Theodor Lohrmann

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Theodor Lohrmann (born September 7, 1898 in Heidelberg , † September 2, 1971 ) was a German football player and one of the very first German professionals .

career

Theodor "Teddy" Lohrmann was a goalkeeper and began his career at SV Waldhof Mannheim , where he played until 1920. In the 1919/20 round, the Waldhöfer - with Sepp Herberger , Karl Höger , Willi Hutter - won the championship in the Odenwald district after two play-offs against city rivals VfR Mannheim with the same number of points and thus qualified for the final round of the southern German championship. There they came in second in the southern group behind 1. FC Nürnberg, which then also won the German championship with 2-0 goals against SpVgg Fürth. Since the 1. FC Nuremberg with Heiner Stuhlfauth had the time probably best goalkeeper of Germany in his team undertook the SpVgg Fürth with Theodor Lohrmann ado the second best goalkeeper this time. On August 19, 1920 Lohrmann came in the friendly against Guts Muts Dresden for his first use for the clovers.

In the same year Lohrmann came in the international match against Hungary on October 24, 1920 in Berlin for his first assignment for the German national soccer team . Although he was now equal to Stuhlfauth, he could not oust him in the national goal and only came to three international matches in his career. With Fürth, Lohrmann won the title in southern Germany in 1923. In the final round of the German championship, however, the Kleeblatt-Elf failed in the semifinals to Union Oberschöneweide. With Southern Lohrmann 1922 gained the victory in the German Cup . On March 5, 1922, the South won the final against North Germany in Hamburg with 7-0 goals. In addition to Lohrmann, there were five other Fürth in the winning team: Georg Wellhöfer , Josef Müller , Hans Lang , Andreas Franz and Leonhard Seiderer .

In 1923 Lohrmann switched to the Viennese amateur sports club , later Austria , where he played until 1929, before ending his career with the Vienna AC . With Austria Wien he celebrated winning the championship and the cup in 1924 and 1926. In 1925, at the end of the first official Austrian professional season - the first European season on this side of the channel - he became runner-up and cup winner with Austria. On May 4, 1924, he had a guest appearance in the ranks of the Viennese amateurs at an international friendly match in his home in the Electoral Palatinate against VfR Mannheim. Due to his professionalism in Vienna, he was no longer eligible for assignments in the DFB team (similar to Emil Walter and Walter Hanke in later years ) and the duel with Heiner Stuhlfauth was over. Lohrmann was not only a good footballer, he was an extremely versatile all-round athlete who also played rugby, tennis, handball and water polo with a performance that was well above average. At his Viennese club he set an all-round record when he played a game in all four sports on one day. In water polo, he also won the Austrian championship.

In the football field, the tall blond boy impressed above all with his wide tee-offs, his energetic, risk-taking intervening and, last but not least, the extraordinary safety of the catch and control of the penalty area.

After his active career, Lohrmann became a sports teacher and worked as a trainer for, among others, ASK Waidhofen an der Ybbs, FC Zurich , Rot-Weiß Oberhausen , Schwarz-Weiß Essen and Hamborn 07 . He took over Oberhausen on October 20, 1938 and rose with the team from the Niederrheinstadion in 1939 to the Gauliga Niederrhein .

Richard Kirn and Alex Natan note about Lohrmann:

" Was always mentioned in the same breath as stool fever. He looked broader, but was a giant on feet of clay. As a catching artist, he surpassed the Heiner. "

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 288 .
  2. ↑ Christoph Bausenwein, Stuhlfauths times, The golden years of football, Verlag Die Werkstatt GmbH, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-7307-0322-9 , page 29 f.
  3. ^ Gerhard Zeilinger: The football stronghold Mannheim 1920 to 1945, Mannheim 1994. ISBN 3-929295-05-9 , p. 53.
  4. ↑ Kirn / Natan, Fußball, p. 131.

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personal data
SURNAME Lohrmann, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1971