Theodor Laumann

Theodor Laumann (born August 23, 1934 in Mannheim ) is a former German soccer player who from 1952 to 1963 played a total of 213 association games and scored 31 goals in the first-class South Soccer League for VfR Mannheim and in the West Soccer League for Alemannia Aachen has achieved. In 1956, the offensive player , who was mostly used as a half - forward in the World Cup system at that time, was used in two international matches of the B-national football team .

Career

Mannheim, until 1959

The technically adept and extremely tricky half-striker "Teddy" Laumann went through the youth department of VfR Mannheim. With the blue-white-red lawn athletes from the stadium to the breweries, he got to know Philipp Rohr's formative coaching school with the A-Juniors . For “Fips” Rohr, in retrospect he was “the great VfR talent of the fifties and sometimes sixties”. The young talent made his debut on February 8, 1953 in the home game against SpVgg Fürth in the Oberliga Süd. In the 1: 1 against the "Kleeblatt-Elf" around Adolf Knoll , Herbert Erhardt , Richard Gottinger , Horst Schade and Max Appis , he formed the attack line of the VfR together with Ernst Langlotz , Werner Baßler , Ernst Löttke and Rudolf de la Vigne on half left. From the 1953/54 season he was a member of the VfR team in the Oberliga Süd. In April 1954 he was already in the Mannheim city selection in two games against Ludwigshafen and Olaria Rio de Janeiro.

Laumann played the best round with his home club in the 1955/56 series . He completed 29 league games and scored six goals when he reached third rank. With 73 goals, the lawn athletes made the best attack in the south. Ernst-Otto Meyer (30 goals), de la Vigne (10 goals) and Langlotz (9 goals) were the most accurate shooters with half-forward Laumann. On the sixth match day, the VfR overtook the defending champion Offenbacher Kickers at the breweries 7-2; On the eleventh game day the leaders Karlsruher SC were defeated 2-0 in front of 20,000 spectators; after the end of the first half of the season Laumann and colleagues were level on points with KSC - both had 22: 8 points each - at the top of the table; the hurdle in the second leg in Offenbach was mastered with a 6-2 win; the later relegated SSV Reutlingen sent home on March 18, 1956 with a 9: 1 pack (with two Laumann hits). The two lost top games in the Karlsruhe Wildpark Stadium on March 25th in front of 50,000 and against VfB Stuttgart on April 15th in the Neckarstadion in front of 75,000 spectators, each with just 1: 2, brought the decision against VfR Mannheim. They finished 3rd at the end of the round and thus did not make it into the final round of the German soccer championship. Personally, however, Laumann's performance was rewarded by his performance in the B national team on April 21, 1956 at the international match against the Netherlands in Enschede. In a 0-1 defeat, he formed the German attack on half left together with Engelbert Kraus , Erwin Waldner , Hans Neuschäfer and Bernhard Termath .

After the round in 1958/59, Laumann ended his activity in the city of squares and joined Alemannia Aachen for the 1959/60 season in the West Football League.

The Mannheim half-striker was listed three times in the ranking of German football by Kicker-Sportmagazin : In January 1956 for the whole year 1955 in the category "On the move up" next to Willi Schröder , Ulrich Biesinger and Hans Neuschäfer ; in the summer of 1956 in the “Other national team candidates” category alongside Alfred Preissler , Klaus Stürmer , Hans Neuschäfer, Alfred Niepieklo , Helmut Faeder , Horst Buhtz , Jürgen Sanmann and Reinhold Jackstell ; in January 1957 for the second half of 1956 in the category “In the wider circle of the national team” alongside Jakob Miltz , Alfred Pfaff , Aki Schmidt , Klaus Stürmer, Herbert Schäfer and Albert Brülls .

Overall, Laumann is in the Oberliga Süd from 1952 to 1959 with 131 games and 23 goals.

Aachen, 1963 to 1959 to 1965

In the black and yellow of the Tivoli Stadium , the man from Mannheim experienced in his second year, 1960/61, under coach Helmut Kronsbein a brilliant first round with 19:11 points and the table lead after the first round. With the new striker Willi Bergstein (25 goals), the “potato beetles” seemed to be serious contenders for the title. In the second half of the season things didn't go well anymore, Alemannia fell back to eighth place. Laumann had scored four goals in 28 league games. In the 1961/62 season, the technician experienced the two Yugoslav ex-national players Vladimir Beara and Branko Zebec as new teammates. Due to injuries, however, both players could not contribute to an improvement in the performance. In the last year of the old first-class league, 1962/63 , Aachen landed in fifth place under the new coach Oswald Pfau , but was not accepted into the new Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season. In total, Laumann played 82 league games in Aachen from 1959 to 1963 and scored eight goals.

In the first year of the then second -rate regional football league West , 1963/64 , the black and yellows lived up to their role as favorites and won the championship with 105:37 goals and 59:17 points after 38 round games. On November 24, 1963, together with Christian Breuer and Branko Zebec, he formed the outstanding runner row in the 2-0 home win in front of 35,000 spectators in the top game against Wuppertaler SV. Laumann had played in 25 championship games and scored one goal. He now mostly acted as an outside runner. The promotion round to the Bundesliga was a disappointment. With 4: 8 points, the favored West Champion was only third behind the promoted Hannover 96 and Hessen Kassel. Laumann played in the two games that were lost 1: 2 against Kassel and Hannover.

After three more regional league appearances in the 1964/65 season, Laumann ended his higher-class career and joined the amateur club SC Jülich 1910 at the end of his career from 1965 to 1968 . After that, the commercial employee's career was finally over.

Selection games

For the first time supraregional, the VfR talent was able to attract attention in games of regional youth teams in May 1955 in West Germany under the supervision of national coach Sepp Herberger . On May 11th he was part of the team from southern Germany, which defeated the representation of western Germany 3-2 in Duisburg. Manfred Eglin stood in the gate , Hermann Nuber in the runner row and Willy Reitgaßl , Hans Weilbächer , Berthold Buchenau , "Teddy" Laumann and Werner Huber on the left wing stormed . On May 14th, southern Germany clearly beat the southwest in Wuppertal 6-0. Knut Tagliaferri and Ulrich Biesinger acted in the attack .

When sighted by national coach Herberger, Laumann played in a DFB youth team on February 22, 1956 in Hamburg against Hamburger SV. In the 4: 1 success of the selection he formed the attack together with “Berti” Kraus, Gerhard Kaufhold , club colleague “Ötti” Meyer and Hans Schäfer . On April 11th, the young hopefuls' second test match against a Saar team took place in Homburg and the two VfR players were back in the Herberger-Elf. Ten days later, Laumann made his debut in the B national team against the Netherlands. At the dress rehearsal for the international B match on May 31st in Barcelona against Spain, the German B selection won 3-1 on May 26th in Berlin against a Berlin selection. The B-Elf started with Erich Bäumler , Laumann, Biesinger, Willi Schröder and Theo Schönhöft . The international match against Switzerland on November 21, 1956 in Zurich was his second official international match in the B national team. In the 2-1 success, he acted alongside other players such as Hans Tilkowski , Max Morlock , Georg Stollenwerk , Ottmar Walter and Erich Haase . The man from Mannheim received his last appointment in a DFB selection on December 19, 1956 during the international match of the U-23 selection , which won 3-2 goals against Belgium in Liège and half-forward Aki Schmidt distinguished himself as a triple goalscorer.

Regionally, Laumann was then still on December 30, 1956 in the representative game of southern Germany against Saarland (4: 3) and on May 1, 1957 in rows of a North Baden selection against the southwest (3: 2).

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 .
• 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 .
• Gerhard Zeilinger: Triumph and decline in Mannheim's football sport 1945 to 1970. Mannheim football archive. Mannheim 1995. ISBN 3-929295-14-8 .
• Franz Creutz (Ed.): Games you will never forget! Alemannia Aachen in the 1960s. Meyer & Meyer Verlag. Aachen 1996. ISBN 3-89124-373-1 .
• Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress-Verlag. Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fips Rohr: Eins Bloomaul on the ball. Mannemer football and dialect. Südwestdeutsche Verlagsanstalt (SVA). Mannheim 1992. ISBN 3-87804-218-3 . P. 18.