Werner Erb
| Werner Erb | ||
 Werner Erb (left) during an interview in 2008
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | March 2, 1932 | |
| place of birth | Altona , Germany | |
| date of death | January 8, 2017 | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1940-1950 | Altona 93 | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1950-1952 | Altona 93 | (23) |
| 1952-1953 | Prussia Munster | 4 (1) |
| 1953-1961 | Altona 93 | (102) |
| 1961-1964 | ASV Bergedorf 85 | 57 (12) |
| 1964-1971 | Altona 93 | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1950 | Juniors BR Germany | 4 (7) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Werner Erb (born March 2, 1932 in Altona ; † January 8, 2017 ) was a German football player .
Erb began his career at Altona 93 , where two of his uncles also played. Then he played in the 1950s in the Oberliga Nord for Altona 93 (1950–1952, 1954–1961 and 1967–1971 in the regional or association league) and Bergedorf 85 . During his senior league time, Erb scored a total of 135 goals in 237 games for these two teams as a center forward . This made him one of the best strikers in northern Germany. In the 1952/53 season he also played in the Oberliga West for Preußen Münster , but did not manage there and therefore only made four competitive appearances and one hit in the (albeit no longer complete) 100,000 mark storm . After six months he asked to return to Hamburg at the end of the season, although other clubs, such as FC Schalke 04 , showed interest in him. He later explained this break in his career with the words: "The black minster was not for me, you had to go to church first thing in the morning."
His talent was also noticed abroad: the six-time English champions Aston Villa , at that time only mediocre in the English premier league, offered Erb a well-paid contract in 1950, which he turned down in view of his hoped-for career in the German national team . The then national coach Sepp Herberger did not call any players into his squad who played for foreign clubs.
Erb was a few times in the squad of the German national soccer team, but he did not get a job. However, he played four games in the DFB youth team under coach Dettmar Cramer and scored seven goals. At the international match between Germany and Ireland in Hamburg in 1955, he was in the squad and Sepp Herberger announced his substitution in the second half. Herberger then brought Berni Klodt into play, and the angry heir said goodbye with the words: "Kiss my ass!" He left the stadium and took a taxi straight home. His career in the national team was thus over, he was never considered by the national coach. Jupp Posipal later asked him to return to the national team because of his great talent, which Erb commented after a while: “That was out of the question for me. The Herberger preferred southern Germans and Catholics anyway. "
Werner Erb later lived in Glinde , east of Hamburg. In Hamburg-Eidelstedt he ran a lottery and tobacco shop with his wife until the 1990s. He still attended Altona's home games on the Adolf-Jäger-Kampfbahn . For the opening of the AFC Museum, he donated the invitation to the national team and his national jersey, and in August 2016 he carried out the symbolic kick-off at the first home game of the new season on “his” Adolf Jäger arena. Werner Erb died at the beginning of January 2017.
Individual evidence
- ^ Norbert Carsten: Altona 93. 111 league years in ups and downs. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003. S. 156.
- ↑ Volker Stahl: Werner Erb: A dispute with Herberger prevented a great career. In: Football Lexicon Hamburg. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007. p. 113.
- ↑ According to the article “'Hereditary Sequence': When Altona Dreamed of Titles” in Sport Microphone of March 2, 2015, p. 23, Erb was now living in Hamburg-Lohbrügge .
- ↑ see the appreciation on the Altona 93 website
literature
- Norbert Carsten: Altona 93. 111 league years in ups and downs. The workshop, Göttingen 2003 ISBN 3-89533-437-5
- Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
- Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor ... New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
- Andreas Meyer, Volker Stahl, Uwe Wetzner: Football Lexicon Hamburg . Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-477-1 (396 pages).
- Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Erb, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altona |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 2017 |