Christoph Walter (soccer player)

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Christoph Walter (born November 5, 1943 in Breslau ; † February 25, 1995 ) was a German football player. As an active member of Alemannia Aachen , he won the championship in the Regional Football League West in 1967 , prevailed with his teammates in the promotion round and rose to the Bundesliga and was runner-up with Aachen in 1969 . From 1967 to 1970, the all-round player played 74 Bundesliga games and scored two goals.

career

Marl-Hüls and Frankfurt, until 1966

The former youth player Christoph Walter completed in the last year of the old first-class football Oberliga West , 1962/63, at TSV Marl-Hüls , which was promoted in 1960 , under the young coach Rudi Gutendorf 18 league games and scored three goals. Located with the blue-whites in the northern Ruhr area - also known as the "blue sparks" - he gained experience alongside his teammates Karl-Heinz Sell , Horst Wandolek and Heinz van Haaren . For the first use he came on October 28, 1962 in the 1: 2 away defeat at Alemannia Aachen, where he made his debut on the right winger. On February 17, 1963, he managed two goals against national goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski in a 4-0 win against Westfalia Herne. Four weeks later, the 19-year-old talent stood out in front of 13,000 spectators as the winning goal scorer in the 1-0 home win against Borussia Dortmund. With the team from the Jahnstadion , the player who was used on the offensive in his early years played in the first two rounds, 1963 to 1965, in the new second-rate Regionalliga West. In the first season of the Regionalliga, 1963/64, the blue-whites got off to an excellent start with 15: 3 points. TSV opened the round on August 4, 1963 with a 0-0 win against Fortuna Düsseldorf under the new coach Hennes Hoffmann. In the second half of the season, the 1-0 success on April 12, 1964 at eventual champions Alemannia Aachen and the 2-1 home win a week later against Borussia Mönchengladbach with their experts Horst-Dieter Höttges , Heinz Lowin , Rudolf Pöggeler , Egon Milder , stood out. Ulrich Kohn and Günter Netzer . At the end of the round, TSV Marl-Hüls took an excellent fourth place. In the second regional league year, this performance could not be repeated under the new coach Hans Hipp , Marl-Hüls ranked 15th, and Walter ended his activity at TSV after 68 regional league games with nine goals and took the offer of FSV Frankfurt from the football Regionalliga Süd and moved to the Main metropolis for the 1965/66 round.

He moved to the Bornheimer Hang in Frankfurt with coach Hoffmann and his teammate Ewald Schöngen. Personally, his record was good with 30 appearances and 14 goals, but the FSV was only able to place itself in 14th place. Outstanding was only in the second half of the season on April 9, 1966, the 5-2 success in the home game in front of 12,000 spectators against Kickers Offenbach. Coach Hennes Hoffmann took over Alemannia Aachen in the west in 1966/67 and Walter followed his sponsor to the black and yellow in the cathedral city.

Aachen, 1966 to 1975

In addition to Walter, Rolf Pawellek and Peter Schöngen from his hometown club TSV Marl-Hüls had at Tivoli - Alemannia fans wrote about the interplay between Marl-Hüls and Aachen:

“ We don't need a soul or a roar, because we get our players from Marl-Hüls. "

- New contracts signed and the Viennese Peter Reiter should intensify the offensive in Aachen. Walter initially found it difficult in his endeavors to belong to the regular eleven, especially since coach Hoffmann was replaced by ex-Aachener Michael Pfeiffer from January 20, 1967 . Overall, he came in the regional league season only on 13 missions and scored one goal. In the last ten rounds, however, he was part of the regular line-up that won the championship one point ahead of Schwarz-Weiß Essen. In the successful promotion round against the competition from Offenbach, Saarbrücken, Göttingen and Tennis Borussia Berlin, he then played all eight games.

When the Bundesliga climber secured the class with an eleventh place in 1967/68, Walter was also active in only ten games for Alemannia. At the height of the Aachen club's history, the runner-up in 1968/69 , he was one of Werner Scholz (30), Erwin Hermandung (33-11), Rolf Pawellek (32-3), Josef Thelen (34-1 ) with 31 appearances and one goal ), Erwin Hoffmann (30-3), Heinz-Gerd Klostermann (34-12), Roger Claessen (29-9) and Josef Martinelli (28-1) join the close circle of regular players. When Aachen surprisingly was among the relegated in 1969/70, he came behind Erwin Hermandung (34-4 and Rolf Pawellek (34-1) with 33 league games and one goal on the most appearances.

In the four following rounds in the Regionalliga West - 1970/71 to 1973/74 - and the first year of the 2nd Bundesliga , 1974/75, Walter, who is now primarily on the defensive, was part of the regular Alemannia formation, the but tried in vain to return to the Bundesliga. The fourth place in the 1971/72 season under coach Gunther Baumann brought the best placement. With 42:26 points, Aachen had no serious chance to intervene in the duel at the top between champions Wuppertaler SV (60:08) and runner-up Rot-Weiss Essen (54:14). The outstanding goalscorer of the team from Bergisch, Günter Pröpper , scored 52 goals in this round alone. In total, the strong team player played 162 competitive games for the Alemannia from 1970 to 1975 under the coaches Hermann Lindemann , Volker Kottmann , Gunther Baumann, Barthel Thomas , Michael Pfeiffer and Horst Witzler - Regionalliga (126-5) / 2. Bundesliga (36-8) - and scored 13 goals.

With the 38th matchday, June 15, 1975, he brought Aachen a 0-2 home defeat against Arminia Bielefeld, Walter ended his playing activity at Alemannia Aachen after nine years. He played his last league game alongside goalkeeper Gerd Prokop and field players Josef Bläser , Peter Stollwerk , Christian Breuer , Rolf Pawellek, Hans Schulz , Hans Kodric , Peter Hermann , Rolf Kucharski and Antoine Fagot .

As particularly memorable during his active time at Alemannia, he said:

“ Starting with the championship in 1966/67, through the promotion round with reaching the 1st Bundesliga and continuing with the great games in the three years of Bundesliga involvement, including the duels against Overath, Küppers, Beckenbauer and Uwe Seeler. The biggest: the German runner-up. "

At FSV Geilenkirchen, he ended his playing career in 1975/76.

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Harald Landefeld, Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): "Helmut, tell me about the gate ...". New stories and portraits from the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-043-1 .
  • Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Fohlensturm am Katzenbusch. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 2. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88474-206-X .
  • Franz Creutz (Ed.): Games you will never forget! Alemannia in the 60s. Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 1996, ISBN 3-89124-373-1 .
  • 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 .
  • Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Walter - player profile. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Ulrich Homann (ed.): Bauernköppe, miners and a pascha. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 1, Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-345-7 , p. 32.
  3. ↑ Franz Creutz (ed.): Games that you will never forget! P. 150
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1995