Franz Elbern

Franz Elbern ( born November 1, 1910 in Liege, Belgium, † 23 February 2002 in Küdinghoven, today city of Bonn ) was a German football player of SV Beuel 06, who was appointed in the years 1935-1937 eight times in the German national football team and scoring two goals.

Career

Club, Stage 1

In the autumn of 1918 Elbern mother came with her children Charles, Helen, Joseph, Francis, Marcel and Hubert on a freight train from Liege to Beuel, where they found shelter. Father Karl Elbern, who worked as an interpreter in the German civil administration in Liege, his family followed by later. The boys all played in the youth teams of March 15, written in 1924 by the merger of the 06 football clubs and sports club Alemannia 1919 06 Beuel. Already in his youth to success -ranked success. The " Elbern Elf " was much talked about. Franz, the third oldest brother, scored on his speed and his trickery. In the senior, the positive trend continued. With the " Green-Whites " However, the rise of the county class in the Gauliga Middle Rhine was achieved only for round 1935 /36.

Three times they narrowly failed in the previous rounds in the rise, twice as champion. The four Elbern brothers, Francis, Marcel, Hubert and Joe, were in charge of the gates in the attack. The class of Franz, Marcel and Joe Elbern also found its expression through their appeal in the Middle Rhine selection under the Federal Cup Competition 1934/35. Middle Rhine coach Sepp Herberger put the three brothers on January 6, 1935 in Cologne the Match against Nordmark one. As the fourth player of SV 06 Herberger familiar in the rotor row on Leo Klein. In the 2:3 defeat after extra Franz achieved as a right winger in a goal for the Middle Rhine. Before Gauliga - cost the new stadium was a game against the German champions in 1935, FC Schalke 04, held at the Neustraße. For Beuel the brothers Franz, Marcel, Hubert and Joe Elbern stormed. " Jupp " Gauchel TuS Neuendorf reinforced the attack of the riser in a 2-2 draw. In the debut 1936 /37 SV 06 landed on the fifth rank of Gauliga. The competitors were the clubs Kölner VfR 04, CfR, Suelz, SC 99, Wuerselen, Mülheim, TuS Neuendorf, Andernach and Bonn clubs FV and TuRa.

Selection games - football team, 1934-1937

Franz Elbern, the sprinter on the right wing, had already been appointed on 24 June 1934 by coach Sepp Herberger in the Middle Rhine selection. The second game of the fighting game Cup was held on 8 July 1934. The agile, technically outstanding winger succeeded each a hit. The third appearance Franz Elberns followed on January 6, 1935 under the Federal Cup Competition 1934/35. In the game against Nordmark the talent from Beuel recorded with a gate. Due to his performances at club level, its occurrence in the central Rhine - selection and recommendation of coach Herberger Franz Elbern was invited by coach Otto Reich mink in the first half of August 1935, a two-week national course to Duisburg - Wedau. On August 18, two international matches were held. In Munich, the Elf of the established hit, headed by Otto Mink on Finland. Germany won the match 6-0 gates. Sepp Herberger supervised in Luxembourg the "second squad " with nine newcomers. The complete storm passed with Elbern, Gellesch, Fricke, Urban and Günther from national debutants. The veteran Willy Busch led the team as captain. In the spring of 1936 rise in the Gauliga winger from Beuel got a second chance in the national team. This was true even when the two Schalke Gellesch and Urban. All three came on 15 March 1936 in Budapest in the 2:3 defeat against Hungary for their second international match. Beginning of May, then took the first course for the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin. In the test match on 21 May in Stuttgart against Everton Franz Elbern stormed on outside right. In the 4-2 win, the dangerous German winger Elbern and Seppel Fath recorded from each as a two-time scorers. After a three -week course in July Elbern Franz was appointed to the 22er line-up for the Olympics. Teammates and competitors in the storm, were Lehner, Lenz, Hohmann, Gellesch, Gauchel, Urban, Siffling, Simetsreiter and Eckert. The first game in the Olympic tournament played Germany on 4 August 1936 in Berlin against Luxembourg. Elbern stormed on outside right. The one-sided game was won by the team of coach mink 9-0 gates. Elbern contributed a hit. Three days later, in the 0-2 loss against Norway, which meant the end, paused Franz Elbern. Ernst Lehner completed his 25th international match on that day. At the first appearance of the national team after the 1936 Olympics, the man of Beuel was back on the right wing. On September 13, 1936 Germany played in Warsaw on Poland 1-1 tie. On September 27 was again a double Gameday on the program. The A- team, supervised by Otto Mink, won 2-1 in Prague against the runner-up of Czechoslovakia. Franz Elbern succeeded in the 59th minute of the 1-1 equalizer against one of the world's best goalkeeper, including František Plánička. In the storm played for Germany Elbern, Gellesch, Lenz, Siffling and Kobierski. Sepp Herberger was responsible for the B team in Krefeld in the 7:2 win against Luxembourg. Fourteen days later, on 14 October 1936 Elbern stormed into his sixth match for Germany in Glasgow against Scotland back on the right wing. Ernst Lehner, Karl Hohmann and " Tau" Kobierski sat on the bench. Despite the 0-2 loss, the German team won particularly playful. Four weeks later, on 15 November, the German team saw in Berlin with the reigning world and Olympic champion from Italy a major challenge over. In this difficult task was Franz Elbern the confidence of the kingdom trainer. With the same line-up as the team reached Glasgow to Captain Fritz Szepan in front of 100,000 spectators a 2-2 draw. In May 1937 a seminar of the national team took place. This included games against Manchester City. On May 6 Elbern played in Duisburg in Germany a selection on right outside in the 0-0 draw against the pros from the island. On May 16, the memorable match against Denmark took place in Wroclaw. The 8-0 success justified the birth of the Breslau Elf. On this day, stormed on the right wing Ernst Lehner. Three days later, on May 19, Franz Elbern was back in Germany a selection in Berlin against Manchester City in use. On June 25, 1937, he completed his eighth match against Latvia in Riga. In August of the same year he was again in a Germany - selection. On September 5, 1937 at VfL Köln 99 a tibia fracture made ​​to naught when Gauligaspiel with Beuel any hopes of further national inserts Franz Elberns. Only on 2 October 1938, he was for the SV Beuel 06 in the Gauliga deny a scoring game again. Thus Franz Elbern was installed to participate in the World Cup in June 1938 in France.

Club, 2nd Stage, 1937-1955

At the greatest triumph of his club SV 06 Beuel, the Gauligameisterschaftsgewinn in the Middle Rhine in the Round 1937/38, Franz Elbern was actively involved through the consequences of his broken leg rail only in the first few games of the autumn series. The Green - Whites played until the season 1940/41, in the Gauliga. Franz Elbern did his military service in Pomerania. Therefore, he played in the round 1940/41, the SV Germania Stolp in the sports sector 2 in Pomerania. Only as a tourist he could support his hometown club. That was not enough. Beuel rose after five years from the Gauliga Middle Rhine. After the Second World War, the ex -National player his club remained faithful as Active. While the old International Christmas 1950 was adopted at a guest performance by Vienna Vienna for the first time from Beueler audience. His last championship game for the SV 06 Beuel denied Franz Elbern actually but only with 45 years on April 3, 1955 at the Association game against BW Godesberg.

Particularity

On November 13, 1960 - twelve days after the 50th birthday of Franz Elbern - joined in honor of the birthday boy a Beueler selection against a team of eleven players of the " Elbern family" to. Even the television WDR, this sporty rarity made ​​no mistake. The " Elberns " won 4-1 gates. Franz turned it a penalty.

Honor

After the death of 91 -year-old Honorary President on 23 February 2002 lived a great mourners at the funeral in the Küdinghovener Mountain Cemetery. He Beueler the stadium was renamed to " Franz- Elbern Stadium " in honor.

Swell

  • From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga, AGON, 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1
  • Germany Soccer, The lexicon, Sports Verlag Berlin, 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8
  • Germany's national soccer player, Lexicon, Sports Verlag Berlin, 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0
  • Germany's football matches, sports and game publishing Hitzel, Hürth, 1989, ISBN 3-9802172-4-8
  • 100 years sports club 06 Beuel 1906-2006, commemorative, 2006
  • National football team ( Germany )
  • German
  • Olympian ( Germany )
  • Born 1910
  • Died in 2002
  • Man
Gauliga Mittelrhein Josef Gauchel Otto Nerz Adolf Urban Josef Fath August Lenz Otto Siffling Wrocław Breslau Eleven
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