Rolf Paetz
Rolf Paetz (* November 24, 1922, † 19 April 1994) was a German football player who has won as a player from Hannover 96 in 1954, the German football championship. The technician usually used as a half right in what was then the WM system graduated from 1952 to 1958 at Hannover 96 in the Football Oberliga Nord 127 league matches and scored 43 goals.
Career
With 31 years Paetz arrived for the season 1952/53, of Alder 08 from the Westphalian amateur football in the premier league team Hannover 96, the "Reds" had with Helmut " Fifi " Kronsbein committed a new coach and tried the Squad with other new items as Rolf Gehrcke, Herbert Help leg, Wolfgang Piechotta and Hannes Kirk to miss fresh air. The late- appointed contract footballers from alder debuted on August 31, 1952 1:2 Auwärtsniederlage at Werder Bremen on half right in the Oberliga Nord. At the round end, he had completed 29 games and scored 13 goals. He trained with Heinz Wewetzer ( 30-17 ) a -scoring right wing and the 96iger occupied in the first season of coach Kronsbein the seventh rank.
In the season 1953/54, Hannover 96 won surprisingly the championship of the Oberliga Nord and qualified for participation in the final round for the German Football Championship. The league had opened the round of 96 on 9 August 1953, a 1-0 home success against the North Series champion Hamburger SV. After the eleventh match day, November 1, 1953 Paetz and colleagues led to the table with 22:0 points, nine points ahead of the chasing pack. The basic formation of the Northern master set from Hans Krämer ( goalkeeper ), the defender pair Helmut Geruschke and Hannes Kirk, the runner series with Captain Werner Müller, center half and defensive leader Heinz Bothe and the left external rotor Willi Hundertmark, as well as the forward line with Heinz Wewetzer, Rolf Paetz ( 25-7 ), top scorer Hans Tkotz, Clemens Zielinski and the two left Wing Piechotta Wolfgang and Helmut Kruhl together. Replacement players were the second goalkeeper Werner Schadly and the two fielders Elzner Heinz and Rolf Gehrcke. Coach Kronsbein described the external rotor Müller - Hundertmark and the two inside forward Paetz and Zielinski, as the " magic square " of his team.
The first game of the preliminary round Group I against the Berliner SV 92 won " 96" with 2-1 gates; but it hurt his external rotor Willi hundred mark and fell for the rest of the finals from. For him, the 21 -year-old Gehrcke came into the team. The decisive group match against VfB Stuttgart Südmeister took place in Dusseldorf on May 16. Before 40,000 spectators - Paetz brought two hits northern masters in management and Hanover sat down at the end with 3-1 goals against the team coached by Georg Wurzer. This Paetz and colleagues were in the final.
In the final on 23 June 1954 in Hamburg Hanover hit 96 on defending champions 1.FC Kaiserslautern, whose members include many national players had that a little later should win the World Cup. The team around Fritz Walter, the outstanding German football player of his time, was declared the winner. The outsider from the Lower Saxony capital won against the big favorites from the Palatinate and was 5-1 for the second time after 1938 German football champions. The decision came after a 1-1 half-time in the second half. Paetz scored in the 84th minute for a 5-1 final score.
As North runner-up of the 1955/56 season Paetz moved a second time in the finals. Now the performance was but no longer comparable with 1954; with 3:9 points occupied the " 96iger " the fourth group space.
In his last league season in 1957/58, the 35- year-old half striker came again on 18 missions in which he scored three goals. His last league game he played on March 30, 1958 in the 0-2 away defeat at Eintracht Braunschweig. He trained with Heinz Wewetzer the right wing.
Profession
The working originally as a fitter at Continental Paetz was active after the end of playing career first as an insurance agent, before he could take up a job in 1963 at the "Pelican " works in Hanover. From this time he was also active as 96 youth or amateur coach at his old club Hannover.