Rudi Maier (soccer player)

Rudi Maier (born November 22, 1922 , † March 2004 in Schwäbisch Hall ) was a German football player .

Career

SV Waldhof Mannheim

Maier began his footballing career as a student at FV 03 Ladenburg . He later moved to SV Waldhof Mannheim , with whom he was South German runner- up in the 1946/47 season . A German championship was not played out so shortly after the Second World War . For the blue-blacks from Waldhof, Maier, who mostly played the position of outside runner, had played 86 league games from 1945 to 1948 at the side of teammates Reinhold Fanz senior, Georg Herbold and Paul Lipponer in the southern football league.

VfR Mannheim

For the 1948/49 round he joined local rivals VfR Mannheim. The blue-white-reds were reinforced by the other players Fritz Bolleyer and Ernst Langlotz and Hans "Bumbes" Schmidt from Nuremberg came to the city of squares as the new coach . In the very first season - Maier completed 27 league games - the team managed to win the German championship in 1949 after they had won the runner- up in the southern league behind Kickers Offenbach . In the final in Stuttgart on July 10, 1949 in front of 92,000 spectators, which VfR won against Borussia Dortmund , Maier played against Dortmund playmaker Max Michallek .

The following year succeeded again - from the southern league in 1949/50 also the fourth was allowed for the final round - the entry into the final round of the German championship . Maier belonged to the first division team of VfR Mannheim until 1953. From 1948 to 1953 he completed 121 league games for VfR Mannheim and scored one goal.

Sportfreunde Schwäbisch Hall

He then played for Sportfreunde Schwäbisch Hall and as a player-coach for his former youth club FV 03 Ladenburg.

successes

• German champion 1949

Others

He worked from 1940 to 1955 for the city of Ladenburg and then at Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall .

Web links

• Rudi Maier in the weltfussball.de database

literature

• Ladenburg Lexicon . Norderstedt 2007, ISBN 978-3-8334-6799-8 .
• Karl-Heinz Schwarz-Pich: 100 years SV Waldhof Mannheim 07 1907–2007 . Grunert Medien, Mannheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-019800-7 .
• Werner Skrentny (ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963 . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .