Hermann Nuber

Hermann Nuber ( born October 10, 1935 in Offenbach am Main ) is a former German football player. He was nicknamed " The Iron Hermann".

He was active at his time from 1953 to 1971 as a defensive player with the No. 5 ( center half ) exclusively for Kickers Offenbach and played the late sixties and early seventies in the Bundesliga. In the biggest success in club history, the DFB Cup victory in 1970 lacked Nuber, since he had finished at this stage of his career. In the next Bundesliga season he packed but then again the football boots for the OFC to play for the club against relegation. 1959 was Nuber with Kickers Offenbach in the final of the German soccer championship.

Nuber, who played a single international match in his whole career, was at the Football World Cup 1958 in Sweden squad for the German national team. He finished second behind Franz Beckenbauer in 1968 in the election of Germany's Footballer of the Year. After his active career as a player, he was a coach, including 1984 in the Bundesliga with his hometown club Kickers Offenbach. In his time as an amateur and A youth coach, he trained, among others, the later national player Rudi Völler, Uwe Bein, Oliver Reck and Jimmy Hartwig. In Stadium on Bieberer mountain him a bronze bust was erected in honor.

See also: Germany at the World Cup 1958 in Sweden