Willi Gerdau

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Willi Gerdau
Willi (Ille) Gerdau1.jpg
Personnel
birthday February 12, 1929
place of birth Heide ,  Germany
date of death February 11, 2011
Place of death Uetersen ,  Germany
position Middle runner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1963 Heider SV 59 (8)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1956-1960 Germany amateurs 8 (0)
1957 Germany 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Willi "Ille" Gerdau (born February 12, 1929 in Heide ; † February 11, 2011 in Uetersen ) was a German soccer player who had participated as an active member of the German amateur soccer team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and once in the German one in 1957 National team was used.

Club career

Willi Gerdau spent his entire sporting career at Heider SV . Heide, district town of the Dithmarschen district in the west of Schleswig-Holstein, was the smallest town in the Oberliga Nord with 20,000 inhabitants. Due to his loyalty to the club, he only played two rounds in the league , 1956/57 and 1960/61. In both laps, however, the "small HSV" suffered immediate relegation. The technically well-trained middle runner brought it to 59 games in the two rounds in the major league and scored eight goals. He excelled as a penalty and free kick specialist and was also an excellent header player.

In 1955 Gerdau played with Heide for the German championship of amateurs and only failed in the semifinals with a 1: 3 defeat against Sportfreunde Siegen . In the promotion round to the league in 1956, Gerdau and his comrades prevailed against Harburger Turnerbund , Olympia Wilhelmshaven and Eintracht Osnabrück and moved into the Oberliga Nord as national champion in 1956/57. Despite the respectable successes in the first half of the season through home wins against Altona 93 and Hannover 96 , they were beaten after the twelfth game day on November 11, 1956 with 6:18 points at the bottom of the table. Willi Gerdau's subsequent trip to the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne meant that Heide had a break until December 16, 1956. Then, within ten days, three catch-up games against Werder Bremen , Göttingen 05 and Neumünster had to be played. Since there were three defeats, the chance of relegation in the second half of the season was minimal. In eleven games the stopper lost with Heide by one goal difference, seven games with 0: 1 and four games with 1: 2 goals. When the relegation was already certain, the "small HSV" managed a series of six successful games from March 17, 1957. This led to the successes against St. Pauli and especially on April 28th in front of 12,000 spectators in the home stadium on Meldorfer Strasse to the 2-0 win against Hamburger SV .

In the two following rounds you failed in the promotion round. In 1960, Heide prevailed again with his captain Gerdau against Leu Braunschweig , SV Arminia Hannover and Harburger TB 1865 and moved into the Oberliga Nord for the second time. But it was not enough to stay up in 1960/61 either. Gerdau remained loyal to his club and also fought in the two following rounds for the Dithmarscher in the promotion rounds for promotion; each without success. In 1963, with the introduction of the Bundesliga , the 34-year-old ended his playing career at Heider SV. From 1956 to 1963 he celebrated the championship in Schleswig-Holstein six times with his club.

International career

Willi Gerdau's international career began when he played in the B-country team on September 15, 1956 in Moscow against the Soviet Union at the side of captain Robert Schlienz from VfB Stuttgart. National coach Sepp Herberger also appointed him to the amateur national team in 1956 . This occurred on November 24, 1956 in Melbourne at the Olympic Games 1956 against the later Olympic champion Soviet Union . Gerdau formed the defender pair with Hermann Höfer from Frankfurt , but the German team was eliminated from the tournament after the 1: 2 defeat after this first game.

From February 18 to March 2, 1957, he took part in a DFB sighting course in Duisburg for the national team. His performance in the international match of the amateur national team on May 15, 1957 in Glasgow in the 1-1 draw against Scotland had left a lasting impression on the national coach. In the friendly game against the Scottish professionals on May 22, 1957, which took place in Stuttgart only seven days later, he was surprisingly a member of the senior national team. The national coach called the man from the relegated Heider SV into the squad and also used him as a right defender. He and Erich Juskowiak from Fortuna Düsseldorf formed the defenders in front of goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski from Westfalia Herne. The Scots won the game 3-1 goals. The critics clung to the debutant Gerdau. It would have been more honest to take into account the negative record of the national team in the 1956/57 game year with seven internationals with three wins and four losses.

For the future planning of the man from Heide was made more difficult that in the year of the soccer world championship 1958 he only used his strength against Itzehoer SV, SV Schleswig, VfL Bad Schwartau, Flensburger SV and the amateurs from Holstein Kiel and Neumünster in the amateur league Schleswig-Holstein could measure. As a result, the rivals for places in the national team from the south, south-west and north of the republic alone had an advantage. Only the second division in the north managed without a second division during these years. There the regional competition was held in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Bremen and in two seasons in Lower Saxony.

Significantly, in April 1958, the DFB's 40 list for the 1958 World Cup included Erhardt (SpVgg Fürth), Stollenwerk (1. FC Köln), Jäger (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Zastrau (RW Essen), Wewers (RW Essen), Liebrich (1. FC Kaiserslautern), R. Hoffmann (VfB Stuttgart) and Schüler (Hertha BSC) for the Gerdau positions of the right defender and the center runner also only players from the major leagues. Realistically speaking, you could not be nominated for a world championship from the amateur camp. That was clear to the captain von Heide and that is why he responded to further invitations to DFB courses with refusals.

On the other hand, he gladly accepted appointments to the amateur national team. He also stood by the debutant Karl-Heinz Schnellinger on October 12, 1957 in England and tried to open the way to Rome for the German amateurs in the 1959/60 Olympic qualification. The team from Poland prevailed against the DFB amateurs. Willi Gerdau defended in both games, once with Werner Olk , the other time with Jürgen Kurbjuhn as a left defender colleague. With the return match on April 18, 1960 in Warsaw, it was his eighth amateur international match, he ended his international career at the age of 31.

Profession and ending

The trained accountant worked in the DEA branch in Hemmingstedt, where over half of the Heider SV management was employed. In 1966, the group centralized accounting to Hamburg and the Gerdau family had to leave Heide. From then on he worked in Hamburg and lived with the family in Uetersen .

The Dithmarscher, who had acquired the B license in Malente and the A license in Hennef, worked as a trainer for the St. Pauli Amateurs, in Büdelsdorf, in Uetersen at TSV Uetersen , in Wedel and at Raspo Elmshorn .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Only games in the Oberliga Nord
  2. ↑ "Mourning for Schleswig-Holstein's only national player" on shz.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 21, 2011)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.shz.de  
  3. ↑ Match report on kn-online.de

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personal data
SURNAME Gerdau, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ille
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH pagan
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2011
Place of death Uetersen