Werner Hesse (soccer player)

Werner Hesse
Personnel
Surname	Werner Hesse
birthday	February 12, 1934
place of birth	Rheda ,  Germany
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	TSG Rheda
1954-1956	Westfalia Herne	58 (0)
1956-1959	Karlsruher SC	73 (0)
1959-1965	1. FC Saarbrücken	166 (4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1956-1957	Germany B	3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Werner "Vati" Hesse (born February 12, 1934 in Rheda ; † January 2, 2008 ) was a German football player who won the DFB Cup in 1956 as a player for Karlsruher SC .

career

Clubs until 1965

Westfalia Herne, 1954 to 1956

With TSG Rheda , the young player who came up from the youth rose in 1953 to the Landesliga Westfalen, Group 1 (East). In the round of 1953/54 Rheda finished ninth against the competition from Paderborn, Beckum, Herford and Lippstadt as a newcomer to the class. The 20-year-old defensive talent Werner Hesse had made the runner-up of the 2nd League West and league climber Westfalia Herne attention and accepted their offer and moved to the stadium at Strünkede Castle for the round in 1954/55 . The young middle runner experienced the strength of the Oberliga West immediately when he made his debut game on September 22, 1954, when he started the round with Westfalia with a 7-1 defeat at Preußen Münster. At the end of the round, the league could be managed with the 13th place just opposite Mönchengladbach, Meiderich and VfL Bochum. At the side of Günter Grandt , Alfred Pyka and Kurt Sopart , the newcomer from Rheda played 28 games in his debut round in the Oberliga West. In the second year of the league, 1955/56, Hesse completed all 30 rounds. Although with Hans Tilkowski a great talent guarded the goal and with Helmut Benthaus and Gerhard Cyliax quality came into the play structure and the attack, the fight for relegation was again the focus of the round. Again, Westfalia saved itself with 13th place from Prussia Dellbrück, Bayer Leverkusen and Hamborn 07 to stay in the league. After 58 league games for Westfalia Herne, Werner Hesse changed to southern Germany in 1956 and signed a new contract for the 1956/57 round with the champions of the Oberliga Süd 1956, the Karlsruher SC.

Karlsruher SC, 1956 to 1959

The first competitive game for his new club - the Oberliga started 14 days later on August 19 - was the final in the DFB Cup of 1956 , which took place on August 5 in the Karlsruhe Wildpark Stadium against Hamburger SV . Before goalkeeper Rudi Fischer , Werner Hesse formed the defending pair of the defending champion together with Walter Bauis . The KSC defended the cup with a 3-1 win against the North Germans. In the Oberliga Süd, the newcomer from Herne played all 30 games and Baden took third place. In the second season he celebrated winning the title in the south in 1958 - Hesse played 28 games as a middle runner - and moved into the finals of the German soccer championship with the team of coach Ludwig Janda . Due to the football world championship in Sweden in 1958, the final round was only held in a single round this year. After three games against Braunschweig, Tennis Borussia Berlin and Schalke 04, the "Knappen" qualified for the final and also won the German championship with a 3-0 win against HSV. In the summer of 1959, Hesse moved to the Saarland after 73 league games for Karlsruhe and played for 1. FC Saarbrücken from the 1959/60 round .

1. FC Saarbrücken, 1959 to 1965

In his first season in the Oberliga Südwest with Saarbrücken - Jenő Csaknády worked there as coach until 1961 - he finished third with 1. FC behind FK Pirmasens and Borussia Neunkirchen in 1960 and had directed the Saarlanders' defense in 26 games. In the second year, 1960/61 , he and his team won the championship in the southwest - "Vati" Hesse had played all 30 games - and made it to the finals. Here, too, he played all six games against Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Frankfurt and Hamburger SV. After the round in 1962/63 - a total of Hesse had from 1954 to 1963 for Herne, Karlsruhe and Saarbrücken 240 Oberliga- and nine finals matches played - was the Oberligaära to an end and with the 1963-64 season started the chapter Bundesliga . Since 1. FC Saarbrücken and 1. FC Kaiserslautern were nominated as the second Southwest representative by the DFB for the concentration of top German football, Werner Hesse also experienced this new league as an active player.

With the defensive formation Volker Danner in goal, the defenders Horst Remark and Erich Rohe and the runner row Heinz Steinmann , Hesse and Manfred Klein , the new coach Helmut Schneider started on August 24, 1963 in the home game against 1. FC Köln in the Bundesliga. With hits from Wolfgang Overath and Christian Müller , the West German series champion from 1960 to 1963 earned a deserved victory in the Ludwigsparkstadion . Saarbrücken did not get away from the bottom of the table. The sensational success at the start of the second half of the season on January 11, 1964 with 3-1 goals in Cologne, when the later relegated defeated the first Bundesliga champions the only home defeat of the round did not change that. Werner Hesse successfully conducted the Saarbrücken defense against the attack by the Domstadt team, which was made up of Karl-Heinz Thielen , Hans Schäfer , Christian Müller , Wolfgang Overath and Heinz Hornig . "Vati" Hesse played 27 games and scored two goals in the Bundesliga round in 1963/64. His personal farewell game in the Bundesliga took place on April 25, 1964 in the 1: 3 away defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt, where he primarily had to do with the center forward of Eintracht, Wilhelm Huberts , who made it to 18 in the season Hit.

Werner Hesse went with his club to the Regionalliga Südwest and celebrated the championship in the 1964/65 season and thus entry into the Bundesliga promotion round. In the association round he had played 30 games. Outstanding in the promotion round was the 1-0 home win on June 5, 1965 against the newly promoted Bayern Munich, when defense chief Hesse and his team were able to eliminate the dangerous Bayern attack with Rudolf Nafziger , Rainer Ohlhauser , Gerd Müller , Rudolf Grosser and Dieter Brenninger . Hesse played in all six matches against Aachen, Tennis Borussia Berlin and Munich. With the game on June 26, 1965 against Alemannia Aachen - in the 3-1 home win he converted a penalty in the 47th minute to make it 3-1 - Werner Hesse ended his playing career.

Selection appointments, 1956 to 1957

During his time at Karlsruher SC - 1956 to 1959 - the Westphalian from Rheda was on the verge of joining the national soccer team several times. For the first time, national coach Sepp Herberger called him on August 8, 1956 in a test match for the national team in Cologne against 1. FC Cologne in a DFB selection. Together with Horst Eckel and Karl Mai he formed the runner row in the 2-3 defeat of the Herberger-Elf. This was followed by a preparatory course in Duisburg from September 3 to 7, 1956 before the international matches of the A and B national teams on September 15, 1956 in Hanover and Moscow against the Soviet Union. Hesse belonged to the B-Elf in Moscow, which lost the game with 1: 3 goals with the runner series Robert Schlienz , Hesse and Herbert Dörner . On November 21, 1956, he came in Zurich in a 2-1 win against Switzerland for his second appearance in the B national team. There he competed with the outside runners Max Morlock and Georg Stollenwerk . The year 1956 ended with the junior international match on December 19 in Liège against Belgium with a 3-2 win when he formed the runner row with Karl Borutta and Helmut Jagielski . From February 18 to March 2, 1957 he was part of a course in Duisburg and played his third international B match on March 27, 1957 in Essen in a 3-3 draw against Holland. Werner Hesse's appointments ended with his use on June 29, 1957 in Karlsruhe in the representative game between southern Germany and northern Germany.

job

Werner Hesse earned his professional income as the insurance director at Saarland Insurance AG in Saarbrücken.

literature

• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Helmut, tell me dat Tor… New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): When Morlock still met the moonlight. The history of the Oberliga Süd 1945–1963. Klartext, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-055-5 .
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .
• Ulrich Merk, André Schulin: Bundesliga chronicle 1963/64. Volume 1: Triumphal procession of the billy goats. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-083-9 .
• Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
• Hardy Grüne, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Web links

• Werner Hesse in the database of fussballdaten.de