one of the founding members of the NOK of the GDR and was an honorary member of the GDR football association . In his honor a stadium in Meerane was named after him, the "Richard Hofmann Stadium". His son Bernd Hofmann was also a soccer player.

literature

  • Herbert Beyer: Hofmann forward - one more goal. The life of Richard Hofmann . Sports publishing house, Berlin 1958.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Hofmann excluded from the DFB , Hamburger Nachrichten , April 20, 1935, p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Meerane
DATE OF DEATH May 5th 1983
Place of death Freital