Bernd Hölzenbein

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Bernd Hölzenbein
Bernd Hölzenbein.jpg
Bernd Hölzenbein (2010)
Personnel
birthday March 9, 1946
place of birth Dehrn ,  Germany
position Winger
Juniors
Years station
1956-1964 TuS Dehrn
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1964-1966 TuS Dehrn
1967-1981 Eintracht Frankfurt 420 (160)
1981-1983 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 46 0(10)
1983-1984 Memphis Americans 89 0(41)
1985 Baltimore Blasts 24 00(4)
1986 FSV Salmrohr
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1969 Germany U-23 2 00(0)
1972 Germany B 1 00(0)
1973-1978 Germany 40 00(5)
1 Only league games are given.
Bernd Hölzenbein's autograph

Bernd Hölzenbein (born March 9, 1946 in Dehrn ) is a German former soccer player and today's soccer official . He completed 420 Bundesliga games for Eintracht Frankfurt . His greatest success during his playing days was the 1974 World Cup .

Life

After finishing secondary school, Hölzenbein learned the trade of a businessman, but then switched to playing football full-time, initially in his place of birth at TuS Dehrn. On July 1, 1966, he moved to Eintracht Frankfurt . He made his Bundesliga debut in the 1967/68 season. On November 4, 1967, the 12th matchday, Hölzenbein was substituted on for Heiko Racky in the 1: 1 against Hamburger SV by coach Elek Schwartz in the 78th minute .

Bernd Hölzenbein (1979)

In the Bundesliga , he played 420 times for Eintracht Frankfurt from 1967 to 1981 and won the DFB Cup with the team in 1974 , 1975 and 1981 and the UEFA Cup in 1980 . His 160 Bundesliga goals are a club record to this day. Bernd Hölzenbein is the honorary captain of Eintracht Frankfurt.

After the cup final on May 2, 1981, Hölzenbein moved to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the USA. With the Memphis Americans (1983/84) and the Baltimore Blasts, for which he played the US indoor round in 1985, he was active for other US clubs. At the end of his career in 1986 he returned to Germany and played from January to June 1986 for FSV Salmrohr in the Oberliga Südwest . Here he celebrated promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga with this club in 1986 .

After his active career, he was briefly assistant trainer at Viktoria Aschaffenburg , before he was vice-president of Eintracht Frankfurt from November 1988 to November 1994. From December 1, 1994 to November 4, 1996, Hölzenbein worked as a sports manager at Eintracht Frankfurt . At that time he was also the owner of a tennis and squash center in Sprendlingen .

From 2004 he worked as a sports advisor and chief scout at Eintracht Frankfurt. In addition, he was an ambassador for the 2006 soccer World Cup appointed by Franz Beckenbauer and supported the STOCCER research project for this soccer World Cup as patron .

Bernd Hölzenbein now lives in Gravenbruch , a district of Neu-Isenburg . He is married and has two children.

National team

On May 7, 1969 in the 2-2 draw against the Austrian national team in Graz and on September 24, 1969 in the 2-1 defeat against the Romanian national team in Bucharest , Hölzenbein played his only two international matches for the U-23 national team . Then he played on March 29, 1972, his only international match for the B national team , which won 2-1 in Tatabánya against the selection of Hungary.

For the senior national team he played forty times from 1973 to 1978 and scored five goals. His first tournament was the 1974 World Cup in Germany. Except for one game against the GDR , he was used in every game. In 1974 he became world champion with the national team in Munich . After Hölzenbein was brought down in the penalty area by Wim Jansen in the World Cup final against the Netherlands , Paul Breitner scored the goal with a penalty to make it 1-1. The views on the justification of the penalty kick also differed after viewing the slow motion. A few weeks after the final, the Bild-Zeitung claimed that Hölzenbein had admitted that he had let himself down, but later had to retract this claim by reprinting a reply. Hölzenbein emphatically denied ever having made this statement. He also pointed out that newer technology (DVD) allows everyone to understand the foul and thus the eligibility of the penalty kick. Nevertheless, the name " swallow " found its way into the Dutch language through this incident . In the 86th minute, Hölzenbein was clearly fouled in the Dutch penalty area, but the referee did not give a third penalty in the final. Hölzenbein took part in the 1976 European Championship two years later, where Germany was runner-up in the European Championship. The Football World Cup in Argentina in 1978 , where Germany was eliminated from the tournament in the second final group after losing to Austria, was the last tournament in which he took part for the national team.

Bernd Hölzenbein is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Youth Football Foundation. The Youth Football Foundation was founded in 2000 by Jürgen Klinsmann , other successful national players and the lecturers of the football teacher special course.

successes

  • World Champion 1974
  • Vice European Champion 1976
  • 1980 UEFA Cup winner with Eintracht Frankfurt
  • EC-HF of the cup winners 1976
  • Third in the Bundesliga in 1975
  • Bundesliga fourth in 1974 and 1977
  • 1974 DFB Cup winner with Eintracht Frankfurt
  • DFB Cup winner 1975 with Eintracht Frankfurt
  • DFB Cup winner 1981 with Eintracht Frankfurt

Trivia

The episode “Simply crazy” (season 4, episode 7) of the RTL sitcom Alles Atze revolves around a collector's picture by Bernd Hölzenbein.

In the feature film In Love in Amsterdam (Germany 2017) Hölzenbein's 1974 World Cup “Swallow” is discussed in detail and in an amusing way. At least there, in the end, there is agreement between the German and Dutch parties as to how the foul should be assessed.

Honors

Since January 23, 2013, an image of Bernd Hölzenbein has adorned one of the twelve “pillars of harmony” in the Willy-Brandt-Platz underground station in Frankfurt. On December 3, 2014 - together with Jürgen Grabowski - the Hessian Prime Minister Volker Bouffier awarded him the Hessian Order of Merit .

On the occasion of winning the soccer world championship in 1974 he received the silver laurel leaf .

Web links

Commons : Bernd Hölzenbein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sport-Bild from May 18, 1994, p. 41
  2. ↑ Kicker Almanach 1987 - p. 137 - ISBN 3-7679-0245-1
  3. ↑ Kicker Almanach 1987 - p. 104 - ISBN 3-7679-0245-1
  4. ↑ Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball AG - The Legends of Eintracht Frankfurt ( Memento from June 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on saeulen-der-eintracht.de
  5. ^ State gazette for the state of Hesse, January 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Hölzenbein, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Dehrn