Werner Harden

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Werner Harden (born August 11, 1924 ) is a former German soccer player . The player, who was used as a striker in the World Cup system at the time, made 125 league appearances for Hamburger SV in the old first-class Oberliga Nord from 1949 to 1958 , scoring 72 goals. The attacker, who was born in Upper Silesia , won the championship in the Oberliga Nord seven times with the "Rautenträgern" and played 17 games in the finals for the German soccer championship in which he scored 13 goals for HSV.

career

Beginning

Harden learned to play football in his youth in Upper Silesia at TuS Hindenburg 09 . The pressures of World War II led him to the Italian front, where he was taken into custody by the Allies in 1944 with a leave of absence in his pocket. As a prisoner of war, the USA put him in an internment camp in Colorado, where he was able to play football regularly in his free time with other German prisoners. “I spent my best footballing years in the USA,” he said in a conversation in 2008. After being imprisoned, he was unable to return to his old home. It landed him on the edge of the resin. There he played for the SG Bleicherode for a short time. His footballing qualities stood out, however, for the 1947/48 season the offensive player was therefore obliged by MTV Braunschweig . After the 3rd place in 1948/49 in the Lower Saxony regional league under player- coach Edmund Malecki , he and defender Herbert Klette from Hamburger SV were committed to the Oberliga Nord.

Hamburg, 1949 to 1958

In addition to the two MTV players, the defending champion also signed the other newcomers Josef Posipal , Rolf Rohrberg , Otto Globisch and Jochenfritz Meinke from his own offspring . The training line was Georg Knöpfle transmitted.

On November 20, 1949 Harden made his debut with Hamburg in the Oberliga Nord. In a 1-1 home draw in front of 27,500 viewers against Eimsbütteler TV, he formed the attack of HSV on half right together with Manfred Krüger , Rolf Rohrberg, Herbert Wojtkowiak and Erich Ebeling . In the 6-0 home win on April 30, 1950 against FC St. Pauli, Harden scored three goals. With a nine point lead, he won the Northern Championship with HSV and scored ten goals in 14 league appearances.

In May 1950, Harden belonged to an interesting but also grueling USA tour, although the challenges were limited in terms of sport and he was also injured in the six games. The HSVers were apparently challenged with the supporting program more than on the pitch: the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, a visit to Milwaukee, the “most German city” in the USA, and Lake Michigan. The people of Hamburg got to know more localities than soccer fields. On May 26th, the delegation arrived back in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel and was received by hundreds of supporters on a Friday evening in the drizzle. On May 28, HSV played their first final match in Kiel against Union Oberschöneweide (7-0) and met Kickers Offenbach in the quarter-finals on June 4, 1950 in Düsseldorf in front of 42,500 spectators. Despite a 2-0 half-time lead, HSV ran out of air in the second half and the Hessians prevailed 3-2. In the end, the cosmopolitan hamburgers lacked the strength, perhaps they had taken on too much with the trip to the USA in May. Due to injury, Harden was unable to take part in the finals. In the next three rounds - 1951 to 1953 - he won the championship in the Oberliga Nord with Hamburg under coach Georg Knöpfle . The all-rounder consistently belonged to the regular line-up of the team around Jupp Posipal and Herbert Wojtkowiak .

The attacker achieved a particularly good season performance in the 1951/52 round, when he scored 26 goals in 28 league games and also scored six goals for HSV in six games in the final round of the German championship. In the 4-1 group success on May 25, 1952 in the home game against the later finalist 1. FC Saarbrücken, center forward Harden scored three goals. After the 1955/56 season, Harden was reamateurised, but was reactivated again for the league game on December 15, 1957 at Concordia Hamburg (1: 2 defeat) when HSV were missing nine players from the league squad due to a flu wave, injuries and Uwe Seeler's suspension.

In the selection of North Germany (NFV) he came on October 14, 1951 in Kiel in the 2-2 draw against West Germany on the side of teammates Posipal and Krüger when he came on in the second half for Alfred Boller from St. Pauli has been. From 1951 to 1955 he played for the northern series champions in the final round of the German soccer championship a total of 17 games in which he scored 13 goals; But it wasn't enough to win the title.

Harden, who worked as a commercial clerk during his active time at HSV, spent his old age in a nursing home in Quickborn.

literature

  • Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Goals, points, players: the complete HSV statistics . compiled by Jens Reimer Prüß and Hartmut Irle. Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-586-0 (352 pages).
  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Werner Skrentny, Jens Reimer Prüß: With the diamond in the heart. The great history of Hamburger SV. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-620-1 . P. 142

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knieriem, Grüner: Spiellexikon 1890–1963. P. 131
  2. ↑ Jens R. Prüß: With the diamond in the heart. P. 142
  3. ↑ Jens R. Prüß, Hartmut Irle: goals, points, players. The complete HSV statistics. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-586-0 , pp. 122-124
personal data
SURNAME Harden, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1924