Erhard Ahmann

Erhard Ahmann (born May 21, 1941 in Sundern ; † December 14, 2005 in Gütersloh ) was a German football player and coach . Between 1962 and 1972 he was a member of the German amateur soccer team 44 times (in many games as their captain) . In the Football Regionalliga West , he completed 87 games and scored one goal. Ahmann played in the position of defender.

Stations as a player

Ahmann began his career at TuS Sundern, where he already achieved two sporting highlights in the 1961/62 season. As a member of the Westphalia association, he won the regional cup with a 1-0 win against the Middle Rhine region and made his debut on April 7, 1962 in Hanover in a 2-1 win against Italy in the amateur national team of the DFB. The down-to-earth defensive player remained active for Sundern in the Landesliga Westfalen up to and including the round of 1965/66 and made thirteen appearances in the amateur national team. With Westphalia he had lost the final in 1965 with 2: 3 goals against Bayern, at the end of his time at TuS Sundern he won the country cup for the second time in 1966 with a 1-0 win against Lower Saxony. For the round 1966/67 he joined the Lüner SV and was able to celebrate the championship in the amateur league Westphalia at the end of the round and after the promotion round also the promotion to the regional football league West . With his teammates Detlef Behrens , Manfred Rüsing and Dieter Zorc , he finished eighth in the Regionalliga West with the promoted team in 1967/68 . Ahmann had played 32 competitive games in the regional league for the team from the Schwansbell Stadium . In the two rounds in Lünen, the DFB amateurs added another 16 international matches.

From the 1968/69 round he laced his football boots again in the Westphalia Association , he had joined Arminia Gütersloh . With the "Greens" from SVA, Ahmann made his second promotion to the Regionalliga West in 1970/71. He was still active for two years from 1971 to 1973 in the then second division and brought it to 55 games with one goal for the team from the Heidewaldstadion . His last season as an active player, 1972/73, he ended on May 13, 1973 with the 1: 3 away defeat at Bayer Uerdingen. He also played as a contract amateur in Gütersloh and made another 15 appearances in the DFB selection. He played his 44th and last international match for the DFB amateurs on May 25, 1972 in Regensburg in a 2-2 draw against Poland.

In 1972 he was awarded the Silver Bay Leaf .

Stations as a trainer

At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Ahmann - he was still active in the Regionalliga West in the 1972/73 season - was already working as an assistant to DFB coach Jupp Derwall . Ahmann had already successfully completed his training as a football teacher at the Cologne Sports University in 1968 under the course director Hennes Weisweiler . In the last year of the old regional league system as the substructure of the Bundesliga, 1973/74 , he started his first position as a club coach at SVA Gütersloh . The derbies against local rivals DJK and Arminia Bielefeld stood out. The newcomer to the coach came in 13th with SV Arminia and then accepted an offer from Arminia Bielefeld to start in the 2nd Bundesliga . With the team from the Alm he came in 4th and 9th and was then replaced by Karl-Heinz Feldkamp at DSC . From July to November 1977 he was a trainer at Wuppertaler SV , where he had a difficult time, however, as his predecessor Herbert Burdenski was very popular with the fans.

In the following years Ahmann coached the SC Herford , Alemannia Aachen (1979-81 and 1982-84), Union Solingen (1981/82) and the VfL Osnabrück (February 1984 to February 1985). With the team of VfL Osnabrück he fought unsuccessfully against relegation from the 2nd Bundesliga. From February 20, 1984, he had replaced Gerd-Volker Schock as coach, when VfL was ranked 19th after the 24th matchday with 14:34 points. His engagement at the Bremer Brücke surprised him, he got out of the current contract with Alemannia Aachen, where he had been in 4th place with the team from the Tivoli Stadium with 31:15 points. By the end of the round he achieved a score of 15:13 points from the remaining 14 games. However, with a total score of 29:47 points, he could not put into action the relegation. Together with BV Lüttringhausen (18:58), SC Charlottenburg and Rot-Weiss Essen with the same score as VfL of 29:47, he was relegated with Osnabrück from the 2nd Bundesliga in the summer of 1984. On matchday 29, March 30, 1984, Ahmann and his team achieved a 1-0 home win against the league leaders and later promoted to the Bundesliga, FC Schalke 04.

A heart attack ended his coaching career and he underwent bypass surgery in the USA. From then on he only worked as an unofficial advisor, for example for VfL Osnabrück and VfL Bochum.

At the age of 64 he died in the municipal hospital of Gütersloh.

Statistical overview

Stations as a player

Ahmann began his career at TuS Sundern and played from 1964 to 1972 for Lüner SV and SVA Gütersloh in the Regionalliga West.

Stations as a trainer

• 1972: At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, he was assistant to coach Jupp Derwall .
• 1973: SVA Gütersloh
• 1974–1976: DSC Arminia Bielefeld
• July 1977 - November 1977: Wuppertaler SV
• 1979–1981 Alemannia Aachen
• 1981–1982 SG Union Solingen
• 1982–1984: Alemannia Aachen
• 1984 – February 1985: VfL Osnabrück (relegated from the 2nd Bundesliga)

literature

• Ulrich Homann (Ed.): Farmer's heads, miners and a pascha. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 1, Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-345-7 .
• Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Fohlensturm am Katzenbusch. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 2, Klartext, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88474-206-X .
• Matthias Weinrich: Second League Almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-190-8 .

Web links

• Erhard Ahmann in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Erhard Ahmann in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BT-Drucksache 7/1040, page 59, accessed on February 8, 2017 (pdf)