Hans Rohde

Hans " Bubi " Rohde ( born December 7, 1914 in Hamburg, † 3 December 1979 ) was a German football player and coach. From 1922 to 1951 he spent his entire playing career with his hometown club Eimsbütteler TV. He won with the Red and Whites in the Gauliga Nordmark three times in a row from 1934 to 1936 and additionally in the years 1940 and 1942 the championship. From 1936 to 1942 he studied in the National Football Team 25 internationals. With the Nordmark selection, he won the 1938 Reichsbund Cup.

Career

Club until 1951

The mostly used in defense ( as a center half or " stopper " ) long-distance runner was rightfully his nickname " The Iron ". He was almost the epitome of consistent coverage work. His parents operated near the grandstand sports field High air in Eimsbuettel a greengrocer. He debuted with Herbert rumen and Willi Schindowski 1933, the first team of ETV. With coach Walter cracks sen. the dominance of the Hamburger SV was interrupted and the players rumen, Otto Rohwedder and Erwin Stührk were included in the national team. One of the highlights in the derby against the diamond carrier of the HSV was the 8-3 home victory on December 2, 1934, when the young Hans Rohde was at right-back in use. The third championship win in 1936, he sat down with the ETV in two league games against HSV HSV by, in the home game with a 5-3 away and even with a 7-0 trouncing.

In the finals of the German football championship, the two home wins in 1934 ( 3-2 ) and 1935 (2-1) stood out against FC Schalke 04. For top ranks, it was not enough, losing to Benrath, Werder Bremen, Hannover 96 and Viktoria Stolp prevented each on their way into the semi-finals. From 1934 to 1942 Rohde played 16 finals matches with Eimsbuettel.

As a soldier of the Wehrmacht he fell into Soviet captivity, from which he only Christmas 1949 returned to Hamburg. The ETV played at this time in the Football Oberliga Nord and " The Iron " was launched on February 19, 1950 in the 2:4 defeat at VfL Osnabrueck at right back on. On 4 and February 11, 1951 two more league inserts were added. The 2-1 success at home to VfB Oldenburg Rohde succeeded even on 4 February in the 89th minute of the winning goal.

At the German Sports University in Cologne, he took in 1950 successfully under the guidance of course Sepp Herberger next to the colleague Karl -Heinz Heddergott, Fritz Herkenrath, Helmuth Johannsen and Horst falls on the coaching course for football coaches part. As a coach, he was active - so from 1950 to 1955 as head coach of the Schleswig -Holstein Football Association - the Hamburg Association at Concordia Hamburg from 1957 to January 1959 in the Oberliga Nord and also from 1963 to 1965 at his home club ETV in the national league Hamburg.

Choice players, 1933-1942

By Gaumeisterschaften and finals matches with the ETV in the years 1934-1936 the reliable defensive player had drawn attention to himself. After working in the selection of Nordmark in Reichsbund Cup - 1933 to 1942 he was at 21 games - also the DFB quoted the man from Eimsbuettel. On September 27, 1936, the DFB led by a double game day, he made his debut in the International match unofficial B selection in Krefeld against Luxembourg as a center half in the national soccer team. But he had to wait, on May 16, In 1937 with a 8-0 win against Denmark 's legendary Breslau - Elf on the plan. He was also not the squad for the World Cup 1938 in France.

With the Nordmark but he sat down in the kingdom of Confederation Cup in 1938 with victories over Pomerania ( 2:1), Niederrhein ( 5:3 ), in the semi-final against Baden ( 3-0) and in the finals on March 6, 1938 in Erfurt with 3: 1 through against Southwest and was again reached in the national team contender. In the final, successful NFV defensive with Walter Warning, Richard Dörfel, Otto Liidecke, Rohde, Erwin Reinhardt and Erwin Seeler held the Southwest attacker Jacob Eckert and Joseph Fath in check. On January 29, 1939 - after more than two years break - Rohde could continue under Reich coach Sepp Herberger his career in the national team again. When international match in Brussels against Belgium ( 4-1 ) he came to his second international appearance. On the side of center half Ludwig Goldbrunner he acted as a right outer rotor. After that, he was a member of the permanent staff of the national team.

Outstanding games with the DFB team were in the following four years, the matches against Italy (November 26, 1939 5-2 victory in Berlin / return match on May 5, 1940 in Milan, 2:3 defeat ) and the two successful games on April 6, 1941 ( 7-0 win in Cologne ) and on 3 May 1942 in Budapest 5-3 goals against Hungary. But in between also had the international match on November 17, 1940 against Denmark (1-0 ) by the venue in his hometown of Hamburg a special meaning for the successor of Louis Goldbrunner on the stopper position. Also in the last war international match on 22 November 1942 in Bratislava against Slovakia ( 5-2 win) Hans Rohde was the head of the German defensive. Sepp Herberger too was full of praise for the ETV Idol:

"At Hans was always reliable. When I told him before the game that I misconduct did not want to see 30 minutes, then was but of which, nothing to see! "

After playing career

In civilian life he was first chauffeur, after the Second World War and most recently head coach of a major gas station.

His tomb is located in the church cemetery on Diebsteich in Hamburg- Altona.