Klaus Hänel

Klaus Hänel
Personnel
birthday	February 23, 1936
place of birth	Chemnitz ,  Germany
date of death	June 15, 2016
Place of death	Bremen ,  Germany
position	attack
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1960-1968	SV Werder Bremen	142 (43)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1958	Germany U-23	1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1968-1970	Union Bremen
1970-1974	SV Grohn
1 Only league games are given.

Klaus Hänel (born February 23, 1936 in Chemnitz ; †  June 15, 2016 in Bremen ) was a German football player and coach .

career

Oberliga Nord, 1957 to 1963

After his father, the ex-national player Erich Hänel , settled in West Germany after the Second World War in 1950 and joined Bremer SV in the Oberliga Nord, Klaus Hänel started his football career in the youth of the BTS Neustadt Bremen. From the A-youth onwards, the offensive hope belonged to Werder Bremen , where he joined their amateur team for two years. On January 13, 1957, the amateur made his debut in the soccer Oberliga Nord . Werder played a 2-2 draw against FC Altona 93 in their home Weserstadion and Hänel acted in the attack on the left connector position. Under coach Fred Schulz , Hänel played in the 1957/58 season with 28 league appearances and fourteen goals in the regular eleven. On the start day of the round, August 11, 1957, he introduced himself with two goals in a 7-2 home win against VfB Lübeck . The versatile technician took second place behind Willi Schröder (19 goals) in the club's season ranking. Coach Georg Knöpfle took over the post of trainer for the Green-Whites in the 1958/59 round and finished second with Werder in the last five rounds in the Oberliga Nord. Hänel was a member of all five runner-up teams from 1959 to 1963. He was appointed by the DFB on September 23, 1958 in the junior national team U-23 for the international match in Kiel against Denmark and acted with Albert Brülls in the half-forward positions. Hänel also played selection games for Bremen and the North German Football Association.

In the 1961 DFB Cup , he was promoted to three-time goalscorers in the quarter-finals against 1. FC Köln on August 16 and was the guarantee for SV Werder's 3-2 home win. In the semifinals against Karlsruher SC as well as in the final on September 13 in Gelsenkirchen against 1. FC Kaiserslautern , Hänel stormed the left wing. The 2-0 success against the Südwest representative brought Bremen the greatest success in the Oberliga era. In the 1961/62 season, Hänel played three games against Aarhus GF and Atlético Madrid in the European Cup Winners' Cup .

In the Oberliga Nord he achieved his best record in 1961/62 with 16 hits, when the Werder attack with Gerhard Zebrowski , Willi Schröder, Horst Barth , Willi Soya and left winger Hänel produced a total of 87 hits when reaching the runner-up championship. His last league game he completed on April 29, 1963 in the 4-2 away win at ASV Bergedorf 85 in the right connector role. From 1959 to 1963 he came in the finals for the German championship on 18 missions and scored two goals, the second group place in 1960 with 8: 4 points behind 1. FC Köln with 9: 3 points was the best result. In the last two years of the finals, 1962 and 1963, he failed with Werder in the qualifying games against Schalke 04 and 1. FC Nürnberg. From 1957 to 1963, Klaus Hänel played in the Northern Football League with 147 games and 68 goals.

Bundesliga, 1963 to 1968

With the new coach Willi Multhaup and the new players Günter Bernard , Diethelm Ferner and Theo Klöckner , Werder Bremen tackled the Bundesliga chapter in 1963/64 . Hänel was a member of the group of players who opened the new top division of the DFB on August 24, 1963. Werder scored a 3-2 home win in the home game against Borussia Dortmund and Hänel stormed the right wing alongside Diethelm Ferner, Dieter Meyer , Willi Soya and Theo Klöckner.

In the first Bundesliga season he came on 17 missions and scored four goals. Coach Multhaup effectively strengthened the Bremen team in the second year with Horst-Dieter Höttges , Heinz Steinmann and Klaus Matischak . Hänel played seven more games in the preliminary round - he made his seventh appearance on December 5, 1964 in a 2-1 away win against Borussia Dortmund, which meant that Bremen topped the table tied with defending champion 1. FC Köln - but did not make it to the second half of the season Trains. Multhaup relied on Gerhard Zebrowski, Arnold Schütz , Klaus Matischak, Diethelm Ferner and on the left wing alternately on Hans Schulz and Theo Klöckner. Werder won the championship in the 1964/65 season in tenth place in their debut year with a goal difference of 54:29 goals and 41:19 points . In the two difficult games in the European Cup in 1965/66 in November 1965 against Partizan Belgrade , Hänel stormed on the left wing.

He played his last Bundesliga game on January 13, 1968 in a 2-0 home win against Eintracht Frankfurt. In the Werder attack, Zebrowski, Ole Bjørnmose , Bernd Rupp , Ferner and Werner Görts stormed . Hänel together with Josef Piontek , Höttges, Schütz and Max Lorenz formed the defensive in front of goalkeeper Bernard. He played a total of 68 games in the Bundesliga from 1963 to 1968 and scored twelve goals.

Trainer

After his active career, Hänel became a trainer and initially trained at Union Bremen. He then worked for four years at the national league club SV Grohn .

literature

• Jens Reimer Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .

Web links

• Klaus Hänel in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Fricke: Ex-Werder player was 80 years old: Farewell to the Brazilian . Weser-Kurier , July 1, 2016, accessed on July 2, 2016.
   Mourning for Klaus Hänel . Obituary from Werder Bremen, June 16, 2016, accessed June 17, 2016.
2. ↑ Heinz Tienken: Trainer of the 1st men's team of SV Grohn since 1946. (PDF; 281 kB) Sport-Verein Grohn from 1911 e. V., June 8, 2015, archived from the original on January 16, 2016 ; Retrieved July 2, 2016 .