Werner Heitkamp

Werner Heitkamp (born August 3, 1930 ) is a former German soccer player who, as an active member of Concordia Hamburg , FC St. Pauli and Eintracht Frankfurt, played 184 games in the upper leagues north and south between 1948 and 1956 , scoring 80 goals .

career

At the age of 18, the attacker made his debut on September 19, 1948 in the away game of Concordia Hamburg at SV Arminia Hannover in the Oberliga Nord. In his second season, 1949/50, Heitkamp developed into a regular at the side of striker partner Kurt Hinsch and scored 20 goals in 26 missions for the team of coach Fritz Langner . The team from the Marienthal Stadium took sixth place in the table. At the end of the round in 1952/53 - the Black and Reds had replaced the previous coach Walter Risse with Erwin Reinhardt in January 1953 - even ten-time goalscorer Werner Heitkamp could not prevent "Cordi" from being relegated. In the first competition for the DFB Cup after the Second World War , in 1953, the goal-scoring attacker stormed for his club in the games against Borussia Dortmund , VfB Mühlburg and SV Waldhof Mannheim . He contributed two goals to the 4: 3 win against Dortmund on August 17, 1952 and in the home game against the Karlsruhe district club, which also won 4: 3 goals, he also distinguished himself as a goalscorer. From 1948 to 1953, the striker had played 118 league games for Concordia and scored 51 goals. After relegation he moved to FC St. Pauli for the 1953/54 season.

With St. Pauli trainer Heinz Hempel and his teammates Alfred Beck , Otmar Sommerfeld , Harald Stender and Harry Wunstorf , the ex-Marienthaler celebrated the runner-up behind champion Hannover 96 in the 1954 world championship year . In addition, with his 21 goals, Heitkamp shared the top scorer's crown in the north with Fritz Apel . Due to the reduced number of participants in the final round of the German soccer championship 1954 - for the purpose of preparing the German national soccer team - Werner Heitkamp and his teammates were deprived of the sporting highlight of the soccer year, at least from the club's point of view. In his second season with St. Pauli, 1954/55, he played 27 games and scored seven goals. St. Pauli took seventh place.

For professional reasons, he moved from Millerntor to Frankfurt in the summer of 1955 and joined Eintracht Frankfurt in the Oberliga Süd for the 1955/56 round. He played nine games for Hessen and on February 19, 1956, scored a goal in a 1-1 draw in the local derby against FSV Frankfurt . At the age of 26 he let his league career end with the Eintracht amateurs.

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 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .