Hanne Sobek

John " Hanne " Sobek ( born March 18, 1900 in Mirow, † February 17, 1989 in Berlin) was a German football player and coach. He received as a player from Hertha BSC, with which he consecutively the final of the German Cup reached six times and won it twice notoriety.

Life

Sobek was born on 18 March 1900 as Paul Friedrich Max John Wiechmann in Mirow. The last name Sobek, he later took his adoptive father. From his second marriage to his wife Elizabeth, his son Bernd showed the higher class also went on to play football. Because a wrongful his son was registered with the name Sobeck at birth. This led later to the joint entry at the German - German border problems. Therefore, Sobek was his surname also add a "c", as this was the cheaper option (a change in the identity of his son would have cost 5000 dollars).

Sobek died on February 17, 1989 in Berlin. He was buried at Forest Cemetery in Berlin- Zehlendorf Nikolasee in field 038-427.

Players and coaching career

The age of ten he began in Bavaria 09 playing football and went in 1920 to Alemannia 90th for this club he played on June 3, 1923 his first game in the national team, against Switzerland in Basel. He played from 1925 to 1939 for Hertha BSC. The inside forward was from 1926 to 1931 six times in a row in the final of the German Cup. In 1930 and 1931 he was German champion with his Hertha Africans.

From 1923 to 1931 Sobek wore in ten international matches the jersey of the German national football team and scored two goals.

In the early postwar years Sobeck was coach at SC Union Oberschoeneweide. In 1950, the team qualified for the German championship. The team, however, to emigrate to West Germany was denied. Without further ado, decided almost the entire first team to escape to West Berlin and coach. They founded then the SC Union 06 Berlin as first official successor club. In West Berlin, he was also responsible for the Berlin city selection trainer. In 1955, he coached a total Berliner selection together with the East Berlin Kurt preemption for a game against a city of Prague selection (1-0 ). This selection was but a short time and had to be adjusted to the printing of Walter Ulbricht again.

As a coach of Hertha (1959-1963) he won in 1961 and 1963, the Berlin championship. From February to July 1965 Sobek was emergency- Chairman of the Board of Hertha BSC, but could not prevent the relegation of the team from the First Bundesliga, the DFB caused due to illicit high hand allowances and salaries.

Others

Already at the end of his career as an active player Sobek worked for the Berlin Radio as a reporter (1938-1945 ). In the silent film The Eleven Devils of 1927, he stood next to Willi Forst and Evelyn Holt in front of the camera and was a close friend of Hans Albers and assisted in the conservatory juggler Enrico Rastelli said.

On July 24, 1999, a sports complex near the Louise - Schroeder- Platz in Berlin -Wedding in Hanne - Sobek sports complex was renamed. In August 2006, the square in front of the station BerlinGesundbrunnen was named after him in Hanne - Sobek Square. It is placed near his longtime home in the Atlantic Garden City and in 1974 demolished stadium at the Well, which was known as Hertha 's home ground under the name of " Clumsy ".